@inproceedings{chen-etal-2026-empirically,
    title = "Empirically Grounded Behavioral Adaptivity for {LLM}-Based Virtual Patients in Psychotherapy Training",
    author = "Chen, Angela  and
      Jin, Siwei  and
      Bao, Catherine  and
      Wang, Canwen  and
      Wang, Yi-Chia  and
      Kraut, Robert E.  and
      Wu, Tongshuang  and
      Zhu, Haiyi",
    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.1349/",
    pages = "28644--28665",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}