@inproceedings{cao-huang-2026-clarify, title = "Clarify User Expertise: Towards Proactive Conversational Agents Tailoring Responses to User Proficiency", author = "Cao, Zhihong and Huang, Chen", 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.833/", pages = "17653--17674", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }