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Time Topic
Wed, Sep. 3  
08:00–09:00 Registration
09:00–09:15 Welcome
09:15–10:30 Keynote: Arabella Sinclair
10:30–10:50 Coffee Break
10:50–12:20 Session 1 - Studies: Natural Dialogue
12:20–13:40 Lunch Break
13:40–15:40 Session 2 - Grounding and Repair
15:40–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–17:30 Poster Session 1
17:30–18:30 Welcome Reception
Thu, Sep. 4  
08:30–09:00 Registration
09:00–10:30 Session 3 - Language Models and Dialog Systems
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–12:30 Session 4 - Turn-Taking
12:30–14:00 Lunch Break
14:00–15:30 Poster Session 2
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–17:15 Keynote: Robert Hawkins
18:30– Conference Dinner
Fri, Sep. 5  
09:00–11:00 Session 5 - Studies: Mediated Dialogue
11:00–11:30 Coffee Break
11:30–12:45 Keynote: David Schlangen
12:45–13:00 Closing

Session 1 - Studies: Naturalistic Dialogue

  • Grammatical person as a clue to interpreting French how-questions (Jan Fliessbach, Lucia M. Tovena, Damien Fleury)
  • Does it take two to do an articulatory tango? Investigating the production of novel phonetic forms in varying communicative settings (Leonie Schade, Daniel Duran, Sina Zarrieß, Joana Cholin, Petra Wagner)
  • ‘No no no no no no no’: Multiple repetition in dialogue (Zulipiye Yusupujiang, Paola Herreno-Castaneda, Mathilde Dargnat, Jonathan Ginzburg)

Session 2 - Grounding and Repair

  • Identifying repair opportunities in child-caregiver interactions (Abhishek Agrawal, Benoit Favre, Abdellah Fourtassi)
  • Do young adolescents draw on common ground like adults? (Clara Grégoire, Héloïse Retournard, Stéphane Rauzy, Maud Champagne-Lavau)
  • Social repair (Alafate Abulimiti, Vladislav Maraev)
  • Misunderstanding the concrete, disagreeing about the abstract: A closer look at word meaning negotiation triggers (Bill Noble, Staffan Larsson, Jenny Myrendal)

Session 3 - Language Models and Dialog Systems

  • Benchmarking LLMs for mimicking child-caregiver language in interaction (Jing Liu, Abdellah Fourtassi)
  • Conv-BDI: An extension of the BDI framework for conversational agents (Nicholas Thomas Walker, Nicolas Wagner, Laetitia Hilgendorf, Stefan Ultes)
  • Automated administration of questionnaires during casual conversation using question-guiding dialogue system (Yuki Zenimoto, Mariko Yoshida, Ryo Hori, Mayu Urata, Aiko Inoue, Takahiro Hayashi, Ryuichiro Higashinaka)

Session 4 - Turn-Taking

  • Why so cold and distant? Effects of inter-turn gap durations on observers’ attributions of interpersonal stance (Stefan Blohm, Mathias Barthel)
  • Alexa, you are too slow! Invariant turn-transition times and conversational flow in natural human–voice agent interaction (Mathias Barthel)
  • Head and hand movements during turn transitions: Data-based multimodal analysis using the frankfurt vr gesture–speech alignment corpus (FraGA) (Andy Lücking, Felix Voll, Daniel Rott, Alexander Henlein, Alexander Mehler)

Session 5 - Studies: Mediated Dialogue

  • Information exchange vs. opinion discussion as distinct communicative contexts in online conversations: A corpus-based study of speech acts and rhetorical relations dynamics in dialogue (Gonzalo Freijedo Aduna, Alda Mari)
  • Shaping virtual interactions: F-formations in social VR (Karl Clarke, Patrick Healey)
  • Seeking agreement in remote psychiatric consultations: A conversation analytic perspective (Naphat Jittavisutthikul, Patrick Healey, Sarah Bourdin, Philip McNamee)
  • Constructing a multi-party conversational corpus focusing on interlocutor relationships (Taro Tsuda, Sanae Yamashita, Koji Inoue, Tatsuya Kawahara, Ryuichiro Higashinaka)

Poster Session 1

  • Pragmatic reasoning for irony detection with large language models in English and Norwegian (Margareta Berg, Ildikó Pilán, Ingrid Lossius Falkum, Pierre Lison)
  • “It’s simply a different way of communicating” – Attitudes on nonverbal communication of autistic adults in the Netherlands (Anna Palmann, James P. Trujillo, Linda Drijvers, Floris Roelofsen)
  • Are you laughing at me? Patterns of laughter while playing a voice activated game in pairs compared to single-player (Talha Bedir, Bora Kara, Christine Howes)
  • Toward emotional description via meta-dialogue: A preliminary framework for data collection (Kei Shimonishi, Koji Inoue, Yasuyuki Usuda, Rui Sakaida)
  • Child-directed speech is fine-tuned to children’s developmental needs (Bastian Bunzeck, Holger Diessel)
  • Surprised to kill: Quantifying LLM uncertainty in morally-charged triadic dialogues (Vanessa Vanzan, Nikolai Ilinykh, Erik Lagerstedt, Amy Han Qiu, Vladislav Maraev, Christine Howes)
  • Communication at an angle (Mattias Appelgren, Ellen Breitholtz, Robin Cooper, Simon Dobnik)
  • How task complexity and voice type shape prosodic and physiologic cues of engagement in human-machine dialogue (Océane Granier, Laurent Prevot, Roxane Bertrand, Kévin Gravouil)
  • The FLEX benchmark: Evaluating pragmatic competence in LLMs via false presuppositions (Judith Sieker, Clara Lachenmaier, Sina Zarrieß)
  • One -hii to rule them all: Functions and intonation of particle -hii in Hindi movie dialogues (Shravani Patil, Farhat Jabeen)
  • Intonation and prosodic phrasing of particle ‘-hii’ in Hindi/Urdu dialogues (Farhat Jabeen, Shravani Patil)
  • Integrating LLMs into the DIARC cognitive architecture to resolve past temporal references (Valerio Farriciello, Frank Förster)

Poster Session 2

  • Across the board: Human-human game learning dialogues (Mattias Appelgren, Erik Lagerstedt, Christine Howes, Asad B. Sayeed)
  • The dual nature as a local context to explore verbal behaviour in game explanations (Josephine B. Fisher, Lutz Terfloth)
  • Towards a discourse-structure based response classification for interviews (René Nicolas, Arndt Riester)
  • Contextual interpretation in human-robot dialogue (Svetlana Stoyanchev, Youmna Farag, Simon Keizer, Mohan Li, Rama Doddipatla)
  • Mapping the landscape of dialogue research: A meta-analysis of ACL Anthology 2024 (Amandine Decker, Maxime Amblard, Ellen Breitholtz)
  • Evaluating prosodic variation in English and Icelandic synthesized speech (Caitlin Laura Richter, Naizeth Núñez Macías, Stefán Ólafsson, Jon Gudnason, Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson)
  • Conceptual pact models of reference in building games with dialogue: Scaling up from Pentomino Puzzles to the challenge of Minecraft (Julian Hough, Chris Madge, Matthew Purver, Massimo Poesio)
  • MLLMs construction company – investigating multimodal LLMs’ Communicative Skills In a Collaborative Building Task (Marika Sarzotti, Giovanni Duca, Chris Madge, Raffaella Bernardi, Massimo Poesio)
  • Learning to refer: How scene complexity affects emergent communication in neural agents (Dominik Künkele, Simon Dobnik)