PROGRAM

27 January 2026, Singapore Expo (room number TBA)

Session 1 (Chair: Michal Ptaszynski)

08:30 - 08:45 Bin Han - Personality Expression Across Contexts: Linguistic and Behavioral Variation in LLM Agents

08:45 - 09:00 Naoki Takada - Rethinking Dialogue Disentanglement for LLMs via Dialogue-Level Assignment and Subsequent Context

09:00 - 09:15 Soyeong Jeong - Adaptive Multi-Agent Response Refinement in Conversational Systems

Session 2 (Chair: Rafal Rzepka)

09:15 - 09:30 Rene Melendez - PhishLLM: Generating Japanese Phishing Emails to Test Cross-Lingual Generalization in English-Trained Models

09:30 - 09:45 Yuta Nakajima - End-to-End Assessment of Product Review Helpfulness Using Subjective and Objective Information

09:45 - 10:30 Nirmalie Wiratunga - iCARE: Ontology-Guided Intent Routing for Multi-Agent LLM-Based Dialogue Systems

Break / Poster session (10:30-11:30)

Hsien-Te Kao - Evaluating LLM Alignment under Big Five Personality Prompting

Ratna Kandala - Evaluating Adaptive AI Support: Human Perceptions of LLM-Generated Relationship Advice

Ziqi Zhu - Conversational Intent-Driven GraphRAG: Enhancing Multi-Turn Dialogue Systems through Adaptive Dual-Retrieval of Flow Patterns and Context Semantics

Murilo da Luz - Partial Reasoning in Language Models Search and Refinement Guided by Uncertainty

James Hale - Can LLMs Mediate Synchronous Dispute Dialogues?

Rafal Rzepka - Evaluating Lightweight Embedding Guardrails for Cost-Effective Misalignment Mitigation in Export Control Dialog Systems

Shinji Muraji - Evaluation of Emotion-Conditioned Response Generation for Role-Playing Agents Using Large Language Models: A Case Study with Facial Expression Labels from Visual Novel Data

Session 3 (Chair: Siaw-Fong Chung)
11:30 - 11:45 Hassan Hamad - ToolCritic: Detecting and Correcting Tool-Use Errors in Dialogue Systems

11:45 - 12:00 Hiroshi Shigenobu - A Novel Neuro-symbolic Approach to Irony Detection Based on Structural Components of Ironic Statements

Invited Talk (Chair: Rafal Rzepka)
12:00 - 12:30 Rui Mao - Metaphorical Cognition and Its Computational Practices

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