3 papers
cs.CL2026
Using Machine Mental Imagery for Representing Common Ground in Situated Dialogue
Biswesh Mohapatra, Giovanni Duca, Laurent Romary +1
Situated dialogue requires speakers to maintain a reliable representation of shared context rather than reasoning only over isolated utterances. Current conversational agents often…
cs.CL2026
Frame of Reference: Addressing the Challenges of Common Ground Representation in Situational Dialogs
Biswesh Mohapatra, Théo Charlot, Giovanni Duca +3
Common ground plays a critical role in situated spoken dialogs, where interlocutors must establish and maintain shared references to entities, events, and relations to sustain cohe…
cs.CL2026
SpeechMapper: Speech-to-text Embedding Projector for LLMs
Biswesh Mohapatra, Marcely Zanon Boito, Ioan Calapodescu
Current speech LLMs bridge speech foundation models to LLMs using projection layers, training all of these components on speech instruction data. This strategy is computationally i…