May, 27-30, 2025
IWSDS 2025
The 15th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology
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The 15th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology
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ORAL SESSION 1
OS 1.1 Automatic Generation of Structured Domain Knowledge for Dialogue-based XAI Systems
Carolin Schindler, Isabel Feustel, Niklas Rach and Wolfgang Minker
OS 1.2 Exploring the Impact of Modalities on Building Common Ground Using the Collaborative Scene Reconstruction Task
Yosuke Ujigawa, Asuka Shiotani, Masato Takizawa, Eisuke Midorikawa, Ryuichiro Higashinaka and Kazunori Takashio
OS 1.3 Design, Generation and Evaluation of a Synthetic Dialogue Dataset for Contextually Aware Chatbots in Art Museums
Inass Rachidi, Anas Ezzakri, Jaime Bellver-Soler and Luis Fernando D'Haro
OS 1.4 A Voice-Controlled Dialogue System for NPC Interaction using Large Language Models
Milan Wevelsiep, Nicholas Thomas Walker, Nicolas Wagner and Stefan Ultes
OS 1.5 A Dialogue System for Semi-Structured Interviews by LLMs and its Evaluation on Persona Information Collection
Ryo Hasegawa, Yijie Hua, Takehito Utsuro, Ekai Hashimoto, Mikio Nakano and Shun Shiramatsu
ORAL SESSION 2
OS 2.1 Exploring Personality-Aware Interactions in Salesperson Dialogue Agents
Sijia Cheng, Wen Yu Chang and Yun-Nung Chen
OS 2.2 ReSpAct: Harmonizing Reasoning, Speaking, and Acting Towards Building Large Language Model-Based Conversational AI Agents
Vardhan Dongre, Xiaocheng Yang, Emre Can Acikgoz, Suvodip Dey, Gokhan Tur and Dilek Hakkani-Tur
OS 2.3 Examining Older Adults' Motivation for Interacting with Health-Monitoring Conversational Systems Through Field Trials
Mariko Yoshida, Ryo Hori, Yuki Zenimoto, Mayu Urata, Mamoru Endo, Takami Yasuda, Aiko Inoue, Takahiro Hayashi and Ryuichiro Higashinaka
OS 2.4 Balancing Knowledge Delivery and Emotional Comfort in Healthcare Conversational Systems
Shang-Chi Tsai and Yun-Nung Chen
POSTER SESSION 1
PS 1.1 Context or Retrieval? Evaluating RAG Methods for Art and Museum QA System
Samuel Ramos-Varela, Jaime Bellver-Soler, Marcos Estecha-Garitagoitia and Luis Fernando D'Haro
PS 1.2 Paralinguistic Attitude Recognition for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Kouki Miyazawa, Zhi Zhu and Yoshinao Sato
PS 1.3 Exploring ReAct Prompting for Task-Oriented Dialogue: Insights and Shortcomings
Michelle Elizabeth, Morgan Veyret, Miguel Couceiro, Ondrej Dusek and Lina M. Rojas Barahona
PS 1.4 Design of a conversational agent to support people on suicide risk
Mario Manso Vázquez, José Manuel Ramírez Sánchez, Carmen García-Mateo, Laura Docío-Fernández, Manuel José Fernández-Iglesias, Beatriz Gómez-Gómez, Beatriz Pinal, Antia Brañas and Alejandro García-Caballero
PS 1.5 Optimizing RAG: Classifying Queries for Dynamic Processing
Kabir Olawore, Michael McTear, Yaxin Bi and David Griol
PS 1.6 Enhancing Proactive Dialogue Systems Through Self-Learning of Reasoning and Action-Planning
Ryosuke Ito, Tetsuya Takiguchi and Yasuo Ariki
PS 1.7 TrustBoost: Balancing flexibility and compliance in conversational AI systems
David Griol, Zoraida Callejas, Manuel Gil-Martín, Ksenia Kharitonova, Juan Manuel Montero-Martínez, David Pérez Fernández and Fernando Fernández-Martínez
POSTER SESSION 2
PS 2.1 ScriptBoard: Designing modern spoken dialogue systems through visual programming
Divesh Lala, Mikey Elmers, Koji Inoue, Zi Haur Pang, Keiko Ochi and Tatsuya Kawahara
PS 2.2 D4AC: A Tool for Developing Multimodal Dialogue Systems without Coding
Mikio Nakano and Ryuichiro Higashinaka
PS 2.3 A Multilingual Speech-Based Driver Assistant for Basque and English
