@inproceedings{zheng-etal-2026-icebreaker,
    title = "{I}ce{B}reaker for Conversational Agents: Breaking the First-Message Barrier with Personalized Starters",
    author = "Zheng, Hongwei  and
      Wu, Weiqi  and
      Wang, Zhengjia  and
      Jiang, Guanyu  and
      Li, Haoming  and
      Wu, Tianyu  and
      Zhu, Yongchun  and
      Chen, Jingwu  and
      Zhang, Feng",
    editor = "Li, Yunyao  and
      Rehm, Georg  and
      Tu, Mei",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics ({ACL} 2026)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, California, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.acl-industry.16/",
    pages = "230--241",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-394-4"
}