@inproceedings{song-etal-2026-help, title = "Help or Hurdle? Rethinking Model Context Protocol-Augmented Large Language Models", author = "Song, Wei and Zhong, Haonan and Ding, Ziqi and Xing, Zhenchang and Sui, Yulei and Xue, Jingling and Li, Yuekang", 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.1911/", pages = "43537--43553", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }