@inproceedings{schwager-etal-2026-towards,
    title = "Towards Simulating Social Media Users with {LLM}s: Evaluating the Operational Validity of Conditioned Comment Prediction",
    author = {Schwager, Nils  and
      M{\"u}nker, Simon  and
      Plum, Alistair  and
      Rettinger, Achim},
    editor = "Barnes, Jeremy  and
      Barriere, Valentin  and
      De Clercq, Orph{\'e}e  and
      Klinger, Roman  and
      Nouri, C{\'e}lia  and
      Nozza, Debora  and
      Singh, Pranaydeep",
    booktitle = "The Proceedings for the 15th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment Social Media Analysis ({WASSA} 2026)",
    month = mar,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Rabat, Morocco",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.wassa-1.16/",
    pages = "208--221",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-378-4"
}