@inproceedings{jia-etal-2026-scout,
    title = "{SCOUT}: Selective Coupling via Optimal Unbalanced Transport for Interpretable Text Classification",
    author = "Jia, Junhao  and
      Zheng, Hanwen  and
      Wu, Yueyi  and
      Chen, Huangwei  and
      Wang, Haishuai  and
      Bu, Jiajun  and
      Wu, Lei",
    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.290/",
    pages = "6413--6431",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6"
}