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SIGDIAL 2026: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Jinho D. Choi, Yun-Nung Chen, Kotaro Funakoshi, Ali Emami:

Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, SIGDIAL 2026, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, August 2-5, 2026. Association for Computational Linguistics 2026, ISBN 979-8-89176-438-5 - Frontmatter.

- Wataru Nakata, Yuki Saito, Kazuki Yamauchi, Emiru Tsunoo, Hiroshi Saruwatari:

DialogueSidon: Recovering Full-Duplex Dialogue Tracks from In-the-Wild Dialogue Audio. 1-12 - Yunosuke Kubo, Kenta Yamamoto, Ryu Takeda, Kazunori Komatani:

Rethinking Binary Evaluation of Turn-Taking under Inherent Ambiguity. 13-24 - Nayoung Choi, Jiseung Hong, Peace Cyebukayire, Ikseon Choi, Jinho D. Choi:

Tinker Tales: A Tangible Dialogue System for Child-AI Co-Creative Storytelling. 25-50 - Takumi Furuta, Ryu Takeda, Kazunori Komatani:

Suppressing Unnecessary Clarification Requests for Unknown Word Acquisition in Spoken Dialogue Using Syllable-Based ASR Confidence. 51-61 - Andrew G. Breithaupt, Nayoung Choi, James D. Finch, Jeanne M. Powell, Arin L. Nelson, Oz A. Alon, Howard J. Rosen, Jinho D. Choi:

Towards Conversational Patient History-Taking: Voice-Interactive AI Agents for Pre-visit Dementia Diagnostic Interviews. 62-78 - Abari Bhattacharya, Barbara Di Eugenio:

ClarVis: A Dataset of Clarification Requests and Grounding in Collaborative Data Visualization Dialogues. 79-90 - Ali Pourghasemi Fatideh, Wilder Baldwin, Maria Dhakal, Collin McMillan, Sepideh Ghanavati:

Accuracy and Satisfaction in Multi-Turn LLM Dialogues for NFR Assessment. 91-106 - Dongxu Lu, Albert Gatt, Johan Jeuring:

Breaking the Script: Do Role-Playing Agents Maintain Goal Alignment under Distraction? 107-123 - Anubhav Sinha, Nitin Ramrakhiyani, Sachin Pawar, Isha Narang, Manoj Apte:

ArgAssist: LLM-based Argument Synthesis for Insurance Disputes. 124-138 - Sakayo Toadoum Sari, Nelly Robin, Michelle Auzanneau, Lakhdar Sais, Veronique Petit, Marie Veniard, Saïd Jabbour, Fabien Delorme:

Detecting Experiential Intertextuality Across Migration Routes: Beyond Surface Similarity in French Narratives. 139-150 - Michelle Elizabeth, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Lina Maria Rojas Barahona, Magalie Ochs:

Conversational Grounding in Large Language Models: Evaluation Methods, Challenges and Future Directions. 151-163 - Satoki Hamanaka, Yasue Kishino, Yuiko Tsunomori, Shin Mizutani, Yuya Chiba, Tadashi Okoshi, Jin Nakazawa:

Sensor-Augmented Voice Activity Projection for Enhancing Turn-Taking Prediction. 164-169 - Taku Morioka, Junya Takayama, Tomoyuki Kajiwara:

A Dialogue System for Second Language Learning with Dynamic Adaptation to In-Dialogue Difficulty Changes. 170-187 - Akiko Masaki-Kato, Haris Gulzar:

Ping-Ponder: Concurrent Dual-Agent Spoken Dialogue via Shared Belief State. 188-204 - Ji-Lun Peng, Yun-Nung Chen:

Rethinking Role-Playing Evaluation: Anonymous Benchmarking and A Systematic Study of Personality Effects. 205-218 - Zi Haur Pang, Yahui Fu, Koji Inoue, Tatsuya Kawahara:

I Understand How You Feel: Enhancing Deeper Emotional Support Through Multilingual Emotional Validation in Dialogue System. 219-236 - Abhidip Bhattacharyya, Shira Wein:

For What Reason? Interpreting Models' Encoding of Causation and Antithesis. 237-253 - Yash Raj Singh:

CrossOracle: An Agentic Framework for Real-Time Expert Personas with Parallelized Acoustic Synthesis. 254-257 - Yuiko Tsunomori, Yuya Chiba, Yosuke Koshikawa:

