@proceedings{sigdial-2026-1,
    title = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.0/"
}
@inproceedings{nakata-etal-2026-dialoguesidon,
    title = "{D}ialogue{S}idon: Recovering Full-Duplex Dialogue Tracks from In-the-Wild Dialogue Audio",
    author = "Nakata, Wataru  and
      Saito, Yuki  and
      Yamauchi, Kazuki  and
      Tsunoo, Emiru  and
      Saruwatari, Hiroshi",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.1/",
    pages = "1--12"
}
@inproceedings{kubo-etal-2026-rethinking,
    title = "Rethinking Binary Evaluation of Turn-Taking under Inherent Ambiguity",
    author = "Kubo, Yunosuke  and
      Yamamoto, Kenta  and
      Takeda, Ryu  and
      Komatani, Kazunori",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.2/",
    pages = "13--24"
}
@inproceedings{choi-etal-2026-tinker,
    title = "Tinker Tales: A Tangible Dialogue System for Child{--}{AI} Co-Creative Storytelling",
    author = "Choi, Nayoung  and
      Hong, Jiseung  and
      Cyebukayire, Peace  and
      Choi, Ikseon  and
      Choi, Jinho D.",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.3/",
    pages = "25--50"
}
@inproceedings{furuta-etal-2026-suppressing,
    title = "Suppressing Unnecessary Clarification Requests for Unknown Word Acquisition in Spoken Dialogue Using Syllable-Based {ASR} Confidence",
    author = "Furuta, Takumi  and
      Takeda, Ryu  and
      Komatani, Kazunori",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.4/",
    pages = "51--61"
}
@inproceedings{breithaupt-etal-2026-towards,
    title = "Towards Conversational Patient History-Taking: Voice-Interactive {AI} Agents for Pre-visit Dementia Diagnostic Interviews",
    author = "Breithaupt, Andrew G.  and
      Choi, Nayoung  and
      Finch, James D.  and
      Powell, Jeanne M.  and
      Nelson, Arin L.  and
      Alon, Oz A.  and
      Rosen, Howard J.  and
      Choi, Jinho D.",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.5/",
    pages = "62--78"
}
@inproceedings{bhattacharya-di-eugenio-2026-clarvis,
    title = "{C}lar{V}is: A Dataset of Clarification Requests and Grounding in Collaborative Data Visualization Dialogues",
    author = "Bhattacharya, Abari  and
      Di Eugenio, Barbara",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.6/",
    pages = "79--90"
}
@inproceedings{pourghasemi-fatideh-etal-2026-accuracy,
    title = "Accuracy and Satisfaction in Multi-Turn {LLM} Dialogues for {NFR} Assessment",
    author = "Pourghasemi Fatideh, Ali  and
      Baldwin, Wilder  and
      Dhakal, Maria  and
      McMillan, Collin  and
      Ghanavati, Sepideh",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.7/",
    pages = "91--106"
}
@inproceedings{lu-etal-2026-breaking,
    title = "Breaking the Script: Do Role-Playing Agents Maintain Goal Alignment under Distraction?",
    author = "Lu, Dongxu  and
      Gatt, Albert  and
      Jeuring, Johan",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.8/",
    pages = "107--123"
}
@inproceedings{sinha-etal-2026-argassist,
    title = "{A}rg{A}ssist: {LLM}-based Argument Synthesis for Insurance Disputes",
    author = "Sinha, Anubhav  and
      Ramrakhiyani, Nitin  and
      Pawar, Sachin  and
      Narang, Isha  and
      Apte, Manoj",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.9/",
    pages = "124--138"
}
@inproceedings{toadoum-sari-etal-2026-detecting,
    title = "Detecting Experiential Intertextuality Across Migration Routes: Beyond Surface Similarity in {F}rench Narratives",
    author = "Toadoum Sari, Sakayo  and
      Robin, Nelly  and
      Auzanneau, Michelle  and
      Sais, Lakhdar  and
      Petit, V{\'e}ronique  and
      Veniard, Marie  and
      Jabbour, Said  and
      Delorme, Fabien",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.10/",
    pages = "139--150"
}
@inproceedings{elizabeth-etal-2026-conversational,
    title = "Conversational Grounding in Large Language Models: Evaluation Methods, Challenges and Future Directions",
    author = "Elizabeth, Michelle  and
      Lecorv{\'e}, Gw{\'e}nol{\'e}  and
      Rojas Barahona, Lina M.  and
      Ochs, Magalie",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.11/",
    pages = "151--163"
}
@inproceedings{hamanaka-etal-2026-sensor,
    title = "Sensor-Augmented Voice Activity Projection for Enhancing Turn-Taking Prediction",
    author = "Hamanaka, Satoki  and
      Kishino, Yasue  and
      Tsunomori, Yuiko  and
      Mizutani, Shin  and
      Chiba, Yuya  and
      Okoshi, Tadashi  and
      Nakazawa, Jin",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.12/",
    pages = "164--169"
}
@inproceedings{morioka-etal-2026-dialogue,
    title = "A Dialogue System for Second Language Learning with Dynamic Adaptation to In-Dialogue Difficulty Changes",
    author = "Morioka, Taku  and
      Takayama, Junya  and
      Kajiwara, Tomoyuki",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.13/",
    pages = "170--187"
}
@inproceedings{masaki-kato-haris-2026-ping,
    title = "Ping-Ponder: Concurrent Dual-Agent Spoken Dialogue via Shared Belief State",
    author = "Masaki-Kato, Akiko  and
      Haris, Gulzar",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.14/",
    pages = "188--204"
}
@inproceedings{peng-chen-2026-rethinking,
    title = "Rethinking Role-Playing Evaluation: Anonymous Benchmarking and A Systematic Study of Personality Effects",
    author = "Peng, Ji-Lun  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.15/",
    pages = "205--218"
}
@inproceedings{pang-etal-2026-understand,
    title = "{I} Understand How You Feel: Enhancing Deeper Emotional Support Through Multilingual Emotional Validation in Dialogue System",
    author = "Pang, Zi Haur  and
      Fu, Yahui  and
      Inoue, Koji  and
      Kawahara, Tatsuya",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.16/",
    pages = "219--236"
}
@inproceedings{bhattacharyya-wein-2026-reason,
    title = "For What Reason? Interpreting Models' Encoding of Causation and Antithesis",
    author = "Bhattacharyya, Abhidip  and
      Wein, Shira",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.17/",
    pages = "237--253"
}
@inproceedings{singh-2026-crossoracle,
    title = "{C}ross{O}racle: An Agentic Framework for Real-Time Expert Personas with Parallelized Acoustic Synthesis",
    author = "Singh, Yash Raj",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.18/",
    pages = "254--257"
}
@inproceedings{tsunomori-etal-2026-felt,
    title = "From Felt Sense to Words: Construction and Analysis of a Focusing Dialogue Dataset for Verbalization",
    author = "Tsunomori, Yuiko  and
      Chiba, Yuya  and
      Koshikawa, Yosuke",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.19/",
    pages = "258--270"
}
@inproceedings{nakagawa-etal-2026-retrieving,
    title = "Retrieving Responses Useful as References in Counseling via {LLM}-Generated Structurally Analogous Dialogues",
    author = "Nakagawa, Yu  and
      Ikeda, Nozomu  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Okumura, Manabu",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.20/",
    pages = "271--292"
}
@inproceedings{dongre-hakkani-tur-2026-embodied,
    title = "Embodied Multi-Agent Coordination by Aligning World Models Through Dialogue",
    author = "Dongre, Vardhan  and
      Hakkani-Tur, Dilek",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.21/",
    pages = "293--306"
}
@inproceedings{pennec-etal-2026-sagaqa,
    title = "{S}aga{QA}: A Multi-hop Reasoning Benchmark for Long-form Narrative Understanding in {TV} Series",
    author = "Pennec, Galann  and
      Liu, Zhengyuan  and
      Asher, Nicholas  and
      Muller, Philippe  and
      Chen, Nancy",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.22/",
    pages = "307--326"
}
@inproceedings{gajewska-etal-2026-ethos,
    title = "How Ethos and Pathos Appeals Resonate in Reader Interpretations of Social Media Messages",
    author = "Gajewska, Ewelina  and
      Budzynska, Katarzyna  and
      Chudziak, Jaros{\l}aw A.  and
      Allein, Liesbeth",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.23/",
    pages = "327--341"
}
@inproceedings{yang-etal-2026-gbc,
    title = "{GBC}: Gradient-Based Connections for Optimizing Multi-Agent Systems",
    author = {Yang, Xiaocheng  and
      Alrabah, Abdulrahman  and
      Hakkani-T{\"u}r, Dilek  and
      Tur, Gokhan},
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.24/",
    pages = "342--356"
}
@inproceedings{bonzi-etal-2026-french,
    title = "A {F}rench {OSCE} Dialogue Dataset and Controllable Virtual Patient System for Clinical Training",
    author = "Bonzi, Doria  and
      Bourgeade, Tom  and
      Lef{\`e}vre, Fabrice  and
      Illina, Irina",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.25/",
    pages = "357--374"
}
@inproceedings{okonkwo-arpinar-2026-llms,
    title = "Do {LLM}s Use Relational Structure in {KG}-Grounded Dialogue? Evidence from Entity and Relation Perturbation",
    author = "Okonkwo, Dominic  and
      Arpinar, Ismailcem Budak",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.26/",
    pages = "375--384"
}
@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2026-dips,
    title = "{D}i{PS}: Dialogue Policy Selection for High-Stakes Persuasion Agents",
    author = "Zhang, Tianyi  and
      Das, Mousumi  and
      Anwar, Abrar  and
      Thomason, Jesse  and
      Traum, David",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.27/",
    pages = "385--402"
}
@inproceedings{zhu-etal-2026-propositional,
    title = "From Propositional to Perceptual Asymmetry: Extending {FPO} to Asymmetric Partial Information Dialogue",
    author = "Zhu, Yifan  and
      Rim, Kyeongmin  and
      Pustejovsky, James",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.28/",
    pages = "403--413"
}
@inproceedings{tao-etal-2026-disentangling,
    title = "Disentangling Annotator Skill from Verifier Strictness in Cross-Verified Dialogue Annotation",
    author = "Tao, Zihao  and
      Prado, John A.  and
      LaManna, Ignazio Steven  and
      Puterbaugh, Ryan  and
      Datta, Mim  and
      Hirschberg, Julia",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.29/",
    pages = "414--422"
}
@inproceedings{liu-etal-2026-beyond,
    title = "Beyond Supervised Clarification: Input Rewriting with {LLM}s for Dialogue Discourse Parsing",
    author = "Liu, Yiming  and
      Zhang, Ziyue  and
      Xu, Zhichao  and
      Yu, Xin  and
      Tang, Yingheng  and
      Jiang, Tianyu  and
      Cao, Jie",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.30/",
    pages = "423--439"
}
@inproceedings{chowdhury-2026-weakly,
    title = "Weakly Supervised Temporal Modeling of Latent Dynamics in Dyadic Conversations",
    author = "Chowdhury, Tahiya",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.31/",
    pages = "440--452"
}
@inproceedings{shabaeva-etal-2026-llms,
    title = "{LLM}s Out-of-the-Box Do Not Generate Context-Appropriate Word Order in {R}ussian",
    author = "Shabaeva, Alina  and
      Bailyn, John Frederick  and
      Rambow, Owen",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.32/",
    pages = "453--472"
}
@inproceedings{wu-etal-2026-chronological,
    title = "Chronological Thinking in Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Language Models",
    author = "Wu, Donghang  and
      Zhang, Haoyang  and
      Chen, Chen  and
      Zhang, Tianyu  and
      Tian, Fei  and
      Yang, Xuerui  and
      Yu, Gang  and
      Liu, Hexin  and
      Hou, Nana  and
      Hu, Yuchen  and
      Chng, Eng Siong",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.33/",
    pages = "473--485"
}
@inproceedings{kowalski-etal-2026-exploring,
    title = "Exploring Retrieval Augmented Generation Approaches for Natural Language Question Understanding",
    author = "Kowalski, Christoph  and
      Robrecht-Hilbig, Amelie Sophie  and
      Emmerling, Vincent  and
      Kopp, Stefan",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.34/",
    pages = "486--496"
}
@inproceedings{nagasawa-etal-2026-tree,
    title = "Tree-Based Interview Topic Guidance for Collecting Target Information under Adaptive Topic continuation/switching",
    author = "Nagasawa, Fuminori  and
      Hashimoto, Ekai  and
      Shiramatsu, Shun",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.35/",
    pages = "497--515"
}
@inproceedings{bhar-etal-2026-cocoreli,
    title = "{COCORELI}: Enforcing Execution Preconditions for Reliable Collaborative Instruction Following",
    author = {Bhar, Swarnadeep  and
      Naim, Omar  and
      Metheniti, Eleni  and
      Cabannes, Lo{\"i}c  and
      Navarri, Bastien  and
      Kamaladdini Ezzabady, Morteza  and
      Asher, Nicholas},
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.36/",
    pages = "516--535"
}
@inproceedings{an-etal-2026-stagepilot,
    title = "{S}tage{P}ilot: Stage-Level Planning for Long-Horizon Dialogue Simulation in Cybergrooming",
    author = "An, Heajun  and
      Zhang, Qi  and
      Liu, Minqian  and
      Zhang, Xinyi  and
      Lee, Sang Won  and
      Huang, Lifu  and
      Wisniewski, Pamela  and
      Cho, Jin-Hee",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.37/",
    pages = "536--552"
}
@inproceedings{tsubokura-etal-2026-generation,
    title = "Generation of Dialogue Breakdown Repair Utterance in Non-task Oriented Conversation",
    author = "Tsubokura, Kazuya  and
      Iribe, Yurie  and
      Kitaoka, Norihide",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.38/",
    pages = "553--558"
}
@inproceedings{laud-etal-2026-sound,
    title = "From Sound to Symptom: Real-Time Respiratory Signal Understanding for Conversational Healthcare Agents",
    author = "Laud, Tanmay  and
      Mahal, Herprit  and
      Mukherjee, Subhabrata",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.39/",
    pages = "559--564"
}
@inproceedings{krawczyk-etal-2026-interpretable,
    title = "Interpretable Satisfaction Modeling in Sales Dialogues: A Metrics-based Approach Validated Against Text-based Model",
    author = "Krawczyk, Natalia  and
      Kasicka, Alicja  and
      Przyby{\l}, Bartosz  and
      Gromada, Justyna",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.40/",
    pages = "565--584"
}
@inproceedings{manaseryan-kennington-2026-adaptive,
    title = "Adaptive Emotion Management in Human-robot Dialogue using Online Group Relative Policy Optimization",
    author = "Manaseryan, Anna  and
      Kennington, Casey",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.41/",
    pages = "585--596"
}
@inproceedings{jeon-choi-2026-personakit,
    title = "{P}ersona{K}it ({PK}): A Plug-and-Play Platform for User Testing Diverse Roles in Simulated Full-Duplex Dialogue",
    author = "Jeon, Hyunbae  and
      Choi, Jinho D.",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.42/",
    pages = "597--601"
}
@inproceedings{komatani-etal-2026-question,
    title = "Question Types for Knowledge Acquisition in {LLM}-based Dialogue Systems: Experiments with Simulated and Human Users",
    author = "Komatani, Kazunori  and
      Takeda, Ryu  and
      Nakano, Mikio",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.43/",
    pages = "602--613"
}
@inproceedings{nourbakhsh-etal-2026-tracer,
    title = "{TRACER}: Early Failure Detection for Task-Oriented Dialogue",
    author = "Nourbakhsh, Erfan  and
      Slavin, Rocky  and
      Yang, Ke  and
      Rios, Anthony",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.44/",
    pages = "614--635"
}
@inproceedings{sow-etal-2026-relex,
    title = "Relex: A Common Denominator for Connectives and Discourse Relations in {F}rench",
    author = "Sow, Fatou  and
      Toussaint, Yannick  and
      Constant, Mathieu",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.45/",
    pages = "636--648"
}
@inproceedings{bhansali-etal-2026-memebuddy,
    title = "{M}eme{B}uddy: Dialog-Style Audio Representations for Engaging Non-Visual Meme Experiences",
    author = "Bhansali, Chirag  and
      Ashok, Vikas  and
      Lee, Hae-Na",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.46/",
    pages = "649--667"
}
@inproceedings{mori-etal-2026-structure,
    title = "On the Structure of Address in Multi-Party Dialogue: From Discrete Labels to Continuous Levels",
    author = "Mori, Taiga  and
      Inoue, Koji  and
      Lala, Divesh  and
      Kawahara, Tatsuya",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.47/",
    pages = "668--679"
}
@inproceedings{liu-etal-2026-bridging,
    title = "Bridging Talk and Thought: Understanding Dialogue Dynamics Across Collaborative Problem-Solving Contexts",
    author = "Liu, Zhengyuan  and
      Yin, Stella  and
      Kan, Min-Yen  and
      Chen, Nancy",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.48/",
    pages = "680--693"
}
@inproceedings{li-etal-2026-seeing-sharing,
    title = "Seeing Is Not Sharing: Some Vision-Language Models Overestimate Common Ground in Asymmetric Dialogue",
    author = "Li, Nan  and
      Gatt, Albert  and
      Poesio, Massimo",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.49/",
    pages = "694--710"
}
@inproceedings{miyazawa-sato-2026-evaluation,
    title = "Evaluation of Paralinguistic-Aware Spoken Dialogue Systems using Next-Utterance Classification",
    author = "Miyazawa, Kouki  and
      Sato, Yoshinao",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.50/",
    pages = "711--719"
}
@inproceedings{park-zubiaga-2026-better,
    title = "Better Scores, Worse Grounding: Hidden Regressions after Fine-Tuning in Dialogue Fact Verification",
    author = "Park, Hyunkyung  and
      Zubiaga, Arkaitz",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.51/",
    pages = "720--737"
}
@inproceedings{kowalyshyn-scheutz-2026-llms,
    title = "{LLM}s and their Limited Theory of Mind: Evaluating Mental State Annotations in Situated Dialogue",
    author = "Kowalyshyn, Katharine  and
      Scheutz, Matthias",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.52/",
    pages = "738--756"
}
@inproceedings{das-etal-2026-enhancing,
    title = "Enhancing Operational Safety via Agentic Dialogue Hazard Identification Analysis",
    author = "Das, Sanjay  and
      Elgedawy, Ran  and
      Seefried, Ethan  and
      Burchfield, Ryan  and
      Ghosal, Tirthankar",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.53/",
    pages = "757--772"
}
@inproceedings{gao-choi-2026-building,
    title = "Building Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems via Instruction Guidance without Annotated Data",
    author = "Gao, Henry  and
      Choi, Jinho D.",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.54/",
    pages = "773--785"
}
@inproceedings{mudunuri-etal-2026-bounded,
    title = "Bounded Conversational Memory with Hybrid Retrieval and Evidence Highlighting for Multi-Session Dialogue Systems",
    author = "Mudunuri, Manasa  and
      Guntupalli, Chandra Kiran  and
      Kubek, Mario Michael  and
      Pokharel, Shiraj  and
      Patterson, Murray",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.55/",
    pages = "786--794"
}
@inproceedings{kasprova-etal-2026-polite,
    title = "Too Polite to Disagree: Understanding Sycophancy Propagation in Multi-Agent Systems",
    author = "Kasprova, Vira  and
      Parulekar, Amruta  and
      AlRabah, Abdulrahman  and
      Agaram, Krishna  and
      Garg, Ritwik  and
      Jha, Sagar  and
      Bozdag, Nimet Beyza  and
      Hakkani-Tur, Dilek",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.56/",
    pages = "795--814"
}
@inproceedings{alijanpour-shalmani-etal-2026-database,
    title = "When the Database Fails: Prompting {LLM} Dialogue Agents for Safe Recovery in Task-Oriented Dialogue",
    author = "Alijanpour Shalmani, Mohammad  and
      Rezvani Boroujeni, Alale  and
      Yuan, Jiann S.",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.57/",
    pages = "815--820"
}
@inproceedings{chouayfati-etal-2026-mtdiag,
    title = "{MTD}iag: A Multi-Turn Diagnostic Dataset Towards Clinically Meaningful {LLM} Evaluation",
    author = {Chouayfati, Pia  and
      Fichtl, Alexander M.  and
      Ansch{\"u}tz, Miriam  and
      Doumat, George  and
      Groh, Georg},
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.58/",
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}
@inproceedings{he-etal-2026-personajudge,
    title = "{PERSONAJUDGE}: Simulating Individual Human Preference Judgments with Evaluator-Specific Demonstration Data",
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      Qi, Xuan  and
      Chidambaram, Subramanian  and
      Xu, Zhichao  and
      Arannil, Vinayak  and
      Chilton, Lydia  and
      Williams, Alex C.",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
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}
@inproceedings{ganguly-2026-fractional,
    title = "Fractional Decay {KV}-Cache: Ownership-Aware Memory Management for Improved Inference Relevancy in Dialog Systems",
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      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
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@inproceedings{abulimiti-etal-2026-reinforcement,
    title = "A Reinforcement Learning-Based Facilitator for Simulated Group Motivational Interviewing",
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      Maraev, Vladislav  and
      Helme-Guizon, Agn{\`e}s  and
      Pelachaud, Catherine",
    editor = "Choi, Jinho D.  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung  and
      Funakoshi, Kotaro  and
      Emami, Ali",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Atlanta, Georgia, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.61/",
    pages = "871--890"
}