Main Conference

Accepted papers are drawn from three submission venues: Softconf/START, ACL Rolling Review, and Dialogue & Discourse.

Long Papers

• A Dialogue System for Second Language Learning with Dynamic Adaptation to In-Dialogue Difficulty Changes
  Taku Morioka, Junya Takayama and Tomoyuki Kajiwara
• A French OSCE Dialogue Dataset and Controllable Virtual Patient System for Clinical Training
  Doria Bonzi, Tom Bourgeade, Fabrice Lefèvre and Irina Illina
• A Reinforcement Learning-Based Facilitator for Simulated Group Motivational Interviewing
  Alafate Abulimiti, Vladislav Maraev, Agnès Helme-Guizon and Catherine Pelachaud
• Accuracy and Satisfaction in Multi-Turn LLM Dialogues for NFR Assessment
  ali pourghasemi fatideh, Wilder Baldwin, Maria Dhakal, Collin McMillan and Sepideh Ghanavati
• Adaptive Emotion Management in Human-robot Dialogue using Online Group Relative Policy Optimization
  Anna Manaseryan and Casey Kennington
• ArgAssist: LLM-based Argument Synthesis for Insurance Disputes
  Anubhav Sinha, Nitin Ramrakhiyani, Sachin Pawar, Isha Narang and Manoj Apte
• Better Scores, Worse Grounding: Hidden Regressions after Fine-Tuning in Dialogue Fact Verification
  Hyunkyung Park and Arkaitz Zubiaga
• Beyond Supervised Clarification: Input Rewriting with LLMs for Dialogue Discourse Parsing
  Yiming Liu, Ziyue Zhang, Zhichao Xu, Xin Yu, Yingheng Tang, Tianyu Jiang and Jie Cao
• Bounded Conversational Memory with Hybrid Retrieval and Evidence Highlighting for Multi-Session Dialogue Systems
  Manasa Mudunuri, Chandra Kiran Guntupalli, Mario Michael Kubek, Shiraj Pokharel and Murray Patterson
• Breaking the Script: Do Role-Playing Agents Maintain Goal Alignment under Distraction?
  Dongxu Lu, Albert Gatt and Johan Jeuring
• Bridging Talk and Thought: Understanding Dialogue Dynamics Across Collaborative Problem-Solving Contexts
  Zhengyuan Liu, Stella Yin, Min-Yen Kan and Nancy Chen
• Building Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems via Instruction Guidance without Annotated Data
  Henry Gao and Jinho D. Choi
• Chronological Thinking in Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Language Models
  Donghang Wu, Haoyang Zhang, Chen Chen, Tianyu Zhang, Fei Tian, Xuerui Yang, Gang Yu, Hexin Liu, Nana Hou, Yuchen Hu and Eng Siong Chng
• ClarVis: A Dataset of Clarification Requests and Grounding in Collaborative Data Visualization Dialogues
  Abari Bhattacharya and Barbara Di Eugenio
• COCORELI: Enforcing Execution Preconditions for Reliable Collaborative Instruction Following
  Swarnadeep Bhar, Omar Naim, Eleni Metheniti, Loïc Cabannes, Bastien NAVARRI, Morteza Kamaladdini Ezzabady and Nicholas Asher
• Conversational Grounding in Large Language Models: Evaluation Methods, Challenges and Future Directions
  Michelle Elizabeth, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Lina M. Rojas Barahona and Magalie Ochs
• Detecting Experiential Intertextuality Across Migration Routes: Beyond Surface Similarity in French Narratives
  Sakayo Toadoum Sari, Nelly Robin, Sais Lakhdar, Véronique Petit, Marie VENIARD, Said Jabbour and Delorme Fabien
• DialogueSidon: Recovering Full-Duplex Dialogue Tracks from In-the-Wild Dialogue Audio
  Wataru Nakata, Yuki Saito, Kazuki Yamauchi, Emiru Tsunoo and Hiroshi Saruwatari
• DiPS: Dialogue Policy Selection for High-Stakes Persuasion Agents
