@inproceedings{fang-etal-2026-persona, title = "How Persona and Message Type in Conversation Initiation Influence Learners' Experience with Educational Chatbots", author = "Fang, Jingchao and Zhu, Qingxiaoyang and Wang, Hao-Chuan", editor = "Atwell, Katherine and Borah, Angana and Dementieva, Daryna and Kreiss, Elisa and Kotonya, Neema and Liu, Jiarui and Olson, Liz and Wan, Ruyuan and Zhao, Jieyu", booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on {NLP} for Positive Impact ({NLP}4{PI})", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.nlp4pi-1.21/", pages = "232--248", ISBN = "979-8-89176-495-8" }