📰 Works of Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)

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1. Building a Discourse-Tagged Corpus in the Framework of Rhetorical Structure TheoryLynn Carlson, Daniel Marcu, Mary Ellen Okurovsky2001 · 912 citations
2. The Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus: A Large Dataset for Research in Unstructured Multi-Turn Dialogue SystemsRyan Lowe, Nissan Pow, Iulian Serban, et al.2015 · 474 citations
3. The ICSI Meeting Recorder Dialog Act (MRDA) CorpusElizabeth Shriberg, Raj Dhillon, Sonali Bhagat, et al.2004 · 470 citations
4. The E2E Dataset: New Challenges For End-to-End GenerationJekaterina Novikova, Ondřej Dušek, Verena Rieser2017 · 461 citations
5. Word-Based Dialog State Tracking with Recurrent Neural NetworksMatthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Steve Young2014 · 431 citations
6. Frames: a corpus for adding memory to goal-oriented dialogue systemsLayla El Asri, Hannes Schulz, Shikhar Sharma, et al.2017 · 326 citations
7. Dialog State Tracking: A Neural Reading Comprehension ApproachShuyang Gao, Abhishek Sethi, Sanchit Agarwal, et al.2019 · 233 citations
8. Unsupervised Evaluation of Interactive Dialog with DialoGPTShikib Mehri, Maxine Eskenazi2020 · 223 citations
9. Stochastic Language Generation in Dialogue using Recurrent Neural Networks with Convolutional Sentence RerankingTsung-Hsien Wen, Milica Gašić, Dongho Kim, et al.2015 · 212 citations
10. Improving Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition Through Feature Set OptimizationJoonsuk Park, Claire Cardie2012 · 165 citations
11. Creating and Characterizing a Diverse Corpus of Sarcasm in DialogueShereen Oraby, Vrindavan Harrison, Lena Reed, et al.2016 · 163 citations
12. ConvoKit: A Toolkit for the Analysis of ConversationsJonathan P. Chang, Caleb Chiam, Liye Fu, et al.2020 · 137 citations
13. MultiWOZ 2.4: A Multi-Domain Task-Oriented Dialogue Dataset with Essential Annotation Corrections to Improve State Tracking EvaluationFanghua Ye, Jarana Manotumruksa, Emine Yilmaz2022 · 131 citations
14. The MATE/GNOME Proposals for Anaphoric Annotation, RevisitedMassimo Poesio2004 · 123 citations
15. The Role of Conversation Context for Sarcasm Detection in Online InteractionsDebanjan Ghosh, Alexander Richard Fabbri, Smaranda Muresan2017 · 99 citations
16. A Rule Based Approach to Discourse ParsingLivia Polanyi, Chris Culy, Martin van den Berg, et al.2004 · 94 citations
17. Dialogue Act Recognition with Bayesian Networks for Dutch DialoguesSimon Keizer, Rieks op den Akker, Anton Nijholt2002 · 83 citations
18. Coreference-Aware Dialogue SummarizationZhengyuan Liu, Ke Shi, Nancy Chen2021 · 81 citations
19. Discourse Coherence in the Wild: A Dataset, Evaluation and MethodsAlice Lai, Joel Tetreault2018 · 79 citations
20. Are you serious?: Rhetorical Questions and Sarcasm in Social Media DialogShereen Oraby, Vrindavan Harrison, Amita Misra, et al.2017 · 70 citations
21. Constructing a Lexicon of English Discourse ConnectivesDebopam Das, Tatjana Scheffler, Peter Bourgonje, et al.2018 · 66 citations
22. A Multidimensional Approach to Utterance Segmentation and Dialogue Act ClassificationJeroen Geertzen, Volha Petukhova, Harry Bunt2007 · 55 citations
23. Multi-level Dialogue Act TagsAlexander Clark, Andrei Popescu-Belis2004 · 54 citations
24. Neural-based Context Representation Learning for Dialog Act ClassificationDaniel Ortega, Ngoc Thang Vu2017 · 51 citations
25. Dialogue Act Modeling in a Complex Task-Oriented DomainKristy Boyer, Eun Y. Ha, Robert Phillips, et al.2010 · 42 citations
