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Nianlong Gu

3 accepted papers

2024

Positive Transfer of the Whisper Speech Transformer to Human and Animal Voice Activity Detection

ICASSP 2024accepted

This paper introduces WhisperSeg, utilizing the Whisper Transformer pre-trained for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for human and animal Voice Activity Detection (VAD). Contrary to traditional methods that detect human voice or animal vocalizations from a short audio frame and rely on careful thr…

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2023

GreedyCAS: Unsupervised Scientific Abstract Segmentation with Normalized Mutual Information

EMNLP 2023long main

The abstracts of scientific papers typically contain both premises (e.g., background and observations) and conclusions. Although conclusion sentences are highlighted in structured abstracts, in non-structured abstracts the concluding information is not explicitly marked, which makes the automatic s…

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2022

MemSum: Extractive Summarization of Long Documents Using Multi-Step Episodic Markov Decision Processes

ACL 2022long

We introduce MemSum (Multi-step Episodic Markov decision process extractive SUMmarizer), a reinforcement-learning-based extractive summarizer enriched at each step with information on the current extraction history. When MemSum iteratively selects sentences into the summary, it considers a broad inf…