2 papers
cs.CL2026
EchoMind: An Interrelated Multi-level Benchmark for Evaluating Empathetic Speech Language Models
Li Zhou, Lutong Yu, You Lyu +6
Speech Language Models (SLMs) have made significant progress in spoken language understanding. Yet it remains unclear whether they can fully perceive non lexical vocal cues alongsi…
cs.CL2025
Hanfu-Bench: A Multimodal Benchmark on Cross-Temporal Cultural Understanding and Transcreation
Li Zhou, Lutong Yu, Dongchu Xie +3
Culture is a rich and dynamic domain that evolves across both geography and time. However, existing studies on cultural understanding with vision-language models (VLMs) primarily e…