@inproceedings{zhu-etal-2026-large,
    title = "Can Large Language Models Effectively Support Decision-Making in Sudden Emergencies?",
    author = "Zhu, Mengna  and
      Wu, Jibing  and
      Liu, Lihua  and
      Gong, Yuran  and
      Hao, Yang  and
      Yachao, Fu  and
      Wang, Mao  and
      Hou, Lei  and
      Li, Juanzi",
    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.1820/",
    pages = "36536--36558",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1",
    abstract = "Emergency response is a safety-critical public governance task that demands accurate and timely decision-making based on complex event information. This process involves multiple stages, including information collection, integration, analysis, risk assessment, and decision recommendation. Existing research has predominantly concentrated on the earlier stages, while studies focusing on the decision support phase remain underexplored, primarily due to the lack of suitable datasets for reliable and compliance-aware decision-oriented modeling and evaluation. To bridge this gap, we introduce the first real-world Emergency Decision-Making dataset EDM-Bench, comprising 1,179 instances spanning diverse task formats, including judgment, choice, short-answer, and structured emergency report generation. We also construct a structured rule repository, EDM-R{\texttwosuperior}, which contains 3,406 parsed emergency regulations to enhance decision reliability. Building on these resources, we propose a rule-enhanced reasoning framework, R{\textthreesuperior}V-EDM, which integrates external regulatory knowledge with constrained inference mechanisms to improve both decision safety and interpretability. Extensive experiments demonstrate the inherent complexity of emergency decision-making and validate the effectiveness of our approach in enabling more reliable and trustworthy decisions."
}