@inproceedings{welivita-etal-2026-generates, title = "Who Generates More Empathetic Responses{---}Humans or {LLM}s? A Comparative Evaluation with Human and {LLM} Judges", author = "Welivita, Anuradha and Zeitoun, Fawzia and Pu, Pearl", editor = "Bonial, Claire and Berzak, Yevgeni", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 30th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, USA", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-workshops/2026.conll-main.21/", pages = "358--381", ISBN = "979-8-89176-410-1" }