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🔒 Double-blind | ACL two-column format | Original & unpublished work only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