@inproceedings{li-etal-2026-focal,
    title = "{FOCAL}: Fine-Grained Optimal-Transport-Driven Contrastive Alignment of Language and {ECG}s with Waveform Enhancement",
    author = "Li, Haitao  and
      Liu, Che  and
      Ding, Zhengyao  and
      Liu, Ziyi  and
      Shao, Wenqi  and
      Huang, Zhengxing",
    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.1244/",
    pages = "28349--28367",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}