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Spoken English proficiency is a powerful driver of economic mobility for low-income Indian youth, yet opportunities for spoken practice remain scarce in schools. We investigate the deployment of a voice-based chatbot for English…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Sneha Shashidhara , Vivienne Bihe Chi , Abhay P Singh , Lyle Ungar , Sharath Chandra Guntuku

We introduce 3D-Speaker-Toolkit, an open-source toolkit for multimodal speaker verification and diarization, designed for meeting the needs of academic researchers and industrial practitioners. The 3D-Speaker-Toolkit adeptly leverages the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Yafeng Chen , Siqi Zheng , Hui Wang , Luyao Cheng , Tinglong Zhu , Rongjie Huang , Chong Deng , Qian Chen , Shiliang Zhang , Wen Wang , Xihao Li

Endowing a dialogue system with particular personality traits is essential to deliver more human-like conversations. However, due to the challenge of embodying personality via language expression and the lack of large-scale persona-labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Yinhe Zheng , Guanyi Chen , Minlie Huang , Song Liu , Xuan Zhu

Identifying discourse features in student conversations is quite important for educational researchers to recognize the curricular and pedagogical variables that cause students to engage in constructing knowledge rather than merely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Farjana Sultana Mim , Shuchin Aeron , Eric Miller , Kristen Wendell

Despite growing interest in applications based on natural customer support conversations, there exist remarkably few publicly available datasets that reflect the expected characteristics of conversations in these settings. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-05 James Gung , Emily Moeng , Wesley Rose , Arshit Gupta , Yi Zhang , Saab Mansour

Physicians spend significant time documenting clinical encounters, a burden that contributes to professional burnout. To address this, robust automation tools for medical documentation are crucial. We introduce MedSynth -- a novel dataset…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ahmad Rezaie Mianroodi , Amirali Rezaie , Niko Grisel Todorov , Cyril Rakovski , Frank Rudzicz

Conversation systems accommodate diverse users with unique personalities and distinct writing styles. Within the domain of multi-turn dialogue modeling, this work studies the impact of varied utterance lengths on the quality of subsequent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Yufei Tao , Tiernan Mines , Ameeta Agrawal

The goal of multilingual speech technology is to facilitate seamless communication between individuals speaking different languages, creating the experience as though everyone were a multilingual speaker. To create this experience, speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Supriti Sinhamahapatra , Thai-Binh Nguyen , Yiğit Oğuz , Enes Ugan , Jan Niehues , Alexander Waibel

The rapid growth of machine translation (MT) systems has necessitated comprehensive studies to meta-evaluate evaluation metrics being used, which enables a better selection of metrics that best reflect MT quality. Unfortunately, most of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Ananya B. Sai , Vignesh Nagarajan , Tanay Dixit , Raj Dabre , Anoop Kunchukuttan , Pratyush Kumar , Mitesh M. Khapra

This paper addresses the gap in predicting turn-taking and backchannel actions in human-machine conversations using multi-modal signals (linguistic, acoustic, and visual). To overcome the limitation of existing datasets, we propose an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yuxin Lin , Yinglin Zheng , Ming Zeng , Wangzheng Shi

Classroom discourse is a core medium of instruction - analyzing it can provide a window into teaching and learning as well as driving the development of new tools for improving instruction. We introduce the largest dataset of mathematics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Dorottya Demszky , Heather Hill

Most prior work in dialogue modeling has been on written conversations mostly because of existing data sets. However, written dialogues are not sufficient to fully capture the nature of spoken conversations as well as the potential speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Seokhwan Kim , Yang Liu , Di Jin , Alexandros Papangelis , Karthik Gopalakrishnan , Behnam Hedayatnia , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Although the Indonesian language is spoken by almost 200 million people and the 10th most spoken language in the world, it is under-represented in NLP research. Previous work on Indonesian has been hampered by a lack of annotated datasets,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Fajri Koto , Afshin Rahimi , Jey Han Lau , Timothy Baldwin

A well-designed interactive human-like dialogue system is expected to take actions (e.g. smiling) and respond in a pattern similar to humans. However, due to the limitation of single-modality (only speech) or small volume of currently…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Zhiling Luo , Qiankun Shi , Sha Zhao , Wei Zhou , Haiqing Chen , Yuankai Ma , Haitao Leng

Dialogue disentanglement aims to detach the chronologically ordered utterances into several independent sessions. Conversation utterances are essentially organized and described by the underlying discourse, and thus dialogue disentanglement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Bobo Li , Hao Fei , Fei Li , Shengqiong Wu , Lizi Liao , Yinwei Wei , Tat-Seng Chua , Donghong Ji

In spoken Task-Oriented Dialogue (TOD) systems, the choice of the semantic representation describing the users' requests is key to a smooth interaction. Indeed, the system uses this representation to reason over a database and its domain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Lucas Druart , Valentin Vielzeuf , Yannick Estève

More than 80% of the 1.6B English speakers do not use Standard American English (SAE), yet LLMs often fail to correctly identify non-SAE dialects and generate stereotyped responses for their speakers. We introduce DialectLLM, the first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jio Oh , Paul Vicinanza , Thomas Butler , Steven Euijong Whang , Dezhi Hong , Amani Namboori

To support machine learning of cross-language prosodic mappings and other ways to improve speech-to-speech translation, we present a protocol for collecting closely matched pairs of utterances across languages, a description of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Nigel G. Ward , Jonathan E. Avila , Emilia Rivas , Divette Marco

Medical task-oriented dialogue systems can assist doctors by collecting patient medical history, aiding in diagnosis, or guiding treatment selection, thereby reducing doctor burnout and expanding access to medical services. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Vishal Vivek Saley , Goonjan Saha , Rocktim Jyoti Das , Dinesh Raghu , Mausam

Recently introduced dialogue systems have demonstrated high usability. However, they still fall short of reflecting real-world conversation scenarios. Current dialogue systems exhibit an inability to replicate the dynamic, continuous,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Jihyoung Jang , Taeyoung Kim , Hyounghun Kim