This year’s conference theme is: Conversational Systems for Emotional Support and Customer Assistance. We especially invite paper submissions on the following topics:

- User engagement and emotion in dialogue systems
- Proactive, anticipatory, or incremental interaction
- Use of humor and metaphors in dialogue systems
- Multimodal and situated dialogue systems
- Companions and personal assistant dialogue systems
- Educational and healthcare applications
- Big data and large scale dialogue systems
- Digital resources for interactive dialogue management
- Domain transfer and adaptation techniques for dialogue systems
- Dialogue systems for low-resource languages
- Multilingual dialogue systems
- Dialogue system evaluation
- Machine learning for dialogue systems
- Interaction styles in dialogue systems
- LLMs in task-oriented dialogue systems
- LLMs for context tracking and management in dialogue systems
- Ensuring safety and explainability in LLM-powered dialogue systems
- Grounded, personalized and adaptive response generation in dialogue systems
- Mitigating harmful, toxic, or biased language generation in dialogue systems
- Large-scale, high-quality dialogue corpora collection, annotation, labeling and evaluation

However, submissions are not limited to these topics and we encourage you to submit papers in all areas of natural language dialogue systems.