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Varsha Suresh

3 accepted papers

2025

Enhancing Spoken Discourse Modeling in Language Models Using Gestural Cues

ACL 2025long

Research in linguistics shows that non-verbal cues, such as gestures, play a crucial role in spoken discourse. For example, speakers perform hand gestures to indicate topic shifts, helping listeners identify transitions in discourse. In this work, we investigate whether the joint modeling of gesture…

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2024

An Adapter-Based Unified Model for Multiple Spoken Language Processing Tasks

ICASSP 2024accepted

Self-supervised learning models have revolutionized the field of speech processing. However, the process of fine-tuning these models on downstream tasks requires substantial computational resources, particularly when dealing with multiple speech-processing tasks. In this paper, we explore the potent…

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2021

Not All Negatives are Equal: Label-Aware Contrastive Loss for Fine-grained Text Classification

EMNLP 2021main

Fine-grained classification involves dealing with datasets with larger number of classes with subtle differences between them. Guiding the model to focus on differentiating dimensions between these commonly confusable classes is key to improving performance on fine-grained tasks. In this work, we an…