@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2026-expressions,
    title = "From Expressions to Needs: Hierarchical Interpretive Reasoning for Emotional Support Conversation",
    author = "Zhang, Xinjie  and
      Fan, Haotian  and
      Huang, Zhaopei  and
      Ren, Shujie  and
      Wang, Wenxuan  and
      Jin, Qin",
    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.1729/",
    pages = "39455--39487",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}