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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…
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…