@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2026-thinking-hurts,
    title = "Why Thinking Hurts: Diagnosing and Rectifying Linguistic Inertia in Large Language Models for Recommendation",
    author = "Zhang, Luankang  and
      Huang, Yonghao  and
      Lv, Hang  and
      Zhi, Xuyang  and
      Yin, Mingjia  and
      Ye, Yuyang  and
      Guo, Wei  and
      Wang, Hao  and
      Chen, Enhong",
    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.2424/",
    pages = "55037--55049",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}