@inproceedings{wang-etal-2026-investigating, title = "Investigating the Representation of Backchannels and Fillers in Fine-tuned Language Models", author = "Wang, Yu and Lao, Leyi and Huang, Langchu and Skantze, Gabriel and Xu, Yang and Buschmeier, Hendrik", editor = "Liakata, Maria and Moreira, Viviane P. and Zhang, Jiajun and Jurgens, David", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.acl-long.241/", pages = "5319--5348", ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6" }