| 2026 | On the Structure of Address in Multi-Party Dialogue: From Discrete Labels to Continuous Levels. | Taiga Mori, Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 2026 | Evaluation of Paralinguistic-Aware Spoken Dialogue Systems using Next-Utterance Classification. | Kouki Miyazawa, Yoshinao Sato |
| 2026 | Ping-Ponder: Concurrent Dual-Agent Spoken Dialogue via Shared Belief State. | Akiko Masaki-Kato, Haris Gulzar |
| 2026 | Adaptive Emotion Management in Human-robot Dialogue using Online Group Relative Policy Optimization. | Anna Manaseryan, Casey Kennington |
| 2026 | Breaking the Script: Do Role-Playing Agents Maintain Goal Alignment under Distraction? | Dongxu Lu, Albert Gatt, Johan Jeuring |
| 2026 | Beyond Supervised Clarification: Input Rewriting with LLMs for Dialogue Discourse Parsing. | Yiming Liu, Ziyue Zhang, Zhichao Xu, Xin Yu, Yingheng Tang, Tianyu Jiang, Jie Cao |
| 2026 | Bridging Talk and Thought: Understanding Dialogue Dynamics Across Collaborative Problem-Solving Contexts. | Zhengyuan Liu, Stella Xin Yin, Min-Yen Kan, Nancy F. Chen |
| 2026 | Seeing Is Not Sharing: Some Vision-Language Models Overestimate Common Ground in Asymmetric Dialogue. | Nan Li, Albert Gatt, Massimo Poesio |
| 2026 | From Sound to Symptom: Real-Time Respiratory Signal Understanding for Conversational Healthcare Agents. | Tanmay Laud, Herprit Mahal, Subhabrata Mukherjee |
| 2026 | Rethinking Binary Evaluation of Turn-Taking under Inherent Ambiguity. | Yunosuke Kubo, Kenta Yamamoto, Ryu Takeda, Kazunori Komatani |
| 2026 | Interpretable Satisfaction Modeling in Sales Dialogues: A Metrics-based Approach Validated Against Text-based Model. | Natalia Krawczyk, Alicja Kasicka, Bartosz Przybyl, Justyna Gromada |
| 2026 | LLMs and their Limited Theory of Mind: Evaluating Mental State Annotations in Situated Dialogue. | Katharine Kowalyshyn, Matthias Scheutz |
| 2026 | Exploring Retrieval Augmented Generation Approaches for Natural Language Question Understanding. | Christoph R. Kowalski, Amelie Sophie Robrecht-Hilbig, Vincent Emmerling, Stefan Kopp |
| 2026 | Question Types for Knowledge Acquisition in LLM-based Dialogue Systems: Experiments with Simulated and Human Users. | Kazunori Komatani, Ryu Takeda, Mikio Nakano |
| 2026 | Too Polite to Disagree: Understanding Sycophancy Propagation in Multi-Agent Systems. | Vira Kasprova, Amruta Parulekar, Abdulrahman AlRabah, Krishna Agaram, Ritwik Garg, Sagar Jha, Nimet Beyza Bozdag, Dilek Hakkani-Tur |
| 2026 | PersonaKit (PK): A Plug-and-Play Platform for User Testing Diverse Roles in Simulated Full-Duplex Dialogue. | Hyunbae Jeon, Jinho D. Choi |
| 2026 | PERSONAJUDGE: Simulating Individual Human Preference Judgments with Evaluator-Specific Demonstration Data. | Zeyu He, Xuan Qi, Subramanian Chidambaram, Zhichao Xu, Vinayak Arannil, Lydia B. Chilton, Alex C. Williams |
| 2026 | Sensor-Augmented Voice Activity Projection for Enhancing Turn-Taking Prediction. | Satoki Hamanaka, Yasue Kishino, Yuiko Tsunomori, Shin Mizutani, Yuya Chiba, Tadashi Okoshi, Jin Nakazawa |
| 2026 | Building Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems via Instruction Guidance without Annotated Data. | Henry Gao, Jinho D. Choi |
| 2026 | Fractional Decay KV-Cache: Ownership-Aware Memory Management for Improved Inference Relevancy in Dialog Systems. | Sukanta Ganguly |
| 2026 | How Ethos and Pathos Appeals Resonate in Reader Interpretations of Social Media Messages. | Ewelina Gajewska, Katarzyna Budzynska, Jaroslaw A. Chudziak, Liesbeth Allein |
| 2026 | Suppressing Unnecessary Clarification Requests for Unknown Word Acquisition in Spoken Dialogue Using Syllable-Based ASR Confidence. | Takumi Furuta, Ryu Takeda, Kazunori Komatani |
| 2026 | Accuracy and Satisfaction in Multi-Turn LLM Dialogues for NFR Assessment. | Ali Pourghasemi Fatideh, Wilder Baldwin, Maria Dhakal, Collin McMillan, Sepideh Ghanavati |
| 2026 | Conversational Grounding in Large Language Models: Evaluation Methods, Challenges and Future Directions. | Michelle Elizabeth, Gwnol Lecorv, Lina Maria Rojas Barahona, Magalie Ochs |
| 2026 | Embodied Multi-Agent Coordination by Aligning World Models Through Dialogue. | Vardhan Dongre, Dilek Hakkani-Tur |