From Felt Sense to Words: Construction and Analysis of a Focusing Dialogue Dataset for Verbalization. 258-270 - Yu Nakagawa, Nozomu Ikeda, Kotaro Funakoshi, Manabu Okumura:

Retrieving Responses Useful as References in Counseling via LLM-Generated Structurally Analogous Dialogues. 271-292 - Vardhan Dongre, Dilek Hakkani-Tur:

Embodied Multi-Agent Coordination by Aligning World Models Through Dialogue. 293-306 - Galann Pennec, Zhengyuan Liu, Nicholas Asher, Philippe Muller, Nancy F. Chen:

SagaQA: A Multi-hop Reasoning Benchmark for Long-form Narrative Understanding in TV Series. 307-326 - Ewelina Gajewska, Katarzyna Budzynska, Jaroslaw A. Chudziak, Liesbeth Allein:

How Ethos and Pathos Appeals Resonate in Reader Interpretations of Social Media Messages. 327-341 - Xiaocheng Yang, Abdulrahman Alrabah, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur:

GBC: Gradient-Based Connections for Optimizing Multi-Agent Systems. 342-356 - Doria Bonzi, Tom Bourgeade, Fabrice Lefèvre, Irina Illina:

A French OSCE Dialogue Dataset and Controllable Virtual Patient System for Clinical Training. 357-374 - Dominic Okonkwo, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar:

Do LLMs Use Relational Structure in KG-Grounded Dialogue? Evidence from Entity and Relation Perturbation. 375-384 - Tianyi Zhang, Mousumi Das, Abrar Anwar, Jesse Thomason, David Traum:

DiPS: Dialogue Policy Selection for High-Stakes Persuasion Agents. 385-402 - Yifan Zhu, Kyeongmin Rim, James Pustejovsky:

From Propositional to Perceptual Asymmetry: Extending FPO to Asymmetric Partial Information Dialogue. 403-413 - Zihao Tao, John A Prado, Ignazio Steven LaManna, Ryan Puterbaugh, Mim Datta, Julia Hirschberg:

Disentangling Annotator Skill from Verifier Strictness in Cross-Verified Dialogue Annotation. 414-422 - Yiming Liu, Ziyue Zhang, Zhichao Xu, Xin Yu, Yingheng Tang, Tianyu Jiang, Jie Cao:

Beyond Supervised Clarification: Input Rewriting with LLMs for Dialogue Discourse Parsing. 423-439 - Tahiya Chowdhury:

Weakly Supervised Temporal Modeling of Latent Dynamics in Dyadic Conversations. 440-452 - Alina Shabaeva, John Frederick Bailyn, Owen Rambow:

LLMs Out-of-the-Box Do Not Generate Context-Appropriate Word Order in Russian. 453-472 - Donghang Wu, Haoyang Zhang, Chen Chen, Tianyu Zhang, Fei Tian, Xuerui Yang, Gang Yu, Hexin Liu, Nana Hou, Yuchen Hu, Eng Siong Chng:

Chronological Thinking in Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Language Models. 473-485 - Christoph R. Kowalski, Amelie Sophie Robrecht-Hilbig, Vincent Emmerling, Stefan Kopp:

Exploring Retrieval Augmented Generation Approaches for Natural Language Question Understanding. 486-496 - Fuminori Nagasawa, Ekai Hashimoto, Shun Shiramatsu:

Tree-Based Interview Topic Guidance for Collecting Target Information under Adaptive Topic continuation/switching. 497-515 - Swarnadeep Bhar, Omar Naim, Eleni Metheniti, Loïc Cabannes, Bastien Navarri, Morteza Kamaladdini Ezzabady, Nicholas Asher:

COCORELI: Enforcing Execution Preconditions for Reliable Collaborative Instruction Following. 516-535 - Heajun An, Qi Zhang, Minqian Liu, Xinyi Zhang, Sang Won Lee, Lifu Huang, Pamela J. Wisniewski, Jin-Hee Cho:

StagePilot: Stage-Level Planning for Long-Horizon Dialogue Simulation in Cybergrooming. 536-552 - Kazuya Tsubokura, Yurie Iribe, Norihide Kitaoka:

Generation of Dialogue Breakdown Repair Utterance in Non-task Oriented Conversation. 553-558 - Tanmay Laud, Herprit Mahal, Subhabrata Mukherjee:

From Sound to Symptom: Real-Time Respiratory Signal Understanding for Conversational Healthcare Agents. 559-564 - Natalia Krawczyk, Alicja Kasicka, Bartosz Przybyl, Justyna Gromada:

