@inproceedings{nnamdi-etal-2026-epistemic, title = "Epistemic Erosion: An Error Class Beyond Hallucination in {LLM} Text Generation", author = "Nnamdi, Micky C. and Wang, Shaunna and Nnamdi, Chinaza and Li, Jieru and Marteau, Benoit Louis and Tamo, J. Ben and Yuan, Yining and Wang, May Dongmei", editor = "Zhang, Yue and Xu, Ruifeng and Purwarianti, Ayu and Rong, Tong and Suzuki, Jun", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the {A}sia-Pacific Chapter of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)", month = nov, year = "2026", address = "Hengqin, China", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long.223/", pages = "4998--5026", ISBN = "979-8-89176-439-2" }