@inproceedings{du-hu-2026-recognition,
    title = "Recognition{--}Refusal Misalignment in {LLM}s: Why Models Answer Structurally Unanswerable Questions",
    author = "Du, Yucheng  and
      Hu, Xiyang",
    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.1078/",
    doi = "10.18653/2026.emnlp-main.1078",
    pages = "24766--24794",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}