  Tianyi Zhang, Mousumi Das, Abrar Anwar, Jesse Thomason and David Traum
• Disentangling Annotator Skill from Verifier Strictness in Cross-Verified Dialogue Annotation
  Zihao Tao, John A. Prado, Ignazio Steven LaManna, Ryan Puterbaugh, Mim Datta and Julia Hirschberg
• Do LLMs Use Relational Structure in KG-Grounded Dialogue? Evidence from Entity and Relation Perturbation
  Dominic Okonkwo and Ismailcem Budak Arpinar
• Embodied Multi-Agent Coordination by Aligning World Models Through Dialogue
  Vardhan Dongre and Dilek Hakkani-Tur
• Enhancing Operational Safety via Agentic Dialogue Hazard Identification Analysis
  Sanjay Das, Ran Elgedawy, Ethan Seefried, Ryan Burchfield and Tirthankar Ghosal
• Evaluation of Paralinguistic-Aware Spoken Dialogue Systems using Next-Utterance Classification
  Kouki Miyazawa and Yoshinao Sato
• Exploring Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Approaches for Natural Language Question Understanding
  Christoph Kowalski, Amelie Sophie Robrecht-Hilbig, Vincent Emmerling and Stefan Kopp
• For What Reason? Interpreting Models’ Encoding of Causation and Antithesis
  Abhidip Bhattacharyya and Shira Wein
• Fractional Decay KV-Cache: Ownership-Aware Memory Management for Improved Inference Relevancy in Dialog Systems
  Sukanta Ganguly
• From Felt Sense to Words: Construction and Analysis of a Focusing Dialogue Dataset for Verbalization
  Yuiko Tsunomori, Yuya Chiba and Yosuke Koshikawa
• From Propositional to Perceptual Asymmetry: Extending FPO to Asymmetric Partial Information Dialogue
  Yifan Zhu, Kyeongmin Rim and James Pustejovsky
• GBC: Gradient-Based Connections for Optimizing Multi-Agent Systems
  Xiaocheng Yang, Abdulrahman Alrabah, Dilek Hakkani-Tür and Gokhan Tur
• How Ethos and Pathos Appeals Resonate in Reader Interpretations of Social Media Messages
  Ewelina Gajewska, Katarzyna Budzynska, Jarosław A. Chudziak and Liesbeth Allein
• I Understand How You Feel: Enhancing Deeper Emotional Support Through Multilingual Emotional Validation in Dialogue System
  Zi Haur Pang, Yahui Fu, Koji Inoue and Tatsuya Kawahara
• Interpretable Satisfaction Modeling in Sales Dialogues: A Metrics-based Approach Validated Against Text-based Model
  Natalia Krawczyk, Alicja Kasicka, Bartosz Przybył and Justyna Gromada
• LLMs and their Limited Theory of Mind: Evaluating Mental State Annotations in Situated Dialogue
  Katharine Kowalyshyn and Matthias Scheutz
• LLMs Out-of-the-Box Do Not Generate Context-Appropriate Word Order in Russian
  Alina Shabaeva, John Frederick Bailyn and Owen Rambow
• MemeBuddy: Dialog-Style Audio Representations for Engaging Non-Visual Meme Experiences
  Chirag Bhansali, Vikas Ashok and Hae-Na Lee
• MTDiag: A Multi-Turn Diagnostic Dataset for Evaluating Clinical Reasoning in Large Language Models
  Pia Chouayfati, Alexander M. Fichtl, Miriam Anschütz, George Doumat and Georg Groh
• On the Structure of Address in Multi-Party Dialogue: From Discrete Labels to Continuous Levels
  Taiga Mori, Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala and Tatsuya Kawahara
• PERSONAJUDGE: Simulating Individual Human Preference Judgments with Human-Centered Demonstration Data
  Zeyu He, Xuan Qi, Subramanian Chidambaram, Zhichao Xu, Vinayak Arannil, Lydia Chilton and Alex C. Williams
• Ping-Ponder: Concurrent Dual-Agent Spoken Dialogue via Shared Belief State
