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Speaker or Language? Explaining Variance in Charismatic Prosody Across Luxembourgish and French
Nina Hosseini-Kivanani, Nafiseh Taghva, Peter Gilles +1
Charismatic speech is shaped by language and speaking style, yet their relative contribution in bilingual public speaking remains unclear. We analyzed spontaneous speeches of 10 po…
Speaker-Specific and Language-Dependent Temporal Organization in Bilingual Political Speech
Nina Hosseini-Kivanani, Nafiseh Taghva, Peter Gilles +1
Speech rhythm helps structure persuasive speech, but most empirical work examines monolingual English. This study asks how politicians organize timing when speaking Luxembourgish a…
Simple Language Normalization Wins: Cross-Lingual Speaker Verification for the TidyVoice 2026 Challenge
Nina Hosseini-Kivanani
Cross-lingual mismatch remains a key source of overall degradation in modern speaker verification. The TidyVoice2026 Challenge targets this setting with text-independent verificati…
LuxSQA: Ask Me in Luxembourgish with TTS-Augmented Spoken Question Answering
Nina Hosseini-Kivanani, Marco Matassoni, Alessio Brutti
Spoken Question Answering (SQA) remains largely focused on high-resource languages and carefully recorded speech, limiting the reach of speech-LLM methods in low-resource settings.…
LuxEmo: Expressive Text-to-Speech Corpus for Luxembourgish
Nina Hosseini-Kivanani, Sandipana Dowerah
State-of-the-art speech datasets predominantly focus on widely spoken languages, often overlooking low-resource languages such as Luxembourgish, which remain underrepresented in sp…
Do LLMs Know What Luxembourgish Borrows? Probing Lexical Neology in Low-Resource Multilingual Models
Nina Hosseini-Kivanani
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for writing assistance in small contact languages, yet it is unclear whether they respect community norms around lexical borrowin…
LuxBorrow: From Pompier to Pompjee, Tracing Borrowing in Luxembourgish
Nina Hosseini-Kivanani, Fred Philippy
We present LuxBorrow, a borrowing-first analysis of Luxembourgish (LU) news spanning 27 years (1999-2025), covering 259,305 RTL articles and 43.7M tokens. Our pipeline combines sen…
PolyFrame at MWE-2026 AdMIRe 2: When Words Are Not Enough: Multimodal Idiom Disambiguation
Nina Hosseini-Kivanani
Multimodal models struggle with idiomatic expressions due to their non-compositional meanings, a challenge amplified in multilingual settings. We introduced PolyFrame, our system f…
A Parallel Cross-Lingual Benchmark for Multimodal Idiomaticity Understanding
Dilara Torunoğlu-Selamet, Dogukan Arslan, Rodrigo Wilkens +75
Potentially idiomatic expressions (PIEs) construe meanings inherently tied to the everyday experience of a given language community. As such, they constitute an interesting challen…
50 questions on Active Assisted Living technologies. Global edition
Francisco Florez-Revuelta, Alin Ake-Kob, Pau Climent-Perez +23
This booklet on Active Assisted Living (AAL) technologies has been created as part of the GoodBrother COST Action, which has run from 2020 to 2024. COST Actions are European resear…
Experiments of ASR-based mispronunciation detection for children and adult English learners
Nina Hosseini-Kivanani, Roberto Gretter, Marco Matassoni +1
Pronunciation is one of the fundamentals of language learning, and it is considered a primary factor of spoken language when it comes to an understanding and being understood by ot…