Papers by Oier Lacalle
Do Multilingual Language Models Think Better in English? (2024.naacl-short)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies show that translation-test improves performance of multilingual models by translating the input into English using an external machine translation system. |
| Approach: | They propose a new approach that leverages the few-shot translation capabilities of multilingual language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms direct inference on 5 tasks. |
A Virtual Assistant for Architectural Design in a VR Environment (2026.eacl-demo)
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Ander Salaberria, Oier Ijurco, Markel Ferro, Jiayuan Wang, Iñigo Vilá Muñoz, Roberto de Ioris, Jeremy Barnes, Oier Lopez De Lacalle
| Challenge: | Existing interfaces lack intuitive, contextaware capabilities needed for easily navigating complex architectural components in 3D spaces. |
| Approach: | They propose a virtual assistant that allows users to interact with the BIM file in a VR environment. |
| Outcome: | The proposed assistant could allow users to interact with the BIM file in a virtual reality environment and perform complex actions. |