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Dialogue, generation & summarization

20 labs at 13 universities work on dialogue, generation & summarization (part of Natural Language Processing). Most at Edinburgh, Peking and Georgia Tech. 18 published in 2026.

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20 labs at 13 universities work on dialogue, generation & summarization. Most at 3, 3, 2. 18 of them published in 2026, mostly at EMNLP, ACL and Findings of EMNLP. Earliest deadline: , Dec 1.

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CNTsinghuaDepartment of Computer Science and TechnologyFeb 28

Minlie HuangProfessor, PhD

Works on natural language processing, including dialogue systems, language generation, question answering, and sentiment analysis.

Dialogue, generation & summarization
Knowledge, QA & retrieval

2026BARREL: Boundary-Aware Reasoning for Factual and Reliable LRMsICLR
2026Be Careful When Fine-tuning On Open-Source LLMs: Your Fine-tuning Data Could Be Secretly StolenICLR

68 T1 · 89 papers · Group size not listed

CNPekingWangxuan Institute of Computer TechnologyJan 15

Xiaojun Wan研究员

Researches natural language processing and text mining, including text generation, summarization and LLM evaluation.

Dialogue, generation & summarization
Large language models

2026DecoCal: Decoding with Calibration in Diffusion Large Language ModelsACL
2026Dynamic Multimodal Evaluation via Knowledge-Enhanced Benchmark EvolutionICML

44 T1 · 74 papers · 9 members · 44 alumni

SGNUSDepartment of Computer ScienceDec 15

Yi-Chieh LeeAssistant Professor

Designs conversational AI agents for mental well-being and behaviour change, working in HCI, CSCW and human-centred AI.

Accessibility, health & wellbeing
Interfaces & interaction techniques
Dialogue, generation & summarization

2026Affective and Goal-Oriented Factors of Relationship Formation in the Digital Therapeutic Alliance: A Longitudinal Study of Mental Health ChatbotsCHI
2026AI Personalization Paradox: Reading Highlights for Personalized AI-Assisted Writing Increases Engagement but Undermines Autonomy and OwnershipCHI

32 T1 · 51 papers · 12 members · 21 alumni

USUSCComputer ScienceDec 15

Jonathan MayResearch Associate Professor of Computer Science

Researches machine translation, low-resource languages and natural language generation at ISI.

Multilingual, translation & linguistics
Dialogue, generation & summarization

2026GTA: Generating Long-horizon Tasks for Web Agents at ScaleACL
2026How Language Models Process NegationICML

31 T1 · 53 papers · 16 members · 8 alumni

CATorontoDepartment of Mechanical & Industrial EngineeringDec 1

Scott SannerAssociate Professor

Leads the D3M lab on conversational recommender systems, sequential decision-making and applied machine learning.

Reinforcement learning
Recommendation, search & web
Dialogue, generation & summarization

2026CommonWhy: A Dataset for Evaluating Entity-Based Causal Commonsense Reasoning in Large Language ModelsSIGIR
2026Efficient Modality Translation via Arbitrary Conditioning and Wasserstein RegularizationAAAI

30 T1 · 69 papers · 12 members · 32 alumni

USGeorgia TechSchool of Interactive ComputingDec 15

Wei XuAssociate Professor

Studies natural language processing, including text generation, stylistics, information extraction and writing assistance.

Knowledge, QA & retrieval
Dialogue, generation & summarization

2026Camellia: Benchmarking Cultural Biases in LLMs for Asian LanguagesEMNLP
2026Do Vision-Language Models Respect Contextual Integrity in Location Disclosure?ICLR

30 T1 · 38 papers · 13 members · 14 alumni

CNPekingSchool of Computer ScienceJan 15

Sujian LiAssociate Professor with Tenure

Researches natural language processing, including automatic summarization and discourse analysis.

Dialogue, generation & summarization

2026DocLens: A Tool-Augmented Multi-Agent Framework for Long Visual Document UnderstandingACL
2026Learning To Draft: Adaptive Speculative Decoding with Reinforcement LearningICLR

24 T1 · 44 papers · Group size not listed

GBEdinburghSchool of Informatics

Catherine LaiLecturer in Speech and Language Processing

Studies spoken language, especially prosody and its role in conversation, using speech technology and computational analysis.

