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SIGDIAL 2026: all accepted papers

61 papers · the most cited first · ← SIGDIAL 2026

  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 Training ↗Doria Bonzi, Tom Bourgeade, Fabrice Lefèvre et al.
  4. A Reinforcement Learning-Based Facilitator for Simulated Group Motivational Interviewing ↗Alafate Abulimiti, Vladislav Maraev, Agnès Helme-Guizon et al.
  5. Accuracy and Satisfaction in Multi-Turn LLM Dialogues for NFR Assessment ↗Ali 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 Parsing ↗Yiming 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 Contexts ↗Zhengyuan Liu, Stella Yin, Min-Yen Kan et al.
  13. Building Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems via Instruction Guidance without Annotated Data ↗Henry Gao, Jinho D. Choi
  14. COCORELI: Enforcing Execution Preconditions for Reliable Collaborative Instruction Following ↗Swarnadeep Bhar, Omar Naim, Eleni Metheniti et al.
  15. ClarVis: A Dataset of Clarification Requests and Grounding in Collaborative Data Visualization Dialogues ↗Abari Bhattacharya, Barbara Di Eugenio
  16. Conversational Grounding in Large Language Models: Evaluation Methods, Challenges and Future Directions ↗Michelle 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 Dialogue ↗Vardhan Dongre, Dilek Hakkani-Tur
  24. Enhancing Operational Safety via Agentic Dialogue Hazard Identification Analysis ↗Sanjay Das, Ran Elgedawy, Ethan Seefried et al.
  25. Evaluation of Paralinguistic-Aware Spoken Dialogue Systems using Next-Utterance ClassificationKouki Miyazawa, Yoshinao Satoour summary
  26. Exploring Retrieval Augmented Generation Approaches for Natural Language Question Understanding ↗Christoph Kowalski, Amelie Sophie Robrecht-Hilbig, Vincent Emmerling et al.
  27. For What Reason? Interpreting Models' Encoding of Causation and Antithesis ↗Abhidip Bhattacharyya, Shira Wein
  28. Fractional Decay KV-Cache: Ownership-Aware Memory Management for Improved Inference Relevancy in Dialog Systems ↗Sukanta Ganguly
  29. From Felt Sense to Words: Construction and Analysis of a Focusing Dialogue Dataset for VerbalizationYuiko Tsunomori, Yuya Chiba, Yosuke Koshikawaour summary
  30. From Propositional to Perceptual Asymmetry: Extending FPO to Asymmetric Partial Information DialogueYifan Zhu, Kyeongmin Rim, James Pustejovskyour summary
  31. From Sound to Symptom: Real-Time Respiratory Signal Understanding for Conversational Healthcare Agents ↗Tanmay Laud, Herprit Mahal, Subhabrata Mukherjee
  32. GBC: Gradient-Based Connections for Optimizing Multi-Agent SystemsXiaocheng Yang, Abdulrahman Alrabah, Dilek Hakkani-Tür et al.our summary
  33. Generation of Dialogue Breakdown Repair Utterance in Non-task Oriented ConversationKazuya Tsubokura, Yurie Iribe, Norihide Kitaokaour summary
  34. How Ethos and Pathos Appeals Resonate in Reader Interpretations of Social Media Messages ↗Ewelina Gajewska, Katarzyna Budzynska, Jarosław A. Chudziak et al.
  35. I Understand How You Feel: Enhancing Deeper Emotional Support Through Multilingual Emotional Validation in Dialogue SystemZi Haur Pang, Yahui Fu, Koji Inoue et al.our summary
  36. Interpretable Satisfaction Modeling in Sales Dialogues: A Metrics-based Approach Validated Against Text-based Model ↗Natalia Krawczyk, Alicja Kasicka, Bartosz Przybył et al.
  37. LLMs Out-of-the-Box Do Not Generate Context-Appropriate Word Order in RussianAlina Shabaeva, John Frederick Bailyn, Owen Rambowour summary
  38. LLMs and their Limited Theory of Mind: Evaluating Mental State Annotations in Situated Dialogue ↗Katharine Kowalyshyn, Matthias Scheutz
