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# SIGDIAL 2023 — accepted papers

SIGDIAL 2023 is the 2023 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), held in Prague, Czechia, September 2023 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 60 papers of it; our library holds 3 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Prague, [Czechia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/czechia/) · 🗓 September 2023

[**60** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**3** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2023/#works) · [**14** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2023/#works)

## Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Are Large Language Models All You Need for Task-Oriented Dialogue? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.21/)**Vojtěch Hudeček, Ondrej Dusek*42 citations*
2. **[FurChat: An Embodied Conversational Agent using LLMs, Combining Open and Closed-Domain Dialogue with Facial Expressions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.55/)**Neeraj Cherakara, Finny Varghese, Sheena Shabana et al.*31 citations*
3. **[ChatGPT vs. Crowdsourcing vs. Experts: Annotating Open-Domain Conversations with Speech Functions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.23/)**Lidiia Ostyakova, Veronika Smilga, Kseniia Petukhova et al.*19 citations*
4. **[Multi-party Goal Tracking with LLMs: Comparing Pre-training, Fine-tuning, and Prompt Engineering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.22/)**Angus Addlesee, Weronika Sieińska, Nancie Gunson et al.*16 citations*
5. **[An Open-Domain Avatar Chatbot by Exploiting a Large Language Model ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.40/)**Takato Yamazaki, Tomoya Mizumoto, Katsumasa Yoshikawa et al.*12 citations*
6. **[The Open-domain Paradox for Chatbots: Common Ground as the Basis for Human-like Dialogue ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.57/)**Gabriel Skantze, A. Seza Doğruöz*11 citations*
7. **[Leveraging Large Language Models for Automated Dialogue Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.20/)**Sarah E. Finch, Ellie S. Paek, Jinho D. Choi*10 citations*
8. **[Analyzing Differences in Subjective Annotations by Participants and Third-party Annotators in Multimodal Dialogue Corpus ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.9/)**Kazunori Komatani, Ryu Takeda, Shogo Okada*9 citations*
9. **[Approximating Online Human Evaluation of Social Chatbots with Prompting ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.25/)**Ekaterina Svikhnushina, Pearl Pu*9 citations*
10. **[CONVERSER: Few-shot Conversational Dense Retrieval with Synthetic Data Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.34/)**Chao-Wei Huang, Chen-Yu Hsu, Tsu-Yuan Hsu et al.*7 citations*

## All accepted papers (60)

The most cited first; 3 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Are Large Language Models All You Need for Task-Oriented Dialogue? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.21/)**Vojtěch Hudeček, Ondrej Dusek*42 citations*
2. **[FurChat: An Embodied Conversational Agent using LLMs, Combining Open and Closed-Domain Dialogue with Facial Expressions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.55/)**Neeraj Cherakara, Finny Varghese, Sheena Shabana et al.*31 citations*
3. **[ChatGPT vs. Crowdsourcing vs. Experts: Annotating Open-Domain Conversations with Speech Functions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.23/)**Lidiia Ostyakova, Veronika Smilga, Kseniia Petukhova et al.*19 citations*
4. **[Multi-party Goal Tracking with LLMs: Comparing Pre-training, Fine-tuning, and Prompt Engineering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.22/)**Angus Addlesee, Weronika Sieińska, Nancie Gunson et al.*16 citations*
5. **[An Open-Domain Avatar Chatbot by Exploiting a Large Language Model ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.40/)**Takato Yamazaki, Tomoya Mizumoto, Katsumasa Yoshikawa et al.*12 citations*
6. **[The Open-domain Paradox for Chatbots: Common Ground as the Basis for Human-like Dialogue ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.57/)**Gabriel Skantze, A. Seza Doğruöz*11 citations*
7. **[Leveraging Large Language Models for Automated Dialogue Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.20/)**Sarah E. Finch, Ellie S. Paek, Jinho D. Choi*10 citations*
8. **[Analyzing Differences in Subjective Annotations by Participants and Third-party Annotators in Multimodal Dialogue Corpus ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.9/)**Kazunori Komatani, Ryu Takeda, Shogo Okada*9 citations*
9. **[Approximating Online Human Evaluation of Social Chatbots with Prompting ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.25/)**Ekaterina Svikhnushina, Pearl Pu*9 citations*
10. **[CONVERSER: Few-shot Conversational Dense Retrieval with Synthetic Data Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.34/)**Chao-Wei Huang, Chen-Yu Hsu, Tsu-Yuan Hsu et al.*7 citations*
11. **[Empathetic Response Generation for Distress Support ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.59/)**Anuradha Welivita, Chun-Hung Yeh, Pearl Pu*6 citations*
12. **[OpinionConv: Conversational Product Search with Grounded Opinions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.6/)**Vahid Sadiri Javadi, Martin Potthast, Lucie Flek*6 citations*
13. **[Reasoning before Responding: Integrating Commonsense-based Causality Explanation for Empathetic Response Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.60/)**Yahui Fu, Koji Inoue, Chenhui Chu et al.*6 citations*
14. **[“What do others think?”: Task-Oriented Conversational Modeling with Subjective Knowledge ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.28/)**Chao Zhao, Spandana Gella, Seokhwan Kim et al.*5 citations*
15. **[Controllable Generation of Dialogue Acts for Dialogue Systems via Few-Shot Response Generation and Ranking ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.32/)**Angela Ramirez, Kartik Agarwal, Juraj Juraska et al.*4 citations*
16. **[The timing bottleneck: Why timing and overlap are mission-critical for conversational user interfaces, speech recognition and dialogue systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.45/)**Andreas Liesenfeld, Alianda Lopez, Mark Dingemanse*4 citations*
17. **[DiactTOD: Learning Generalizable Latent Dialogue Acts for Controllable Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.24/)**Qingyang Wu, James Gung, Raphael Shu et al.*3 citations*
18. **[Dialogue Response Generation Using Completion of Omitted Predicate Arguments Based on Zero Anaphora Resolution ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.26/)**Ayaka Ueyama, Yoshinobu Kano*3 citations*
19. **[From Chatter to Matter: Addressing Critical Steps of Emotion Recognition Learning in Task-oriented Dialogue ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.8/)**Shutong Feng, Nurul Lubis, Benjamin Ruppik et al.*3 citations*
20. **[Investigating Explicitation of Discourse Connectives in Translation using Automatic Annotations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yung-2023-investigating-explicitation-discourse-connectives-translation/)**Frances Yung, Merel Scholman, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski et al.*3 citations · our summary*
21. **[Towards Breaking the Self-imposed Filter Bubble in Argumentative Dialogues ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.56/)**Annalena Aicher, Daniel Kornmueller, Yuki Matsuda et al.*3 citations*
22. **[`What are you referring to?' Evaluating the Ability of Multi-Modal Dialogue Models to Process Clarificational Exchanges ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.16/)**Javier Chiyah-Garcia, Alessandro Suglia, Arash Eshghi et al.*3 citations*
23. **[Applying Item Response Theory to Task-oriented Dialogue Systems for Accurately Determining User's Task Success Ability ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.39/)**Ryu Hirai, Ao Guo, Ryuichiro Higashinaka*2 citations*
24. **[Bootstrapping a Conversational Guide for Colonoscopy Prep ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.38/)**Pulkit Arya, Madeleine Bloomquist, Subhankar Chakraborty et al.*2 citations*
25. **[Dial-M: A Masking-based Framework for Dialogue Evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.7/)**Suvodip Dey, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar*2 citations*

