Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor 2026-08 Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA text conference publication sigdial-2026-1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.0/ DialogueSidon: Recovering Full-Duplex Dialogue Tracks from In-the-Wild Dialogue Audio Wataru Nakata author Yuki Saito author Kazuki Yamauchi author Emiru Tsunoo author Hiroshi Saruwatari author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication nakata-etal-2026-dialoguesidon https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.1/ 2026-08 1 12 Rethinking Binary Evaluation of Turn-Taking under Inherent Ambiguity Yunosuke Kubo author Kenta Yamamoto author Ryu Takeda author Kazunori Komatani author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication kubo-etal-2026-rethinking https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.2/ 2026-08 13 24 Tinker Tales: A Tangible Dialogue System for Child–AI Co-Creative Storytelling Nayoung Choi author Jiseung Hong author Peace Cyebukayire author Ikseon Choi author Jinho D Choi author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication choi-etal-2026-tinker https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.3/ 2026-08 25 50 Suppressing Unnecessary Clarification Requests for Unknown Word Acquisition in Spoken Dialogue Using Syllable-Based ASR Confidence Takumi Furuta author Ryu Takeda author Kazunori Komatani author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication furuta-etal-2026-suppressing https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.4/ 2026-08 51 61 Towards Conversational Patient History-Taking: Voice-Interactive AI Agents for Pre-visit Dementia Diagnostic Interviews Andrew G Breithaupt author Nayoung Choi author James D Finch author Jeanne M Powell author Arin L Nelson author Oz A Alon author Howard J Rosen author Jinho D Choi author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication breithaupt-etal-2026-towards https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.5/ 2026-08 62 78 ClarVis: A Dataset of Clarification Requests and Grounding in Collaborative Data Visualization Dialogues Abari Bhattacharya author Barbara Di Eugenio author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication bhattacharya-di-eugenio-2026-clarvis https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.6/ 2026-08 79 90 Accuracy and Satisfaction in Multi-Turn LLM Dialogues for NFR Assessment Ali Pourghasemi Fatideh author Wilder Baldwin author Maria Dhakal author Collin McMillan author Sepideh Ghanavati author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication pourghasemi-fatideh-etal-2026-accuracy https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.7/ 2026-08 91 106 Breaking the Script: Do Role-Playing Agents Maintain Goal Alignment under Distraction? Dongxu Lu author Albert Gatt author Johan Jeuring author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication lu-etal-2026-breaking https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.8/ 2026-08 107 123 ArgAssist: LLM-based Argument Synthesis for Insurance Disputes Anubhav Sinha author Nitin Ramrakhiyani author Sachin Pawar author Isha Narang author Manoj Apte author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication sinha-etal-2026-argassist https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.9/ 2026-08 124 138 Detecting Experiential Intertextuality Across Migration Routes: Beyond Surface Similarity in French Narratives Sakayo Toadoum Sari author Nelly Robin author Michelle Auzanneau author Lakhdar Sais author Véronique Petit author Marie Veniard author Said Jabbour author Fabien Delorme author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication toadoum-sari-etal-2026-detecting https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.10/ 2026-08 139 150 Conversational Grounding in Large Language Models: Evaluation Methods, Challenges and Future Directions Michelle Elizabeth author Gwénolé Lecorvé author Lina M Rojas Barahona author Magalie Ochs author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication elizabeth-etal-2026-conversational https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.11/ 2026-08 151 163 Sensor-Augmented Voice Activity Projection for Enhancing Turn-Taking Prediction Satoki Hamanaka author Yasue Kishino author Yuiko Tsunomori author Shin Mizutani author Yuya Chiba author Tadashi Okoshi author Jin Nakazawa author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication hamanaka-etal-2026-sensor https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.12/ 2026-08 164 169 A Dialogue System for Second Language Learning with Dynamic Adaptation to In-Dialogue Difficulty Changes Taku Morioka author Junya Takayama author Tomoyuki Kajiwara author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication morioka-etal-2026-dialogue https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.13/ 2026-08 170 187 Ping-Ponder: Concurrent Dual-Agent Spoken Dialogue via Shared Belief State Akiko Masaki-Kato author Gulzar Haris author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication masaki-kato-haris-2026-ping https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.14/ 2026-08 188 204 Rethinking Role-Playing Evaluation: Anonymous Benchmarking and A Systematic Study of Personality Effects Ji-Lun Peng author Yun-Nung Chen author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication peng-chen-2026-rethinking https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.15/ 2026-08 205 218 I Understand How You Feel: Enhancing Deeper Emotional Support Through Multilingual Emotional Validation in Dialogue System Zi Haur Pang author Yahui Fu author Koji Inoue author Tatsuya Kawahara author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication pang-etal-2026-understand https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.16/ 2026-08 219 236 For What Reason? Interpreting Models’ Encoding of Causation and Antithesis Abhidip Bhattacharyya author Shira Wein author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication bhattacharyya-wein-2026-reason https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.17/ 2026-08 237 253 CrossOracle: An Agentic Framework for Real-Time Expert Personas with Parallelized Acoustic Synthesis Yash Raj Singh author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication singh-2026-crossoracle https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.18/ 2026-08 254 257 From Felt Sense to Words: Construction and Analysis of a Focusing Dialogue Dataset for Verbalization Yuiko Tsunomori author Yuya Chiba author Yosuke Koshikawa author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication tsunomori-etal-2026-felt https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.19/ 2026-08 258 270 Retrieving Responses Useful as References in Counseling via LLM-Generated Structurally Analogous Dialogues Yu Nakagawa author Nozomu Ikeda author Kotaro Funakoshi author Manabu Okumura author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication nakagawa-etal-2026-retrieving https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.20/ 2026-08 271 292 Embodied Multi-Agent Coordination by Aligning World Models Through Dialogue Vardhan Dongre author Dilek Hakkani-Tur author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication dongre-hakkani-tur-2026-embodied https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.21/ 2026-08 293 306 SagaQA: A Multi-hop Reasoning Benchmark for Long-form Narrative Understanding in TV Series Galann Pennec author Zhengyuan Liu author Nicholas Asher author Philippe Muller author Nancy Chen author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication pennec-etal-2026-sagaqa https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.22/ 2026-08 307 326 How Ethos and Pathos Appeals Resonate in Reader Interpretations of Social Media Messages Ewelina Gajewska author Katarzyna Budzynska author Jarosław A Chudziak author Liesbeth Allein author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication gajewska-etal-2026-ethos https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.23/ 2026-08 327 341 GBC: Gradient-Based Connections for Optimizing Multi-Agent Systems Xiaocheng Yang author Abdulrahman Alrabah author Dilek Hakkani-Tür author Gokhan Tur author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication yang-etal-2026-gbc https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.24/ 2026-08 342 356 A French OSCE Dialogue Dataset and Controllable Virtual Patient System for Clinical Training Doria Bonzi author Tom Bourgeade author Fabrice Lefèvre author Irina Illina author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication bonzi-etal-2026-french https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.25/ 2026-08 357 374 Do LLMs Use Relational Structure in KG-Grounded Dialogue? Evidence from Entity and Relation Perturbation Dominic Okonkwo author Ismailcem Budak Arpinar author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication okonkwo-arpinar-2026-llms https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.26/ 2026-08 375 384 DiPS: Dialogue Policy Selection for High-Stakes Persuasion Agents Tianyi Zhang author Mousumi Das author Abrar Anwar author Jesse Thomason author David Traum author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication zhang-etal-2026-dips https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.27/ 2026-08 385 402 From Propositional to Perceptual Asymmetry: Extending FPO to Asymmetric Partial Information Dialogue Yifan Zhu author Kyeongmin Rim author James Pustejovsky author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication zhu-etal-2026-propositional https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.28/ 2026-08 403 413 Disentangling Annotator Skill from Verifier Strictness in Cross-Verified Dialogue Annotation Zihao Tao author John A Prado author Ignazio Steven LaManna author Ryan Puterbaugh author Mim Datta author Julia Hirschberg author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, 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Enhancing Operational Safety via Agentic Dialogue Hazard Identification Analysis Sanjay Das author Ran Elgedawy author Ethan Seefried author Ryan Burchfield author Tirthankar Ghosal author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication das-etal-2026-enhancing https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.53/ 2026-08 757 772 Building Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems via Instruction Guidance without Annotated Data Henry Gao author Jinho D Choi author 2026-08 text Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Jinho D Choi editor Yun-Nung Chen editor Kotaro Funakoshi editor Ali Emami editor Association for Computational Linguistics Atlanta, Georgia, USA conference publication gao-choi-2026-building 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