@inproceedings{wu-etal-2025-rethinking-text, title = "Rethinking Text-based Protein Understanding: Retrieval or {LLM}?", author = "Wu, Juntong and Liu, Zijing and Cao, He and Hao, Li and Feng, Bin and Shu, Zishan and Yu, Ke and Yuan, Li and Li, Yu", editor = "Christodoulopoulos, Christos and Chakraborty, Tanmoy and Rose, Carolyn and Peng, Violet", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = nov, year = "2025", address = "Suzhou, China", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2025.emnlp-main.1211/", pages = "23737--23757", ISBN = "979-8-89176-332-6" }