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# LaCATODA 2026
Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents Workshop 2026

## Proceedings of the 10th Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents Workshop - LaCATODA 2026
co-located with the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026)

### Singapore, January 27, 2026.

Edited by

### Rafal Rzepka *
Michal Ptaszynski **
Pawel Dybala ***

* Hokkaido University, Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Sapporo, Japan
** Kitami institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Kitami, Japan
*** Jagiellonian University, Institute of The Middle and Far East, Krakow, Poland

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 Out of these, 14 papers were accepted for this volume, 1 was withdrawn, 2 excluded as no-show cancellations, resulting in: 12 as regular papers and 0 as short paper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

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