LaCATODA 2026
Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents Workshop 2026

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 21 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 14 papers were accepted for this volume, 1 was withdrawn, 2 excluded as no-show cancellations, resulting in: 12 as regular papers and 0 as short paper

Regular Papers

• Personality Expression Across Contexts: Linguistic and Behavioral Variation in LLM Agents 1-13
  Bin Han , Deuksin Kwon , Jonathan Gratch
• Rethinking Dialogue Disentanglement for LLMs via Dialogue-Level Assignment and Subsequent Context 14-37
  Naoki Takada , Tatsunori Mori
• Adaptive Multi-Agent Response Refinement in Conversational Systems 38-70
  Soyeong Jeong , Aparna Elangovan , Emine Yilmaz , Oleg Rokhlenko
• PhishLLM: Generating Japanese Phishing Emails to Test Cross-Lingual Generalization in English-Trained Models 71-81
  René Meléndez , Michal Ptaszynski , Fumito Masui
• End-to-End Assessment of Product Review Helpfulness Using Subjective and Objective Information 82-93
  Yuta Nakajima , Michal Ptaszynski , Fumito Masui
• Evaluating LLM Alignment under Big Five Personality Prompting 94-105
  Hsien-Te Kao , Svitlana Volkova
• Partial Reasoning in Language Models: Search and Refinement Guided by Uncertainty 106-116
  Murilo da Luz , Bruno Brandão , Luana Martins , Gustavo Oliveira , Bryan de Oliveira , Luckeciano Melo , Telma Soares
• Can LLMs Mediate Synchronous Dispute Dialogues? 117-131
  James Hale , HanMoe Kim , Ahyoung Choi , Peter H. Kim , Jonathan Gratch
• Evaluating Lightweight Embedding Guardrails for Cost-Effective Misalignment Mitigation in Export Control Dialog System 132-143
  Rafal Rzepka , Shinji Muraji , Akihiko Obayashi
• 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 144-159
  Shinji Muraji , Rafal Rzepka , Toshihiko Itoh
• iCARE: Ontology-Guided Intent Routing for Multi-Agent LLM-Based Dialogue Systems 160-171
  Nirmalie Wiratunga , Vihanga Ashinsana Wijayasekara , Ikechukwu Nkisi-Orji , Pedram Salimi , Kyle Martin , Cristina Bolaños
• A Novel Neuro-symbolic Approach to Irony Detection Based on Structural Components of Ironic Statements 172-183
  Hiroshi Shigenobu , Michal Ptaszynski , Shunsuke Dan , Fumito Masui , Yuzu Uchida , Rafal Rzepka

Invited Talk

• Invited Talk: Metaphorical Cognition and Its Computational Practices 184
  Rui Mao