26. Exploring Joint Neural Model for Sentence Level Discourse Parsing and Sentiment AnalysisBita Nejat, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng2017 · 40 citations
27. Discourse Relation Prediction: Revisiting Word Pairs with Convolutional NetworksSiddharth Varia, Christopher Hidey, Tuhin Chakrabarty2019 · 39 citations
28. Structured Dialogue Discourse ParsingTa-Chung Chi, Alexander Rudnicky2022 · 34 citations
29. PDTB Discourse Parsing as a Tagging Task: The Two Taggers ApproachOr Biran, Kathleen McKeown2015 · 32 citations
30. Reducing Sparsity Improves the Recognition of Implicit Discourse RelationsJunyi Jessy Li, Ani Nenkova2014 · 32 citations
31. Token-based Chunking of Turn-internal Dialogue Act SequencesPiroska Lendvai, Jeroen Geertzen2007 · 32 citations
32. Extractive Summarization and Dialogue Act Modeling on Email Threads: An Integrated Probabilistic ApproachTatsuro Oya, Giuseppe Carenini2014 · 31 citations
33. Where Are We in Discourse Relation Recognition?Katherine Atwell, Junyi Jessy Li, Malihe Alikhani2021 · 30 citations
34. Dialog Act Annotation for Twitter ConversationsElina Zarisheva, Tatjana Scheffler2015 · 26 citations
35. Global Features for Shallow Discourse ParsingSucheta Ghosh, Giuseppe Riccardi, Richard Johansson2012 · 26 citations
36. Classification of Discourse Coherence Relations: An Exploratory Study using Multiple Knowledge SourcesBen Wellner, James Pustejovsky, Catherine Havasi, et al.2006 · 25 citations
37. Abstract Anaphora Resolution in DanishCostanza Navarretta2000 · 19 citations
38. Zero-shot transfer for implicit discourse relation classificationMurathan Kurfalı, Robert Östling2019 · 17 citations
39. Towards Full Text Shallow Discourse Relation Annotation: Experiments with Cross-Paragraph Implicit Relations in the PDTBRashmi Prasad, Katherine Forbes Riley, Alan Lee2017 · 17 citations
40. Identifying Explicit Discourse Connectives in GermanPeter Bourgonje, Manfred Stede2018 · 14 citations
41. Annotating Anaphoric and Bridging Relations with MMAXChristoph Mueller, Michael Strube2001 · 14 citations
42. Dialogue Discourse Parsing as Generation: A Sequence-to-Sequence LLM-based ApproachChuyuan Li, Yuwei Yin, Giuseppe Carenini2024 · 11 citations
43. Investigating Explicitation of Discourse Connectives in Translation using Automatic AnnotationsFrances Yung, Merel Scholman, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, et al.2023 · 8 citations
44. Using Speech Acts in Logic-Based Rhetorical Structuring for Natural Language Generation in Human-Computer DialogueVladimir Popescu, Jean Caelen, Corneliu Burileanu2007 · 6 citations
45. Training LLMs to Recognize Hedges in Dialogues about Roadrunner CartoonsAmie Paige, Adil Soubki, John Murzaku, et al.2024 · 4 citations
46. When to generate hedges in peer-tutoring interactionsAlafate Abulimiti, Chloé Clavel, Justine Cassell2023 · 4 citations
47. Chronological Thinking in Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Language ModelsDonghang Wu, Haoyang Zhang, Chen Chen, et al.2026 · 3 citations
48. Unravelling Indirect Answers to Wh-Questions: Corpus Construction, Analysis, and GenerationZulipiye Yusupujiang, Jonathan Ginzburg2023 · 2 citations
49. Breaking the Script: Do Role-Playing Agents Maintain Goal Alignment under Distraction?Dongxu Lu, Albert Gatt, Johan Jeuring2026
50. Adaptive Emotion Management in Human-robot Dialogue using Online Group Relative Policy OptimizationAnna Manaseryan, Casey Kennington2026
51. Evaluation of Paralinguistic-Aware Spoken Dialogue Systems using Next-Utterance ClassificationKouki Miyazawa, Yoshinao Sato2026
