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title: "SIGDIAL 2026 — all accepted papers — the most cited first"
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# SIGDIAL 2026: all accepted papers

61 papers · the most cited first · [← SIGDIAL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2026/)

1. **[Chronological Thinking in Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2026-chronological-thinking-full-duplex-spoken/)**Donghang Wu, Haoyang Zhang, Chen Chen et al.*1 citation · our summary*
2. **[A Dialogue System for Second Language Learning with Dynamic Adaptation to In-Dialogue Difficulty Changes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/morioka-2026-dialogue-system-second-language-learning/)**Taku Morioka, Junya Takayama, Tomoyuki Kajiwara*our summary*
3. **[A French OSCE Dialogue Dataset and Controllable Virtual Patient System for Clinical Training ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.25/)**Doria Bonzi, Tom Bourgeade, Fabrice Lefèvre et al.
4. **[A Reinforcement Learning-Based Facilitator for Simulated Group Motivational Interviewing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.61/)**Alafate Abulimiti, Vladislav Maraev, Agnès Helme-Guizon et al.
5. **[Accuracy and Satisfaction in Multi-Turn LLM Dialogues for NFR Assessment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.7/)**Ali Pourghasemi Fatideh, Wilder Baldwin, Maria Dhakal et al.
6. **[Adaptive Emotion Management in Human-robot Dialogue using Online Group Relative Policy Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/manaseryan-2026-adaptive-emotion-management-human-robot/)**Anna Manaseryan, Casey Kennington*our summary*
7. **[ArgAssist: LLM-based Argument Synthesis for Insurance Disputes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sinha-2026-argassist-llm-based-argument-synthesis/)**Anubhav Sinha, Nitin Ramrakhiyani, Sachin Pawar et al.*our summary*
8. **[Better Scores, Worse Grounding: Hidden Regressions after Fine-Tuning in Dialogue Fact Verification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/park-2026-better-scores-worse-grounding-hidden/)**Hyunkyung Park, Arkaitz Zubiaga*our summary*
9. **[Beyond Supervised Clarification: Input Rewriting with LLMs for Dialogue Discourse Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.30/)**Yiming Liu, Ziyue Zhang, Zhichao Xu et al.
10. **[Bounded Conversational Memory with Hybrid Retrieval and Evidence Highlighting for Multi-Session Dialogue Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mudunuri-2026-bounded-conversational-memory-hybrid-retrieval/)**Manasa Mudunuri, Chandra Kiran Guntupalli, Shiraj Pokharel et al.*our summary*
11. **[Breaking the Script: Do Role-Playing Agents Maintain Goal Alignment under Distraction?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lu-2026-breaking-script-do-role-playing/)**Dongxu Lu, Albert Gatt, Johan Jeuring*our summary*
12. **[Bridging Talk and Thought: Understanding Dialogue Dynamics Across Collaborative Problem-Solving Contexts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.48/)**Zhengyuan Liu, Stella Yin, Min-Yen Kan et al.
13. **[Building Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems via Instruction Guidance without Annotated Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.54/)**Henry Gao, Jinho D. Choi
14. **[COCORELI: Enforcing Execution Preconditions for Reliable Collaborative Instruction Following ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.36/)**Swarnadeep Bhar, Omar Naim, Eleni Metheniti et al.
15. **[ClarVis: A Dataset of Clarification Requests and Grounding in Collaborative Data Visualization Dialogues ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.6/)**Abari Bhattacharya, Barbara Di Eugenio
16. **[Conversational Grounding in Large Language Models: Evaluation Methods, Challenges and Future Directions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.11/)**Michelle Elizabeth, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Lina M. Rojas Barahona et al.
17. **[CrossOracle: An Agentic Framework for Real-Time Expert Personas with Parallelized Acoustic Synthesis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/singh-2026-crossoracle-agentic-framework-real-time/)**Yash Raj Singh*our summary*
18. **[Detecting Experiential Intertextuality Across Migration Routes: Beyond Surface Similarity in French Narratives](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sari-2026-detecting-experiential-intertextuality-across-migration/)**Sakayo Toadoum Sari, Nelly Robin, Michelle Auzanneau et al.*our summary*
19. **[DiPS: Dialogue Policy Selection for High-Stakes Persuasion Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-dips-dialogue-policy-selection-high/)**Tianyi Zhang, Mousumi Das, Abrar Anwar et al.*our summary*
20. **[DialogueSidon: Recovering Full-Duplex Dialogue Tracks from In-the-Wild Dialogue Audio](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nakata-2026-dialoguesidon-recovering-full-duplex-dialogue/)**Wataru Nakata, Yuki Saito, Kazuki Yamauchi et al.*our summary*
21. **[Disentangling Annotator Skill from Verifier Strictness in Cross-Verified Dialogue Annotation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tao-2026-disentangling-annotator-skill-verifier-strictness/)**Zihao Tao, John A. Prado, Ignazio Steven LaManna et al.*our summary*
22. **[Do LLMs Use Relational Structure in KG-Grounded Dialogue? Evidence from Entity and Relation Perturbation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/okonkwo-2026-do-llms-use-relational-structure/)**Dominic Okonkwo, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar*our summary*
23. **[Embodied Multi-Agent Coordination by Aligning World Models Through Dialogue ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.21/)**Vardhan Dongre, Dilek Hakkani-Tur
24. **[Enhancing Operational Safety via Agentic Dialogue Hazard Identification Analysis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.53/)**Sanjay Das, Ran Elgedawy, Ethan Seefried et al.
25. **[Evaluation of Paralinguistic-Aware Spoken Dialogue Systems using Next-Utterance Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/miyazawa-2026-evaluation-paralinguistic-aware-spoken-dialogue/)**Kouki Miyazawa, Yoshinao Sato*our summary*
26. **[Exploring Retrieval Augmented Generation Approaches for Natural Language Question Understanding ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.34/)**Christoph Kowalski, Amelie Sophie Robrecht-Hilbig, Vincent Emmerling et al.
27. **[For What Reason? Interpreting Models' Encoding of Causation and Antithesis ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.17/)**Abhidip Bhattacharyya, Shira Wein
28. **[Fractional Decay KV-Cache: Ownership-Aware Memory Management for Improved Inference Relevancy in Dialog Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.60/)**Sukanta Ganguly
29. **[From Felt Sense to Words: Construction and Analysis of a Focusing Dialogue Dataset for Verbalization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tsunomori-2026-felt-sense-words-construction-analysis/)**Yuiko Tsunomori, Yuya Chiba, Yosuke Koshikawa*our summary*
30. **[From Propositional to Perceptual Asymmetry: Extending FPO to Asymmetric Partial Information Dialogue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhu-2026-propositional-perceptual-asymmetry-extending-fpo/)**Yifan Zhu, Kyeongmin Rim, James Pustejovsky*our summary*
31. **[From Sound to Symptom: Real-Time Respiratory Signal Understanding for Conversational Healthcare Agents ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.39/)**Tanmay Laud, Herprit Mahal, Subhabrata Mukherjee
32. **[GBC: Gradient-Based Connections for Optimizing Multi-Agent Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2026-gbc-gradient-based-connections-optimizing/)**Xiaocheng Yang, Abdulrahman Alrabah, Dilek Hakkani-Tür et al.*our summary*
33. **[Generation of Dialogue Breakdown Repair Utterance in Non-task Oriented Conversation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tsubokura-2026-generation-dialogue-breakdown-repair-utterance/)**Kazuya Tsubokura, Yurie Iribe, Norihide Kitaoka*our summary*
34. **[How Ethos and Pathos Appeals Resonate in Reader Interpretations of Social Media Messages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.23/)**Ewelina Gajewska, Katarzyna Budzynska, Jarosław A. Chudziak et al.
35. **[I Understand How You Feel: Enhancing Deeper Emotional Support Through Multilingual Emotional Validation in Dialogue System](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pang-2026-i-understand-how-you-feel/)**Zi Haur Pang, Yahui Fu, Koji Inoue et al.*our summary*
36. **[Interpretable Satisfaction Modeling in Sales Dialogues: A Metrics-based Approach Validated Against Text-based Model ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.40/)**Natalia Krawczyk, Alicja Kasicka, Bartosz Przybył et al.
37. **[LLMs Out-of-the-Box Do Not Generate Context-Appropriate Word Order in Russian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shabaeva-2026-llms-out-box-do-not/)**Alina Shabaeva, John Frederick Bailyn, Owen Rambow*our summary*
38. **[LLMs and their Limited Theory of Mind: Evaluating Mental State Annotations in Situated Dialogue ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.52/)**Katharine Kowalyshyn, Matthias Scheutz
39. **[MTDiag: A Multi-Turn Diagnostic Dataset Towards Clinically Meaningful LLM Evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.58/)**Pia Chouayfati, Alexander M. Fichtl, Miriam Anschütz et al.
40. **[MemeBuddy: Dialog-Style Audio Representations for Engaging Non-Visual Meme Experiences ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.46/)**Chirag Bhansali, Vikas Ashok, Hae-Na Lee
41. **[On the Structure of Address in Multi-Party Dialogue: From Discrete Labels to Continuous Levels](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mori-2026-structure-address-multi-party-dialogue/)**Taiga Mori, Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala et al.*our summary*
42. **[PERSONAJUDGE: Simulating Individual Human Preference Judgments with Evaluator-Specific Demonstration Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.59/)**Zeyu He, Xuan Qi, Subramanian Chidambaram et al.
43. **[PersonaKit (PK): A Plug-and-Play Platform for User Testing Diverse Roles in Simulated Full-Duplex Dialogue ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.42/)**Hyunbae Jeon, Jinho D. Choi
44. **[Ping-Ponder: Concurrent Dual-Agent Spoken Dialogue via Shared Belief State ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.14/)**Akiko Masaki-Kato, Haris Gulzar
45. **[Question Types for Knowledge Acquisition in LLM-based Dialogue Systems: Experiments with Simulated and Human Users ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.43/)**Kazunori Komatani, Ryu Takeda, Mikio Nakano
46. **[Relex: A Common Denominator for Connectives and Discourse Relations in French ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.45/)**Fatou Sow, Yannick Toussaint, Mathieu Constant
47. **[Rethinking Binary Evaluation of Turn-Taking under Inherent Ambiguity ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.2/)**Yunosuke Kubo, Kenta Yamamoto, Ryu Takeda et al.
48. **[Rethinking Role-Playing Evaluation: Anonymous Benchmarking and A Systematic Study of Personality Effects](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/peng-2026-rethinking-role-playing-evaluation-anonymous/)**Ji-Lun Peng, Yun-Nung Chen*our summary*
49. **[Retrieving Responses Useful as References in Counseling via LLM-Generated Structurally Analogous Dialogues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nakagawa-2026-retrieving-responses-useful-as-references/)**Yu Nakagawa, Nozomu Ikeda, Kotaro Funakoshi et al.*our summary*
50. **[SagaQA: A Multi-hop Reasoning Benchmark for Long-form Narrative Understanding in TV Series](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pennec-2026-sagaqa-multi-hop-reasoning-benchmark/)**Galann Pennec, Zhengyuan Liu, Nicholas Asher et al.*our summary*
51. **[Seeing Is Not Sharing: Some Vision-Language Models Overestimate Common Ground in Asymmetric Dialogue ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.49/)**Nan Li, Albert Gatt, Massimo Poesio
52. **[Sensor-Augmented Voice Activity Projection for Enhancing Turn-Taking Prediction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.12/)**Satoki Hamanaka, Yasue Kishino, Yuiko Tsunomori et al.
53. **[StagePilot: Stage-Level Planning for Long-Horizon Dialogue Simulation in Cybergrooming ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.37/)**Heajun An, Qi Zhang, Minqian Liu et al.
54. **[Suppressing Unnecessary Clarification Requests for Unknown Word Acquisition in Spoken Dialogue Using Syllable-Based ASR Confidence ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.4/)**Takumi Furuta, Ryu Takeda, Kazunori Komatani
55. **[TRACER: Early Failure Detection for Task-Oriented Dialogue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nourbakhsh-2026-tracer-early-failure-detection-task/)**Erfan Nourbakhsh, Rocky Slavin, Ke Yang et al.*our summary*
56. **[Tinker Tales: A Tangible Dialogue System for Child–AI Co-Creative Storytelling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.3/)**Nayoung Choi, Jiseung Hong, Peace Cyebukayire et al.
57. **[Too Polite to Disagree: Understanding Sycophancy Propagation in Multi-Agent Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.56/)**Vira Kasprova, Amruta Parulekar, Abdulrahman AlRabah et al.
58. **[Towards Conversational Patient History-Taking: Voice-Interactive AI Agents for Pre-visit Dementia Diagnostic Interviews ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.5/)**Andrew G. Breithaupt, Nayoung Choi, James D. Finch et al.
59. **[Tree-Based Interview Topic Guidance for Collecting Target Information under Adaptive Topic continuation/switching](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nagasawa-2026-tree-based-interview-topic-guidance/)**Fuminori Nagasawa, Ekai Hashimoto, Shun Shiramatsu*our summary*
60. **[Weakly Supervised Temporal Modeling of Latent Dynamics in Dyadic Conversations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.sigdial-1.31/)**Tahiya Chowdhury
61. **[When the Database Fails: Prompting LLM Dialogue Agents for Safe Recovery in Task-Oriented Dialogue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shalmani-2026-when-database-fails-prompting-llm/)**Mohammad Alijanpour Shalmani, Alale Rezvani Boroujeni, Jiann S. Yuan*our summary*
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