@inproceedings{qin-etal-2026-topical, title = "From Topical Relevance to Answerability: Entailment Distillation for Conversational Retrieval", author = "Qin, Shuai and An, Guojia and Guo, Weikang and Ke, Pei and Wei, Jiwei and Yang, Yang and Zou, Jie", 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.802/", pages = "16989--17003", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }