@inproceedings{zhu-etal-2026-evaluation,
    title = "Evaluation of Motivational Interviewing Counsellors with Task-Aware Multi-Stage {LLM}-Based Simulated Clients",
    author = "Zhu, Jiading  and
      Wang, Xinyu Cindy  and
      Nguyen, Thomas  and
      Lee, Yan Qing  and
      Melamed, Osnat C.  and
      Selby, Peter  and
      Rose, Jonathan",
    editor = "Sousa-Silva, Rui  and
      Lopes Cardoso, Henrique  and
      Koponen, Maarit  and
      Pareja-Lora, Antonio",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era ({LUHME} 2026)",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.luhme-1.23/",
    pages = "304--359",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-471-2"
}