Main Conference - Day 1

The main conference takes place at Goodrich C. White Hall (WH). All oral sessions are are held at WH 208. All poster sessions are held in the WH main lobby. Blue names indicate the presenters.

Schedule (August 3)

Start	End	Event
08:00	09:00	Registration
09:00	09:30	Opening Remarks
09:30	10:30	Keynote 1: Larry Heck
10:30	11:00	Coffee Break
11:00	12:30	Oral Session 1
12:30	14:00	Lunch Break
14:00	15:30	Oral Session 2
15:30	16:00	Coffee break
16:00	17:30	Poster Session 1

Oral Session 1

• Time: 11:00 – 12:30
• Session Chair: Luis Fernando D’Haro
• Virtual Link: https://emory.zoom.us/j/95840256631

Papers

1. DialogueSidon: Recovering Full-Duplex Dialogue Tracks from In-the-Wild Dialogue Audio [paper] [slides]
   Wataru Nakata, Yuki Saito, Kazuki Yamauchi, Emiru Tsunoo and Hiroshi Saruwatari
2. Rethinking Binary Evaluation of Turn-Taking under Inherent Ambiguity [paper] [slides]
   Yunosuke Kubo, Kenta Yamamoto, Ryu Takeda and Kazunori Komatani
3. Tinker Tales: A Tangible Dialogue System for Child–AI Co-Creative Storytelling [paper] [slides]
   Nayoung Choi, Jiseung Hong, Peace Cyebukayire, Ikseon Choi and Jinho D. Choi
4. Suppressing Unnecessary Clarification Requests for Unknown Word Acquisition in Spoken Dialogue Using Syllable-Based ASR Confidence [paper] [slides]
   Takumi Furuta, Ryu Takeda and Kazunori Komatani
5. Towards Conversational Patient History-Taking: Voice-Interactive AI Agents for Pre-visit Dementia Diagnostic Interviews [paper] [slides]
   Andrew G. Breithaupt, Nayoung Choi, James D. Finch, Jeanne M. Powell, Arin L. Nelson, Oz A. Alon, Howard J. Rosen and Jinho D. Choi

Oral Session 2

• Time: 14:00 – 15:30
• Session Chair: Jaroslaw Chudziak
• Virtual Link: https://emory.zoom.us/j/95840256631

Papers

1. ClarVis: A Dataset of Clarification Requests and Grounding in Collaborative Data Visualization Dialogues [paper] [slides]
   Abari Bhattacharya and Barbara Di Eugenio
2. Accuracy and Satisfaction in Multi-Turn LLM Dialogues for NFR Assessment [paper] [slides]
   Ali Pourghasemi Fatideh, Wilder Baldwin, Maria Dhakal, Collin McMillan and Sepideh Ghanavati
3. Breaking the Script: Do Role-Playing Agents Maintain Goal Alignment under Distraction? [paper] [slides]
   Dongxu Lu, Albert Gatt and Johan Jeuring
4. ArgAssist: LLM-based Argument Synthesis for Insurance Disputes [paper][slides]
   Anubhav Sinha, Nitin Ramrakhiyani, Sachin Pawar, Isha Narang and Manoj Apte (Virtual)
5. Detecting Experiential Intertextuality Across Migration Routes: Beyond Surface Similarity in French Narratives [paper] [slides]
   Sakayo Toadoum Sari (Virtual), Nelly Robin, Sais Lakhdar, Véronique Petit, Marie VENIARD, Said Jabbour and Delorme Fabien

Poster Session 1

• Time: 16:00 – 17:30

Papers

1. Conversational Grounding in Large Language Models: Evaluation Methods, Challenges and Future Directions [paper] [poster]
   Michelle Elizabeth, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Lina M. Rojas Barahona and Magalie Ochs
2. Sensor-Augmented Voice Activity Projection for Enhancing Turn-Taking Prediction [paper] [poster]
   Satoki Hamanaka, Yasue Kishino, Yuiko Tsunomori, Shin Mizutani, Yuya Chiba, Tadashi Okoshi and Jin Nakazawa
3. A Dialogue System for Second Language Learning with Dynamic Adaptation to In-Dialogue Difficulty Changes [paper] [poster]
   Taku Morioka, Junya Takayama and Tomoyuki Kajiwara
4. Ping-Ponder: Concurrent Dual-Agent Spoken Dialogue via Shared Belief State [paper] [poster]
   Akiko Masaki-Kato and Gulzar Haris
5. Rethinking Role-Playing Evaluation: Anonymous Benchmarking and A Systematic Study of Personality Effects [paper] [poster]
   Ji-Lun Peng and Yun-Nung Chen
6. I Understand How You Feel: Enhancing Deeper Emotional Support Through Multilingual Emotional Validation in Dialogue System [paper] [poster]
   Zi Haur Pang, Yahui Fu, Koji Inoue and Tatsuya Kawahara
7. For What Reason? Interpreting Models’ Encoding of Causation and Antithesis [paper] [poster]
   Abhidip Bhattacharyya and Shira Wein
8. From Felt Sense to Words: Construction and Analysis of a Focusing Dialogue Dataset for Verbalization [paper] [poster]
   Yuiko Tsunomori, Yuya Chiba and Yosuke Koshikawa
9. Retrieving Responses Useful as References in Counseling via LLM-Generated Structurally Analogous Dialogues [paper] [poster]
   Yu Nakagawa, Nozomu Ikeda, Kotaro Funakoshi and Manabu Okumura
10. Embodied Multi-Agent Coordination by Aligning World Models Through Dialogue [paper] [poster]
    Vardhan Dongre and Dilek Hakkani-Tur
11. Strategic Dialogue Assessment: The Crooked Path to Innocence (D&D) [paper] [poster]
    Anshun Asher Zheng, Junyi Jessy Li and David I. Beaver
12. SagaQA: A Multi-hop Reasoning Benchmark for Long-form Narrative Understanding in TV Series [paper] [poster]
    Galann Pennec, Zhengyuan Liu, Nicholas Asher, Philippe Muller and Nancy Chen