@inproceedings{li-etal-2026-scaffolding, title = "From Scaffolding to Assimilation: Progressive Structural Internalization for Format-Constrained Creative Text Generation", author = "Li, Wenhao and Yang, Yuwei and Wu, Xiaoqing and Han, Yufeng and Kong, Cunliang and Bai, Yuzhuo and Cong, Xin and Sun, Maosong", 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.1913/", pages = "38372--38389", ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1" }