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We explore cross-lingual multi-speaker speech synthesis and cross-lingual voice conversion applied to data augmentation for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems in low/medium-resource scenarios. Through extensive experiments, we show…

We propose a simple data augmentation protocol aimed at providing a compositional inductive bias in conditional and unconditional sequence models. Under this protocol, synthetic training examples are constructed by taking real training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Jacob Andreas

Many neural text-to-speech architectures can synthesize nearly natural speech from text inputs. These architectures must be trained with tens of hours of annotated and high-quality speech data. Compiling such large databases for every new…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Kishor Kayyar Lakshminarayana , Christian Dittmar , Nicola Pia , Emanuël Habets

Data augmentation is commonly used to encode invariances in learning methods. However, this process is often performed in an inefficient manner, as artificial examples are created by applying a number of transformations to all points in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Michael Kuchnik , Virginia Smith

Recent progress in material data mining has been driven by high-capacity models trained on large datasets. However, collecting experimental data (real data) has been extremely costly since the amount of human effort and expertise required.…

Large Language models (LLMs), while powerful, exhibit harmful social biases. Debiasing is often challenging due to computational costs, data constraints, and potential degradation of multi-task language capabilities. This work introduces a…

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Deep learning-based pronunciation scoring models highly rely on the availability of the annotated non-native data, which is costly and has scalability issues. To deal with the data scarcity problem, data augmentation is commonly used for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-04 Kaiqi Fu , Shaojun Gao , Kai Wang , Wei Li , Xiaohai Tian , Zejun Ma

Data augmentation is a widely used technique in many machine learning tasks, such as image classification, to virtually enlarge the training dataset size and avoid overfitting. Traditional data augmentation techniques for image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Hiroshi Inoue

This study addresses the interaction challenges encountered by spoken dialogue systems (SDSs) when engaging with users who exhibit distinct conversational behaviors, particularly minors, in scenarios where data are scarce. We propose a…

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Medical audio classification remains challenging due to low signal-to-noise ratios, subtle discriminative features, and substantial intra-class variability, often compounded by class imbalance and limited training data. Synthetic data…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-04 David McShannon , Anthony Mella , Nicholas Dietrich

The collection and curation of high-quality training data is crucial for developing text classification models with superior performance, but it is often associated with significant costs and time investment. Researchers have recently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Zhuoyan Li , Hangxiao Zhu , Zhuoran Lu , Ming Yin

Tutoring is an effective instructional method for enhancing student learning, yet its success relies on the skill and experience of the tutors. This reliance presents challenges for the widespread implementation of tutoring, particularly in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Chentianye Xu , Jionghao Lin , Tongshuang Wu , Vincent Aleven , Kenneth R. Koedinger

Data augmentation techniques are widely used in low-resource automatic morphological inflection to overcome data sparsity. However, the full implications of these techniques remain poorly understood. In this study, we aim to shed light on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Farhan Samir , Miikka Silfverberg

We present DALE, a novel and effective generative Data Augmentation framework for low-resource LEgal NLP. DALE addresses the challenges existing frameworks pose in generating effective data augmentations of legal documents - legal language,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Sreyan Ghosh , Chandra Kiran Evuru , Sonal Kumar , S Ramaneswaran , S Sakshi , Utkarsh Tyagi , Dinesh Manocha

Code-mixing (CM), where speakers blend languages within a single expression, is prevalent in multilingual societies but poses challenges for natural language processing due to its complexity and limited data. We propose using a large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Linda Zeng

Dialogue understanding tasks often necessitate abundant annotated data to achieve good performance and that presents challenges in low-resource settings. To alleviate this barrier, we explore few-shot data augmentation for dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Maximillian Chen , Alexandros Papangelis , Chenyang Tao , Andy Rosenbaum , Seokhwan Kim , Yang Liu , Zhou Yu , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Data augmentation is a cornerstone technique in deep learning, widely used to improve model generalization. Traditional methods like random cropping and color jittering, as well as advanced techniques such as CutOut, Mixup, and CutMix, have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Jingyang Li , Jiachun Pan , Kim-Chuan Toh , Pan Zhou

Many recent studies endeavor to improve open-source language models through imitation learning, and re-training on the synthetic instruction data from state-of-the-art proprietary models like ChatGPT and GPT-4. However, the innate nature of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Hyunsoo Cho

The availability of parallel texts is crucial to the performance of machine translation models. However, most of the world's languages face the predominant challenge of data scarcity. In this paper, we propose strategies to synthesize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Md Mahfuz Ibn Alam , Sina Ahmadi , Antonios Anastasopoulos

Despite recent advances in training and prompting strategies for Large Language Models (LLMs), these models continue to face challenges with complex logical reasoning tasks that involve long reasoning chains. In this work, we explore the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Jiaming Zhou , Abbas Ghaddar , Ge Zhang , Liheng Ma , Yaochen Hu , Soumyasundar Pal , Mark Coates , Bin Wang , Yingxue Zhang , Jianye Hao