52. On the Structure of Address in Multi-Party Dialogue: From Discrete Labels to Continuous LevelsTaiga Mori, Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, et al.2026
53. A Dialogue System for Second Language Learning with Dynamic Adaptation to In-Dialogue Difficulty ChangesTaku Morioka, Junya Takayama, Tomoyuki Kajiwara2026
54. Bounded Conversational Memory with Hybrid Retrieval and Evidence Highlighting for Multi-Session Dialogue SystemsManasa Mudunuri, Chandra Kiran Guntupalli, Shiraj Pokharel, et al.2026
55. Tree-Based Interview Topic Guidance for Collecting Target Information under Adaptive Topic continuation/switchingFuminori Nagasawa, Ekai Hashimoto, Shun Shiramatsu2026
56. Retrieving Responses Useful as References in Counseling via LLM-Generated Structurally Analogous DialoguesYu Nakagawa, Nozomu Ikeda, Kotaro Funakoshi, et al.2026
57. DialogueSidon: Recovering Full-Duplex Dialogue Tracks from In-the-Wild Dialogue AudioWataru Nakata, Yuki Saito, Kazuki Yamauchi, et al.2026
58. TRACER: Early Failure Detection for Task-Oriented DialogueErfan Nourbakhsh, Rocky Slavin, Ke Yang, et al.2026
59. Do LLMs Use Relational Structure in KG-Grounded Dialogue? Evidence from Entity and Relation PerturbationDominic Okonkwo, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar2026
60. I Understand How You Feel: Enhancing Deeper Emotional Support Through Multilingual Emotional Validation in Dialogue SystemZi Haur Pang, Yahui Fu, Koji Inoue, et al.2026
61. Better Scores, Worse Grounding: Hidden Regressions after Fine-Tuning in Dialogue Fact VerificationHyunkyung Park, Arkaitz Zubiaga2026
62. Rethinking Role-Playing Evaluation: Anonymous Benchmarking and A Systematic Study of Personality EffectsJi-Lun Peng, Yun-Nung Chen2026
63. SagaQA: A Multi-hop Reasoning Benchmark for Long-form Narrative Understanding in TV SeriesGalann Pennec, Zhengyuan Liu, Nicholas Asher, et al.2026
64. Detecting Experiential Intertextuality Across Migration Routes: Beyond Surface Similarity in French NarrativesSakayo Toadoum Sari, Nelly Robin, Michelle Auzanneau, et al.2026
65. LLMs Out-of-the-Box Do Not Generate Context-Appropriate Word Order in RussianAlina Shabaeva, John Frederick Bailyn, Owen Rambow2026
66. When the Database Fails: Prompting LLM Dialogue Agents for Safe Recovery in Task-Oriented DialogueMohammad Alijanpour Shalmani, Alale Rezvani Boroujeni, Jiann S. Yuan2026
67. CrossOracle: An Agentic Framework for Real-Time Expert Personas with Parallelized Acoustic SynthesisYash Raj Singh2026
68. ArgAssist: LLM-based Argument Synthesis for Insurance DisputesAnubhav Sinha, Nitin Ramrakhiyani, Sachin Pawar, et al.2026
69. Disentangling Annotator Skill from Verifier Strictness in Cross-Verified Dialogue AnnotationZihao Tao, John A. Prado, Ignazio Steven LaManna, et al.2026
70. Generation of Dialogue Breakdown Repair Utterance in Non-task Oriented ConversationKazuya Tsubokura, Yurie Iribe, Norihide Kitaoka2026
71. From Felt Sense to Words: Construction and Analysis of a Focusing Dialogue Dataset for VerbalizationYuiko Tsunomori, Yuya Chiba, Yosuke Koshikawa2026
72. GBC: Gradient-Based Connections for Optimizing Multi-Agent SystemsXiaocheng Yang, Abdulrahman Alrabah, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, et al.2026
73. DiPS: Dialogue Policy Selection for High-Stakes Persuasion AgentsTianyi Zhang, Mousumi Das, Abrar Anwar, et al.2026
74. From Propositional to Perceptual Asymmetry: Extending FPO to Asymmetric Partial Information DialogueYifan Zhu, Kyeongmin Rim, James Pustejovsky2026

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