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 Out of these, 14 papers were accepted for this volume, 1 was withdrawn, 2 excluded as no-show cancellations, resulting in: 12 as regular papers and 0 as short paper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