Papers by Tongzhou Chen
Aerial Vision-and-Dialog Navigation (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Aerial visionand-dialling navigation (AVDN) is a new approach to autonomous drones that can converse with humans and follow natural language commands to complete tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose to use Aerial Visionand-Dialog Navigation (AVDN) to navigate a drone via natural language conversation by collecting a dataset of over 3k recorded navigation trajectories with asynchronous human-human dialogs between commanders and followers. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system can converse with humans and follow natural language commands to fly to the expected destination. |
LegoSLM: Connecting LLM with Speech Encoder using CTC Posteriors (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies show that pre-trained speech encoders and large language models can perform suboptimal performance on a range of spoken language processing tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose to combine large-scale pre-trained speech encoders and large-language models for better performance on automatic speech recognition tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can get an average of 49% WER reduction over the baseline model on 8 MLS testsets. |
Data Quality Issues in Multilingual Speech Datasets: The Need for Sociolinguistic Awareness and Proactive Language Planning (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Despite their growing importance, the quality of these datasets remains under-researched. |
| Approach: | They propose guidelines and recommendations to address quality issues in future dataset development . they find that macro-level issues are more prevalent in less institutionalized, often under-resourced languages . |
| Outcome: | The results highlight the need for proactive language planning and enhanced data quality control in the process of automatic speech recognition dataset creation. |