@inproceedings{yang-etal-2025-item, title = "Item-Language Model: Improving Large Language Model for Recommendation via Item-Language Representation Learning", author = "Yang, Li and Subbiah, Anushya and Patel, Hardik and Li, Judith Yue and Song, Yanwei and Mirghaderi, Reza and Aggarwal, Vikram and Feng, Fuli and Xu, Zenglin and Liu, Dongfang and Wang, Qifan", editor = "Inui, Kentaro and Sakti, Sakriani and Wang, Haofen and Wong, Derek F. and Bhattacharyya, Pushpak and Banerjee, Biplab and Ekbal, Asif and Chakraborty, Tanmoy and Singh, Dhirendra Pratap", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics", month = dec, year = "2025", address = "Mumbai, India", publisher = "The Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing and The Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-ijcnlp-aacl/2025.ijcnlp-long.19/", pages = "315--330", ISBN = "979-8-89176-298-5" }