--- title: "International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology" description: "International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology 2026 — accepted papers: 2 papers in the Elamur Research library (Trento…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/iwsds/2026/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/iwsds/2026/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/) / [International Workshop on Spoken…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/iwsds/) / 2026 # International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology 2026 — accepted papers International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology 2026 is the 2026 edition of the International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology, held in Trento, Italy, February 2026 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 42 papers of it; our library holds 2 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions. 📍 Trento, [Italy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/italy/) · 🗓 February 2026 [**42** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**2** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/iwsds/2026/#works) · [**0** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/iwsds/2026/#works) ## All accepted papers (42) The most cited first; 2 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original. 1. **[A Dialogue Agent to Let Users Experience and Gently Enhance the “Gyaru-Mind” ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.iwsds-1.14/)**Momoka Ikegami, Takuya Kato, Saizo Aoyagi et al. 2. **[Adaptive Multimodal Sentiment Analysis with Stream-Based Active Learning for Spoken Dialogue Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.iwsds-1.33/)**Atsuto Ajichi, Takato Hayashi, Kazunori Komatani et al. 3. **[Adding Determinism to a Dialogue Agent for a Robotic Environment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.iwsds-1.26/)**Oihana Garcia Anakabe, Riccardo Cocola, Cristina Aceta 4. **[Analysing Next Speaker Prediction in Multi-Party Conversation Using Multimodal Large Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.iwsds-1.8/)**Taiga Mori, Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala et al. 5. **[Analysis of Child-Caregiver Interactions for Developing a Caregiver Spoken Dialogue System](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yamashita-2026-analysis-child-caregiver-interactions-developing/)**Sanae Yamashita, Shota Mochizuki, Yuko Kuma et al.*our summary* 6. **[Analyzing Utterance Selection for Unnoticeable Topic Induction in Target-Guided Conversation Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.iwsds-1.12/)**Kai Yoshida, Koichiro Yoshino 7. **[Automatic Evaluation of Open-Domain Real Conversations: Combining Encoder-Based, Dialogue-Based Features and Large Language Models Ratings ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.iwsds-1.5/)**Cristina Conforto-López, Marcos Estecha-Garitagoitia, Mario Rodriguez-Cantelar et al. 8. **[Benchmarking Multilingual Temporal Reasoning in LLMs: The Temporal Reasoning Dataset ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.iwsds-1.19/)**Vittorio Mazzia, Sandro Pollastrini, Davide Bernardi et al. 9. **[Can Small-Scale LLMs Balance Content Accuracy and Speaker Faithfulness in Noisy French Dialogue Summarization? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.iwsds-1.17/)**Rim Abrougui, Guillaume Lechien, Elisabeth Savatier et al. 10. **[Can code-switching improve the user experience with a dialogue system app for recording endangered languages? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.iwsds-1.37/)**Jacqueline Brixey, David Traum 11. **[CoVaPh: A Vision-Language Multi-Agent Dialogue System for Tool-Augmented Pharmacogenetic Reasoning and Personalized Guidance ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.iwsds-1.42/)**Shang-Chun Luke Lu, Hsin Yang, Hui-Hsin Xue et al. 12. **[Context-Aware Language Understanding in Human-Robot Dialogue with LLMs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.iwsds-1.27/)**Svetlana Stoyanchev, Youmna Farag, Simon Keizer et al. 13. **[Conversational AI for Virtual Standardized Patients using a Speech-to-Speech LLM ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.iwsds-1.16/)**Andrew Emerson, Keelan Evanini, Su Somay et al. 14. **[Detecting Mental Manipulation in Speech via Synthetic Multi-Speaker Dialogue ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.iwsds-1.41/)**Run Chen, Wen Liang, Ziwei Gong et al. 15. **[Development of an Evaluation System for a Fan-Engagement Chat Application Using LLM-as-a-Judge ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.iwsds-1.13/)**Yuki Fujita, Yasunobu Sasaki, Ryota Arashi et al. 16. **[Do audio and visual tokenizers capture backchannels? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.iwsds-1.6/)**Benoit Favre, Auriane Boudin 17. **[Effects of Dialogue Corpora Properties on Fine-Tuning a Moshi-Based Spoken Dialogue Model ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.iwsds-1.10/)**Yuto Abe, Mao Saeki, Atsumoto Ohashi et al. 18. **[Estimating Relationships between Participants in Multi-Party Chat Corpus ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.iwsds-1.38/)**Akane Fukushige, Koji Inoue, Keiko Ochi et al. 19. **[Evaluating LLM Style Transfer Through Readability-Based Age Assessments](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/maro-2026-evaluating-llm-style-transfer-through/)**Maria Di Maro, Antonio Origlia, Leonilda Bilo et al.*our summary* 20. **[Exploring Emotional Nuances in Spoken Dialogue: Dataset Construction and Prediction of Emotional Dialogue Breakdown ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.iwsds-1.9/)**Hyuga Nakaguro, Koichiro Yoshino 21. **[FlowSwitch: A State-Aware Framework for Workflow Transitions in Adaptive Dialogue Agents ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.iwsds-1.2/)**Wen Yu Chang, Luning Qiu, Yi-Hung Liu et al. 22. **[From Fact to Judgment: Investigating the Impact of Task Framing on LLM Conviction in Dialogue Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.iwsds-1.21/)**Parisa Rabbani, Nimet Beyza Bozdag, Dilek Hakkani-Tur 23. **[Incorporating Respect into LLM-Based Academic Feedback: A BI-R Framework for Instructing Students after Q&A Sessions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.iwsds-1.29/)**Mayuko Aiba, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu 24. **[Learning Vision-Language Alignment in Unified LLMs with 24 Text Tokens per Image ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.iwsds-1.28/)**Nicola Irmiger, Yixuan Xu, Raphael Kreft et al. 25. **[MAC: A Multi-Agent Framework for Interactive User Clarification in Multi-turn Conversations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.iwsds-1.1/)**Emre Can Acikgoz, Jinoh Oh, Joo Hyuk Jeon et al. [See all 42 papers in International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology 2026 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/iwsds/2026/papers/) ## Papers with our summary in our library (2) The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's). 1. **[Evaluating LLM Style Transfer Through Readability-Based Age Assessments](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/maro-2026-evaluating-llm-style-transfer-through/) [International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/iwsds/)**Maria Di Maro, Antonio Origlia, Leonilda Bilo, et al.*2026* 2. **[Analysis of Child-Caregiver Interactions for Developing a Caregiver Spoken Dialogue System](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yamashita-2026-analysis-child-caregiver-interactions-developing/) [International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/iwsds/)**Sanae Yamashita, Shota Mochizuki, Yuko Kuma, et al.*2026* ## Top topics Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. [Dialogue systems (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Fields [Computer Science (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) ## Top authors Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works. [🧑‍🔬**Maria Di Maro**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maria-di-maro/) Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library. - [↑ back to International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/iwsds/)