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Laurent El Shafey

2 accepted papers

2024

Retrieval Augmented End-to-End Spoken Dialog Models

ICASSP 2024accepted

We recently developed a joint speech and language model (SLM [1]) which fuses a pretrained foundational speech model and a large language model (LLM), while preserving the in-context learning capability intrinsic to the pretrained LLM. In this paper, we apply SLM to dialog applications where the dia…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2022

Knowledge-grounded Dialog State Tracking

EMNLP 2022finding

Knowledge (including structured knowledge such as schema and ontology and unstructured knowledge such as web corpus) is a critical part of dialog understanding, especially for unseen tasks and domains. Traditionally, such domain-specific knowledge is encoded implicitly into model parameters for the…

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