  39. MTDiag: A Multi-Turn Diagnostic Dataset Towards Clinically Meaningful LLM Evaluation ↗Pia Chouayfati, Alexander M. Fichtl, Miriam Anschütz et al.
  40. MemeBuddy: Dialog-Style Audio Representations for Engaging Non-Visual Meme Experiences ↗Chirag Bhansali, Vikas Ashok, Hae-Na Lee
  41. On the Structure of Address in Multi-Party Dialogue: From Discrete Labels to Continuous LevelsTaiga Mori, Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala et al.our summary
  42. PERSONAJUDGE: Simulating Individual Human Preference Judgments with Evaluator-Specific Demonstration Data ↗Zeyu He, Xuan Qi, Subramanian Chidambaram et al.
  43. PersonaKit (PK): A Plug-and-Play Platform for User Testing Diverse Roles in Simulated Full-Duplex Dialogue ↗Hyunbae Jeon, Jinho D. Choi
  44. Ping-Ponder: Concurrent Dual-Agent Spoken Dialogue via Shared Belief State ↗Akiko Masaki-Kato, Haris Gulzar
  45. Question Types for Knowledge Acquisition in LLM-based Dialogue Systems: Experiments with Simulated and Human Users ↗Kazunori Komatani, Ryu Takeda, Mikio Nakano
  46. Relex: A Common Denominator for Connectives and Discourse Relations in French ↗Fatou Sow, Yannick Toussaint, Mathieu Constant
  47. Rethinking Binary Evaluation of Turn-Taking under Inherent Ambiguity ↗Yunosuke Kubo, Kenta Yamamoto, Ryu Takeda et al.
  48. Rethinking Role-Playing Evaluation: Anonymous Benchmarking and A Systematic Study of Personality EffectsJi-Lun Peng, Yun-Nung Chenour summary
  49. Retrieving Responses Useful as References in Counseling via LLM-Generated Structurally Analogous DialoguesYu Nakagawa, Nozomu Ikeda, Kotaro Funakoshi et al.our summary
  50. SagaQA: A Multi-hop Reasoning Benchmark for Long-form Narrative Understanding in TV SeriesGalann Pennec, Zhengyuan Liu, Nicholas Asher et al.our summary
  51. Seeing Is Not Sharing: Some Vision-Language Models Overestimate Common Ground in Asymmetric Dialogue ↗Nan Li, Albert Gatt, Massimo Poesio
  52. Sensor-Augmented Voice Activity Projection for Enhancing Turn-Taking Prediction ↗Satoki Hamanaka, Yasue Kishino, Yuiko Tsunomori et al.
  53. StagePilot: Stage-Level Planning for Long-Horizon Dialogue Simulation in Cybergrooming ↗Heajun An, Qi Zhang, Minqian Liu et al.
  54. Suppressing Unnecessary Clarification Requests for Unknown Word Acquisition in Spoken Dialogue Using Syllable-Based ASR Confidence ↗Takumi Furuta, Ryu Takeda, Kazunori Komatani
  55. TRACER: Early Failure Detection for Task-Oriented DialogueErfan Nourbakhsh, Rocky Slavin, Ke Yang et al.our summary
  56. Tinker Tales: A Tangible Dialogue System for Child–AI Co-Creative Storytelling ↗Nayoung Choi, Jiseung Hong, Peace Cyebukayire et al.
  57. Too Polite to Disagree: Understanding Sycophancy Propagation in Multi-Agent Systems ↗Vira Kasprova, Amruta Parulekar, Abdulrahman AlRabah et al.
  58. Towards Conversational Patient History-Taking: Voice-Interactive AI Agents for Pre-visit Dementia Diagnostic Interviews ↗Andrew G. Breithaupt, Nayoung Choi, James D. Finch et al.
  59. Tree-Based Interview Topic Guidance for Collecting Target Information under Adaptive Topic continuation/switchingFuminori Nagasawa, Ekai Hashimoto, Shun Shiramatsuour summary
  60. Weakly Supervised Temporal Modeling of Latent Dynamics in Dyadic Conversations ↗Tahiya Chowdhury
  61. When the Database Fails: Prompting LLM Dialogue Agents for Safe Recovery in Task-Oriented DialogueMohammad Alijanpour Shalmani, Alale Rezvani Boroujeni, Jiann S. Yuanour summary

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