Speech recognition & spoken language
Dialogue, generation & summarization

2026The Sound of Silencing: Identities and Ideologies in Commercial Text-To-SpeechCHI
2026MaiChat: A Text-based Dialogue Corpus Rich In Conversational FeaturesLREC

13 T1 · 27 papers · 7 members · 7 alumni

GBEdinburghSchool of Informatics

Frank KellerProfessor

Works on natural language processing and cognitive science, especially language and vision tasks such as image description, visual grounding and video…

Multimodal & grounded language
Dialogue, generation & summarization
Computational neuroscience & cognition

2026Generating Visual Stories with Grounded and Coreferent CharactersTACL
2026Contrastive Learning with Narrative Twins for Modeling Story SalienceEACL

9 T1 · 26 papers · 6 members · 30 alumni

CNSJTUSchool of Computer ScienceMay 31

Kai YuDistinguished Professor

Directs the Institute of Machine Intelligence and the X-LANCE lab, working on speech recognition, spoken dialogue and conversational AI.

Speech recognition & spoken language
Affective & health speech
Dialogue, generation & summarization

2026AHAMask: Reliable Task Specification for Large Audio Language Models without InstructionsAAAI
2026DiSRouter: Distributed Self-Routing for LLM SelectionsICLR

9 T1 · 16 papers · Group size not listed

USUWElectrical and Computer EngineeringDec 15

Mari OstendorfSystem Design Methodologies Professor; Vice Provost for Research

Researches speech and language processing, including conversational AI and computational models of prosody.

Speech recognition & spoken language
Affective & health speech
Dialogue, generation & summarization

2026Privacy-preserving Prosody Representation LearningACL
2026RadTimeline: Timeline Summarization for Longitudinal Radiological Lung FindingsLREC

9 T1 · 14 papers · 8 members · 9 alumni

USGeorgia TechSchool of Interactive ComputingDec 15

Larry HeckProfessor

Researches conversational AI and dialogue systems, including spoken language understanding and virtual assistants.

Dialogue, generation & summarization
Speech recognition & spoken language
Affective & health speech

2026Emotions Where Art Thou: Understanding and Characterizing the Emotional Latent Space of Large Language ModelsICLR
2025SensorQA: A Question Answering Benchmark for Daily-Life MonitoringSenSys

7 T1 · 15 papers · Group size not listed

GBEdinburghSchool of Informatics

Jeff DaltonChancellor's Fellow

Leads the GRILL lab, developing methods for machine understanding of language and data, including conversational information retrieval and knowledge-grounded…

Knowledge, QA & retrieval
Dialogue, generation & summarization
Recommendation, search & web

2024Doing Personal LAPS: LLM-Augmented Dialogue Construction for Personalized Multi-Session Conversational SearchSIGIR
2024GRILLBot In Practice: Lessons and Tradeoffs Deploying Large Language Models for Adaptable Conversational Task AssistantsKDD

6 T1 · 10 papers · 7 members · 8 alumni

CNPekingSchool of Computer ScienceJan 15

Xu SunAssociate Professor with Tenure

Leads the LANCO group, researching natural language generation, multimodal NLP and machine learning for language.

Dialogue, generation & summarization
Multimodal & grounded language
Vision-language & multimodal

2026Conan: Progressive Learning to Reason Like a Detective over Multi-Scale Visual EvidenceCVPR
2026Investigating Cross-Modal Skill Injection: Scenarios, Methods, and HyperparametersACL

5 T1 · 8 papers · 8 members · 26 alumni

CATorontoFaculty of InformationDec 1

Anastasia KuzminykhAssistant Professor

Studies human-AI interaction, including how people perceive and work with conversational agents.

Human-AI collaboration & trust
Dialogue, generation & summarization
Affective & health speech

2026Beyond Explainable AI (XAI): An Overdue Paradigm Shift and Post-XAI Research Directions
2026Collaboration with NPCs Through Natural Language Interactionthe International Conference on Entertainment Computing

4 T1 · 40 papers · 8 members · 28 alumni

GBUCLDepartment of Computer Science

Amid AyobiAssociate Professor in Digital Health

Designs conversational AI systems and human-centred tools that support self-care for people living with chronic conditions such as multiple sclerosis and…

Accessibility, health & wellbeing
Dialogue, generation & summarization
Affective & health speech

2026"The chat can actually help you gauge what you're seeing": Co-Designing an LLM-Based User Reporting Tool in the Context of Ambiguous Targeted Harassment with UK Instagram UsersNordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
2026Activity Trackers and WearablesThe Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cyberpsychology

3 T1 · 20 papers · Group size not listed

CNTsinghuaDepartment of Computer Science and TechnologyFeb 28

Hua XuAssociate Professor

Works on multimodal intelligent information processing, including multimodal intent recognition and dialogue, and intelligent optimization.

