@inproceedings{belem-etal-2026-may, title = "From `May' to `Is': Certainty Distortion in Language Model Rewriting", author = "Bel{\'e}m, Catarina G and Wu, Shang and Yao, Randol H. and Steyvers, Mark and Singh, Sameer and Smyth, Padhraic", 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.931/", pages = "21426--21464", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }