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# Works of Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)

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1. [**Building a Discourse-Tagged Corpus in the Framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory**Lynn Carlson, Daniel Marcu, Mary Ellen Okurovsky*2001 · 912 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/carlson-2001-building-discourse-tagged-corpus-framework/)
2. [**The Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus: A Large Dataset for Research in Unstructured Multi-Turn Dialogue Systems**Ryan Lowe, Nissan Pow, Iulian Serban, et al.*2015 · 474 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lowe-2015-ubuntu-dialogue-corpus-large-dataset/)
3. [**The ICSI Meeting Recorder Dialog Act (MRDA) Corpus**Elizabeth Shriberg, Raj Dhillon, Sonali Bhagat, et al.*2004 · 470 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shriberg-2004-icsi-meeting-recorder-dialog-act/)
4. [**The E2E Dataset: New Challenges For End-to-End Generation**Jekaterina Novikova, Ondřej Dušek, Verena Rieser*2017 · 461 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/novikova-2017-e2e-dataset-new-challenges-end/)
5. [**Word-Based Dialog State Tracking with Recurrent Neural Networks**Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Steve Young*2014 · 431 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/henderson-2014-word-based-dialog-state-tracking/)
6. [**Frames: a corpus for adding memory to goal-oriented dialogue systems**Layla El Asri, Hannes Schulz, Shikhar Sharma, et al.*2017 · 326 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/asri-2017-frames-corpus-adding-memory-goal/)
7. [**Dialog State Tracking: A Neural Reading Comprehension Approach**Shuyang Gao, Abhishek Sethi, Sanchit Agarwal, et al.*2019 · 233 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gao-2019-dialog-state-tracking-neural-reading/)
8. [**Unsupervised Evaluation of Interactive Dialog with DialoGPT**Shikib Mehri, Maxine Eskenazi*2020 · 223 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mehri-2020-unsupervised-evaluation-interactive-dialog-dialogpt/)
9. [**Stochastic Language Generation in Dialogue using Recurrent Neural Networks with Convolutional Sentence Reranking**Tsung-Hsien Wen, Milica Gašić, Dongho Kim, et al.*2015 · 212 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wen-2015-stochastic-language-generation-dialogue-recurrent/)
10. [**Improving Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition Through Feature Set Optimization**Joonsuk Park, Claire Cardie*2012 · 165 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/park-2012-improving-implicit-discourse-relation-recognition/)
11. [**Creating and Characterizing a Diverse Corpus of Sarcasm in Dialogue**Shereen Oraby, Vrindavan Harrison, Lena Reed, et al.*2016 · 163 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/oraby-2016-creating-characterizing-diverse-corpus-sarcasm/)
12. [**ConvoKit: A Toolkit for the Analysis of Conversations**Jonathan P. Chang, Caleb Chiam, Liye Fu, et al.*2020 · 137 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chang-2020-convokit-toolkit-analysis-conversations/)
13. [**MultiWOZ 2.4: A Multi-Domain Task-Oriented Dialogue Dataset with Essential Annotation Corrections to Improve State Tracking Evaluation**Fanghua Ye, Jarana Manotumruksa, Emine Yilmaz*2022 · 131 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ye-2022-multiwoz-2-4-multi-domain/)
14. [**The MATE/GNOME Proposals for Anaphoric Annotation, Revisited**Massimo Poesio*2004 · 123 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/poesio-2004-mate-gnome-proposals-anaphoric-annotation/)
15. [**The Role of Conversation Context for Sarcasm Detection in Online Interactions**Debanjan Ghosh, Alexander Richard Fabbri, Smaranda Muresan*2017 · 99 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghosh-2017-role-conversation-context-sarcasm-detection/)
16. [**A Rule Based Approach to Discourse Parsing**Livia Polanyi, Chris Culy, Martin van den Berg, et al.*2004 · 94 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/polanyi-2004-rule-based-approach-discourse-parsing/)
17. [**Dialogue Act Recognition with Bayesian Networks for Dutch Dialogues**Simon Keizer, Rieks op den Akker, Anton Nijholt*2002 · 83 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/keizer-2002-dialogue-act-recognition-bayesian-networks/)
18. [**Coreference-Aware Dialogue Summarization**Zhengyuan Liu, Ke Shi, Nancy Chen*2021 · 81 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2021-coreference-aware-dialogue-summarization/)
19. [**Discourse Coherence in the Wild: A Dataset, Evaluation and Methods**Alice Lai, Joel Tetreault*2018 · 79 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lai-2018-discourse-coherence-wild-dataset-evaluation/)
20. [**Are you serious?: Rhetorical Questions and Sarcasm in Social Media Dialog**Shereen Oraby, Vrindavan Harrison, Amita Misra, et al.*2017 · 70 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/oraby-2017-are-you-serious-rhetorical-questions/)
21. [**Constructing a Lexicon of English Discourse Connectives**Debopam Das, Tatjana Scheffler, Peter Bourgonje, et al.*2018 · 66 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/das-2018-constructing-lexicon-english-discourse-connectives/)
22. [**A Multidimensional Approach to Utterance Segmentation and Dialogue Act Classification**Jeroen Geertzen, Volha Petukhova, Harry Bunt*2007 · 55 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/geertzen-2007-multidimensional-approach-utterance-segmentation-dialogue/)
23. [**Multi-level Dialogue Act Tags**Alexander Clark, Andrei Popescu-Belis*2004 · 54 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/clark-2004-multi-level-dialogue-act-tags/)
24. [**Neural-based Context Representation Learning for Dialog Act Classification**Daniel Ortega, Ngoc Thang Vu*2017 · 51 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ortega-2017-neural-based-context-representation-learning/)
25. [**Dialogue Act Modeling in a Complex Task-Oriented Domain**Kristy Boyer, Eun Y. Ha, Robert Phillips, et al.*2010 · 42 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/boyer-2010-dialogue-act-modeling-complex-task/)
26. [**Exploring Joint Neural Model for Sentence Level Discourse Parsing and Sentiment Analysis**Bita Nejat, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond Ng*2017 · 40 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nejat-2017-exploring-joint-neural-model-sentence/)
27. [**Discourse Relation Prediction: Revisiting Word Pairs with Convolutional Networks**Siddharth Varia, Christopher Hidey, Tuhin Chakrabarty*2019 · 39 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/varia-2019-discourse-relation-prediction-revisiting-word/)
28. [**Structured Dialogue Discourse Parsing**Ta-Chung Chi, Alexander Rudnicky*2022 · 34 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chi-2022-structured-dialogue-discourse-parsing/)
29. [**PDTB Discourse Parsing as a Tagging Task: The Two Taggers Approach**Or Biran, Kathleen McKeown*2015 · 32 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/biran-2015-pdtb-discourse-parsing-as-tagging/)
30. [**Reducing Sparsity Improves the Recognition of Implicit Discourse Relations**Junyi Jessy Li, Ani Nenkova*2014 · 32 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2014-reducing-sparsity-improves-recognition-implicit/)
31. [**Token-based Chunking of Turn-internal Dialogue Act Sequences**Piroska Lendvai, Jeroen Geertzen*2007 · 32 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lendvai-2007-token-based-chunking-turn-internal/)
32. [**Extractive Summarization and Dialogue Act Modeling on Email Threads: An Integrated Probabilistic Approach**Tatsuro Oya, Giuseppe Carenini*2014 · 31 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/oya-2014-extractive-summarization-dialogue-act-modeling/)
33. [**Where Are We in Discourse Relation Recognition?**Katherine Atwell, Junyi Jessy Li, Malihe Alikhani*2021 · 30 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/atwell-2021-where-are-we-discourse-relation/)
34. [**Dialog Act Annotation for Twitter Conversations**Elina Zarisheva, Tatjana Scheffler*2015 · 26 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zarisheva-2015-dialog-act-annotation-twitter-conversations/)
35. [**Global Features for Shallow Discourse Parsing**Sucheta Ghosh, Giuseppe Riccardi, Richard Johansson*2012 · 26 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghosh-2012-global-features-shallow-discourse-parsing/)
36. [**Classification of Discourse Coherence Relations: An Exploratory Study using Multiple Knowledge Sources**Ben Wellner, James Pustejovsky, Catherine Havasi, et al.*2006 · 25 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wellner-2006-classification-discourse-coherence-relations-exploratory/)
37. [**Abstract Anaphora Resolution in Danish**Costanza Navarretta*2000 · 19 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/navarretta-2000-abstract-anaphora-resolution-danish/)
38. [**Zero-shot transfer for implicit discourse relation classification**Murathan Kurfalı, Robert Östling*2019 · 17 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kurfali-2019-zero-shot-transfer-implicit-discourse/)
39. [**Towards Full Text Shallow Discourse Relation Annotation: Experiments with Cross-Paragraph Implicit Relations in the PDTB**Rashmi Prasad, Katherine Forbes Riley, Alan Lee*2017 · 17 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/prasad-2017-full-text-shallow-discourse-relation/)
40. [**Identifying Explicit Discourse Connectives in German**Peter Bourgonje, Manfred Stede*2018 · 14 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bourgonje-2018-identifying-explicit-discourse-connectives-german/)
41. [**Annotating Anaphoric and Bridging Relations with MMAX**Christoph Mueller, Michael Strube*2001 · 14 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mueller-2001-annotating-anaphoric-bridging-relations-mmax/)
42. [**Dialogue Discourse Parsing as Generation: A Sequence-to-Sequence LLM-based Approach**Chuyuan Li, Yuwei Yin, Giuseppe Carenini*2024 · 11 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2024-dialogue-discourse-parsing-as-generation/)
43. [**Investigating Explicitation of Discourse Connectives in Translation using Automatic Annotations**Frances Yung, Merel Scholman, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, et al.*2023 · 8 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yung-2023-investigating-explicitation-discourse-connectives-translation/)
44. [**Using Speech Acts in Logic-Based Rhetorical Structuring for Natural Language Generation in Human-Computer Dialogue**Vladimir Popescu, Jean Caelen, Corneliu Burileanu*2007 · 6 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/popescu-2007-speech-acts-logic-based-rhetorical/)
45. [**Training LLMs to Recognize Hedges in Dialogues about Roadrunner Cartoons**Amie Paige, Adil Soubki, John Murzaku, et al.*2024 · 4 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/paige-2024-training-llms-recognize-hedges-dialogues/)
46. [**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/)
47. [**Chronological Thinking in Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Language Models**Donghang Wu, Haoyang Zhang, Chen Chen, et al.*2026 · 3 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2026-chronological-thinking-full-duplex-spoken/)
48. [**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/)
49. [**Breaking the Script: Do Role-Playing Agents Maintain Goal Alignment under Distraction?**Dongxu Lu, Albert Gatt, Johan Jeuring*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lu-2026-breaking-script-do-role-playing/)
50. [**Adaptive Emotion Management in Human-robot Dialogue using Online Group Relative Policy Optimization**Anna Manaseryan, Casey Kennington*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/manaseryan-2026-adaptive-emotion-management-human-robot/)
51. [**Evaluation of Paralinguistic-Aware Spoken Dialogue Systems using Next-Utterance Classification**Kouki Miyazawa, Yoshinao Sato*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/miyazawa-2026-evaluation-paralinguistic-aware-spoken-dialogue/)
52. [**On the Structure of Address in Multi-Party Dialogue: From Discrete Labels to Continuous Levels**Taiga Mori, Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, et al.*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mori-2026-structure-address-multi-party-dialogue/)
53. [**A Dialogue System for Second Language Learning with Dynamic Adaptation to In-Dialogue Difficulty Changes**Taku Morioka, Junya Takayama, Tomoyuki Kajiwara*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/morioka-2026-dialogue-system-second-language-learning/)
54. [**Bounded Conversational Memory with Hybrid Retrieval and Evidence Highlighting for Multi-Session Dialogue Systems**Manasa Mudunuri, Chandra Kiran Guntupalli, Shiraj Pokharel, et al.*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mudunuri-2026-bounded-conversational-memory-hybrid-retrieval/)
55. [**Tree-Based Interview Topic Guidance for Collecting Target Information under Adaptive Topic continuation/switching**Fuminori Nagasawa, Ekai Hashimoto, Shun Shiramatsu*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nagasawa-2026-tree-based-interview-topic-guidance/)
56. [**Retrieving Responses Useful as References in Counseling via LLM-Generated Structurally Analogous Dialogues**Yu Nakagawa, Nozomu Ikeda, Kotaro Funakoshi, et al.*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nakagawa-2026-retrieving-responses-useful-as-references/)
