9 papers
InterCorrect: Intersection-Aware Correction of Demographic Model Merging for Fair ASR
Ashley E. Bravo-Bravo, Yuchen Zhang, Haralambos Mouratidis +2
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems often show uneven performance across demographic groups, and errors can be especially difficult to address for speakers belonging to mult…
Personalized Automatic Speech Recognition for a Dysarthric and Tracheostomic Speaker using Artificial Conversations
David Nadrchal, Monorama Swain, Florian Schmid +2
This work presents an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system personalized for a Czech speaker with a permanent tracheal stoma and severe dysarthria rendering their speech uninte…
What We Observe as LLM Behavior Can Be a Side-effect of Inference Backend
Shahed Masoudian, Passant Shafaei, Monorama Swain +1
Benchmark scores are reported as properties of a model, yet the inference framework used to produce them, such as HuggingFace, vLLM, or Ollama, are considered non-influential and t…
Learning Speaker Identity Beyond Language and Modality Constraints: Insights from the POLY-SIM 2026 Challenge
Marta Moscati, Muhammad Saad Saeed, Marina Zanoni +9
Multimodal speaker identification systems typically assume the availability of complete and homogeneous audio-visual modalities during both training and testing, and assume each sp…
Facet-Level Tracing of Evidence Uncertainty and Hallucination in RAG
Passant Elchafei, Monorama Swain, Shahed Masoudian +1
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) aims to reduce hallucination by grounding answers in retrieved evidence, yet hallucinated answers remain common even when relevant documents ar…
H-RAG at SemEval-2026 Task 8: Hierarchical Parent-Child Retrieval for Multi-Turn RAG Conversations
Passant Elchafei, Hossam Emam, Mohamed Alansary +2
We present H-RAG, our submission to SemEval-2026 Task 8 (MTRAGEval), addressing both Task A (Retrieval) and Task C (Generation with Retrieved Passages). Task A evaluates standalone…
POLY-SIM: Polyglot Speaker Identification with Missing Modality Grand Challenge 2026 Evaluation Plan
Marta Moscati, Muhammad Saad Saeed, Marina Zanoni +8
Multimodal speaker identification systems typically assume the availability of complete and homogeneous audio-visual modalities during both training and testing. However, in real-w…
EvalCards: A Framework for Standardized Evaluation Reporting
Ruchira Dhar, Danae Sanchez Villegas, Antonia Karamolegkou +11
Evaluation reports guide the use of general-purpose AI (GPAI) models, yet inconsistent reporting often leaves essential questions unanswered. Through a review of prior work, we ide…
Towards Fair ASR For Second Language Speakers Using Fairness Prompted Finetuning
Monorama Swain, Bubai Maji, Jagabandhu Mishra +3
In this work, we address the challenge of building fair English ASR systems for second-language speakers. Our analysis of widely used ASR models, Whisper and Seamless-M4T, reveals…