[See all 60 papers in SIGDIAL 2023 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2023/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (3)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. **[Investigating Explicitation of Discourse Connectives in Translation using Automatic Annotations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yung-2023-investigating-explicitation-discourse-connectives-translation/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**Frances Yung, Merel Scholman, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, et al.*2023 · 8 citations*
2. [**When to generate hedges in peer-tutoring interactions**Alafate Abulimiti, Chloé Clavel, Justine Cassell*2023 · 4 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abulimiti-2023-when-generate-hedges-peer-tutoring/)
3. [**Unravelling Indirect Answers to Wh-Questions: Corpus Construction, Analysis, and Generation**Zulipiye Yusupujiang, Jonathan Ginzburg*2023 · 2 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yusupujiang-2023-unravelling-indirect-answers-wh-questions/)

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[English (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Discourse analysis (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (3)](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.

[🧑‍🔬**Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski**1 work here · 8 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ekaterina-lapshinova-koltunski/) · [🧑‍🔬**Frances Yung**1 work here · 8 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/frances-yung/) · [🧑‍🔬**Merel Scholman**1 work here · 8 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/merel-scholman/) · [🧑‍🔬**Vera Demberg**1 work here · 8 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vera-demberg/) · [🧑‍🔬**Chloé Clavel**1 work here · 4 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chloe-clavel/) · [🧑‍🔬**Justine Cassell**1 work here · 4 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/justine-cassell/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jonathan Ginzburg**1 work here · 2 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-ginzburg/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🎓**Télécom Paris** Palaiseau · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/telecom-paris/) · [🔬**Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique** Paris · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique/) · [🔬**Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique** Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/institut-national-de-recherche-en-sciences-et-technologies-du-numerique/) · [🎓**University of Hildesheim** Hildesheim · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-hildesheim/) · [🎓**Utrecht University** Utrecht · Netherlands 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/utrecht-university/) · [🎓**Université Paris Cité** Paris · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-paris-cite/) · [🎓**Université Paris Sciences et Lettres** Paris · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-paris-sciences-et-lettres/) · [🔬**École Normale Supérieure - PSL** Paris · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ecole-normale-superieure-psl/) · [🔬**Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle** Paris · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-de-linguistique-formelle/) · [🎓**Institut Polytechnique de Paris** Palaiseau · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/institut-polytechnique-de-paris/) · [🔬**Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l’Information** Palaiseau · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-traitement-et-communication-de-l-information/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/)

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