@inproceedings{liu-etal-2026-escrag,
    title = "{ESCRAG}-{R}1: Retrieval-Augmented Reinforcement Learning for Emotional Support Conversation",
    author = "Liu, Weichu  and
      Hu, Yuxuan  and
      Sun, Yirong  and
      Mao, Ningning  and
      Zhang, Ziyun  and
      Chen, Jian  and
      Xu, Mingyang  and
      Zhong, Qishan  and
      Li, Chengming",
    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.346/",
    pages = "7253--7266",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}