Antonio Aparicio Akcharov, Asier López Zorrilla, Juan Camilo Vásquez Correa, Oscar Montserrat, José Maria Echevarría, Begoña Arrate, Joxean Zapirain, Mikel deVelasco Vázquez, Santiago Andrés Moreno-Acevedo, Ander González-Docasal, Maria Ines Torres and Aitor Álvarez
PS 2.4 Intimebot – A Dialogue Agent for Timekeeping Support
Shoaib Khan, Alex Samani and Rafael Banchs
PS 2.5 A Chatbot for Providing Suicide Prevention Information in Spanish
Pablo Ascorbe, María S. Campos, César Domínguez, Jónathan Heras, Magdalena Pérez and Ana Rosa Terroba-Reinares
ORAL SESSION 3
OS 3.1 LAMIA: An LLM Approach for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems in Industry 5.0
Cristina Fernandez, Izaskun Fernandez and Cristina Aceta
OS 3.2 Conversational Tutoring in VR Training: The Role of Game Context and State Variables
Maia Aguirre, Ariane Méndez, Aitor García-Pablos, Montse Cuadros, Arantza del Pozo, Oier Lopez de Lacalle, Ander Salaberria, Jeremy Barnes, Pablo Martínez and Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
OS 3.3 A Methodology for Identifying Evaluation Items for Practical Dialogue Systems Based on Business-Dialogue System Alignment Models
Mikio Nakano, Hironori Takeuchi and Kazunori Komatani
OS 3.4 Speech-Controlled Smart Speaker for Accurate, Real-Time Health and Care Record Management
Jonathan E. Carrick, Nina Dethlefs, Lisa Greaves, Venkata M. V. Gunturi, Rameez Raja Kureshi and Yongqiang Cheng
ORAL SESSION 4
OS 4.1 Analysis of Voice Activity Detection Errors in API-based Streaming ASR for Human-Robot Dialogue
Kenta Yamamoto, Ryu Takeda and Kazunori Komatani
OS 4.2 A Survey of Recent Advances on Turn-taking Modeling in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Galo Castillo-López, Gael de Chalendar and Nasredine Semmar
OS 4.3 Integrating Respiration into Voice Activity Projection for Enhancing Turn-taking Performance
Takao Obi and Kotaro Funakoshi
OS 4.4 DSLCMM: A Multimodal Human-Machine Dialogue Corpus Built through Competitions
Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Tetsuro Takahashi, Shinya Iizuka, Sota Horiuchi, Michimasa Inaba, Zhiyang Qi, Yuta Sasaki, Kotaro Funakoshi, Shoji Moriya, Shiki Sato, Takashi Minato, Kurima Sakai, Tomo Funayama, Masato Komuro, Hiroyuki Nishikawa, Ryosaku Makino, Hirofumi Kikuchi and Mayumi Usami
OS 4.5 Cutting Through Overload: Efficient Token Dropping for Speech Emotion Recognition in Multimodal Large Language Models
Jaime Bellver-Soler, Mario Rodriguez-Cantelar, Ricardo Córdoba and Luis Fernando D'Haro
POSTER SESSION 3
PS 3.1 Integrating Conversational Entities and Dialogue Histories with Knowledge Graphs and Generative AI
Graham Wilcock and Kristiina Jokinen
PS 3.2 Enabling Trait-based Personality Simulation in Conversational LLM Agents: Case Study of Customer Assistance in French
Ahmed Njifenjou, Virgile Sucal, Bassam Jabaian and Fabrice Lefèvre
PS 3.3 Developing Classifiers for Affirmative and Negative User Responses with Limited Target Domain Data for Dialogue System Development Tools
Yunosuke Kubo, Ryo Yanagimoto, Mikio Nakano, Kenta Yamamoto, Ryu Takeda and Kazunori Komatani
PS 3.4 Why Do We Laugh? Annotation and Taxonomy Generation for Laughable Contexts in Spontaneous Text Conversation
Koji Inoue, Mikey Elmers, Divesh Lala and Tatsuya Kawahara
PS 3.5 Adaptive Psychological Distance in Japanese Spoken Human-Agent Dialogue: A Politeness-Based Management Model
Akira Inaba, Emmanuel Ayedoun and Masataka Tokumaru
PS 3.6 An LLM Benchmark for Addressee Recognition in Multi-modal Multi-party Dialogue
Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Mikey Elmers, Keiko Ochi and Tatsuya Kawahara
PS 3.7 Will AI shape the way we speak? The emerging sociolinguistic influence of synthetic voices
Eva Szekely, Jura Miniota and Míša (Michaela) Hejná