@inproceedings{balog-bakken-2026-act, title = "``Act Like a 5th Grader'' is Not Enough: Bounding Knowledge in {LLM}-Based User Simulators", author = "Balog, Krisztian and Bakken, Arild Michel", 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.2367/", doi = "10.18653/2026.findings-emnlp.2367", pages = "50860--50878", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }