@inproceedings{yang-etal-2026-stephanie2,
    title = "{S}tephanie2: Thinking, Waiting, and Making Decisions Like Humans in Step-by-Step {AI} Social Chat",
    author = "Yang, Hao  and
      Lu, Hongyuan  and
      Yang, Dingkang  and
      Yang, Wenliang  and
      Sun, Peng  and
      Zuo, Wei  and
      Zhang, Xiaochuan  and
      Xiao, Jun  and
      He, Kefan  and
      Lam, Wai  and
      Liu, Yang  and
      Zeng, Xinhua",
    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.501/",
    pages = "11505--11522",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}