@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2026-dont-guess,
    title = "Don{'}t Guess, Ask Wisely: Benchmarking and Training Proactive Elicitation in Open-Domain {LLM} Conversations",
    author = "Zhang, Rongyu  and
      Bao, Mutian  and
      Zhang, Jinjian  and
      Du, Yuetian  and
      Xu, He  and
      Zhou, Wei  and
      Zhu, Xiaojun  and
      Kong, Ming  and
      Liu, Jie  and
      Mo, Linjian  and
      Zhu, Qiang",
    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.1370/",
    pages = "31257--31282",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}