Papers by Nalin Kumar
LEEETs-Dial: Linguistic Entrainment in End-to-End Task-oriented Dialogue systems (2024.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Linguistic entrainment is a phenomenon where linguistic patterns employed by conversational participants converge to one another. |
| Approach: | They propose methods for achieving dialogue entrainment in a task-oriented dialogue system using shared vocabulary. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model produces significantly better entrainment than the base model. |
Modular Monolingual Adaptation using Pretrained Language Models (2026.acl-industry)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to building monolingual models for low-resource languages require a full model tuning process. |
| Approach: | They propose a modular approach to build monolingual models for low-resource languages by finetuning the whole model on the target language. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves on natural language understanding tasks on Scottish Gaelic, Irish, and Quechua with Quechuan being a very low-resource language. |