no code implementations • 9 Jul 2024 • Mengjie Qian, Siyuan Tang, Rao Ma, Kate M. Knill, Mark J. F. Gales
If only adaptation parameters are used, the language capabilities are maintained but at the cost of performance in the new language.
no code implementations • 29 Apr 2024 • Stefano Bannò, Hari Krishna Vydana, Kate M. Knill, Mark J. F. Gales
Automated essay scoring (AES) to evaluate second language (L2) proficiency has been a firmly established technology used in educational contexts for decades.
1 code implementation • 15 Nov 2023 • Rao Ma, Adian Liusie, Mark J. F. Gales, Kate M. Knill
Text and vision foundation models can perform many tasks in a zero-shot setting, a desirable property that enables these systems to be applied in general and low-resource settings.
no code implementations • 9 Nov 2023 • Stefano Bannò, Rao Ma, Mengjie Qian, Kate M. Knill, Mark J. F. Gales
This foundation model can be used to replace the whole framework or part of it, e. g., ASR and disfluency removal.
no code implementations • 14 Sep 2023 • Mengjie Qian, Rao Ma, Adian Liusie, Erfan Loweimi, Kate M. Knill, Mark J. F. Gales
To gain a deeper understanding and further insights into the performance differences and limitations of these text sources, we employ a fact-checking approach to analyse the information consistency among them.
no code implementations • 13 Jul 2023 • Rao Ma, Mengjie Qian, Mark J. F. Gales, Kate M. Knill
Additionally, these models have a tendency to skip disfluencies and hesitations in the output.
no code implementations • 1 Jun 2023 • Rao Ma, Mengjie Qian, Mark J. F. Gales, Kate M. Knill
As speech recognition model sizes and training data requirements grow, it is increasingly common for systems to only be available via APIs from online service providers rather than having direct access to models themselves.
no code implementations • 1 Mar 2023 • Rao Ma, Mark J. F. Gales, Kate M. Knill, Mengjie Qian
Error correction models form an important part of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) post-processing to improve the readability and quality of transcriptions.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +3
no code implementations • 16 Nov 2022 • Stefano Bannò, Kate M. Knill, Marco Matassoni, Vyas Raina, Mark J. F. Gales
Though the wav2vec 2. 0 based system is found to be sensitive to the nature of the response, it can be configured to yield comparable performance to systems requiring a speech transcription, and yields gains when appropriately combined with standard approaches.