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Dialog2Flow: Pre-training Soft-Contrastive Action-Driven Sentence Embeddings for Automatic Dialog Flow Extraction
Sergio Burdisso, Srikanth Madikeri, Petr Motlicek
Efficiently deriving structured workflows from unannotated dialogs remains an underexplored and formidable challenge in computational linguistics. Automating this process could sig…
Performance evaluation of SLAM-ASR: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Way Forward
Shashi Kumar, Iuliia Thorbecke, Sergio Burdisso +7
Recent research has demonstrated that training a linear connector between speech foundation encoders and large language models (LLMs) enables this architecture to achieve strong AS…
Mapping the Media Landscape: Predicting Factual Reporting and Political Bias Through Web Interactions
Dairazalia Sánchez-Cortés, Sergio Burdisso, Esaú Villatoro-Tello +1
Bias assessment of news sources is paramount for professionals, organizations, and researchers who rely on truthful evidence for information gathering and reporting. While certain…
Fast Streaming Transducer ASR Prototyping via Knowledge Distillation with Whisper
Iuliia Thorbecke, Juan Zuluaga-Gomez, Esaú Villatoro-Tello +6
The training of automatic speech recognition (ASR) with little to no supervised data remains an open question. In this work, we demonstrate that streaming Transformer-Transducer (T…
TokenVerse: Towards Unifying Speech and NLP Tasks via Transducer-based ASR
Shashi Kumar, Srikanth Madikeri, Juan Zuluaga-Gomez +6
In traditional conversational intelligence from speech, a cascaded pipeline is used, involving tasks such as voice activity detection, diarization, transcription, and subsequent pr…
DAIC-WOZ: On the Validity of Using the Therapist's prompts in Automatic Depression Detection from Clinical Interviews
Sergio Burdisso, Ernesto Reyes-Ramírez, Esaú Villatoro-Tello +3
Automatic depression detection from conversational data has gained significant interest in recent years. The DAIC-WOZ dataset, interviews conducted by a human-controlled virtual ag…
Reliability Estimation of News Media Sources: Birds of a Feather Flock Together
Sergio Burdisso, Dairazalia Sánchez-Cortés, Esaú Villatoro-Tello +1
Evaluating the reliability of news sources is a routine task for journalists and organizations committed to acquiring and disseminating accurate information. Recent research has sh…