@inproceedings{liu-etal-2026-anticipating,
    title = "Anticipating User Interpretations in Emotional Support Conversations via Inference-Time User-Side Simulation",
    author = "Liu, Jiaqi  and
      Xu, Jiakang  and
      Du, Zhongqiang  and
      Zheng, Haonan  and
      Yang, Yankun  and
      Jiang, Wenbin",
    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.207/",
    pages = "4746--4779",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}