@inproceedings{sabour-etal-2026-patientact,
    title = "{P}atient{A}ct: Theory-Grounded Mental Health Client Simulation",
    author = "Sabour, Sahand  and
      Yam, NG Tsz  and
      Chen, Yaqian  and
      Bi, Guanqun  and
      Huang, Minlie",
    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.1572/",
    pages = "33483--33506",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}