Interpretable Satisfaction Modeling in Sales Dialogues: A Metrics-based Approach Validated Against Text-based Model. 565-584 - Anna Manaseryan, Casey Kennington:

Adaptive Emotion Management in Human-robot Dialogue using Online Group Relative Policy Optimization. 585-596 - Hyunbae Jeon, Jinho D. Choi:

PersonaKit (PK): A Plug-and-Play Platform for User Testing Diverse Roles in Simulated Full-Duplex Dialogue. 597-601 - Kazunori Komatani, Ryu Takeda, Mikio Nakano:

Question Types for Knowledge Acquisition in LLM-based Dialogue Systems: Experiments with Simulated and Human Users. 602-613 - Erfan Nourbakhsh, Rocky Slavin, Ke Yang, Anthony Rios:

TRACER: Early Failure Detection for Task-Oriented Dialogue. 614-635 - Fatou Sow, Yannick Toussaint, Mathieu Constant:

Relex: A Common Denominator for Connectives and Discourse Relations in French. 636-648 - Chirag Bhansali, Vikas Ashok, Hae Na Lee:

MemeBuddy: Dialog-Style Audio Representations for Engaging Non-Visual Meme Experiences. 649-667 - Taiga Mori, Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Tatsuya Kawahara:

On the Structure of Address in Multi-Party Dialogue: From Discrete Labels to Continuous Levels. 668-679 - Zhengyuan Liu, Stella Xin Yin, Min-Yen Kan, Nancy F. Chen:

Bridging Talk and Thought: Understanding Dialogue Dynamics Across Collaborative Problem-Solving Contexts. 680-693 - Nan Li, Albert Gatt, Massimo Poesio:

Seeing Is Not Sharing: Some Vision-Language Models Overestimate Common Ground in Asymmetric Dialogue. 694-710 - Kouki Miyazawa, Yoshinao Sato:

Evaluation of Paralinguistic-Aware Spoken Dialogue Systems using Next-Utterance Classification. 711-719 - Hyunkyung Park, Arkaitz Zubiaga:

Better Scores, Worse Grounding: Hidden Regressions after Fine-Tuning in Dialogue Fact Verification. 720-737 - Katharine Kowalyshyn, Matthias Scheutz:

LLMs and their Limited Theory of Mind: Evaluating Mental State Annotations in Situated Dialogue. 738-756 - Sanjay Das, Ran Elgedawy, Ethan Seefried, Ryan Burchfield, Tirthankar Ghosal:

Enhancing Operational Safety via Agentic Dialogue Hazard Identification Analysis. 757-772 - Henry Gao, Jinho D. Choi:

Building Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems via Instruction Guidance without Annotated Data. 773-785 - Manasa Mudunuri, Chandra Kiran Guntupalli, Mario Michael Kubek, Shiraj Pokharel, Murray Patterson:

Bounded Conversational Memory with Hybrid Retrieval and Evidence Highlighting for Multi-Session Dialogue Systems. 786-794 - Vira Kasprova, Amruta Parulekar, Abdulrahman AlRabah, Krishna Agaram, Ritwik Garg, Sagar Jha, Nimet Beyza Bozdag, Dilek Hakkani-Tur:

Too Polite to Disagree: Understanding Sycophancy Propagation in Multi-Agent Systems. 795-814 - Mohammad Alijanpour Shalmani, Alale Rezvani Boroujeni, Jiann Shiun Yuan:

When the Database Fails: Prompting LLM Dialogue Agents for Safe Recovery in Task-Oriented Dialogue. 815-820 - Pia Chouayfati, Alexander M. Fichtl, Miriam Anschütz, George Doumat, Georg Groh:

MTDiag: A Multi-Turn Diagnostic Dataset Towards Clinically Meaningful LLM Evaluation. 821-840 - Zeyu He, Xuan Qi, Subramanian Chidambaram, Zhichao Xu, Vinayak Arannil, Lydia B. Chilton, Alex C. Williams:

PERSONAJUDGE: Simulating Individual Human Preference Judgments with Evaluator-Specific Demonstration Data. 841-862 - Sukanta Ganguly:

Fractional Decay KV-Cache: Ownership-Aware Memory Management for Improved Inference Relevancy in Dialog Systems. 863-870 - Alafate Abulimiti, Vladislav Maraev, Agnès Helme-Guizon, Catherine Pelachaud:

A Reinforcement Learning-Based Facilitator for Simulated Group Motivational Interviewing. 871-890

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