Contemporary NLP Modeling in Six Comprehensive Programming Assignments

no code implementations • NAACL (TeachingNLP) 2021 • Greg Durrett, Jifan Chen, Shrey Desai, Tanya Goyal, Lucas Kabela, Yasumasa Onoe, Jiacheng Xu

We present a series of programming assignments, adaptable to a range of experience levels from advanced undergraduate to PhD, to teach students design and implementation of modern NLP systems.

Contextual Biasing of Named-Entities with Large Language Models

no code implementations • 1 Sep 2023 • Chuanneng Sun, Zeeshan Ahmed, Yingyi Ma, Zhe Liu, Lucas Kabela, Yutong Pang, Ozlem Kalinli

We propose to leverage prompts for a LLM without fine tuning during rescoring which incorporate a biasing list and few-shot examples to serve as additional information when calculating the score for the hypothesis.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2

DISGO: Automatic End-to-End Evaluation for Scene Text OCR

no code implementations • 25 Aug 2023 • Mei-Yuh Hwang, Yangyang Shi, Ankit Ramchandani, Guan Pang, Praveen Krishnan, Lucas Kabela, Frank Seide, Samyak Datta, Jun Liu

This paper discusses the challenges of optical character recognition (OCR) on natural scenes, which is harder than OCR on documents due to the wild content and various image backgrounds.

Machine Translation Optical Character Recognition +2

Joint Audio/Text Training for Transformer Rescorer of Streaming Speech Recognition

no code implementations • 31 Oct 2022 • Suyoun Kim, Ke Li, Lucas Kabela, Rongqing Huang, Jiedan Zhu, Ozlem Kalinli, Duc Le

In this work, we present our Joint Audio/Text training method for Transformer Rescorer, to leverage unpaired text-only data which is relatively cheaper than paired audio-text data.

speech-recognition Speech Recognition