Papers by Kitae Kim
CliniCAST: Benchmarking Acoustic Grounding and Text Dominance in Medical Triage (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Recent Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) integrate acoustic capabilities into reasoning, yet whether they reliably ground clinical judgments in audible evidence remains unproven. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark that disentangles clinically meaningful acoustic cues from lexical content and speaker demographics. |
| Outcome: | Evaluating 5,856 synthetic samples across 12 disease conditions, the proposed model exhibits fragile acoustic grounding and pronounced "text dominance" failure mode. |