@inproceedings{xu-etal-2026-back, title = "Back to Basics, Powered by Data: Character-Level Transformers for Robust {C}hinese Machine-Generated Text Detection", author = "Xu, Shengjie and Gao, Zhenghao and Dai, Rujie and Li, Zijing and Xie, Xiaoyang and Lyu, Zehua", 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.265/", pages = "5879--5903", ISBN = "979-8-89176-439-2" }