Bokai Yu — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

2M-BELEBELE: Highly Multilingual Speech and American Sign Language Comprehension Dataset Download PDF

Marta R. Costa-jussà, Bokai Yu, Pierre Andrews, Belen Alastruey, Necati Cihan Camgoz, Joe Chuang +4

ACL 2025finding

We introduce the first highly multilingual speech and American Sign Language (ASL) comprehension dataset by extending BELEBELE. Our dataset covers 91 spoken languages at the intersection of BELEBELE and FLEURS, and one sign language (ASL). As a by-product we also extend the Automatic Speech Recognit…

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2024

Beyond Turn-Based Interfaces: Synchronous LLMs as Full-Duplex Dialogue Agents

Bandhav Veluri, Benjamin N Peloquin, Bokai Yu, Hongyu Gong, Shyamnath Gollakota

EMNLP 2024main

Despite broad interest in modeling spoken dialogue agents, most approaches are inherently “half-duplex” – restricted to turn-based interaction with responses requiring explicit prompting by the user or implicit tracking of interruption or silence events. Human dialogue, by contrast, is “full-duplex”…

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