@inproceedings{hu2026rescuebench, title = {RESCUE-BENCH: Towards Relation-Aware Multi-Party Emotional Support Conversation Systems}, author = {Hu, Haichuan and Xiao, Yang and Tang, Mingni and Duan, Jiawen and Zhang, Quanjun and He, Congqing and Zhang, Hao and Wang, Jiashuo and Hoorn, Johan F. and Li, Wenjie}, booktitle = {Findings of the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing}, year = {2026}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.09657}, eprint = {2609.09657}, archiveprefix = {arXiv} }