🚀 The IWSDS 2026 program is live!
3 keynotes • special sessions • panels • posters • social events
⏰ Early registration ends Jan 26
https://t.co/BS2RzBxQqi
#IWSDS2026#AI#SpokenDialogue
📩 The acceptance notifications for IWSDS 2026 have just been sent. A sincere thank you to all authors, reviewers, and chairs for their work and contributions. We look forward to welcoming everyone in Trento!
🧮 Counting to 10 is easy, unless you’re a Vision-Language Model.
Our new study dissects why VLMs fail at basic reasoning & how we can teach them to do better (= +21% accuracy).
🧠 Towards models that don’t just see, but reason!!
🔗 https://t.co/LABQWnaq4g
⏰🚨 DEADLINE DAY!
Today is the last day to submit to #IWSDS2026.
📝 1st Draft Submission closes Oct 22, 2025 AOE (today!)
🔁 Don't worry! You can update your submission till Oct 28th! We look forward to your contributions!
Thrilled to announce another #IWSDS26 keynote
Title: “Towards Meaningful Control of Multimodal XR Experiences and the Role of Spoken Dialogue”
by Professor Giulio Jacucci, University of Helsinki
https://t.co/BS2RzBxQqi
📅 Feb 26–Mar 1, 2026 | Trento, Italy
📢 Deadline Extension Announcement – #IWSDS2026
Pleased to announce that the submission deadlines have been extended:
📝 Paper Submission (PDF) Deadline:
Oct 12, 2025 → Oct 22nd, 2025
🔄 Paper Update (PDF) Deadline:
Oct 18, 2025 → October 28th, 2025
Thrilled to announce another #IWSDS26 keynote
Title: “Toward Socially Intelligent Dialogue Systems: From Foundational Models to Mental Models”
by Professor @real_asli , Meta FAIR & Uni Washington
📅 Feb 26–Mar 1, 2026 | Trento, Italy 🇮🇹
Delighted to announce one of the keynote talks at #IWSDS26 🏔️:
Title: “Towards more Human-like Conversational Agents: Opportunities and Challenges”
by Professor @GabrielSkantze , KTH Royal Institute of Tech., Sweden.
📅 Join us in Trento, Italy, February 26 – March 1, 2026.
🚀 Pleased to announce the 2nd Special Session at #IWSDS26:
🎯 “Human-Machine Dialogue in the Era of Multimodal Foundation Models”
📅 Submission deadline: Oct 12, 2025
🔗 https://t.co/lwoUS0XKTu
Trento, Italy 🇮🇹 | Feb 26 – Mar 1, 2026
#ConversationalAI#LLM#FoundationModel
🚀 Exciting news! #IWSDS26 will feature an #Industry Track 🎯 to reinforce knowledge sharing across academia and industry.
📝 Submission platform is now OPEN!
📅 Deadline: Oct 12, 2025
🔗 https://t.co/9hMapQf3rf
Join us in Trento 🇮🇹, Feb 26 – Mar 1, 2026!
🤖#VLM shine on benchmarks📈! But do they truly understand scenes? CIVET takes full control of stimuli to systematically evaluate VLMs re object properties, position, & relations. Spoiler⚠️: There’s still a gap to bridge.
C U @emnlpmeeting
https://t.co/QklbNDZ1VD
#EMNLP2025
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We’re excited to announce IWSDS 2026 will take place Feb 26 – Mar 1, 2026 in Trento🇮🇹! 🏔️✨
📢 Call for Papers is now open!
🔗 https://t.co/Rgbufkvwp2 #IWSDS26#ConversationalAI@UniTrento@UniTrento_DISI