57. [**DialogueSidon: Recovering Full-Duplex Dialogue Tracks from In-the-Wild Dialogue Audio**Wataru Nakata, Yuki Saito, Kazuki Yamauchi, et al.*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nakata-2026-dialoguesidon-recovering-full-duplex-dialogue/)
58. [**TRACER: Early Failure Detection for Task-Oriented Dialogue**Erfan Nourbakhsh, Rocky Slavin, Ke Yang, et al.*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nourbakhsh-2026-tracer-early-failure-detection-task/)
59. [**Do LLMs Use Relational Structure in KG-Grounded Dialogue? Evidence from Entity and Relation Perturbation**Dominic Okonkwo, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/okonkwo-2026-do-llms-use-relational-structure/)
60. [**I Understand How You Feel: Enhancing Deeper Emotional Support Through Multilingual Emotional Validation in Dialogue System**Zi Haur Pang, Yahui Fu, Koji Inoue, et al.*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pang-2026-i-understand-how-you-feel/)
61. [**Better Scores, Worse Grounding: Hidden Regressions after Fine-Tuning in Dialogue Fact Verification**Hyunkyung Park, Arkaitz Zubiaga*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/park-2026-better-scores-worse-grounding-hidden/)
62. [**Rethinking Role-Playing Evaluation: Anonymous Benchmarking and A Systematic Study of Personality Effects**Ji-Lun Peng, Yun-Nung Chen*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/peng-2026-rethinking-role-playing-evaluation-anonymous/)
63. [**SagaQA: A Multi-hop Reasoning Benchmark for Long-form Narrative Understanding in TV Series**Galann Pennec, Zhengyuan Liu, Nicholas Asher, et al.*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pennec-2026-sagaqa-multi-hop-reasoning-benchmark/)
64. [**Detecting Experiential Intertextuality Across Migration Routes: Beyond Surface Similarity in French Narratives**Sakayo Toadoum Sari, Nelly Robin, Michelle Auzanneau, et al.*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sari-2026-detecting-experiential-intertextuality-across-migration/)
65. [**LLMs Out-of-the-Box Do Not Generate Context-Appropriate Word Order in Russian**Alina Shabaeva, John Frederick Bailyn, Owen Rambow*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shabaeva-2026-llms-out-box-do-not/)
66. [**When the Database Fails: Prompting LLM Dialogue Agents for Safe Recovery in Task-Oriented Dialogue**Mohammad Alijanpour Shalmani, Alale Rezvani Boroujeni, Jiann S. Yuan*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shalmani-2026-when-database-fails-prompting-llm/)
67. [**CrossOracle: An Agentic Framework for Real-Time Expert Personas with Parallelized Acoustic Synthesis**Yash Raj Singh*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/singh-2026-crossoracle-agentic-framework-real-time/)
68. [**ArgAssist: LLM-based Argument Synthesis for Insurance Disputes**Anubhav Sinha, Nitin Ramrakhiyani, Sachin Pawar, et al.*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sinha-2026-argassist-llm-based-argument-synthesis/)
69. [**Disentangling Annotator Skill from Verifier Strictness in Cross-Verified Dialogue Annotation**Zihao Tao, John A. Prado, Ignazio Steven LaManna, et al.*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tao-2026-disentangling-annotator-skill-verifier-strictness/)
70. [**Generation of Dialogue Breakdown Repair Utterance in Non-task Oriented Conversation**Kazuya Tsubokura, Yurie Iribe, Norihide Kitaoka*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tsubokura-2026-generation-dialogue-breakdown-repair-utterance/)
71. [**From Felt Sense to Words: Construction and Analysis of a Focusing Dialogue Dataset for Verbalization**Yuiko Tsunomori, Yuya Chiba, Yosuke Koshikawa*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tsunomori-2026-felt-sense-words-construction-analysis/)
72. [**GBC: Gradient-Based Connections for Optimizing Multi-Agent Systems**Xiaocheng Yang, Abdulrahman Alrabah, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, et al.*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2026-gbc-gradient-based-connections-optimizing/)
73. [**DiPS: Dialogue Policy Selection for High-Stakes Persuasion Agents**Tianyi Zhang, Mousumi Das, Abrar Anwar, et al.*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-dips-dialogue-policy-selection-high/)
74. [**From Propositional to Perceptual Asymmetry: Extending FPO to Asymmetric Partial Information Dialogue**Yifan Zhu, Kyeongmin Rim, James Pustejovsky*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhu-2026-propositional-perceptual-asymmetry-extending-fpo/)
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