@inproceedings{son-etal-2026-dont,
    title = "{I} Don{'}t Need Solution. {I} Need Emotional Support : Empathetic {LLM}s based on Emotional Validation",
    author = "Son, Suhyune  and
      Lim, Jungwoo  and
      Kang, Myunghoon  and
      Hong, Seongtae  and
      Hur, Yuna  and
      Zi, Evelyn H.  and
      Lim, Heuiseok",
    editor = "Liakata, Maria  and
      Moreira, Viviane P.  and
      Zhang, Jiajun  and
      Jurgens, David",
    booktitle = "Findings 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.findings-acl.1/",
    pages = "1--26",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1"
}