@inproceedings{magzym-etal-2026-dual, title = "Dual Controller Architecture to Enable Adherence of {LLM}-based Counselors to Session- and Discourse-level Aspects of Motivational Interviewing Theory", author = "Magzym, Yermakhan and Carcone, April Idalski and Towner, Elizabeth and M.D., Christopher Mann and Badr, M. Safwan and Kotov, Alexander", 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.2603/", pages = "59120--59163", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }