@inproceedings{li-etal-2026-word,
    title = "From Word to World: Can Large Language Models be Implicit Text-based World Models?",
    author = "Li, Yixia  and
      Wang, Hongru  and
      Qiu, Jiahao  and
      Yin, Zhenfei  and
      Zhang, Dongdong  and
      Qian, Cheng  and
      Li, Zeping  and
      Ma, Xiaoteng  and
      Chen, Guanhua  and
      Ji, Heng",
    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.366/",
    pages = "8084--8111",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6"
}