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SIGDIAL 2026 — accepted papers

SIGDIAL 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, August 2026 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 61 papers of it; our library holds 27 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

 61papers in the proceedings 27works in our library 3citations of these works Atlanta, Georgia, USAwhere it was held August 2026when

All accepted papers (61)

The most cited first; 27 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

  1. Chronological Thinking in Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Language ModelsDonghang Wu, Haoyang Zhang, Chen Chen et al.1 citation · our summary
  2. A Dialogue System for Second Language Learning with Dynamic Adaptation to In-Dialogue Difficulty ChangesTaku Morioka, Junya Takayama, Tomoyuki Kajiwaraour summary
  3. A French OSCE Dialogue Dataset and Controllable Virtual Patient System for Clinical TrainingDoria Bonzi, Tom Bourgeade, Fabrice Lefèvre et al.
  4. A Reinforcement Learning-Based Facilitator for Simulated Group Motivational InterviewingAlafate Abulimiti, Vladislav Maraev, Agnès Helme-Guizon et al.
  5. Accuracy and Satisfaction in Multi-Turn LLM Dialogues for NFR AssessmentAli Pourghasemi Fatideh, Wilder Baldwin, Maria Dhakal et al.
  6. Adaptive Emotion Management in Human-robot Dialogue using Online Group Relative Policy OptimizationAnna Manaseryan, Casey Kenningtonour summary
  7. ArgAssist: LLM-based Argument Synthesis for Insurance DisputesAnubhav Sinha, Nitin Ramrakhiyani, Sachin Pawar et al.our summary
  8. Better Scores, Worse Grounding: Hidden Regressions after Fine-Tuning in Dialogue Fact VerificationHyunkyung Park, Arkaitz Zubiagaour summary
  9. Beyond Supervised Clarification: Input Rewriting with LLMs for Dialogue Discourse ParsingYiming Liu, Ziyue Zhang, Zhichao Xu et al.
  10. Bounded Conversational Memory with Hybrid Retrieval and Evidence Highlighting for Multi-Session Dialogue SystemsManasa Mudunuri, Chandra Kiran Guntupalli, Shiraj Pokharel et al.our summary
  11. Breaking the Script: Do Role-Playing Agents Maintain Goal Alignment under Distraction?Dongxu Lu, Albert Gatt, Johan Jeuringour summary
  12. Bridging Talk and Thought: Understanding Dialogue Dynamics Across Collaborative Problem-Solving ContextsZhengyuan Liu, Stella Yin, Min-Yen Kan et al.
  13. Building Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems via Instruction Guidance without Annotated DataHenry Gao, Jinho D. Choi
  14. COCORELI: Enforcing Execution Preconditions for Reliable Collaborative Instruction FollowingSwarnadeep Bhar, Omar Naim, Eleni Metheniti et al.
  15. ClarVis: A Dataset of Clarification Requests and Grounding in Collaborative Data Visualization DialoguesAbari Bhattacharya, Barbara Di Eugenio
  16. Conversational Grounding in Large Language Models: Evaluation Methods, Challenges and Future DirectionsMichelle Elizabeth, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Lina M. Rojas Barahona et al.
  17. CrossOracle: An Agentic Framework for Real-Time Expert Personas with Parallelized Acoustic SynthesisYash Raj Singhour summary
  18. Detecting Experiential Intertextuality Across Migration Routes: Beyond Surface Similarity in French NarrativesSakayo Toadoum Sari, Nelly Robin, Michelle Auzanneau et al.our summary
  19. DiPS: Dialogue Policy Selection for High-Stakes Persuasion AgentsTianyi Zhang, Mousumi Das, Abrar Anwar et al.our summary
  20. DialogueSidon: Recovering Full-Duplex Dialogue Tracks from In-the-Wild Dialogue AudioWataru Nakata, Yuki Saito, Kazuki Yamauchi et al.our summary
  21. Disentangling Annotator Skill from Verifier Strictness in Cross-Verified Dialogue AnnotationZihao Tao, John A. Prado, Ignazio Steven LaManna et al.our summary
  22. Do LLMs Use Relational Structure in KG-Grounded Dialogue? Evidence from Entity and Relation PerturbationDominic Okonkwo, Ismailcem Budak Arpinarour summary
  23. Embodied Multi-Agent Coordination by Aligning World Models Through DialogueVardhan Dongre, Dilek Hakkani-Tur
  24. Enhancing Operational Safety via Agentic Dialogue Hazard Identification AnalysisSanjay Das, Ran Elgedawy, Ethan Seefried et al.
  25. Evaluation of Paralinguistic-Aware Spoken Dialogue Systems using Next-Utterance ClassificationKouki Miyazawa, Yoshinao Satoour summary

See all 61 papers in SIGDIAL 2026 — accepted papers →

 Papers with our summary in our library (27)

