4 papers
Finding Emotions Where They Belong: Rethinking Audio Emotion Recognition through Masked Temporal Affective Grounding
Abdelrahman Mohamed, Lars Kai Hansen, Zheng-Hua Tan
Audio emotion recognition (AER) typically assigns a single label to an entire recording, leaving the temporal scope of that label ambiguous when multiple speakers and affective eve…
DM-Codec: Distilling Multimodal Representations for Speech Tokenization
Md Mubtasim Ahasan, Md Fahim, Tasnim Mohiuddin +6
Recent advancements in speech-language models have yielded significant improvements in speech tokenization and synthesis. However, effectively mapping the complex, multidimensional…
GenEARL: A Training-Free Generative Framework for Multimodal Event Argument Role Labeling
Hritik Bansal, Po-Nien Kung, P. Jeffrey Brantingham +2
Multimodal event argument role labeling (EARL), a task that assigns a role for each event participant (object) in an image is a complex challenge. It requires reasoning over the en…
BLESS: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Sentence Simplification
Tannon Kew, Alison Chi, Laura Vásquez-Rodríguez +4
We present BLESS, a comprehensive performance benchmark of the most recent state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) on the task of text simplification (TS). We examine how wel…