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Instruction tuning, a new learning paradigm that fine-tunes pre-trained language models on tasks specified through instructions, has shown promising zero-shot performance on various natural language processing tasks. However, it has yet to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Zhiyang Xu , Ying Shen , Lifu Huang

Labeled audio data is insufficient to build satisfying speech recognition systems for most of the languages in the world. There have been some zero-resource methods trying to perform phoneme or word-level speech recognition without labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Haoyu Wang , Wei-Qiang Zhang , Hongbin Suo , Yulong Wan

Currently available benchmarks for few-shot learning (machine learning with few training examples) are limited in the domains they cover, primarily focusing on image classification. This work aims to alleviate this reliance on image-based…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Calum Heggan , Sam Budgett , Timothy Hospedales , Mehrdad Yaghoobi

Urdu toxic span detection remains limited because most existing systems rely on sentence-level classification and fail to identify the specific toxic spans within those text. It is further exacerbated by the multiple factors i.e. lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Inayat Arshad , Fajar Saleem , Ijaz Hussain

We present a new large-scale multilingual video description dataset, VATEX, which contains over 41,250 videos and 825,000 captions in both English and Chinese. Among the captions, there are over 206,000 English-Chinese parallel translation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Xin Wang , Jiawei Wu , Junkun Chen , Lei Li , Yuan-Fang Wang , William Yang Wang

Music tagging and content-based retrieval systems have traditionally been constructed using pre-defined ontologies covering a rigid set of music attributes or text queries. This paper presents MuLan: a first attempt at a new generation of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-29 Qingqing Huang , Aren Jansen , Joonseok Lee , Ravi Ganti , Judith Yue Li , Daniel P. W. Ellis

Pretrained multilingual large language models have typically used heuristic temperature-based sampling to balance between different languages. However previous work has not systematically evaluated the efficacy of different pretraining…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Hyung Won Chung , Noah Constant , Xavier Garcia , Adam Roberts , Yi Tay , Sharan Narang , Orhan Firat

The SAFE Challenge evaluates synthetic speech detection across three tasks: unmodified audio, processed audio with compression artifacts, and laundered audio designed to evade detection. We systematically explore self-supervised learning…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-08 Hashim Ali , Surya Subramani , Lekha Bollinani , Nithin Sai Adupa , Sali El-Loh , Hafiz Malik

Multilingual speech emotion recognition aims to estimate a speaker's emotional state using a contactless method across different languages. However, variability in voice characteristics and linguistic diversity poses significant challenges…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Heqing Zou , Fengmao Lv , Desheng Zheng , Eng Siong Chng , Deepu Rajan

Many data sets (e.g., reviews, forums, news, etc.) exist parallelly in multiple languages. They all cover the same content, but the linguistic differences make it impossible to use traditional, bag-of-word-based topic models. Models have to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Federico Bianchi , Silvia Terragni , Dirk Hovy , Debora Nozza , Elisabetta Fersini

As our understanding of autism and ableism continues to increase, so does our understanding of ableist language towards autistic people. Such language poses a significant challenge in NLP research due to its subtle and context-dependent…

In this work, we take on the challenging task of building a single text-to-speech synthesis system that is capable of generating speech in over 7000 languages, many of which lack sufficient data for traditional TTS development. By…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Florian Lux , Sarina Meyer , Lyonel Behringer , Frank Zalkow , Phat Do , Matt Coler , Emanuël A. P. Habets , Ngoc Thang Vu

We present Speech-MASSIVE, a multilingual Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) dataset comprising the speech counterpart for a portion of the MASSIVE textual corpus. Speech-MASSIVE covers 12 languages from different families and inherits…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Beomseok Lee , Ioan Calapodescu , Marco Gaido , Matteo Negri , Laurent Besacier

Recent advancements in generative speech models based on audio-text prompts have enabled remarkable innovations like high-quality zero-shot text-to-speech. However, existing models still face limitations in handling diverse audio-text…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Xiaofei Wang , Manthan Thakker , Zhuo Chen , Naoyuki Kanda , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Sanyuan Chen , Min Tang , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li , Takuya Yoshioka

Curating datasets that span multiple languages is challenging. To make the collection more scalable, researchers often incorporate one or more imperfect classifiers in the process, like language identification models. These models, however,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Farhan Samir , Emily P. Ahn , Shreya Prakash , Márton Soskuthy , Vered Shwartz , Jian Zhu

Hate speech detection is a challenging problem with most of the datasets available in only one language: English. In this paper, we conduct a large scale analysis of multilingual hate speech in 9 languages from 16 different sources. We…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Sai Saketh Aluru , Binny Mathew , Punyajoy Saha , Animesh Mukherjee

While natural language processing tools have been developed extensively for some of the world's languages, a significant portion of the world's over 7000 languages are still neglected. One reason for this is that evaluation datasets do not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Chunlan Ma , Ayyoob ImaniGooghari , Haotian Ye , Renhao Pei , Ehsaneddin Asgari , Hinrich Schütze

In the dynamic realm of social media, diverse topics are discussed daily, transcending linguistic boundaries. However, the complexities of understanding and categorising this content across various languages remain an important challenge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Dimosthenis Antypas , Asahi Ushio , Francesco Barbieri , Jose Camacho-Collados

Spoken language understanding systems using audio-only data are gaining popularity, yet their ability to handle unseen intents remains limited. In this study, we propose a generalized zero-shot audio-to-intent classification framework with…

In the rapidly evolving digital era, there is an increasing demand for concise information as individuals seek to distil key insights from various sources. Recent attention from researchers on Multi-document Summarisation (MDS) has resulted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Kushan Hewapathirana , Nisansa de Silva , C. D. Athuraliya