@inproceedings{jin-etal-2026-emostance,
    title = "{E}mo{S}tance: Response-Side Affective-Orientation Control for Empathetic Response Generation via Emoji Weak Supervision",
    author = "Jin, Ziyuan  and
      Ge, Yuxuan  and
      Tian, Zheng",
    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.1360/",
    pages = "31008--31042",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}