SIGDIAL 2025 recognizes outstanding contributions with Best Paper Award. All accepted papers were eligible.
Best paper
Multi-Lingual Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition with Multi-Label Hierarchical Learning
by Nelson Filipe Costa and Leila Kosseim


Nominees for Best paper award
Multi-Lingual Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition with Multi-Label Hierarchical Learning
Nelson Filipe Costa and Leila Kosseim
Identification and Analysis of Identity-Centric Elements of Character-Likeness in Game Scenario
Shinji Iwata, Koya Ihara, Shiki Sato, Jun Baba, Asahi Hentona, Masahiro Yamazaki, Yuki Shiotsuka, Takahiro Ishizue and Akifumi Yoshimoto
Exploring Factors Influencing Hospitality in Mobile Robot Guidance: A Wizard-of-Oz Study with a Teleoperated Humanoid Robot
Ao Guo, Shota Mochizuki, Sanae Yamashita, Saya Nikaido, Tomoko Isomura and Ryuichiro Higashinaka
Using LLMs to Grade Clinical Reasoning for Medical Students in Virtual Patient Dialogues
Jonathan Schiƶtt, William Ivegren, Alexander Borg, Ioannis Parodis and Gabriel Skantze
DocTalk: Scalable Graph-based Dialogue Synthesis for Enhancing LLM Conversational Capabilities
Jing Yang JY Lee, Hamed Bonab, Nasser Zalmout, Ming Zeng, Sanket Lokegaonkar, Colin Lockard, Binxuan Huang, Ritesh Sarkhel and Haodong Wang