@article{multiturnconversationalaifromtexttomulti, title = {Multi-turn Conversational AI from Text to Multimodal Interaction: Data, Models, Evaluation, and Open Challenges}, author = {Syeda Faiza Ahmed and Zien Sheikh Ali and Hunzalah Hassan Bhatti and Firoj Alam and Shammur Absar Chowdhury}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2608.17605}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.17605}, }