15 papers
The Role of Disfluencies in Speech Translation
Maike Züfle, Maria Teleki, Fabian Retkowski +5
Current speech translation systems, including SpeechLLMs, are trained on cleaned text and tend to strip disfluencies like filled pauses and false starts rather than translate them.…
When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation
Mubashara Akhtar, Anka Reuel, Prajna Soni +36
Artificial intelligence benchmarks are an important mechanism to measure model progress and guide deployment decisions. However, benchmarks quickly "saturate", making it difficult…
PaperMentor: A Human-Centered Multi-Agent Writing Tutor for AI Research Papers on Overleaf
Jiarui Liu, Terry Jingchen Zhang, Ryan Faulkner +17
Expert writing feedback from experienced researchers is critical for early-career scholars to improve their manuscripts, yet high-quality feedback often remains scarce because revi…
Why We Need Speech to Evaluate Speech Translation
Maike Züfle, Danni Liu, Vilém Zouhar +1
Speech translation models are increasingly capable of preserving speech-specific information (e.g., speaker gender, prosody, and emphasis), yet evaluation metrics remain blind to s…
Hearing to Translate: The Effectiveness of Speech Modality Integration into LLMs
Sara Papi, Javier Garcia Gilabert, Zachary Hopton +8
As Large Language Models (LLMs) expand beyond text, integrating speech as a native modality has given rise to SpeechLLMs, which directly process spoken language and enable speech-t…
LLMs as Span Annotators: A Comparative Study of LLMs and Humans
ZdenÄk Kasner, Vilém Zouhar, PatrÃcia Schmidtová +7
Span annotation - annotating specific text features at the span level - can be used to evaluate texts where single-score metrics fail to provide actionable feedback. Until recently…