3 papers
cs.CL2026
CharacterFlywheel: Scaling Iterative Improvement of Engaging and Steerable LLMs in Production
Yixin Nie, Lin Guan, Zhongyao Ma +19
This report presents CharacterFlywheel, an iterative flywheel process for improving large language models (LLMs) in production social chat applications across Instagram, WhatsApp,…
cs.CL2025
Automatic Speech Recognition of African American English: Lexical and Contextual Effects
Hamid Mojarad, Kevin Tang
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models often struggle with the phonetic, phonological, and morphosyntactic features found in African American English (AAE). This study focuses o…
cs.CL2025
Automatic Speech Recognition Biases in Newcastle English: an Error Analysis
Dana Serditova, Kevin Tang, Jochen Steffens
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems struggle with regional dialects due to biased training which favours mainstream varieties. While previous research has identified racial,…