@inproceedings{hong-etal-2026-freezeempath,
  title = {{FreezeEmpath}: Efficient Training for Empathetic Spoken Chatbots with Frozen {LLMs}},
  author = {Hong, Yun and Zhou, Yan and Feng, Yang},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026},
  year = {2026},
  month = jul,
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages = {17141--17157},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2026.findings-acl.846},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.846/}
}