@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2026-sentient,
    title = "Sentient Agent as a Judge: Evaluating Higher-Order Social Cognition in Large Language Models",
    author = "Zhang, Bang  and
      Ma, Ruotian  and
      Jiang, Qingxuan  and
      Wang, Peisong  and
      Chen, Jiaqi  and
      Xie, Zheng  and
      Chen, Xingyu  and
      Wang, Yue  and
      Ye, Fanghua  and
      Li, Jian  and
      Yang, Yifan  and
      Tu, Zhaopeng  and
      Li, Xiaolong",
    editor = "Liakata, Maria  and
      Moreira, Viviane P.  and
      Zhang, Jiajun  and
      Jurgens, David",
    booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {ACL} 2026",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, California, United States",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1905/",
    pages = "38196--38224",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1"
}