@inproceedings{morabito-etal-2026-rating, title = "Rating the Pitch, Not the Product: User Evaluations of {LLM}s Reflect Expectations More Than Performance", author = "Morabito, Robert and McDonald, Tyler and Viswanath, Charitra and Hwang, Angel Hsing-Chi and Gaube, Susanne and Kabbara, Jad and Emami, Ali", 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.394/", pages = "9039--9068", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }