3 papers
cs.CL2025
Conditions for Catastrophic Forgetting in Multilingual Translation
Danni Liu, Jan Niehues
Fine-tuning multilingual foundation models on specific languages often induces catastrophic forgetting, degrading performance on languages unseen in fine-tuning. While this phenome…
cs.CL2024
Optimizing Rare Word Accuracy in Direct Speech Translation with a Retrieval-and-Demonstration Approach
Siqi Li, Danni Liu, Jan Niehues
Direct speech translation (ST) models often struggle with rare words. Incorrect translation of these words can have severe consequences, impacting translation quality and user trus…
cs.CL2024
Augmenting Automatic Speech Recognition Models with Disfluency Detection
Robin Amann, Zhaolin Li, Barbara Bruno +1
Speech disfluency commonly occurs in conversational and spontaneous speech. However, standard Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models struggle to accurately recognize these disfl…