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most citedMultiPA: A Multi-task Speech Pronunciation Assessment Model for Open Response Scenarios

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eess.AS2026

When Vocal Tone and Literal Meaning Diverge: An Acoustic-Semantic Incongruity Study for Large Audio-Language Models

Yu-Wen Chen, William Ho, Maxim Topaz +2

Affective cues across modalities may be incongruous (e.g., sarcasm or mocking praise), potentially leading to misinterpretation when relying on a single modality. Large Audio-Langu…

eess.AS2026

An Audio Language Model-Based Voice Concept Bottleneck Framework for Interpretable Health Assessment

Yu-Wen Chen, Julia Hirschberg

Interpretability is critical in clinical decision support. Concept bottleneck frameworks improve it by representing inputs as human-understandable concepts and restricting predicti…

eess.AS2025

Hearing Health in Home Healthcare: Leveraging LLMs for Illness Scoring and ALMs for Vocal Biomarker Extraction

Yu-Wen Chen, William Ho, Sasha M. Vergez +8

The growing demand for home healthcare calls for tools that can support care delivery. In this study, we explore automatic health assessment from voice using real-world home care v…

eess.AS2025

Read to Hear: A Zero-Shot Pronunciation Assessment Using Textual Descriptions and LLMs

Yu-Wen Chen, Melody Ma, Julia Hirschberg

Automatic pronunciation assessment is typically performed by acoustic models trained on audio-score pairs. Although effective, these systems provide only numerical scores, without…

eess.AS2025

From Who Said What to Who They Are: Modular Training-free Identity-Aware LLM Refinement of Speaker Diarization

Yu-Wen Chen, William Ho, Maxim Topaz +2

Speaker diarization (SD) remains challenging in real-world scenarios due to dynamic environments and unknown speaker numbers. SD is rarely used alone and is typically paired with a…

eess.AS2025

Adaptable Non-parametric Approach for Speech-based Symptom Assessment: Isolating Private Medical Data in a Retrieval Datastore

Yu-Wen Chen, Julia Hirschberg

The automatic assessment of health-related acoustic cues has the potential to improve healthcare accessibility and affordability. Although parametric models are promising, they fac…

cs.CL2024

Exploring Robustness in Doctor-Patient Conversation Summarization: An Analysis of Out-of-Domain SOAP Notes

Yu-Wen Chen, Julia Hirschberg

Summarizing medical conversations poses unique challenges due to the specialized domain and the difficulty of collecting in-domain training data. In this study, we investigate the…

cs.SI2024

What Makes A Video Radicalizing? Identifying Sources of Influence in QAnon Videos

Lin Ai, Yu-Wen Chen, Yuwen Yu +3

In recent years, radicalization is being increasingly attempted on video-sharing platforms. Previous studies have been proposed to identify online radicalization using generic soci…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

MultiPA: A Multi-task Speech Pronunciation Assessment Model for Open Response Scenarios

Yu-Wen Chen, Zhou Yu, Julia Hirschberg

Pronunciation assessment models designed for open response scenarios enable users to practice language skills in a manner similar to real-life communication. However, previous open…