Main Conference - Day 2

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 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

Oral Session 3

• Time: 10:30 – 12:00
• Session Chair: Gokhan Tur
• Virtual Link: https://emory.zoom.us/j/95840256631

Papers

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

Business Meeting

• Time: 13:30 – 14:00
• SIGDIAL President: Alexandros Papangelis [slides]

Oral Session 4

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

Papers

1. From Propositional to Perceptual Asymmetry: Extending FPO to Asymmetric Partial Information Dialogue [paper] [slides]
   Yifan Zhu, Kyeongmin Rim and James Pustejovsky
2. Disentangling Annotator Skill from Verifier Strictness in Cross-Verified Dialogue Annotation [paper] [slides]
   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 [paper] [slides]
   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 [paper] [slides]
   Tahiya Chowdhury
5. LLMs Out-of-the-Box Do Not Generate Context-Appropriate Word Order in Russian [paper] [slides]
   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 [paper] [poster]
   Donghang Wu (Virtual), 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 [paper] [poster]
   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 [paper] [poster]
   Fuminori Nagasawa, Ekai Hashimoto and Shun Shiramatsu
4. COCORELI: Enforcing Execution Preconditions for Reliable Collaborative Instruction Following [paper] [poster]
   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 [paper] [poster]
   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 [paper] [poster]
   Kazuya Tsubokura, Yurie Iribe and Norihide Kitaoka
7. From Sound to Symptom: Real-Time Respiratory Signal Understanding for Conversational Healthcare Agents [paper] [poster]
   Tanmay Laud, Herprit Mahal and Subhabrata Mukherjee
8. Interpretable Satisfaction Modeling in Sales Dialogues: A Metrics-based Approach Validated Against Text-based Model [paper] [poster]
   Natalia Krawczyk, Alicja Kasicka, Bartosz Przybył and Justyna Gromada
9. Adaptive Emotion Management in Human-robot Dialogue using Online Group Relative Policy Optimization [paper] [poster]
   Anna Manaseryan and Casey Kennington
10. PersonaKit (PK): A Plug-and-Play Platform for User Testing Diverse Roles in Full-Duplex Dialogue (Demo) [paper] [poster]
    Hyunbae Jeon and Jinho D. Choi
11. Question Types for Knowledge Acquisition in LLM-based Dialogue Systems: Experiments with Simulated and Human Users [paper] [poster]
    Kazunori Komatani, Ryu Takeda and Mikio Nakano
12. TRACER: Early Failure Detection for Task-Oriented Dialogue [paper] [poster]
    Erfan Nourbakhsh, Rocky Slavin, Ke Yang and Anthony Rios
13. Enhancing Long-term RAG Chatbots with Psychological Models of Memory Importance and Forgetting (D&D) [paper] [poster]
    Ryuichi Sumida, Koji Inoue and Tatsuya Kawahara
14. Relex: A Common Denominator for Connectives and Discourse Relations in French [paper] [poster]
    Fatou Sow (Virtual), Yannick Toussaint and Mathieu Constant