Dialogue Systems

ODUTQA-MDC: A Task for Open-Domain Underspecified Tabular QA with Multi-turn Dialogue-based Clarification ACL 2026 One Battle After Another: Probing LLMs’ Limits on Multi-Turn Instruction Following with a Benchmark Evolving Framework ACL 2026 Parse, Search, and Confirmation: Training-Free Aerial Vision-and-Dialog Navigation with Chain-of-Thought Reasoning and Structured Spatial Memory CVPR 2026 Persona-Grounded Safety Evaluation of AI Companions in Multi-Turn Conversations ACL 2026 Phase Transitions in Affective Meaning Divergence: The Hidden Drift Before the Break ACL 2026 ProactiveEval: A Unified Evaluation Framework for Proactive Dialogue Agents ACL 2026 ProActor: Timing-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Proactive Task Scheduling Agents ACL 2026 Reasoning Gets Harder for LLMs Inside A Dialogue ACL 2026 S^4: Operationalizing Speech Act Theory for Strategic Semi-Structured Psychiatric Interview ACL 2026 SDiaReward: Modeling and Benchmarking Spoken Dialogue Rewards with Modality and Colloquialness ACL 2026 Semantic XPath: Structured Agentic Memory Access for Conversational AI ACL 2026 Simple Agents, Biased Judges: Efficient Multi-Party Dialogue Generation & The Evaluation Gap ACL 2026 SimRPD: Optimizing Recruitment Proactive Dialogue Agents through Simulator-Based Data Evaluation and Selection ACL 2026 Simulated Students in Tutoring Dialogues: Substance or Illusion? ACL 2026 Small Agents, Big Gains: Journey-Aware and Critic-Guided Simulation for Long-Horizon Shopping Dialogues ACL 2026 Speculative End-Turn Detector for Efficient Speech Chatbot Assistant ACL 2026 StratMem-Bench: Evaluating Strategic Memory Use in Virtual Character Conversation Beyond Factual Recall ACL 2026 STRIDE-ED: A Strategy-Grounded Stepwise Reasoning Framework for Empathetic Dialogue Systems ACL 2026 Surprisal Minimisation over Goal-directed Alternatives Predicts Production Choice in Dialogue ACL 2026 Talking to a Know-It-All GPT or a Second-Guesser Claude? How Repair reveals distinct Multi-Turn Behavior in LLMs ACL 2026 TartanMaroon: Multi-Agent Academic Advising with Iterative Negotiation and Transparent Collaboration ACL 2026 Teaching LLM to be Persuasive: Reward-Enhanced Policy Optimization for Alignment from Heterogeneous Rewards ACL 2026 Team Evaluators at SemEval-2026 Task 6: Instruction-Tuned LLMs for Clarity and Evasion Classification in Political Interviews SemEval 2026 Template-assisted Contrastive Learning of Task-oriented Dialogue Sentence Embeddings ACL 2026 Thinking Alignment of Scenario-Oriented User Simulation ACL 2026