@inproceedings{yang-etal-2026-merit,
    title = "{MERIT}: Matching Expertise via Rubric-Informed Training for Reviewer Assignment",
    author = "Yang, Zixuan  and
      Zhao, Yibo  and
      Liu, Weicong  and
      Li, Xiang",
    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.2227/",
    doi = "10.18653/2026.emnlp-main.2227",
    pages = "50686--50710",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}