Main Conference - Day 1

Schedule (August 3)

Start End Event
08:00 09:00 Registration
09:00 09:30 Opening
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
  • All oral sessions are are held at PAIS 290.
  • All poster sessions are held in the PAIS main lobby.
  • Blue names indicate the presenters.

Oral Session 1

  • Time: 11:00 – 12:30
  • Session Chair: TBD

Papers

  1. DialogueSidon: Recovering Full-Duplex Dialogue Tracks from In-the-Wild Dialogue Audio
    Wataru Nakata, Yuki Saito, Kazuki Yamauchi, Emiru Tsunoo and Hiroshi Saruwatari
  2. Rethinking Binary Evaluation of Turn-Taking under Inherent Ambiguity
    Yunosuke Kubo, Kenta Yamamoto, Ryu Takeda and Kazunori Komatani
  3. Tinker Tales: A Tangible Dialogue System for Child–AI Co-Creative Storytelling
    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
    Takumi Furuta, Ryu Takeda and Kazunori Komatani
  5. 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

Oral Session 2

  • Time: 14:00 – 15:30
  • Session Chair: TBD

Papers

  1. ClarVis: A Dataset of Clarification Requests and Grounding in Collaborative Data Visualization Dialogues
    Abari Bhattacharya and Barbara Di Eugenio
  2. Accuracy and Satisfaction in Multi-Turn LLM Dialogues for NFR Assessment
    Ali Pourghasemi Fatideh, Wilder Baldwin, Maria Dhakal, Collin McMillan and Sepideh Ghanavati
  3. ArgAssist: LLM-based Argument Synthesis for Insurance Disputes
    Anubhav Sinha, Nitin Ramrakhiyani, Sachin Pawar, Isha Narang and Manoj Apte (virtual)
  4. 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
  5. Breaking the Script: Do Role-Playing Agents Maintain Goal Alignment under Distraction?
    Dongxu Lu, Albert Gatt and Johan Jeuring

Poster Session 1

  • Time: 16:00 – 17:30

Papers

  1. Conversational Grounding in Large Language Models: Evaluation Methods, Challenges and Future Directions
    Michelle Elizabeth, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Lina M. Rojas Barahona and Magalie Ochs
  2. 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
  3. A Dialogue System for Second Language Learning with Dynamic Adaptation to In-Dialogue Difficulty Changes
    Taku Morioka, Junya Takayama and Tomoyuki Kajiwara
  4. 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
  5. Ping-Ponder: Concurrent Dual-Agent Spoken Dialogue via Shared Belief State
    Akiko Masaki-Kato and Gulzar Haris
  6. Rethinking Role-Playing Evaluation: Anonymous Benchmarking and A Systematic Study of Personality Effects
    Ji-Lun Peng and Yun-Nung Chen
  7. 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
  8. For What Reason? Interpreting Models’ Encoding of Causation and Antithesis
    Abhidip Bhattacharyya and Shira Wein
  9. CrossOracle: An Agentic Framework for Real-Time Expert Personas with Parallelized Acoustic Synthesis (Demo)
    Yash Raj Singh
  10. From Felt Sense to Words: Construction and Analysis of a Focusing Dialogue Dataset for Verbalization
    Yuiko Tsunomori, Yuya Chiba and Yosuke Koshikawa
  11. Retrieving Responses Useful as References in Counseling via LLM-Generated Structurally Analogous Dialogues
    Yu Nakagawa, Nozomu Ikeda, Kotaro Funakoshi and Manabu Okumura
  12. Embodied Multi-Agent Coordination by Aligning World Models Through Dialogue
    Vardhan Dongre and Dilek Hakkani-Tur
  13. Strategic Dialogue Assessment: The Crooked Path to Innocence (D&D)
    Anshun Asher Zheng, Junyi Jessy Li and David I. Beaver