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David Thulke

4 accepted papers

2025

Medical Spoken Named Entity Recognition

NAACL 2025industry

Spoken Named Entity Recognition (NER) aims to extract named entities from speech and categorise them into types like person, location, organization, etc. In this work, we present *VietMed-NER* - the first spoken NER dataset in the medical domain. To our knowledge, our Vietnamese real-world dataset i…

2022

Controllable Factuality in Document-Grounded Dialog Systems Using a Noisy Channel Model

EMNLP 2022finding

In this work, we present a model for document-grounded response generation in dialog that is decomposed into two components according to Bayes’ theorem.One component is a traditional ungrounded response generation model and the other component models the reconstruction of the grounding document base…

2022

Does Joint Training Really Help Cascaded Speech Translation?

EMNLP 2022main

Currently, in speech translation, the straightforward approach - cascading a recognition system with a translation system - delivers state-of-the-art results.However, fundamental challenges such as error propagation from the automatic speech recognition system still remain.To mitigate these problems…

2022

Mask More and Mask Later: Efficient Pre-training of Masked Language Models by Disentangling the [MASK] Token

EMNLP 2022finding

The pre-training of masked language models (MLMs) consumes massive computation to achieve good results on downstream NLP tasks, resulting in a large carbon footprint. In the vanilla MLM, the virtual tokens, [MASK]s, act as placeholders and gather the contextualized information from unmasked tokens t…