The papers listed below have been selected as "Best Papers" based on the reviews of the original submission, the camera-ready version, and the presentation during the conference. For the awarded papers, a digital award will be issued in the name of the authors. The authors of these papers are also receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Awarded Papers (also Invited for IARIA Journals)

Persona-Conditioned Emotion Classification of Conversation Using LLMs
Israel Cuevas, Andrew Mackey, Susan Gauch

Revaluation of Human Experts in AI Systems with Joint Interactive Modelling
Marjolein Deryck, Simon Vandevelde, Joost Vennekens

Genre Prediction Using RNNs and LLM-Enhanced Video Game Review Data
Gabriel Young, Susan Gauch

Improving Multi-Hop Retrieval for Question Answering via Bipartite Question-Oriented Graphs
Micah McCollum, Susan Gauch

The following papers have been selected on the basis of their contents, specificaly for lending themselves to an interesting extended work. The authors of these papers are receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Papers Invited for IARIA Journals

Proposal of the Process Governance Integrity Model -- Building a governance integrity model to prevent organizational fraud and department conflicts
Shuichiro Yamamoto

Generative AI as a Good Questioner:A RAG-Based Question Transformation Approach for Eliciting Tacit Knowledge in Software Development Organizations
Soonam Shin, Takahiro Yakoh

Collaborative Ontology Development Approach for Data Spaces
Erik Paul Konietzko, Sonika Gogineni, Kai Lindow