8 papers
Simple Language Normalization Wins: Cross-Lingual Speaker Verification for the TidyVoice 2026 Challenge
Nina Hosseini-Kivanani
Cross-lingual mismatch remains a key source of overall degradation in modern speaker verification. The TidyVoice2026 Challenge targets this setting with text-independent verificati…
LuxSQA: Ask Me in Luxembourgish with TTS-Augmented Spoken Question Answering
Nina Hosseini-Kivanani, Marco Matassoni, Alessio Brutti
Spoken Question Answering (SQA) remains largely focused on high-resource languages and carefully recorded speech, limiting the reach of speech-LLM methods in low-resource settings.…
LuxEmo: Expressive Text-to-Speech Corpus for Luxembourgish
Nina Hosseini-Kivanani, Sandipana Dowerah
State-of-the-art speech datasets predominantly focus on widely spoken languages, often overlooking low-resource languages such as Luxembourgish, which remain underrepresented in sp…
Do LLMs Know What Luxembourgish Borrows? Probing Lexical Neology in Low-Resource Multilingual Models
Nina Hosseini-Kivanani
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for writing assistance in small contact languages, yet it is unclear whether they respect community norms around lexical borrowin…
LuxBorrow: From Pompier to Pompjee, Tracing Borrowing in Luxembourgish
Nina Hosseini-Kivanani, Fred Philippy
We present LuxBorrow, a borrowing-first analysis of Luxembourgish (LU) news spanning 27 years (1999-2025), covering 259,305 RTL articles and 43.7M tokens. Our pipeline combines sen…
PolyFrame at MWE-2026 AdMIRe 2: When Words Are Not Enough: Multimodal Idiom Disambiguation
Nina Hosseini-Kivanani
Multimodal models struggle with idiomatic expressions due to their non-compositional meanings, a challenge amplified in multilingual settings. We introduced PolyFrame, our system f…