  Akiko Masaki-Kato and Gulzar Haris
• Question Types for Knowledge Acquisition in LLM-based Dialogue Systems: Experiments with Simulated and Human Users
  Kazunori Komatani, Ryu Takeda and Mikio Nakano
• Relex: A Common Denominator for Connectives and Discourse Relations in French
  Fatou SOW, Yannick Toussaint and Mathieu Constant
• Rethinking Binary Evaluation of Turn-Taking under Inherent Ambiguity
  Yunosuke Kubo, Kenta Yamamoto, Ryu Takeda and Kazunori Komatani
• Rethinking Role-Playing Evaluation: Anonymous Benchmarking and A Systematic Study of Personality Effects
  Ji-Lun Peng and Yun-Nung Chen
• Retrieving Responses Useful as References in Counseling via LLM-Generated Structurally Analogous Dialogues
  Yu Nakagawa, Nozomu Ikeda, Kotaro Funakoshi and Manabu Okumura
• SagaQA: A Multi-hop Reasoning Benchmark for Long-form Narrative Understanding in TV Series
  Galann Pennec, Zhengyuan Liu, Nicholas Asher, Philippe Muller and Nancy Chen
• Seeing Is Not Sharing: Some Vision-Language Models Overestimate Common Ground in Asymmetric Dialogue
  Nan Li, Albert Gatt and Massimo Poesio
• StagePilot: Stage-Level Planning for Long-Horizon Dialogue Simulation in Cybergrooming
  Heajun An, Qi Zhang, Minqian Liu, Xinyi Zhang, Sang Won Lee, Lifu Huang, Pamela Wisniewski and Jin-Hee Cho
• Suppressing Unnecessary Clarification Requests for Unknown Word Acquisition in Spoken Dialogue Using Syllable-Based ASR Confidence
  Takumi Furuta, Ryu Takeda and Kazunori Komatani
• Tinker Tales: A Tangible Dialogue System for Child–AI Co-Creative Storytelling
  Nayoung Choi, Jiseung Hong, Peace Cyebukayire, Ikseon Choi and Jinho D. Choi
• 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 and Dilek Hakkani-Tur
• Towards Conversational Patient History-Taking: Voice-Interactive AI Agents for Pre-visit Dementia Diagnostic Interviews
  Andrew G. Breithaupt, Nayoung Choi, James D. Finch, Jeanne M. Powell, Arin L. Nelson, Oz A. Alon, Howard J. Rosen and Jinho D. Choi
• TRACER: Early Failure Detection for Task-Oriented Dialogue
  Erfan Nourbakhsh, Rocky Slavin, Ke Yang and Anthony Rios
• Tree-Based Interview Topic Guidance for Collecting Target Information under Adaptive Topic continuation/switching
  Fuminori Nagasawa, Ekai Hashimoto and Shun Shiramatsu
• Weakly Supervised Temporal Modeling of Latent Dynamics in Dyadic Conversations
  Tahiya Chowdhury

Short Papers

• From Sound to Symptom: Real-Time Respiratory Signal Understanding for Conversational Healthcare Agents
  Tanmay Laud, Herprit Mahal and Subhabrata Mukherjee
• Generation of Dialogue Breakdown Repair Utterance in Non-task Oriented Conversation
  Kazuya Tsubokura, Yurie Iribe and Norihide Kitaoka
• Sensor-Augmented Voice Activity Projection for Enhancing Turn-Taking Prediction
  Satoki Hamanaka, Yasue Kishino, Yuiko Tsunomori, Shin Mizutani, Yuya Chiba, Tadashi Okoshi and Jin Nakazawa
• When the Database Fails: Prompting LLM Dialogue Agents for Safe Recovery in Task-Oriented Dialogue
  Mohammad Alijanpour Shalmani, Alale Rezvani Boroujeni and Jiann S. Yuan

Demo Papers

• CrossOracle: An Agentic Framework for Real-Time Expert Personas with Parallelized Acoustic Synthesis
  yash raj singh
• PersonaKit (PK): A Plug-and-Play Platform for User Testing Diverse Roles in Full-Duplex Dialogue
  Hyunbae Jeon and Jinho D. Choi