@inproceedings{yang-etal-2026-beyond-case, title = "Beyond Case-Level Similarity: Multi-Defendant Legal Case Retrieval via Individual-Aware Reasoning", author = "Yang, Yi and Ma, Ruize and Feng, Yi and Li, Chuanyi and Ng, Vincent", 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.1918/", pages = "43688--43713", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }