List of Accepted Papers

TitleAuthors
“Keep up the good work!”: Using Constraints in Zero Shot Prompting to Generate Supportive Teacher ResponsesE. Margaret Perkoff, Angela Maria Ramirez, Sean von Bayern, Marilyn A. Walker and James Martin
HelloThere: A Corpus of Annotated Dialogues and Knowledge Bases of Time-Offset AvatarsAlberto Chierici and Nizar Habash
It Couldn’t Help But Overhear: On the Limits of Modelling Meta-Communicative Grounding Acts with Supervised LearningBrielen Madureira and David Schlangen
Data Augmentation Integrating Dialogue Flow and Style to Adapt Spoken Dialogue Systems to Low-Resource User GroupsZhiyang Qi and Michimasa Inaba
StyEmp: Stylizing Empathetic Response Generation via Multi-Grained Prefix Encoder and Personality ReinforcementYahui Fu, Chenhui Chu and Tatsuya Kawahara
Multi-Criteria Evaluation Framework of Selecting Response-worthy Chats in Live StreamingZhantao Lai and Kosuke Sato
Generating Unexpected yet Relevant User Dialog ActsLucie Galland, Catherine Pelachaud and Florian Pecune
Training LLMs to Recognize Hedges in Dialogues about Roadrunner CartoonsAmie Paige, Adil Soubki, John Murzaku, Owen Rambow and Susan E. Brennan
Dialogue Discourse Parsing as Generation: a Sequence-to-Sequence LLM-based ApproachChuyuan Li, Yuwei Yin and Giuseppe Carenini
On the Controllability of Large Language Models for Dialogue InteractionNicolas Wagner and Stefan Ultes
Conversational Feedback in Scripted versus Spontaneous Dialogues: A Comparative AnalysisIldiko Pilan, Laurent Prévot, Hendrik Buschmeier and Pierre Lison
Using Respiration for Enhancing Human-Robot DialogueTakao Obi and Kotaro Funakoshi
Examining Gender and Power on Wikipedia Through Face and PolitenessAdil Soubki, Shyne E. Choi and Owen Rambow
The Gap in the Strategy of Recovering Task Failure between GPT-4V and Humans in a Visual DialogueRyosuke Oshima, Seitaro Shinagawa and Shigeo Morishima
Divide and Conquer: Rethinking Ambiguous Candidate Identification in Multimodal Dialogues with Pseudo-LabellingBhathiya Supun Hemanthage, Christian Dondrup, Hakan Bilen and Oliver Lemon
Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Act Transfer using Prompt-Based Learning for Controllable Open-Domain NLGAlain Vazquez Risco, Angela Maria Ramirez, Neha Pullabhotla, Nan Qiang, Haoran Zhang, Marilyn Walker and Maria Ines Torres
Interactive Dialogue Interface for Personalized News Article ComprehensionTomoya Higuchi and Michimasa Inaba
PersonaCLR: Evaluation Model for Persona Characteristics via Contrastive Learning of Linguistic Style RepresentationMichimasa Inaba
Exploring the Use of Natural Language Descriptions of Intents for Large Language Models in Zero-shot Intent ClassificationTaesuk Hong, Youbin Ahn, Dongkyu Lee, Joongbo Shin, Seungpil Won, Janghoon Han, Stanley Jungkyu Choi and Jungyun Seo
Self-Emotion Blended Dialogue Generation in Social Simulation AgentsQiang Zhang, Jason Naradowsky and Yusuke Miyao
InteLLA: Intelligent Language Learning Assistant for Assessing Language Proficiency Through Interviews and RoleplaysMao Saeki, Hiroaki Takatsu, Fuma Kurata, Shungo Suzuki, Masaki Eguchi, Ryuki Matsuura, Kotaro Takizawa, Sadahiro Yoshikawa and Yoichi Matsuyama
Voice and choice: Investigating the role of prosodic variation in request compliance and perceived politeness using conversational TTSEva Szekely, Jeff Higginbotham and Francesco Possemato
