3 papers
cs.CL2026
Improving Parametric Knowledge Access in Reasoning Language Models
Melody Ma, John Hewitt
We study reasoning for accessing world knowledge stored in a language model's parameters. For example, recalling that Canberra is Australia's capital may benefit from thinking thro…
cs.SD2026
Segment Length Matters: A Study of Segment Lengths on Audio Fingerprinting Performance
Ziling Gong, Yunyan Ouyang, Iram Kamdar +5
Audio fingerprinting provides an identifiable representation of acoustic signals, which can be later used for identification and retrieval systems. To obtain a discriminative repre…
eess.AS2025
Read to Hear: A Zero-Shot Pronunciation Assessment Using Textual Descriptions and LLMs
Yu-Wen Chen, Melody Ma, Julia Hirschberg
Automatic pronunciation assessment is typically performed by acoustic models trained on audio-score pairs. Although effective, these systems provide only numerical scores, without…