@inproceedings{duan-etal-2026-counterfactual,
    title = "When Counterfactual Debiasing Backfires: Identity Cues as Task-Dependent Evidence in Harmful Language Understanding",
    author = "Duan, Jia  and
      Lu, Xiaoyu  and
      Hu, Wenjing  and
      Ding, Zihao",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.1062/",
    pages = "24392--24410",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}