Enhancing Dialogue Speech Recognition with Robust Contextual Awareness via Noise Representation LearningWonjun Lee, San Kim and Gary Geunbae Lee
DiagESC: Dialogue Synthesis for Integrating Depression Diagnosis into Emotional Support ConversationSeungyeon Seo and Gary Geunbae Lee
Elaborative Simplification for German-Language TextsFreya Hewett, Hadi Asghari and Manfred Stede
DialBB: A Dialogue System Development Framework as an Educational MaterialMikio Nakano and Kazunori Komatani
A Dialogue Game for Eliciting Balanced CollaborationIsidora Jeknic, David Schlangen and Alexander Koller
Improving Speech Recognition with Jargon InjectionMinh-Tien Nguyen, Phuoc-Dat Nguyen, Tuan-Hai Luu, Xuan-Quang Nguyen, Tung-Duong Nguyen, and Jeff Yang
Incremental Learning for Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Systems in Industrial ScenariosIzaskun Fernandez, Cristina Aceta, Cristina Fernandez, Maria Ines Torres, Aitor Etxalar, Ariane Mendez, Maia Agirre, Manuel Torralbo, Arantza Del Pozo, Joseba Agirre, Egoitz Artetxe and Iker Altuna
Optimizing Code-Switching in Conversational Tutoring Systems: A Pedagogical Framework and EvaluationZhengyuan Liu, Stella Xin Yin and Nancy Chen
ECoh: Turn-level Coherence Evaluation for Multilingual DialoguesJohn Mendonca, Isabel Trancoso and Alon Lavie
An Investigation Into Explainable Audio Hate Speech DetectionJinmyeong An, Wonjun Lee, Yejin Jeon, Jungseul Ok, Yunsu Kim and Gary Geunbae Lee
Anticipating Follow-Up Questions in Exploratory Information Search Using LLMs with Knowledge Graphs and WikipediaGraham Wilcock
User Review Writing via Interview with Dialogue SystemsYoshiki Tanaka and Michimasa Inaba
Local Topology Measures of Contextual Language Model Latent Spaces With Applications to Dialogue Term ExtractionBenjamin Matthias Ruppik, Michael Heck, Carel van Niekerk, Renato Vukovic, Hsien-chin Lin, Shutong Feng, Marcus Zibrowius and Milica Gasic
Rhetorical Strategies in the UN Security Council: Rhetorical Structure Theory and ConflictsKarolina Zaczynska and Manfred Stede
Mhm… Yeah? Okay! Evaluating the Naturalness and Communicative Function of Synthesized Feedback Responses in Spoken DialogueCarol Figueroa, Marcel de Korte, Magalie Ochs and Gabriel Skantze
Generalizing across Languages and Domains for Discourse Relation ClassificationPeter Bourgonje and Vera Demberg
Enhancing Model Transparency: A Dialogue System Approach to XAI with Domain KnowledgeIsabel Feustel, Niklas Rach, Wolfgang Minker and Stefan Ultes
Affect Recognition in Conversations Using Large Language ModelsShutong Feng, Guangzhi Sun, Nurul Lubis, Wen Wu, Chao Zhang and Milica Gasic
Sentiment-Aware Dialogue Flow Discovery for Interpreting Communication TrendsPatrícia Sofia Pereira Ferreira, Isabel Carvalho, Ana Alves, Catarina Silva and Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira
Infusing Emotions into Task-oriented Dialogue Systems: Understanding, Management, and GenerationShutong Feng, Hsien-chin Lin, Christian Geishauser, Nurul Lubis, Carel van Niekerk, Michael Heck, Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Renato Vukovic and Milica Gasic
An Open Intent Discovery Evaluation FrameworkGrant Anderson, Emma Hart, Dimitra Gkatzia and Ian Beaver
Analyzing and Enhancing Clarification Strategies for Ambiguous References in Consumer Service InteractionsChangling Li, Yujian Gan, Zhenrong Yang, Youyang Chen, Xinxuan Qiu, Yanni Lin, Matthew Purver and Massimo Poesio
