Papers by Liwei Qiu
WESR: A Benchmark and Strong Baseline for Word-level Event-Speech Recognition (2026.findings-acl)
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Chenchen Yang, Kexin Huang, Liwei Fan, Qian Tu, Botian Jiang, Dong Zhang, Linqi Yin, Shimin Li, Zhaoye Fei, Qinyuan Cheng, Xipeng Qiu
| Challenge: | aaron carroll: the precise localization of non-verbal vocal events remains a critical yet under-explored challenge. carroll says current methods suffer from insufficient task definitions with limited category coverage. carrol: knowing exactly where an event occurred is not enough; knowing exactly what it happened is. |
| Approach: | They propose a taxonomy of 21 vocal events with a new categorization into discrete versus continuous types. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model disentangles ASR errors from event detection while maintaining ASR quality. |
Entity Linking within a Social Media Platform: A Case Study on Yelp (D18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on entity linking focus on linking entities to knowledge bases, but on social media platforms, such as Yelp, it can be more practical. |
| Approach: | They propose to link entities within a social media platform with a new entity linking problem. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can link business mentions to corresponding businesses on a social media platform. |