4 papers
Lost in the Tower of Babel: The Adverse Effects of Incidental Multilingualism in LLMs
Anjishnu Mukherjee, Chutong Meng, Antonios Anastasopoulos
This paper argues that contemporary multilingual NLP has converged on a fragile and misleading paradigm of incidental multilingualism. Today's LLMs appear multilingual largely beca…
Speech Vecalign: an Embedding-based Method for Aligning Parallel Speech Documents
Chutong Meng, Philipp Koehn
We present Speech Vecalign, a parallel speech document alignment method that monotonically aligns speech segment embeddings and does not depend on text transcriptions. Compared to…
The ML-SUPERB 2.0 Challenge: Towards Inclusive ASR Benchmarking for All Language Varieties
William Chen, Chutong Meng, Jiatong Shi +10
Recent improvements in multilingual ASR have not been equally distributed across languages and language varieties. To advance state-of-the-art (SOTA) ASR models, we present the Int…
GMU Systems for the IWSLT 2025 Low-Resource Speech Translation Shared Task
Chutong Meng, Antonios Anastasopoulos
This paper describes the GMU systems for the IWSLT 2025 low-resource speech translation shared task. We trained systems for all language pairs, except for Levantine Arabic. We fine…