@inproceedings{meshi-etal-2026-convapparel, title = "{C}onv{A}pparel: A Benchmark Dataset and Validation Framework for User Simulators in Conversational Recommenders", author = "Meshi, Ofer and Balog, Krisztian and Goldman, Sally and Caciularu, Avi and Tennenholtz, Guy and Jeong, Jihwan and Globerson, Amir and Boutilier, Craig", editor = "Demberg, Vera and Inui, Kentaro and Marquez, Llu{\'i}s", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the {E}uropean Chapter of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)", month = mar, year = "2026", address = "Rabat, Morocco", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-eacl/2026.eacl-long.244/", pages = "5270--5304", ISBN = "979-8-89176-380-7" }