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#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Transcribe, Translate, and Optimize: Joint Reward Learning for Speech Translation

In LLM-based speech translation, transcription-based chain-of-thought (CoT) suffers from a mismatch between reference transcripts used in supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and model-generated transcripts at inference. To address this, we propose joint recognition and translation fine-tuning via group relative policy optimiz...

Yang-He Dong, Wan-Ting Huang, Wei-Ran Wang · 0 citations
#natural language process... Open access Sep 2026

Calibration as a First-Class Criterion in LLM Evaluation

It is argued that each NLP subfield should pair its main performance metric with a calibration score and call for treating calibration as an essential property of every model rather than a niche topic.

Mario Sanz-Guerrero, Katharina von der Wense · 1 citation
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Spoken Language Models that Think Aloud

While Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has improved the capability of language models, directly applying it to Spoken Language Models (SLMs) may introduce long silent intervals under the serial"think-then-speak"paradigm, disrupting real-time spoken interaction. To address this issue, we propose an asynchronous think-al...

Junyi Ao, Kainan Peng, Mingbo Ma et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

How to Estimate Whether You Have Found Several Needles in a Haystack: Measuring Calibration in Multi-Label Text Classification

A key factor in deciding whether to trust an automatic prediction is its confidence score, which should be calibrated to match the actual probability of the prediction being correct. Most confidence calibration metrics target binary or multi-class tasks, while multi-label calibration remains largely underexplored. Mult...

Sophie Henning, Georg Hofmann, Alexander Schulte et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Combining Hierarchical Cognitive Process with Process Supervision for Interpretable Scene Safety Understanding

This work constructs a hierarchical cognitive safety structure, which motivates the development of a novel, high-quality scene safety understanding dataset based on multi-step reasoning with process labels, and introduces a modular and flexible process supervision framework that reflects the hierarchical nature of huma...

Zhi-Yun Jiang, Han-Yong Wang, Binbin Liang et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Layout-Guided Masking for GROBID: Lightweight Structural Gains in Large-Scale Scientific PDF Ingestion

This extension to GROBID, a modular font-stream parser running on CPU, is the de-facto standard for structuring scientific articles and underpins several of the largest open scholarly corpora and has the best paragraph precision on both corpora, the best section detection on Materials Science, and a character error rat...

Luca Foppiano, S. Khamassi, Vipul Gupta · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Blaming Across the Aisle: Political Contrasting and Blame Attribution in the Danish Parliament

Political discourse is widely perceived to be growing more hostile, yet robust evidence remains scarce. This study examines blame attribution in the Danish Parliament from 1997 to 2026, combining a purpose-built classifier, BlameBERT (F1: 0.80), with multilevel statistical modeling. The classifier is constructed using...

Markus Lundsfryd Jensen, Rune Egeskov Trust, Kenneth C. Enevoldsen et al. · 0 citations

Designing and Analysing Argument Mining Pipelines: Towards a Comprehensive Assessment

Argument Mining (AM) transforms natural language into its underlying argument structures. This transformation is typically realized through a sequence of AM tasks that form an end-to-end AM pipeline. However, AM approaches often differ in how they conceptualize these tasks, making direct comparisons between them diffic...

Siddharth Bhargava, Sara Tonelli, Patricia Martín-Rodilla · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

CHiME-9 ECHI: A Machine Learning Challenge for Enhancing Conversations to Address Hearing Impairment

This work presents the task and results of the CHiME-9 challenge for Enhancing Conversations to address Hearing Impairment. The challenge considers the scenario of four-party conversations in a noisy, cafeteria-style environment with interfering speech sources and sound effects. Participants are provided with audio rec...

Robert Sutherland, Thomas Kuebert, Marko Lugger et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Aug 2026

PACE-dLLM: Elastic Block Decoding via Confidence Cliff Estimation for Diffusion Language Models

PACE-dLLM is proposed, which fits this parametric cliff in closed form at each step, sets the next horizon by its saturation point, and uses an independent confidence threshold for token commitment, and achieves the best average accuracy on both open-source dLLM backbones.

Xiao-Cheng Lu, Shu-Han Guo, Zi-Yue Ma et al. · 1 citation

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Microsoft Research Blog Oct 22, 2026

Flint-interactive: A language for creating interactive data visualizations

Flint-interactive gives AI agents a language for creating interactive visualizations. Click a chart, filter data, highlight related content, and explore beyond the view the author originally chose. The post Flint-interactive: A language for creating interactive data visualizations appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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