@inproceedings{salhan-buttery-2026-protocol, title = "Protocol Competence of Small Language Models in Interactive Language Game Environments", author = "Salhan, Suchir and Buttery, Paula", editor = "Suglia, Alessandro and Giulianelli, Mario and Schlangen, David and Bernardi, Raffaella and Fern{\'a}ndez, Raquel and Hakimov, Sherzod and McCallum, Sabrina and Mazzaccara, Davide and Le, Dieu-Thu and Lemon, Oliver and Koller, Alexander", booktitle = "The Proceedings of Improving Language Models through Learning from Dialogue Game Interaction", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lmplayschool-1.6/", pages = "57--79", ISBN = "979-8-89176-467-5" }