Papers by Ngoc-Quan Pham
End-to-End Evaluation for Low-Latency Simultaneous Speech Translation (2023.emnlp-demo)
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Christian Huber, Tu Anh Dinh, Carlos Mullov, Ngoc-Quan Pham, Thai Binh Nguyen, Fabian Retkowski, Stefan Constantin, Enes Ugan, Danni Liu, Zhaolin Li, Sai Koneru, Jan Niehues, Alexander Waibel
| Challenge: | a framework to evaluate low-latency speech translations is currently only limited to specific aspects and is not able to compare different approaches. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to perform and evaluate low-latency speech translation in realistic conditions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework evaluates various aspects of low-latency speech translation under realistic conditions. |
DECM: Evaluating Bilingual ASR Performance on a Code-switching/mixing Benchmark (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Code-switched (CSW) speech is a linguistic phenomenon that occurs when spoken utterances switch languages between sentences. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a dataset to evaluate German-English CSW speech . they show that the dataset includes splits with varying degrees of CSW . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset includes spontaneous speech from diverse domains, enabling realistic CSW evaluation in German-English. |
Self-Attentional Models for Lattice Inputs (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing work has extended recurrent neural networks to model lattice inputs but these models suffer from slow computation speeds. |
| Approach: | They propose to extend the paradigm of self-attention to handle lattice inputs by adding probabilistic reachability masks that incorporate latticae structure into the model and support lattics if available. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms baseline models while being much faster to compute than previous models. |
KIT Lecture Translator: Multilingual Speech Translation with One-Shot Learning (C18-2)
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Florian Dessloch, Thanh-Le Ha, Markus Müller, Jan Niehues, Thai-Son Nguyen, Ngoc-Quan Pham, Elizabeth Salesky, Matthias Sperber, Sebastian Stüker, Thomas Zenkel, Alexander Waibel
| Challenge: | In today's globalized world, communication is difficult and often the language barrier still prevents communication. |
| Approach: | They have developed a low-latency translation system that is adapted to lectures and covers several language pairs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system improves performance but also covers several European languages. |