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Yanqing Zhao

3 accepted papers

2025

Investigating Numerical Translation with Large Language Models

ICASSP 2025accepted

The inaccurate translation of numbers can lead to significant security issues, ranging from financial setbacks to medical inaccuracies. While large language models (LLMs) have made significant advancements in machine translation, their capacity for translating numbers has not been thoroughly explore…

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2024

CB-Whisper: Contextual Biasing Whisper Using Open-Vocabulary Keyword-Spotting

COLING 2024main

End-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems often struggle to recognize rare name entities, such as personal names, organizations and terminologies that are not frequently encountered in the training data. This paper presents Contextual Biasing Whisper (CB-Whisper), a novel ASR system base…

2023

SmartSpanNER: Making SpanNER Robust in Low Resource Scenarios

EMNLP 2023long findings

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is one of the most fundamental tasks in natural language processing. Span-level prediction (SpanNER) is more naturally suitable for nested NER than sequence labeling (SeqLab). However, according to our experiments, the SpanNER method is more sensitive to the amount of…

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