@inproceedings{wu-etal-2026-emotion,
    title = "Emotion Trajectory-aware Retrieval for {M}arkov-driven Emotion Anticipation in {LLM}-based Emotional Support Conversation",
    author = "Wu, Hongyan  and
      Tian, Zhiliang  and
      Huang, Zhen  and
      Hu, Tengyue  and
      Qiao, Linbo  and
      Gao, Yifu  and
      Liu, Feng  and
      Li, Dongsheng",
    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.2127/",
    pages = "42887--42905",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1"
}