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Paragraph Segmentation Revisited: Towards a Standard Task for Structuring Speech

Fabian Retkowski, Alexander Waibel

Automatic speech transcripts are often delivered as unstructured word streams that impede readability and repurposing. We recast paragraph segmentation as the missing structuring s…

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BOOM: Beyond Only One Modality KIT's Multimodal Multilingual Lecture Companion

Sai Koneru, Fabian Retkowski, Christian Huber +5

The globalization of education and rapid growth of online learning have made localizing educational content a critical challenge. Lecture materials are inherently multimodal, combi…

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The AI Co-Ethnographer: How Far Can Automation Take Qualitative Research?

Fabian Retkowski, Andreas Sudmann, Alexander Waibel

Qualitative research often involves labor-intensive processes that are difficult to scale while preserving analytical depth. This paper introduces The AI Co-Ethnographer (AICoE), a…

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Summarizing Speech: A Comprehensive Survey

Fabian Retkowski, Maike Züfle, Andreas Sudmann +4

Speech summarization has become an essential tool for efficiently managing and accessing the growing volume of spoken and audiovisual content. However, despite its increasing impor…

cs.CL2025

Zero-Shot Strategies for Length-Controllable Summarization

Fabian Retkowski, Alexander Waibel

Large language models (LLMs) struggle with precise length control, particularly in zero-shot settings. We conduct a comprehensive study evaluating LLMs' length control capabilities…