Main Conference - Day 3

Day 3 (August 5)

Start End Event
08:30 09:00 Registration
09:00 10:00 Keynote 3: Dilek Hakkani-Tür
10:00 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 12:00 Oral Session 5
12:00 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 15:00 Poster Session 3
15:00 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 16:00 Invited Talk
16:00 17:00 Awards & Closing
  • 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 5

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

Papers

  1. MemeBuddy: Dialog-Style Audio Representations for Engaging Non-Visual Meme Experiences
    Chirag Bhansali, Vikas Ashok and Hae-Na Lee
  2. On the Structure of Address in Multi-Party Dialogue: From Discrete Labels to Continuous Levels
    Taiga Mori, Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala and Tatsuya Kawahara
  3. Bridging Talk and Thought: Understanding Dialogue Dynamics Across Collaborative Problem-Solving Contexts
    Zhengyuan Liu, Stella Yin, Min-Yen Kan and Nancy Chen
  4. Seeing Is Not Sharing: Some Vision-Language Models Overestimate Common Ground in Asymmetric Dialogue
    Nan Li, Albert Gatt and Massimo Poesio

Poster Session 3

  • Time: 13:30 – 15:00

Papers

  1. Better Scores, Worse Grounding: Hidden Regressions after Fine-Tuning in Dialogue Fact Verification
    Hyunkyung Park (Proxy: Nan Li) and Arkaitz Zubiaga
  2. LLMs and their Limited Theory of Mind: Evaluating Mental State Annotations in Situated Dialogue
    Katharine Kowalyshyn and Matthias Scheutz
  3. A Reinforcement Learning-Based Facilitator for Simulated Group Motivational Interviewing
    Alafate Abulimiti (TBD), Vladislav Maraev, Agnès Helme-Guizon and Catherine Pelachaud
  4. Enhancing Operational Safety via Agentic Dialogue Hazard Identification Analysis
    Sanjay Das, Ran Elgedawy, Ethan Seefried, Ryan Burchfield and Tirthankar Ghosal
  5. Building Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems via Instruction Guidance without Annotated Data
    Henry Gao and Jinho D. Choi
  6. Bounded Conversational Memory with Hybrid Retrieval and Evidence Highlighting for Multi-Session Dialogue Systems
    Manasa Mudunuri, Chandra Kiran Guntupalli, Mario Michael Kubek, Shiraj Pokharel and Murray Patterson
  7. Too Polite to Disagree: Understanding Sycophancy Propagation in Multi-Agent Systems
    Vira Kasprova, Amruta Parulekar, Abdulrahman AlRabah, Krishna Agaram, Ritwik Garg, Sagar Jha, Nimet Beyza Bozdag and Dilek Hakkani-Tur
  8. When the Database Fails: Prompting LLM Dialogue Agents for Safe Recovery in Task-Oriented Dialogue
    Mohammad Alijanpour Shalmani, Alale Rezvani Boroujeni and Jiann S. Yuan
  9. MTDiag: A Multi-Turn Diagnostic Dataset for Evaluating Clinical Reasoning in Large Language Models
    Pia Chouayfati (Proxy: Christoph Kowalski), Alexander M. Fichtl, Miriam Anschütz, George Doumat and Georg Groh
  10. PERSONAJUDGE: Simulating Individual Human Preference Judgments with Human-Centered Demonstration Data
    Zeyu He, Xuan Qi, Subramanian Chidambaram, Zhichao Xu, Vinayak Arannil, Lydia Chilton and Alex C. Williams
  11. Relex: A Common Denominator for Connectives and Discourse Relations in French
    Fatou Sow (TBD), Yannick Toussaint and Mathieu Constant
  12. Prior Lessons of Incremental Dialogue and Robot Action Management for the Age of Language Models (D&D)
    Casey Kennington (Proxy: Anna Manaseryan), Pierre Lison and David Schlangen
  13. Fractional Decay KV-Cache: Ownership-Aware Memory Management for Improved Inference Relevancy in Dialog Systems
    Sukanta Ganguly (TBD)

Invited Talk

  • Time: 15:30 – 16:00
  • Speaker: TBD
  • Room: TBD

Awards & Closing

  • Time: 16:00 – 17:00
  • Room: TBD