Papers by Qiongqiong Wang
Benchmarking Contextual and Paralinguistic Reasoning in Speech-LLMs: A Case Study with In-the-Wild Data (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Qiongqiong Wang, Hardik Bhupendra Sailor, Tianchi Liu, Wenyu Zhang, Muhammad Huzaifah, Nattadaporn Lertcheva, Shuo Sun, Nancy F. Chen, Jinyang Wu, AiTi Aw
| Challenge: | Recent speech-LLMs have shown impressive performance in tasks like transcription and translation, yet they remain limited in understanding the paralinguistic aspects of speech crucial for social and emotional intelligence. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark for evaluating speech-LLMs on contextual paralinguistic reasoning . the benchmark includes curated question answering datasets requiring both linguistic and empathetic understanding . |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark reveals a key gap in existing evaluations and offers insights into building more context-aware and emotionally intelligent LLMs. |