Dialogue Systems

PsyProbe: Proactive and Interpretable Dialogue through User State Modeling for Exploratory Counseling EACL 2026 Query-Following vs Context-Anchoring: How LLMs Handle Cross-Turn Language Switching EACL 2026 RealTalk-CN: A Realistic Chinese Speech Task-Oriented Dialogue Benchmark with Cross-Modal Analysis ACL 2026 RECAP: REwriting Conversations for Intent Understanding in Agentic Planning EACL 2026 REG: Retrieval via Emotion Similarity for Guiding Empathetic Dialogue Generation ACL 2026 Rethinking Meeting Effectiveness: A Benchmark and Framework for Temporal Fine-grained Automatic Meeting Effectiveness Evaluation ACL 2026 Risk-Aware Bilingual Spoken Dialogue for Campus Mental Health Support AAAI 2026 S^4: Operationalizing Speech Act Theory for Strategic Semi-Structured Psychiatric Interview ACL 2026 SAD: A Large-Scale Strategic Argumentative Dialogue Dataset ACL 2026 SAGE : A Top-Down Bottom-Up Knowledge-Grounded User Simulator for Multi-turn Agent Evaluation EACL 2026 Scaling Intent Understanding: A Framework for Classification with Clarification using Lightweight LLMs EACL 2026 SDialog: A Python Toolkit for End-to-End Agent Building, User Simulation, Dialog Generation, and Evaluation EACL 2026 Simulated Rewards, Skewed Strategies: Tracing the Acquired Preference Bias in LLM-Based Dialogue Planners AAAI 2026 Simulating Human-Like Counseling: A Path- and Scenario-Guided Framework for Psychological Support Dialogue AAAI 2026 SpeechMedAssist: Efficiently and Effectively Adapting Speech Language Models for Medical Consultation ACL 2026 StructMem: Structured Memory for Long-Horizon Behavior in LLMs ACL 2026 Tailored Emotional LLM-Supporter: Enhancing Cultural Sensitivity EACL 2026 TEA-Bench: A Systematic Benchmarking of Tool-enhanced Emotional Support Dialogue Agent ACL 2026 The Price of Thought: A Multilingual Analysis of Reasoning, Performance, and Cost of Negotiation in Large Language Models EACL 2026 TO-GATE: Clarifying Questions and Summarizing Responses with Trajectory Optimization for Eliciting Human Preference AAAI 2026 Towards Human-centered Proactive Conversational AI AAAI 2026 Unlocking Large Audio-Language Models for Interactive Language Learning EACL 2026 Ψ-Arena: Interactive Assessment and Optimization of LLM-based Psychological Counselors with Tripartite Feedback AAAI 2026 {$\tau$}-bench: A Benchmark for \underline{T}ool-\underline{A}gent-\underline{U}ser Interaction in Real-World Domains ICLR 2025 A Career Interview Dialogue System using Large Language Model-based Dynamic Slot Generation COLING 2025