BoK: Introducing Bag-of-Keywords Loss for Interpretable Dialogue Response GenerationSuvodip Dey and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar
Cross-lingual Transfer and Multilingual Learning for Detecting Harmful Behaviour in African Under-Resourced Language DialogueTunde Oluwaseyi Ajayi, Mihael Arcan and Paul Buitelaar
A Few-shot Approach to Task-oriented Dialogue Enhanced with ChitchatArmand Stricker and Patrick Paroubek
Coherence-Based Dialogue Discourse Structure Extraction using Open-Source Large Language ModelsGaetano Cimino, Chuyuan Li, Giuseppe Carenini and Vincenzo Deufemia
Toximatics: Towards Understanding Toxicity in Real-Life Social SituationsMayukh Das and Wolf-Tilo Balke
Adaptive Open-Set Active Learning with Distance-Based Out-of-Distribution Detection for Robust Task-Oriented Dialog SystemSai Keerthana Goruganthu, Roland R. Oruche and Prasad Calyam
Bridging Information Gaps in Dialogues With Grounded Exchanges Using Knowledge GraphsPhillip Schneider, Nektarios Machner, Kristiina Jokinen and Florian Matthes
Exploration of Human Repair Initiation in Task-oriented Dialogue: A Linguistic Feature-based ApproachAnh Ngo, Chloé Clavel, Catherine Pelachaud, Nicolas Rollet and Dirk Heylen
Comparing Pre-Trained Embeddings and Domain-Independent Features for Regression-Based Evaluation of Task-Oriented Dialogue SystemsKallirroi Georgila
Question Type Prediction in Natural DebateZlata Kikteva, Alexander Trautsch, Steffen Herbold and Annette Hautli-Janisz
Transforming Slot Schema Induction with Generative Dialogue State InferenceJames D. Finch, Boxin Zhao and Jinho D. Choi
MemeIntent: An Intent Generation Benchmark for Memes Leveraging Background KnowledgeJeongsik Park, Khoi PN Nguyen, Terrence Li, Suyesh Shrestha, Megan Kim Vu, Jerry Yining Wang and Vincent Ng
Automating PTSD Diagnostics in Clinical Interviews: Leveraging Large Language Models for Trauma AssessmentsSichang Tu, Abigail Powers, Natalie Merrill, Negar Fani, Sierra Carter, Stephen Doogan and Jinho D. Choi
A Multimodal Dialogue System to Lead Consensus Building with Emotion-DisplayingShinnosuke Nozue, Yuto Nakano, Shoji Moriya, Tomoki Ariyama, Kazuma Kokuta, Suchun Xie, Kai Sato, Shusaku Sone, Ryohei Kamei, Reina Akama, Yuichiroh Matsubayashi and Keisuke Sakaguchi
ReALM: Reference Resolution As Language ModelingJoel Ruben Antony Moniz, Soundarya Krishnan, Melis Ozyildirim, Prathamesh Saraf, Halim Cagri Ates, Yuan Zhang and Hong Yu
Dialog Flow Induction for Constrainable LLM-Based ChatbotsStuti Agrawal, Pranav Pillai, Nishi Uppuluri, Revanth Gangi Reddy, Sha Li, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tur and Heng Ji
Curriculum-Driven Edubot: A Framework for Developing Language Learning Chatbots Through Synthesizing Conversational DataYu Li, Shang Qu, Jili Shen, Shangchao Min and Zhou Yu
Estimating the Emotional Valence of Interlocutors Using Heterogeneous Sensors in Human-Human DialogueJingjing Jiang, Ao Guo and Ryuichiro Higashinaka
Dialogue Ontology Relation Extraction via Constrained Chain-of-Thought DecodingRenato Vukovic, David Arps, Carel van Niekerk, Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Hsien-chin Lin, Michael Heck and Milica Gasic
MindDial: Enhancing Conversational Agents with Theory-of-Mind for Common Ground Alignment and NegotiationShuwen Qiu, Mingdian Liu, Hengli Li, Song-Chun Zhu and Zilong Zheng
Going beyond Imagination! Enhancing Multi-modal Dialogue Agents with Synthetic Visual DescriptionsHaolan Zhan, Sameen Maruf, Ingrid Zukerman and Reza Haf