@inproceedings{zhao-etal-2026-rolearena, title = "{R}ole{A}rena: Autonomous Plot Progression for Long-Horizon Multi-Agent Role-Playing", author = "Zhao, Qi and Li, Jian and Jin, Yizhang and Liu, Dongqi and Ding, Hang and Song, Qi and Li, Xiang-Yang", 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.1160/", pages = "24553--24576", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }