21 papers
Controlling Implicit Shortcut Reliance in L2 Spoken English Auto-markers
Shilin Gao, Mark J. F. Gales, Kate M. Knill
Increasingly, speech and language processing tasks take either audio or text directly rather than extracting features from these as the input to the classifier or regressor. Often…
Data Augmentation for L2 English Speaking Assessment using TTS
Stefano Bannò, Penny Karanasou, Mengjie Qian +2
Automated assessment of second language (L2) speaking proficiency relies on large-scale annotated speech data, which remains scarce compared to widely available written learner cor…
Detect, Attend and Extract: Keyword Guided Target Speaker Extraction
Haoyu Li, Yu Xi, Yidi Jiang +5
Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to extract the speech of a target speaker from mixtures containing multiple competing speakers. Conventional TSE systems predominantly rely on…
To Be Multimodal or Not to Be: Query-Adaptive Audio-Visual Person Retrieval via Active Modality Detection
Erfan Loweimi, Mengjie Qian, Kate Knill +7
When retrieving a person from a video archive by voice and face, should the system be multimodal or not? In real-world broadcast archives, unlike curated benchmarks, a target may b…
Who can we trust? LLM-as-a-jury for Comparative Assessment
Mengjie Qian, Guangzhi Sun, Mark J. F. Gales +1
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied as automatic evaluators for natural language generation assessment often using pairwise comparative judgements. Existing appro…
The Impact of Editorial Intervention on Detecting Native Language Traces
Ahmet Yavuz Uluslu, Mark Gales, Kate Knill +1
Native Language Identification (NLI) is the task of determining an author's native language (L1) from their non-native writing. With the advent of human-AI co-authorship, learner t…