Abstract Efforts towards better machine translation (MT) for Creole languages have historically been isolated, due to Creole languages’ geographic and linguistic diversity. However, most speakers of Creole languages stand to benefit from improved MT for[…]

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Abstract As customer expectations rise and legacy automation reaches its limits, Comcast is redefining digital care through an agentic AI transformation. This talk chronicles our evolution from scripted bots to modular, autonomous systems of intelligent[…]

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Abstract Early tumor detection saves lives. Each year, more than 300 million computed tomography (CT) scans are performed worldwide, offering a vast opportunity for effective cancer screening. However, detecting small or early-stage tumors on these[…]

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Abstract Speech can easily be manipulated through techniques, such as text-to-speech synthesis, voice conversion, replay, tampering, adversarial attacks, and more. However, when the manipulation is applied only to a minor portion of an audio, the[…]

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Abstract Multilingual generation with large language models (LLMs) is often of poor quality for mid- to low-resource languages, but the causes for this are not well-understood. We first demonstrate the existence of an implicit task-solving–>[…]

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Abstract The Relative Transfer Function (RTF) is defined as the ratio of Acoustic Transfer Functions (ATFs) relating a source to a pair of microphones after propagation in the enclosure. Numerous studies have shown that beamformers[…]

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Abstract When discussing politics, people often use subtle linguistic strategies to influence how their audience thinks about issues, which can then impact public opinion and policy. For example, anti-immigration activists may frame immigration as a[…]

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