@inproceedings{amat-lefort-etal-2026-chatbots, title = "From Chatbots to Confidants: A Cross-Cultural Study of {LLM} Adoption for Emotional Support", author = "Amat-Lefort, Natalia and Yazan, Mert and Curry, Amanda Cercas and Plaza-del-Arco, Flor Miriam", 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.160/", pages = "3668--3695", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }