@inproceedings{sim-lee-2026-evaluating,
    title = "Evaluating the Evaluators: A Systematic Analysis of Reference Bias in Audio Captioning Metrics",
    author = "Sim, Jaeheon  and
      Lee, Kyogu",
    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.1942/",
    pages = "44191--44207",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}