Dear all, WOCHAT 2026 (Workshop on Chatbots and Agentic Technologies) is calling for papers. The venue is co-located with SIGDIAL 2026 @ Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, August 2nd, 2026.
We're looking for original research on: → Agentic & goal-driven dialogue systems → Multi-agent coordination & negotiation → Multimodal grounding (text, speech, vision) → Commonsense reasoning & theory of mind in dialogue → Emotion modeling beyond basic categories → Robustness, safety & trustworthiness in conversational AI → Evaluation beyond surface fluency → Dialogue in finance, healthcare, legal, cybersecurity & more
Important Dates: 📅 Submission Deadline: June 1st, 2026 (AoE) 📅 Notification of acceptance: June 22nd, 2026
Format: 📄 Long papers (max 8 pages) | Short papers (max 4 pages) 🔒 Double-blind | ACL two-column format | Original & unpublished work only
If your work pushes dialogue systems beyond surface-level responses, this is your venue. 📋 Full CFP: https://sites.google.com/view/wochat2026/call-for-papers
See you in Atlanta!
(s.) Mahed Mousavi, Ph.D. Assistant Professor (RTD-A) Dept. of Information Engineering & Computer Science University of Trento