@inproceedings{juneja-lomidze-2026-persona, title = "Persona-Grounded Safety Evaluation of {AI} Companions in Multi-Turn Conversations", author = "Juneja, Prerna and Lomidze, Lika", editor = "Liakata, Maria and Moreira, Viviane P. and Zhang, Jiajun and Jurgens, David", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.828/", doi = "10.18653/v1/2026.acl-long.828", pages = "18148--18175", ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6" }