| 2026 | ACL | Dialogue is the Plan: From Interface to Joint Action in Agentic AI. | Mert Inan, Malihe Alikhani, Anthony Sicilia |
| 2026 | LREC | How Pragmatics Shape Articulation: A Computational Case Study in STEM ASL Discourse. | Saki Imai, Lee Kezar, Laurel Aichler, Mert Inan, Erin Walker, Alicia Wooten, Lorna Cobban Quandt, Malihe Alikhani |
| 2025 | ACL | SignAlignLM: Integrating Multimodal Sign Language Processing into Large Language Models. | Mert Inan, Anthony Sicilia, Malihe Alikhani |
| 2025 | EMNLP | Identifying & Interactively Refining Ambiguous User Goals for Data Visualization Code Generation. | Mert Inan, Anthony Sicilia, Alex Xie, Saujas Vaduguru, Daniel Fried, Malihe Alikhani |
| 2025 | NAACL | How to Align Multiple Signed Language Corpora for Better Sign-to-Sign Translations? | Mert Inan, Yang Zhong, Vidya Ganesh, Malihe Alikhani |
| 2025 | NAACL | Accounting for Sycophancy in Language Model Uncertainty Estimation. | Anthony Sicilia, Mert Inan, Malihe Alikhani |
| 2025 | RANLP | Measuring How (Not Just Whether) VLMs Build Common Ground. | Saki Imai, Mert Inan, Anthony B. Sicilia, Malihe Alikhani |
| 2025 | RANLP | SiLVERScore: Semantically-Aware Embeddings for Sign Language Generation Evaluation. | Saki Imai, Mert Inan, Anthony B. Sicilia, Malihe Alikhani |
| 2024 | AAAI | Learning to Generate Context-Sensitive Backchannel Smiles for Embodied AI Agents with Applications in Mental Health Dialogues. | Maneesh Bilalpur, Mert Inan, Dorsa Zeinali, Jeffrey F. Cohn, Malihe Alikhani |
| 2024 | COLING | Combining Discourse Coherence with Large Language Models for More Inclusive, Equitable, and Robust Task-Oriented Dialogue. | Katherine Atwell, Mert Inan, Anthony B. Sicilia, Malihe Alikhani |
| 2024 | COLING | Seeing Eye-to-Eye: Cross-Modal Coherence Relations Inform Eye-gaze Patterns During Comprehension & Production. | Mert Inan, Malihe Alikhani |
| 2024 | NAACL | Generating Signed Language Instructions in Large-Scale Dialogue Systems. | Mert Inan, Katherine Atwell, Anthony Sicilia, Lorna C. Quandt, Malihe Alikhani |
| 2023 | EMNLP | Multimodal Embodied Plan Prediction Augmented with Synthetic Embodied Dialogue. | Aishwarya Padmakumar, Mert Inan, Spandana Gella, Patrick Lange, Dilek Hakkani-Tur |
| 2023 | SIGdial | Learning Multimodal Cues of Children's Uncertainty. | Qi Cheng, Mert Inan, Rahma Mbarki, Grace Grmek, Theresa Choi, Yiming Sun, Kimele Persaud, Jenny Wang, Malihe Alikhani |
| 2022 | ACL | Modeling Intensification for Sign Language Generation: A Computational Approach. | Mert Inan, Yang Zhong, Sabit Hassan, Lorna C. Quandt, Malihe Alikhani |
| 2022 | CogSci | Learning cognitive and linguistic prosodic categories for automatic cross-lingual sign language understanding. | Mert Inan, Yang Zhong, Sabit Hassan, Lorna C. Quandt, Malihe Alikhani |
| 2021 | EMNLP | COSMic: A Coherence-Aware Generation Metric for Image Descriptions. | Mert Inan, Piyush Sharma, Baber Khalid, Radu Soricut, Matthew Stone, Malihe Alikhani |