@inproceedings{gromada-etal-2026-simulation, title = "From Simulation to Reality: Validating Automated Evaluation of Conversational Agents", author = "Gromada, Justyna and Isakova, Ekaterina and Brudnik, Joanna and Kasicka, Alicja and Krawczyk, Natalia and Przyby{\l}, Bartosz and Krajewski, Lukasz and Szczerbak, Micha{\l} K.", editor = "Atanasova, Pepa and Haffari, Gholamreza and Wang, Minghan", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-industry.46/", pages = "763--784", ISBN = "979-8-89176-460-6" }