@inproceedings{surana-etal-2026-empirical,
    title = "An Empirical Study on Zero-Data Bootstrapping for Conversational Recommender Systems",
    author = "Surana, Rohan  and
      Wu, Junda  and
      Xie, Zhouhang  and
      Xia, Yu  and
      Kallus, Nathan  and
      McAuley, Julian",
    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.736/",
    pages = "15455--15472",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}