CFP - WOCHAT2026: Workshop on Chatbots and Agentic Technologies

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: 
CFP - WOCHAT2026
Location: 
Emory University
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Sunday, 2 August 2026
State: 
Georgia
Country: 
USA
City: 
Atlanta
Contact: 
S. Mahed Mousavi
Luis F. D’Haro
Koichiro Yoshino
Rafael E. Banchs
Anmol Guragain
Submission Deadline: 
Monday, 1 June 2026

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Double-blind | ACL two-column format | Original & unpublished work only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!