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

  1. Chronological Thinking in Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Language ModelsAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)Donghang Wu, Haoyang Zhang, Chen Chen, et al.2026 · 3 citations
  2. Breaking the Script: Do Role-Playing Agents Maintain Goal Alignment under Distraction?Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)Dongxu Lu, Albert Gatt, Johan Jeuring2026
  3. Adaptive Emotion Management in Human-robot Dialogue using Online Group Relative Policy OptimizationAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)Anna Manaseryan, Casey Kennington2026
  4. Evaluation of Paralinguistic-Aware Spoken Dialogue Systems using Next-Utterance ClassificationAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)Kouki Miyazawa, Yoshinao Sato2026
  5. On the Structure of Address in Multi-Party Dialogue: From Discrete Labels to Continuous LevelsAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)Taiga Mori, Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, et al.2026
  6. A Dialogue System for Second Language Learning with Dynamic Adaptation to In-Dialogue Difficulty ChangesAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)Taku Morioka, Junya Takayama, Tomoyuki Kajiwara2026
  7. Bounded Conversational Memory with Hybrid Retrieval and Evidence Highlighting for Multi-Session Dialogue SystemsAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)Manasa Mudunuri, Chandra Kiran Guntupalli, Shiraj Pokharel, et al.2026
  8. Tree-Based Interview Topic Guidance for Collecting Target Information under Adaptive Topic continuation/switchingAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)Fuminori Nagasawa, Ekai Hashimoto, Shun Shiramatsu2026
  9. Retrieving Responses Useful as References in Counseling via LLM-Generated Structurally Analogous DialoguesAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)Yu Nakagawa, Nozomu Ikeda, Kotaro Funakoshi, et al.2026
  10. DialogueSidon: Recovering Full-Duplex Dialogue Tracks from In-the-Wild Dialogue AudioAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)Wataru Nakata, Yuki Saito, Kazuki Yamauchi, et al.2026
  11. TRACER: Early Failure Detection for Task-Oriented DialogueAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)Erfan Nourbakhsh, Rocky Slavin, Ke Yang, et al.2026
  12. Do LLMs Use Relational Structure in KG-Grounded Dialogue? Evidence from Entity and Relation PerturbationAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)Dominic Okonkwo, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar2026
  13. I Understand How You Feel: Enhancing Deeper Emotional Support Through Multilingual Emotional Validation in Dialogue SystemAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)Zi Haur Pang, Yahui Fu, Koji Inoue, et al.2026
  14. Better Scores, Worse Grounding: Hidden Regressions after Fine-Tuning in Dialogue Fact VerificationAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)Hyunkyung Park, Arkaitz Zubiaga2026
  15. Rethinking Role-Playing Evaluation: Anonymous Benchmarking and A Systematic Study of Personality EffectsAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)Ji-Lun Peng, Yun-Nung Chen2026
  16. SagaQA: A Multi-hop Reasoning Benchmark for Long-form Narrative Understanding in TV SeriesAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)Galann Pennec, Zhengyuan Liu, Nicholas Asher, et al.2026
  17. Detecting Experiential Intertextuality Across Migration Routes: Beyond Surface Similarity in French NarrativesAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)Sakayo Toadoum Sari, Nelly Robin, Michelle Auzanneau, et al.2026
  18. LLMs Out-of-the-Box Do Not Generate Context-Appropriate Word Order in RussianAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)Alina Shabaeva, John Frederick Bailyn, Owen Rambow2026
  19. When the Database Fails: Prompting LLM Dialogue Agents for Safe Recovery in Task-Oriented DialogueAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)Mohammad Alijanpour Shalmani, Alale Rezvani Boroujeni, Jiann S. Yuan2026
  20. CrossOracle: An Agentic Framework for Real-Time Expert Personas with Parallelized Acoustic SynthesisAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)Yash Raj Singh2026
  21. ArgAssist: LLM-based Argument Synthesis for Insurance DisputesAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)Anubhav Sinha, Nitin Ramrakhiyani, Sachin Pawar, et al.2026
  22. Disentangling Annotator Skill from Verifier Strictness in Cross-Verified Dialogue AnnotationAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)Zihao Tao, John A. Prado, Ignazio Steven LaManna, et al.2026
  23. Generation of Dialogue Breakdown Repair Utterance in Non-task Oriented ConversationAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)Kazuya Tsubokura, Yurie Iribe, Norihide Kitaoka2026
  24. From Felt Sense to Words: Construction and Analysis of a Focusing Dialogue Dataset for VerbalizationAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)Yuiko Tsunomori, Yuya Chiba, Yosuke Koshikawa2026
  25. GBC: Gradient-Based Connections for Optimizing Multi-Agent SystemsAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)Xiaocheng Yang, Abdulrahman Alrabah, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, et al.2026

See all 27 works in SIGDIAL 2026 — accepted papers →

 Top topics

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

Dialogue systems (20)Language models & pretraining (4)Speech & spoken language (3)Evaluation & benchmarks (3)Sentiment & emotion (2)Information extraction (1)Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)Reasoning (1)Information retrieval & search (1)Grammatical error correction & learner language (1)French (1)

 Fields

Computer Science (27)Arts and Humanities (26)Psychology (5)Social Sciences (3)Decision Sciences (1)

 Top authors

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

🧑‍🔬Koji Inoue2 works here🧑‍🔬Tatsuya Kawahara2 works here🧑‍🔬Chen Chen1 work here · 3 citations🧑‍🔬Fei Tian1 work here · 3 citations🧑‍🔬Albert Gatt1 work here🧑‍🔬Anthony Rios1 work here🧑‍🔬Arkaitz Zubiaga1 work here🧑‍🔬David Traum1 work here🧑‍🔬Dilek Hakkani-Tur1 work here🧑‍🔬Gokhan Tur1 work here🧑‍🔬Hiroshi Saruwatari1 work here🧑‍🔬Ignazio Steven LaManna1 work here

 Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

🔬Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueParis · France2 works here🎓Kyoto UniversityKyoto · Japan2 works here🎓University of Central FloridaOrlando · United States1 work here🏛️Agency for Science, Technology and ResearchSingapore · Singapore1 work here🎓University of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles · United States1 work here🎓University of LondonLondon · United Kingdom1 work here🎓Toyohashi University of TechnologyToyohashi · Japan1 work here🎓University of AlbertaEdmonton · Canada1 work here🎓University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUrbana · United States1 work here🎓University of GeorgiaAthens · United States1 work here🎓National Taiwan UniversityTaipei · Taiwan1 work here🎓Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore · Singapore1 work here

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

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