@inproceedings{hew-etal-2026-multiple, title = "Between Multiple Choice and Open Response: Evaluating {LLM}s with Option-Free Deterministic Scoring", author = "Hew, ZhongKen and Yang, Sze Jue and Chan, Chee Seng", 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.844/", pages = "19582--19605", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }