%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%E Choi, Jinho D.
%E Chen, Yun-Nung
%E Funakoshi, Kotaro
%E Emami, Ali
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T DialogueSidon: Recovering Full-Duplex Dialogue Tracks from In-the-Wild Dialogue Audio
%A Nakata, Wataru
%A Saito, Yuki
%A Yamauchi, Kazuki
%A Tsunoo, Emiru
%A Saruwatari, Hiroshi
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Rethinking Binary Evaluation of Turn-Taking under Inherent Ambiguity
%A Kubo, Yunosuke
%A Yamamoto, Kenta
%A Takeda, Ryu
%A Komatani, Kazunori
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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%P 13-24

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Tinker Tales: A Tangible Dialogue System for Child–AI Co-Creative Storytelling
%A Choi, Nayoung
%A Hong, Jiseung
%A Cyebukayire, Peace
%A Choi, Ikseon
%A Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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%P 25-50

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Suppressing Unnecessary Clarification Requests for Unknown Word Acquisition in Spoken Dialogue Using Syllable-Based ASR Confidence
%A Furuta, Takumi
%A Takeda, Ryu
%A Komatani, Kazunori
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.4/
%P 51-61

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Towards Conversational Patient History-Taking: Voice-Interactive AI Agents for Pre-visit Dementia Diagnostic Interviews
%A Breithaupt, Andrew G.
%A Choi, Nayoung
%A Finch, James D.
%A Powell, Jeanne M.
%A Nelson, Arin L.
%A Alon, Oz A.
%A Rosen, Howard J.
%A Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F breithaupt-etal-2026-towards
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.5/
%P 62-78

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T ClarVis: A Dataset of Clarification Requests and Grounding in Collaborative Data Visualization Dialogues
%A Bhattacharya, Abari
%A Di Eugenio, Barbara
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.6/
%P 79-90

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Accuracy and Satisfaction in Multi-Turn LLM Dialogues for NFR Assessment
%A Pourghasemi Fatideh, Ali
%A Baldwin, Wilder
%A Dhakal, Maria
%A McMillan, Collin
%A Ghanavati, Sepideh
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F pourghasemi-fatideh-etal-2026-accuracy
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.7/
%P 91-106

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Breaking the Script: Do Role-Playing Agents Maintain Goal Alignment under Distraction?
%A Lu, Dongxu
%A Gatt, Albert
%A Jeuring, Johan
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F lu-etal-2026-breaking
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.8/
%P 107-123

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T ArgAssist: LLM-based Argument Synthesis for Insurance Disputes
%A Sinha, Anubhav
%A Ramrakhiyani, Nitin
%A Pawar, Sachin
%A Narang, Isha
%A Apte, Manoj
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F sinha-etal-2026-argassist
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.9/
%P 124-138

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Detecting Experiential Intertextuality Across Migration Routes: Beyond Surface Similarity in French Narratives
%A Toadoum Sari, Sakayo
%A Robin, Nelly
%A Auzanneau, Michelle
%A Sais, Lakhdar
%A Petit, Véronique
%A Veniard, Marie
%A Jabbour, Said
%A Delorme, Fabien
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F toadoum-sari-etal-2026-detecting
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.10/
%P 139-150

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Conversational Grounding in Large Language Models: Evaluation Methods, Challenges and Future Directions
%A Elizabeth, Michelle
%A Lecorvé, Gwénolé
%A Rojas Barahona, Lina M.
%A Ochs, Magalie
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.11/
%P 151-163

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Sensor-Augmented Voice Activity Projection for Enhancing Turn-Taking Prediction
%A Hamanaka, Satoki
%A Kishino, Yasue
%A Tsunomori, Yuiko
%A Mizutani, Shin
%A Chiba, Yuya
%A Okoshi, Tadashi
%A Nakazawa, Jin
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F hamanaka-etal-2026-sensor
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.12/
%P 164-169

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T A Dialogue System for Second Language Learning with Dynamic Adaptation to In-Dialogue Difficulty Changes
%A Morioka, Taku
%A Takayama, Junya
%A Kajiwara, Tomoyuki
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F morioka-etal-2026-dialogue
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.13/
%P 170-187

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Ping-Ponder: Concurrent Dual-Agent Spoken Dialogue via Shared Belief State
%A Masaki-Kato, Akiko
%A Haris, Gulzar
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F masaki-kato-haris-2026-ping
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.14/
%P 188-204

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Rethinking Role-Playing Evaluation: Anonymous Benchmarking and A Systematic Study of Personality Effects
%A Peng, Ji-Lun
%A Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F peng-chen-2026-rethinking
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.15/
%P 205-218

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T I Understand How You Feel: Enhancing Deeper Emotional Support Through Multilingual Emotional Validation in Dialogue System
%A Pang, Zi Haur
%A Fu, Yahui
%A Inoue, Koji
%A Kawahara, Tatsuya
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F pang-etal-2026-understand
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.16/
%P 219-236

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T For What Reason? Interpreting Models’ Encoding of Causation and Antithesis
%A Bhattacharyya, Abhidip
%A Wein, Shira
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F bhattacharyya-wein-2026-reason
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.17/
%P 237-253

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T CrossOracle: An Agentic Framework for Real-Time Expert Personas with Parallelized Acoustic Synthesis
%A Singh, Yash Raj
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F singh-2026-crossoracle
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.18/
%P 254-257

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T From Felt Sense to Words: Construction and Analysis of a Focusing Dialogue Dataset for Verbalization
%A Tsunomori, Yuiko
%A Chiba, Yuya
%A Koshikawa, Yosuke
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F tsunomori-etal-2026-felt
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.19/
%P 258-270

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Retrieving Responses Useful as References in Counseling via LLM-Generated Structurally Analogous Dialogues
%A Nakagawa, Yu
%A Ikeda, Nozomu
%A Funakoshi, Kotaro
%A Okumura, Manabu
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F nakagawa-etal-2026-retrieving
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.20/
%P 271-292

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Embodied Multi-Agent Coordination by Aligning World Models Through Dialogue
%A Dongre, Vardhan
%A Hakkani-Tur, Dilek
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F dongre-hakkani-tur-2026-embodied
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.21/
%P 293-306

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T SagaQA: A Multi-hop Reasoning Benchmark for Long-form Narrative Understanding in TV Series
%A Pennec, Galann
%A Liu, Zhengyuan
%A Asher, Nicholas
%A Muller, Philippe
%A Chen, Nancy
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F pennec-etal-2026-sagaqa
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.22/
%P 307-326

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T How Ethos and Pathos Appeals Resonate in Reader Interpretations of Social Media Messages
%A Gajewska, Ewelina
%A Budzynska, Katarzyna
%A Chudziak, Jarosław A.
%A Allein, Liesbeth
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F gajewska-etal-2026-ethos
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.23/
%P 327-341

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T GBC: Gradient-Based Connections for Optimizing Multi-Agent Systems
%A Yang, Xiaocheng
%A Alrabah, Abdulrahman
%A Hakkani-Tür, Dilek
%A Tur, Gokhan
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F yang-etal-2026-gbc
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.24/
%P 342-356

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T A French OSCE Dialogue Dataset and Controllable Virtual Patient System for Clinical Training
%A Bonzi, Doria
%A Bourgeade, Tom
%A Lefèvre, Fabrice
%A Illina, Irina
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F bonzi-etal-2026-french
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.25/
%P 357-374

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Do LLMs Use Relational Structure in KG-Grounded Dialogue? Evidence from Entity and Relation Perturbation
%A Okonkwo, Dominic
%A Arpinar, Ismailcem Budak
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F okonkwo-arpinar-2026-llms
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.26/
%P 375-384

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T DiPS: Dialogue Policy Selection for High-Stakes Persuasion Agents
%A Zhang, Tianyi
%A Das, Mousumi
%A Anwar, Abrar
%A Thomason, Jesse
%A Traum, David
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F zhang-etal-2026-dips
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.27/
%P 385-402

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T From Propositional to Perceptual Asymmetry: Extending FPO to Asymmetric Partial Information Dialogue
%A Zhu, Yifan
%A Rim, Kyeongmin
%A Pustejovsky, James
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F zhu-etal-2026-propositional
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.28/
%P 403-413

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Disentangling Annotator Skill from Verifier Strictness in Cross-Verified Dialogue Annotation
%A Tao, Zihao
%A Prado, John A.
%A LaManna, Ignazio Steven
%A Puterbaugh, Ryan
%A Datta, Mim
%A Hirschberg, Julia
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F tao-etal-2026-disentangling
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.29/
%P 414-422

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Beyond Supervised Clarification: Input Rewriting with LLMs for Dialogue Discourse Parsing
%A Liu, Yiming
%A Zhang, Ziyue
%A Xu, Zhichao
%A Yu, Xin
%A Tang, Yingheng
%A Jiang, Tianyu
%A Cao, Jie
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F liu-etal-2026-beyond
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.30/
%P 423-439

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Weakly Supervised Temporal Modeling of Latent Dynamics in Dyadic Conversations
%A Chowdhury, Tahiya
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F chowdhury-2026-weakly
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.31/
%P 440-452

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T LLMs Out-of-the-Box Do Not Generate Context-Appropriate Word Order in Russian
%A Shabaeva, Alina
%A Bailyn, John Frederick
%A Rambow, Owen
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F shabaeva-etal-2026-llms
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.32/
%P 453-472

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Chronological Thinking in Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Language Models
%A Wu, Donghang
%A Zhang, Haoyang
%A Chen, Chen
%A Zhang, Tianyu
%A Tian, Fei
%A Yang, Xuerui
%A Yu, Gang
%A Liu, Hexin
%A Hou, Nana
%A Hu, Yuchen
%A Chng, Eng Siong
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F wu-etal-2026-chronological
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.33/
%P 473-485

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Exploring Retrieval Augmented Generation Approaches for Natural Language Question Understanding
%A Kowalski, Christoph
%A Robrecht-Hilbig, Amelie Sophie
%A Emmerling, Vincent
%A Kopp, Stefan
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F kowalski-etal-2026-exploring
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.34/
%P 486-496

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Tree-Based Interview Topic Guidance for Collecting Target Information under Adaptive Topic continuation/switching
%A Nagasawa, Fuminori
%A Hashimoto, Ekai
%A Shiramatsu, Shun
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F nagasawa-etal-2026-tree
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.35/
%P 497-515

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T COCORELI: Enforcing Execution Preconditions for Reliable Collaborative Instruction Following
%A Bhar, Swarnadeep
%A Naim, Omar
%A Metheniti, Eleni
%A Cabannes, Loïc
%A Navarri, Bastien
%A Kamaladdini Ezzabady, Morteza
%A Asher, Nicholas
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F bhar-etal-2026-cocoreli
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.36/
%P 516-535

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T StagePilot: Stage-Level Planning for Long-Horizon Dialogue Simulation in Cybergrooming
%A An, Heajun
%A Zhang, Qi
%A Liu, Minqian
%A Zhang, Xinyi
%A Lee, Sang Won
%A Huang, Lifu
%A Wisniewski, Pamela
%A Cho, Jin-Hee
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F an-etal-2026-stagepilot
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.37/
%P 536-552

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Generation of Dialogue Breakdown Repair Utterance in Non-task Oriented Conversation
%A Tsubokura, Kazuya
%A Iribe, Yurie
%A Kitaoka, Norihide
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F tsubokura-etal-2026-generation
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.38/
%P 553-558

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T From Sound to Symptom: Real-Time Respiratory Signal Understanding for Conversational Healthcare Agents
%A Laud, Tanmay
%A Mahal, Herprit
%A Mukherjee, Subhabrata
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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%P 559-564

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Interpretable Satisfaction Modeling in Sales Dialogues: A Metrics-based Approach Validated Against Text-based Model
%A Krawczyk, Natalia
%A Kasicka, Alicja
%A Przybył, Bartosz
%A Gromada, Justyna
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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%P 565-584

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Adaptive Emotion Management in Human-robot Dialogue using Online Group Relative Policy Optimization
%A Manaseryan, Anna
%A Kennington, Casey
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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%P 585-596

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T PersonaKit (PK): A Plug-and-Play Platform for User Testing Diverse Roles in Simulated Full-Duplex Dialogue
%A Jeon, Hyunbae
%A Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.42/
%P 597-601

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Question Types for Knowledge Acquisition in LLM-based Dialogue Systems: Experiments with Simulated and Human Users
%A Komatani, Kazunori
%A Takeda, Ryu
%A Nakano, Mikio
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F komatani-etal-2026-question
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.43/
%P 602-613

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T TRACER: Early Failure Detection for Task-Oriented Dialogue
%A Nourbakhsh, Erfan
%A Slavin, Rocky
%A Yang, Ke
%A Rios, Anthony
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.44/
%P 614-635

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Relex: A Common Denominator for Connectives and Discourse Relations in French
%A Sow, Fatou
%A Toussaint, Yannick
%A Constant, Mathieu
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.45/
%P 636-648

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T MemeBuddy: Dialog-Style Audio Representations for Engaging Non-Visual Meme Experiences
%A Bhansali, Chirag
%A Ashok, Vikas
%A Lee, Hae-Na
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.46/
%P 649-667

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T On the Structure of Address in Multi-Party Dialogue: From Discrete Labels to Continuous Levels
%A Mori, Taiga
%A Inoue, Koji
%A Lala, Divesh
%A Kawahara, Tatsuya
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.47/
%P 668-679

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Bridging Talk and Thought: Understanding Dialogue Dynamics Across Collaborative Problem-Solving Contexts
%A Liu, Zhengyuan
%A Yin, Stella
%A Kan, Min-Yen
%A Chen, Nancy
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.48/
%P 680-693

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Seeing Is Not Sharing: Some Vision-Language Models Overestimate Common Ground in Asymmetric Dialogue
%A Li, Nan
%A Gatt, Albert
%A Poesio, Massimo
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F li-etal-2026-seeing-sharing
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.49/
%P 694-710

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Evaluation of Paralinguistic-Aware Spoken Dialogue Systems using Next-Utterance Classification
%A Miyazawa, Kouki
%A Sato, Yoshinao
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F miyazawa-sato-2026-evaluation
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.50/
%P 711-719

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Better Scores, Worse Grounding: Hidden Regressions after Fine-Tuning in Dialogue Fact Verification
%A Park, Hyunkyung
%A Zubiaga, Arkaitz
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.51/
%P 720-737

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T LLMs and their Limited Theory of Mind: Evaluating Mental State Annotations in Situated Dialogue
%A Kowalyshyn, Katharine
%A Scheutz, Matthias
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.52/
%P 738-756

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Enhancing Operational Safety via Agentic Dialogue Hazard Identification Analysis
%A Das, Sanjay
%A Elgedawy, Ran
%A Seefried, Ethan
%A Burchfield, Ryan
%A Ghosal, Tirthankar
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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%P 757-772

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Building Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems via Instruction Guidance without Annotated Data
%A Gao, Henry
%A Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.54/
%P 773-785

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Bounded Conversational Memory with Hybrid Retrieval and Evidence Highlighting for Multi-Session Dialogue Systems
%A Mudunuri, Manasa
%A Guntupalli, Chandra Kiran
%A Kubek, Mario Michael
%A Pokharel, Shiraj
%A Patterson, Murray
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.55/
%P 786-794

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Too Polite to Disagree: Understanding Sycophancy Propagation in Multi-Agent Systems
%A Kasprova, Vira
%A Parulekar, Amruta
%A AlRabah, Abdulrahman
%A Agaram, Krishna
%A Garg, Ritwik
%A Jha, Sagar
%A Bozdag, Nimet Beyza
%A Hakkani-Tur, Dilek
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.56/
%P 795-814

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T When the Database Fails: Prompting LLM Dialogue Agents for Safe Recovery in Task-Oriented Dialogue
%A Alijanpour Shalmani, Mohammad
%A Rezvani Boroujeni, Alale
%A Yuan, Jiann S.
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.57/
%P 815-820

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T MTDiag: A Multi-Turn Diagnostic Dataset Towards Clinically Meaningful LLM Evaluation
%A Chouayfati, Pia
%A Fichtl, Alexander M.
%A Anschütz, Miriam
%A Doumat, George
%A Groh, Georg
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.58/
%P 821-840

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T PERSONAJUDGE: Simulating Individual Human Preference Judgments with Evaluator-Specific Demonstration Data
%A He, Zeyu
%A Qi, Xuan
%A Chidambaram, Subramanian
%A Xu, Zhichao
%A Arannil, Vinayak
%A Chilton, Lydia
%A Williams, Alex C.
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F he-etal-2026-personajudge
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.59/
%P 841-862

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Fractional Decay KV-Cache: Ownership-Aware Memory Management for Improved Inference Relevancy in Dialog Systems
%A Ganguly, Sukanta
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F ganguly-2026-fractional
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.60/
%P 863-870

%0 Conference Proceedings
%T A Reinforcement Learning-Based Facilitator for Simulated Group Motivational Interviewing
%A Abulimiti, Alafate
%A Maraev, Vladislav
%A Helme-Guizon, Agnès
%A Pelachaud, Catherine
%Y Choi, Jinho D.
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%Y Funakoshi, Kotaro
%Y Emami, Ali
%S Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
%D 2026
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Atlanta, Georgia, USA
%F abulimiti-etal-2026-reinforcement
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.61/
%P 871-890