📰 International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology 2026 — accepted papers

International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology 2026 is the 2026 edition of the International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology, held in Trento, Italy, February 2026 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 42 papers of it; our library holds 2 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Trento, Italy · 🗓 February 2026

All accepted papers (42)

The most cited first; 2 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. A Dialogue Agent to Let Users Experience and Gently Enhance the “Gyaru-Mind” ↗Momoka Ikegami, Takuya Kato, Saizo Aoyagi et al.
2. Adaptive Multimodal Sentiment Analysis with Stream-Based Active Learning for Spoken Dialogue Systems ↗Atsuto Ajichi, Takato Hayashi, Kazunori Komatani et al.
3. Adding Determinism to a Dialogue Agent for a Robotic Environment ↗Oihana Garcia Anakabe, Riccardo Cocola, Cristina Aceta
4. Analysing Next Speaker Prediction in Multi-Party Conversation Using Multimodal Large Language Models ↗Taiga Mori, Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala et al.
5. Analysis of Child-Caregiver Interactions for Developing a Caregiver Spoken Dialogue SystemSanae Yamashita, Shota Mochizuki, Yuko Kuma et al.our summary
6. Analyzing Utterance Selection for Unnoticeable Topic Induction in Target-Guided Conversation Systems ↗Kai Yoshida, Koichiro Yoshino
7. Automatic Evaluation of Open-Domain Real Conversations: Combining Encoder-Based, Dialogue-Based Features and Large Language Models Ratings ↗Cristina Conforto-López, Marcos Estecha-Garitagoitia, Mario Rodriguez-Cantelar et al.
8. Benchmarking Multilingual Temporal Reasoning in LLMs: The Temporal Reasoning Dataset ↗Vittorio Mazzia, Sandro Pollastrini, Davide Bernardi et al.
9. Can Small-Scale LLMs Balance Content Accuracy and Speaker Faithfulness in Noisy French Dialogue Summarization? ↗Rim Abrougui, Guillaume Lechien, Elisabeth Savatier et al.
10. Can code-switching improve the user experience with a dialogue system app for recording endangered languages? ↗Jacqueline Brixey, David Traum
11. CoVaPh: A Vision-Language Multi-Agent Dialogue System for Tool-Augmented Pharmacogenetic Reasoning and Personalized Guidance ↗Shang-Chun Luke Lu, Hsin Yang, Hui-Hsin Xue et al.
12. Context-Aware Language Understanding in Human-Robot Dialogue with LLMs ↗Svetlana Stoyanchev, Youmna Farag, Simon Keizer et al.
13. Conversational AI for Virtual Standardized Patients using a Speech-to-Speech LLM ↗Andrew Emerson, Keelan Evanini, Su Somay et al.
14. Detecting Mental Manipulation in Speech via Synthetic Multi-Speaker Dialogue ↗Run Chen, Wen Liang, Ziwei Gong et al.
15. Development of an Evaluation System for a Fan-Engagement Chat Application Using LLM-as-a-Judge ↗Yuki Fujita, Yasunobu Sasaki, Ryota Arashi et al.
16. Do audio and visual tokenizers capture backchannels? ↗Benoit Favre, Auriane Boudin
17. Effects of Dialogue Corpora Properties on Fine-Tuning a Moshi-Based Spoken Dialogue Model ↗Yuto Abe, Mao Saeki, Atsumoto Ohashi et al.
18. Estimating Relationships between Participants in Multi-Party Chat Corpus ↗Akane Fukushige, Koji Inoue, Keiko Ochi et al.
19. Evaluating LLM Style Transfer Through Readability-Based Age AssessmentsMaria Di Maro, Antonio Origlia, Leonilda Bilo et al.our summary
20. Exploring Emotional Nuances in Spoken Dialogue: Dataset Construction and Prediction of Emotional Dialogue Breakdown ↗Hyuga Nakaguro, Koichiro Yoshino
21. FlowSwitch: A State-Aware Framework for Workflow Transitions in Adaptive Dialogue Agents ↗Wen Yu Chang, Luning Qiu, Yi-Hung Liu et al.
22. From Fact to Judgment: Investigating the Impact of Task Framing on LLM Conviction in Dialogue Systems ↗Parisa Rabbani, Nimet Beyza Bozdag, Dilek Hakkani-Tur
23. Incorporating Respect into LLM-Based Academic Feedback: A BI-R Framework for Instructing Students after Q&A Sessions ↗Mayuko Aiba, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu
24. Learning Vision-Language Alignment in Unified LLMs with 24 Text Tokens per Image ↗Nicola Irmiger, Yixuan Xu, Raphael Kreft et al.
25. MAC: A Multi-Agent Framework for Interactive User Clarification in Multi-turn Conversations ↗Emre Can Acikgoz, Jinoh Oh, Joo Hyuk Jeon et al.

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📄 Papers with our summary in our library (2)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. Evaluating LLM Style Transfer Through Readability-Based Age AssessmentsInternational Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System TechnologyMaria Di Maro, Antonio Origlia, Leonilda Bilo, et al.2026
2. Analysis of Child-Caregiver Interactions for Developing a Caregiver Spoken Dialogue SystemInternational Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System TechnologySanae Yamashita, Shota Mochizuki, Yuko Kuma, et al.2026

🧭 Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

🗨️Dialogue systems (2)🧠Language models & pretraining (1)📏Evaluation & benchmarks (1)

📚 Fields

🖥️Computer Science (2)

🧑‍🔬 Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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