Papers by Michela Marchini
Silent Signals, Loud Impact: LLMs for Word-Sense Disambiguation of Coded Dog Whistles (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | a dog whistle is a coded communication that carries a secondary meaning to specific audiences and is often weaponized for racial and socioeconomic discrimination. |
| Approach: | They propose an approach for word-sense disambiguation of dog whistles from standard speech using Large Language Models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method allows disambiguation of dog whistles from standard speech using large language models. |
Does Context Matter? A Prosodic Comparison of English and Spanish in Monolingual and Multilingual Discourse Settings (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | a large number of studies on prosody in languages have focused on monolingual discourse contexts . a recent study focused on the prosodic features of monolingual speech in multilingual contexts. |
| Approach: | They compare prosody of monolingual English and Spanish in monolingual and multilingual settings . they find that monolingual speech produced in a monolingual context is prosodically different from that produced in multilingual context . |
| Outcome: | The proposed study is the first to incorporate multilingual discourse contexts into the study of native-level monolingual prosody. |