Main Conference - Day 2

Schedule (August 4)

Start End Event
08:30 09:00 Registration
09:00 10:00 Keynote 2: Nanyun (Violet) Peng
10:00 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 12:00 Oral Session 3
12:00 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 14:00 Business Meeting
14:00 15:30 Oral Session 4
15:30 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 17:30 Poster Session 2
19:00 21:30 Social Event
  • 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 3

  • Time: 10:30 – 12:00
  • Session Chair: TBD

Papers

  1. How Ethos and Pathos Appeals Resonate in Reader Interpretations of Social Media Messages
    Ewelina Gajewska, Katarzyna Budzynska, Jarosław A. Chudziak (TBD) and Liesbeth Allein
  2. GBC: Gradient-Based Connections for Optimizing Multi-Agent Systems
    Xiaocheng Yang, Abdulrahman Alrabah, Dilek Hakkani-Tür and Gokhan Tur
  3. A French OSCE Dialogue Dataset and Controllable Virtual Patient System for Clinical Training
    Doria Bonzi, Tom Bourgeade, Fabrice Lefèvre and Irina Illina
  4. Do LLMs Use Relational Structure in KG-Grounded Dialogue? Evidence from Entity and Relation Perturbation
    Dominic Okonkwo and Ismailcem Budak Arpinar
  5. DiPS: Dialogue Policy Selection for High-Stakes Persuasion Agents
    Tianyi Zhang, Mousumi Das, Abrar Anwar, Jesse Thomason and David Traum

Business Meeting

  • Time: 13:30 – 14:00
  • Topics: TBD

Oral Session 4

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

Papers

  1. From Propositional to Perceptual Asymmetry: Extending FPO to Asymmetric Partial Information Dialogue
    Yifan Zhu, Kyeongmin Rim and James Pustejovsky
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Weakly Supervised Temporal Modeling of Latent Dynamics in Dyadic Conversations
    Tahiya Chowdhury
  5. LLMs Out-of-the-Box Do Not Generate Context-Appropriate Word Order in Russian
    Alina Shabaeva, John Frederick Bailyn and Owen Rambow

Poster Session 2

  • Time: 16:00 – 17:30

Papers

  1. 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
  2. Exploring Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Approaches for Natural Language Question Understanding
    Christoph Kowalski, Amelie Sophie Robrecht-Hilbig, Vincent Emmerling and Stefan Kopp
  3. Tree-Based Interview Topic Guidance for Collecting Target Information under Adaptive Topic continuation/switching
    Fuminori Nagasawa, Ekai Hashimoto and Shun Shiramatsu
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Generation of Dialogue Breakdown Repair Utterance in Non-task Oriented Conversation
    Kazuya Tsubokura, Yurie Iribe and Norihide Kitaoka
  7. From Sound to Symptom: Real-Time Respiratory Signal Understanding for Conversational Healthcare Agents
    Tanmay Laud, Herprit Mahal and Subhabrata Mukherjee
  8. Interpretable Satisfaction Modeling in Sales Dialogues: A Metrics-based Approach Validated Against Text-based Model
    Natalia Krawczyk, Alicja Kasicka, Bartosz Przybył and Justyna Gromada
  9. Adaptive Emotion Management in Human-robot Dialogue using Online Group Relative Policy Optimization
    Anna Manaseryan and Casey Kennington
  10. PersonaKit (PK): A Plug-and-Play Platform for User Testing Diverse Roles in Full-Duplex Dialogue (Demo)
    Hyunbae Jeon and Jinho D. Choi
  11. Question Types for Knowledge Acquisition in LLM-based Dialogue Systems: Experiments with Simulated and Human Users
    Kazunori Komatani, Ryu Takeda and Mikio Nakano
  12. TRACER: Early Failure Detection for Task-Oriented Dialogue
    Erfan Nourbakhsh, Rocky Slavin, Ke Yang and Anthony Rios
  13. Evaluation of Paralinguistic-Aware Spoken Dialogue Systems using Next-Utterance Classification
    Kouki Miyazawa and Yoshinao Sato
  14. Enhancing Long-term RAG Chatbots with Psychological Models of Memory Importance and Forgetting (D&D)
    Ryuichi Sumida, Koji Inoue and Tatsuya Kawahara