Papers by Sang T. Truong
The Sound of Syntax: Finetuning and Comprehensive Evaluation of Language Models for Speech Pathology (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | State-of-the-art multimodal language models (MLMs) show promise for supporting SLPs, but their use remains underexplored due to a limited understanding of their performance in high-stakes clinical settings. |
| Approach: | They propose a taxonomy of real-world use cases of multimodal language models in speech-language pathologies to address this gap. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms 15 state-of-the-art models in speech-language pathologies across five use cases and achieves improvements of over 30% on domain-specific data. |