Multimodal & grounded language
Dialogue, generation & summarization
Vision-language & multimodal

2026Concept-Guided Reinforcement Learning and the ERAS Benchmark for Explainable Multi-modal Sentiment AnalysisProceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM '26), Portland, OR, USA, .
2026HEQP: A Hypergraph Neural Network-Based Evolutionary Method for Large-Scale QCQPsIEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, .

1 T1 · 25 papers · 4 members · 20 alumni

GBCambridgeComputer Science and TechnologyDec 8

Ann CopestakeProfessor of Computational Linguistics

Works on formal representation in NLP, compositional and lexical semantics and natural language generation, and is the original developer of the LKB grammar…

Dialogue, generation & summarization
Multilingual, translation & linguistics

No recent papers listed.

0 T1 · 0 papers · Group size not listed

USUIUCSiebel School of Computing and Data ScienceDec 1

Dilek Hakkani-TurProfessor

Studies conversational AI, including spoken dialogue systems, language understanding and large language models for dialogue.

Dialogue, generation & summarization
Large language models
Data management & big data

2026A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: MTQE Rewards for Idioms Improve General Translation QualityIshika Agarwal, Zhenlin He, Dhruva Patil, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
2026AURA: A Diagnostic Framework for Tracking User Satisfaction of Interactive Planning AgentsTakyoung Kim*, Janvijay Singh*, Shuhaib Mehri*, Emre Can Acikgoz, Sagnik Mukherjee, Nimet Beyza Bozdag, Sumuk Shashidhar, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

0 T1 · 70 papers · 16 members · 2 alumni

USUT AustinDepartment of LinguisticsDec 15

Junyi Jessy LiAssociate Professor

Works on discourse processing, natural language generation, pragmatics and language-model alignment.

Dialogue, generation & summarization
Interpretability, evaluation & safety of LMs
Trustworthy & safe ML

2026CROCODIL: Cross-Model Code Editing with LLMsFindings of EMNLP
2026Decide less, communicate more: On the construct validity of end-to-end fact-checking in medicineFindings of ACL

0 T1 · 56 papers · 9 members · 20 alumni

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Minlie HuangProfessor, PhD

Xiaojun Wan研究员

Yi-Chieh LeeAssistant Professor

Jonathan MayResearch Associate Professor of Computer Science

Scott SannerAssociate Professor

Wei XuAssociate Professor

Sujian LiAssociate Professor with Tenure

Catherine LaiLecturer in Speech and Language Processing

Frank KellerProfessor

Kai YuDistinguished Professor

Mari OstendorfSystem Design Methodologies Professor; Vice Provost for Research

Larry HeckProfessor

Jeff DaltonChancellor's Fellow

Xu SunAssociate Professor with Tenure

Anastasia KuzminykhAssistant Professor

Amid AyobiAssociate Professor in Digital Health

Hua XuAssociate Professor

Ann CopestakeProfessor of Computational Linguistics

Dilek Hakkani-TurProfessor

Junyi Jessy LiAssociate Professor

Where they areClick a university to narrow the list

Other topics in Natural Language Processing

I want to research dialogue, generation & summarization in anywhere.

Minlie HuangProfessor, PhD

Xiaojun Wan研究员

Yi-Chieh LeeAssistant Professor

Jonathan MayResearch Associate Professor of Computer Science

Scott SannerAssociate Professor

Wei XuAssociate Professor

Sujian LiAssociate Professor with Tenure

Catherine LaiLecturer in Speech and Language Processing

Frank KellerProfessor

Kai YuDistinguished Professor

Mari OstendorfSystem Design Methodologies Professor; Vice Provost for Research

Larry HeckProfessor

Jeff DaltonChancellor's Fellow

Xu SunAssociate Professor with Tenure

Anastasia KuzminykhAssistant Professor

Amid AyobiAssociate Professor in Digital Health

Hua XuAssociate Professor

Ann CopestakeProfessor of Computational Linguistics

Dilek Hakkani-TurProfessor

Junyi Jessy LiAssociate Professor