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title = "Is He Extroverted? Identifying Missing Relevant Personas for Faithful User Simulation",
author = "Su, Weiwen and
Zhou, Yuhan and
Wang, Zihan and
Yoshinaga, Naoki and
Toyoda, Masashi",
editor = "Baez Santamaria, Selene and
Somayajula, Sai Ashish and
Yamaguchi, Atsuki",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the {E}uropean Chapter of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop)",
month = mar,
year = "2026",
address = "Rabat, Morocco",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-srw.9/",
pages = "131--149",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-383-8",
abstract = "Existing user simulation approaches focus on generating user-like responses in dialogue. They often assume that the provided persona is sufficient for producing such responses, without verifying whether critical personas are supplied. This raises concerns about the validity of simulation results.To address this issue, we study the task of identifying persona dimensions (e.g., ``whether the user is price-sensitive'') that are relevant but missing in simulating a user{'}s reply for a given dialogue context.We introduce PICQ-drama (constructed from TVShowGuess), a benchmark of context-aware choice questions, annotated with missing persona dimensions whose absence leads to ambiguous user choices. We further design diverse evaluation criteria for missing persona identification.Benchmarking leading LLMs on our PICQ-drama dataset demonstrates the feasibility of this task. Evaluation across diverse criteria, along with further analyses, reveals cognitive differences between LLMs and humans and highlights the distinct roles of different persona categories in shaping responses."
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%T Is He Extroverted? Identifying Missing Relevant Personas for Faithful User Simulation
%A Su, Weiwen
%A Zhou, Yuhan
%A Wang, Zihan
%A Yoshinaga, Naoki
%A Toyoda, Masashi
%Y Baez Santamaria, Selene
%Y Somayajula, Sai Ashish
%Y Yamaguchi, Atsuki
%S Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop)
%D 2026
%8 March
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Rabat, Morocco
%@ 979-8-89176-383-8
%F su-etal-2026-extroverted
%X Existing user simulation approaches focus on generating user-like responses in dialogue. They often assume that the provided persona is sufficient for producing such responses, without verifying whether critical personas are supplied. This raises concerns about the validity of simulation results.To address this issue, we study the task of identifying persona dimensions (e.g., “whether the user is price-sensitive”) that are relevant but missing in simulating a user’s reply for a given dialogue context.We introduce PICQ-drama (constructed from TVShowGuess), a benchmark of context-aware choice questions, annotated with missing persona dimensions whose absence leads to ambiguous user choices. We further design diverse evaluation criteria for missing persona identification.Benchmarking leading LLMs on our PICQ-drama dataset demonstrates the feasibility of this task. Evaluation across diverse criteria, along with further analyses, reveals cognitive differences between LLMs and humans and highlights the distinct roles of different persona categories in shaping responses.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-srw.9/
%P 131-149
Markdown (Informal)
[Is He Extroverted? Identifying Missing Relevant Personas for Faithful User Simulation](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-srw.9/) (Su et al., EACL 2026)
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