@inproceedings{pulakurthi-etal-2025-x,
    title = "{X}-{C}o{T}: Explainable Text-to-Video Retrieval via {LLM}-based Chain-of-Thought Reasoning",
    author = "Pulakurthi, Prasanna Reddy  and
      Wang, Jiamian  and
      Rabbani, Majid  and
      Dianat, Sohail  and
      Rao, Raghuveer  and
      Tao, Zhiqiang",
    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.1588/",
    pages = "31172--31183",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-332-6"
}