@inproceedings{arora-etal-2026-optimizing, title = "Optimizing Conversational Quality in Spoken Dialogue Systems with Reinforcement Learning from {AI} Feedback", author = "Arora, Siddhant and Tian, Jinchuan and Shi, Jiatong and Futami, Hayato and Kashiwagi, Yosuke and Tsunoo, Emiru and Watanabe, Shinji", editor = "Liakata, Maria and Moreira, Viviane P. and Zhang, Jiajun and Jurgens, David", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {ACL} 2026", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.findings-acl.2040/", pages = "41049--41066", ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1" }