9th Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialog Agents (LaCATODA 2024)

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These are the proceedings of the ninth Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialog Agents (LaCATODA 2024), which was held at Kyoto University, Japan on

November 19, 2024 as a part of the Pacific Rim International Conference on

Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2024) Nine papers were submitted to the workshop of which seven were accepted (six long and one short) to be presented during the workshop. The submissions were reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Keynote talk titled "7 Pillars for the Future of AI", was given by Prof. Erik

Cambria from Nanyang Technological University.

This workshop was the ninth edition of the LaCATODA series. The two first

editions were organized as symposia of the AISB/IACAP conferences in United Kingdom: the first one in 2010 in Leicester, and the second one in Birmingham.

From the third edition we have been co-located with the prestigious IJCAI

conference: in Melbourne (2017), Stockholm (2018), Macao (2019). Due to the

COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 and 2021 workshops were moved from Kyoto and Montreal to online venues. LaCATODA went hybrid at Nara in 2022 to be back to the "in person" style in 2024.

We would like to thank all authors who submitted papers, and the program

committee members for their efforts.

Detailed information about the workshop can be found at the LaCATODA 2024 site: https://sites.google.com/view/lacatoda2024/

November 2024 Rafal Rzepka, Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Siaw-Fong Chung, Jordi Vallverdú

Copyright © 2024 for the individual papers by the papers’ authors. Copying permitted for private and academic purposes. Re-publication of material from this volume requires permission by the copyright owners. This volume is published and copyrighted by its editors.

Program Chairs / Organizers / Editors:

Rafal Rzepka

Hokkaido University, Japan

Michal Ptaszynski

Kitami institute of Technology, Japan

Pawel Dybala

Jagiellonian University, Poland

Siaw-Fong Chung

National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Jordi Vallverdú

Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

Program Committee

Juuso Eronen, Prefectural University of Kumamoto, Japan Magdalena Igras-Cybulska, AGH, Poland Yasutomo Kimura, Otaru University of Commerce, Japan Liu Zhenzhen, Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan Michal Mazur, Hokkaido University, Japan Koji Murakami, Rakuten Inc., USA Karol Nowakowski, Koeki University, Japan Michal Ptaszynski, Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan Rafal Rzepka, Hokkaido University, Japan Siaw-Fong Chung, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Silaa Victor Alex, National Institute of Technology, Kushiro College, Japan Hiroki Sakaji, Hokkaido University, Japan Joanna Szwoch, Orange, Poland Marcin Skowron, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Yuzu Uchida, Hokkai-Gakuen University, Japan Katarzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska, Efrei/Esigetel, France Adam Wierzbicki, PJIIT, Poland

Regular Papers

Takuto Miura, Kiyoaki Shirai and Natthawut Kertkeidkachorn

Intimacy-aware Style Control in Dialog Response Generation…………………………..……5

Juuso Eronen and Saeun Lee

Improving English Education in Japan: Leveraging Large Language Models for Personalized and Skill-Diverse Learning…………………………………………………………………17

Kinga Lasek, Michal Ptaszynski and Fumito Masui

Japanese dialect-aware chatbot: Adapting NLP Models for Japanese Dialect Variation……….30

Shinji Muraji, Rafal Rzepka and Toshihiko Itoh

Evaluation of active generation of interlocutor profiling sentences from utterances and their implicit context……………….……………………………………………………………….45

Nongnuch Ketui, Parinthapat Pengpun, Konthee Boonmeeprakob, Pitikorn

Khlaisamniang and Thepchai Supnithi

"MAHASAMUT: AI-Powered Thai Tourism using Multimodal Agents"………………….56

Iglika Nikolova-Stoupak, Eva Schaeffer-Lacroix and Gaël Lejeune

Dialogue in Abridged Literary Texts in Japanese: Observations and Automatic Reproducibility….66

Short paper

Tereza Matějková and Pavel Ircing

"The Author was Killed by an AI - or Was It?" (short paper)…………………………….87

Invited talk (abstract)

Erik Cambria

7 Pillars for the Future of AI………….…………………………………………………93

References