@inproceedings{benescu-de-jong-2026-large, title = "Why Large Language Models can Secretly Outperform Embedding Similarity in Information Retrieval", author = "Benescu, Matei and de Jong, Ivo Pascal", editor = "T.Y.S.S., Santosh and Rodriguez, Juan Diego and de Gibert, Ona", 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, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.acl-srw.5/", pages = "47--59", ISBN = "979-8-89176-393-7" }