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most citedDetection of social signals for recognizing engagement in human-robot interaction

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TEIDAN: A Multilingual Multiparty Dialogue Corpus

Taiga Mori, Koji Inoue, Mikey Elmers +2

Multi-party interaction is a central setting for human communication and a necessary target for human-agent interaction systems that must participate in group conversation. Yet ava…

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CultureConverse: A Multilingual Multi-turn Simulation Harness for Culturally Grounded Assistance in East and Southeast Asia

Bryan Chen Zhengyu Tan, Weihua Zheng, Thong T. Doan +30

Current cultural evaluations for large language models (LLMs) often reduce culture to single-turn factual recall via MCQs, failing to capture a common use case: users seeking pract…

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MemUse: Moving Memory Evaluation from Direct QA to Natural Integration in Long-Term Human-AI Conversation

Ryuichi Sumida, Koji Inoue, Tatsuya Kawahara

Memory systems for conversational LLMs are conventionally evaluated by direct, fact-seeking questions about prior dialogue (Direct QA): can the model recall fact X from a prior con…

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On the Structure of Address in Multi-Party Dialogue: From Discrete Labels to Continuous Levels

Taiga Mori, Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala +1

In multi-party dialogues between a dialogue system and multiple users, identifying to whom an utterance is addressed is a key challenge. Prior work has typically treated addressee…

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I Understand How You Feel: Enhancing Deeper Emotional Support Through Multilingual Emotional Validation in Dialogue System

Zi Haur Pang, Yahui Fu, Koji Inoue +1

Emotional validation - explicitly acknowledging that a user's feelings make sense - has proven therapeutic value but has received little computational attention. Emotional validati…

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Toward Signing Activity Projection in Sign Language Interaction

Takao Obi, Wang Yusong, Koji Inoue +1

Social robots must interact robustly not only with users assumed by speech-centered systems but also with diverse users whose communication relies on different modalities, e.g., si…

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Emotion Transcription in Conversation: A Benchmark for Capturing Subtle and Complex Emotional States through Natural Language

Yoshiki Tanaka, Ryuichi Uehara, Koji Inoue +1

Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) is critical for enabling natural human-machine interactions. However, existing methods predominantly employ categorical or dimensional emo…