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Dear all, We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for the 16th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS 2026) https://sites.google.com/unitn.it/iwsds26/ has been extended:

*Important Dates (Extended):*

* Paper Submission Deadline: October 12 → *Extended to October 22, 2025* * Paper Update Deadline: October 18 →*Extended to October 28, 2025* * Acceptance Notification: December 10, 2025

*Workshop Dates: February 26 – March 1, 2026*

We invite submissions of long papers, short papers, position papers, industry track papers, and demonstrations on a broad range of topics related to the Theoretical Foundations, Systems and Methods, and Applications of spoken and multimodal dialogue systems.

Accepted papers will be included in the ACL Anthology.

This year’s theme is: 🎯“Human-Machine Dialogue in the Era of Multimodal Foundation Models”

Location: Trento, Italy – the gateway to the Dolomites, right after the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics

Website & CfP: https://sites.google.com/unitn.it/iwsds26/ Twitter/X: https://x.com/iwsdsmeeting Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/iwsdsmeeting.bsky.social

(s.) Mahed Mousavi, Ph.D. IWSDS'26 Program Chair Assistant Professor (RTD-A), University of Trento https://sites.google.com/unitn.it/iwsds26/