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
- How Ethos and Pathos Appeals Resonate in Reader Interpretations of Social Media Messages
Ewelina Gajewska, Katarzyna Budzynska, Jarosław A. Chudziak (TBD) and Liesbeth Allein - GBC: Gradient-Based Connections for Optimizing Multi-Agent Systems
Xiaocheng Yang, Abdulrahman Alrabah, Dilek Hakkani-Tür and Gokhan Tur - A French OSCE Dialogue Dataset and Controllable Virtual Patient System for Clinical Training
Doria Bonzi, Tom Bourgeade, Fabrice Lefèvre and Irina Illina - Do LLMs Use Relational Structure in KG-Grounded Dialogue? Evidence from Entity and Relation Perturbation
Dominic Okonkwo and Ismailcem Budak Arpinar - 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
- From Propositional to Perceptual Asymmetry: Extending FPO to Asymmetric Partial Information Dialogue
Yifan Zhu, Kyeongmin Rim and James Pustejovsky - 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 - 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 - Weakly Supervised Temporal Modeling of Latent Dynamics in Dyadic Conversations
Tahiya Chowdhury - 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
- 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 - Exploring Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Approaches for Natural Language Question Understanding
Christoph Kowalski, Amelie Sophie Robrecht-Hilbig, Vincent Emmerling and Stefan Kopp - Tree-Based Interview Topic Guidance for Collecting Target Information under Adaptive Topic continuation/switching
Fuminori Nagasawa, Ekai Hashimoto and Shun Shiramatsu - 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 - 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 - Generation of Dialogue Breakdown Repair Utterance in Non-task Oriented Conversation
Kazuya Tsubokura, Yurie Iribe and Norihide Kitaoka - From Sound to Symptom: Real-Time Respiratory Signal Understanding for Conversational Healthcare Agents
Tanmay Laud, Herprit Mahal and Subhabrata Mukherjee - Interpretable Satisfaction Modeling in Sales Dialogues: A Metrics-based Approach Validated Against Text-based Model
Natalia Krawczyk, Alicja Kasicka, Bartosz Przybył and Justyna Gromada - Adaptive Emotion Management in Human-robot Dialogue using Online Group Relative Policy Optimization
Anna Manaseryan and Casey Kennington - PersonaKit (PK): A Plug-and-Play Platform for User Testing Diverse Roles in Full-Duplex Dialogue (Demo)
Hyunbae Jeon and Jinho D. Choi - Question Types for Knowledge Acquisition in LLM-based Dialogue Systems: Experiments with Simulated and Human Users
Kazunori Komatani, Ryu Takeda and Mikio Nakano - TRACER: Early Failure Detection for Task-Oriented Dialogue
Erfan Nourbakhsh, Rocky Slavin, Ke Yang and Anthony Rios - Evaluation of Paralinguistic-Aware Spoken Dialogue Systems using Next-Utterance Classification
Kouki Miyazawa and Yoshinao Sato - Enhancing Long-term RAG Chatbots with Psychological Models of Memory Importance and Forgetting (D&D)
Ryuichi Sumida, Koji Inoue and Tatsuya Kawahara