@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2026-medeq,
    title = "{M}ed{EQ}: A Clinical Emotional Intelligence Benchmark and Rubric-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Patient-Centric Medical {LLM}s",
    author = "Zhang, Yiming  and
      Yang, Xiaoyan  and
      Xu, Yanchao  and
      Deng, Jiayi  and
      Ma, Yingfan  and
      Gao, Lirong  and
      Gu, Yanmei  and
      Zhengkaiya  and
      Song, Bowen  and
      Gu, Jinjie  and
      Zhao, Junbo",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1101/",
    pages = "23279--23300",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}