3 papers
cs.CL2026
Conversational Speech Reveals Structural Robustness Failures in SpeechLLM Backbones
Maria Teleki, Sai Janjur, Haoran Liu +11
LLMs serve as the backbone in SpeechLLMs, yet their behavior on spontaneous conversational input remains poorly understood. Conversational speech contains pervasive disfluencies --…
cs.HC2026
PromptHelper: A Prompt Recommender System for Encouraging Creativity in AI Chatbot Interactions
Jason Kim, Maria Teleki, James Caverlee
Prompting is central to interaction with AI systems, yet many users struggle to explore alternative directions, articulate creative intent, or understand how variations in prompts…
cs.CL2025
Z-Scores: A Metric for Linguistically Assessing Disfluency Removal
Maria Teleki, Sai Janjur, Haoran Liu +10
Evaluating disfluency removal in speech requires more than aggregate token-level scores. Traditional word-based metrics such as precision, recall, and F1 (E-Scores) capture overall…