@inproceedings{abulimiti-etal-2026-reinforcement,
    title = "A Reinforcement Learning-Based Facilitator for Simulated Group Motivational Interviewing",
    author = "Abulimiti, Alafate  and
      Maraev, Vladislav  and
      Helme-Guizon, Agn{\`e}s  and
      Pelachaud, Catherine",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.61/",
    pages = "871--890"
}