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Automatic Speech Recognition for Documenting Endangered Languages: Case Study of Ikema Miyakoan
Chihiro Taguchi, Yukinori Takubo, David Chiang
Language endangerment poses a major challenge to linguistic diversity worldwide, and technological advances have opened new avenues for documentation and revitalization. Among thes…
Creating ConLangs to Probe the Metalinguistic Grammatical Knowledge of LLMs
Chihiro Taguchi, Richard Sproat
We present a system that uses LLMs as a tool in the development of Constructed Languages -- ConLangs, which we call IASC (Interactive Agentic System for ConLangs). The system is mo…
Building Tailored Speech Recognizers for Japanese Speaking Assessment
Yotaro Kubo, Richard Sproat, Chihiro Taguchi +1
This paper presents methods for building speech recognizers tailored for Japanese speaking assessment tasks. Specifically, we build a speech recognizer that outputs phonemic labels…
Languages Still Left Behind: Toward a Better Multilingual Machine Translation Benchmark
Chihiro Taguchi, Seng Mai, Keita Kurabe +4
Multilingual machine translation (MT) benchmarks play a central role in evaluating the capabilities of modern MT systems. Among them, the FLORES+ benchmark is widely used, offering…
Efficient Context Selection for Long-Context QA: No Tuning, No Iteration, Just Adaptive-
Chihiro Taguchi, Seiji Maekawa, Nikita Bhutani
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and long-context language models (LCLMs) both address context limitations of LLMs in open-domain question answering (QA). However, optimal exte…
SoftMatcha: A Soft and Fast Pattern Matcher for Billion-Scale Corpus Searches
Hiroyuki Deguchi, Go Kamoda, Yusuke Matsushita +4
Researchers and practitioners in natural language processing and computational linguistics frequently observe and analyze the real language usage in large-scale corpora. For that p…