Papers by Yanqing Ma
CB-Whisper: Contextual Biasing Whisper Using Open-Vocabulary Keyword-Spotting (2024.lrec-main)
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Yuang Li, Yinglu Li, Min Zhang, Chang Su, Jiawei Yu, Mengyao Piao, Xiaosong Qiao, Miaomiao Ma, Yanqing Zhao, Hao Yang
| Challenge: | End-to-end automatic speech recognition systems struggle to recognize rare name entities such as personal names, organizations and terminologies that are not frequently encountered in the training data. |
| Approach: | They propose a convolutional neural network-based ASR system that performs open-vocabulary keyword-spotting before the decoder to match the features between the entities and the utterances. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system significantly improves mixed-error-rate (MER) and entity recall compared to the original Whisper model on three internal datasets and two publicly available datasets. |
LPO: Towards Accurate GUI Agent Interaction via Location Preference Optimization (2026.findings-acl)
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Jiaqi Tang, Yu Xia, Yi-Feng Wu, Yuwei Hu, Chen Yuhui, Qing-Guo Chen, Xiaogang Xu, Xiangyu Wu, Hao LU, Yanqing Ma, Shiyin Lu, Qifeng Chen
| Challenge: | Existing strategies for spatial localization are limited due to their limited capacity to perceive positional data. |
| Approach: | They propose a location-based approach that leverages locational data to optimize interaction preferences. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach achieves SOTA results across offline benchmarks and real-world evaluations. |
MSMO-ABSA: Multi-Scale and Multi-Objective Optimization for Cross-Lingual Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) has seen success with English texts, but real-world social media interactions often involve multiple languages. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for cross-lingual ABSA that incorporates code-switched bilingual sentences into the language discriminator and consistency training modules to enhance cross-linguistic alignment. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves cross-lingual sentence-level and aspect-level alignment, aligning features of aspect terms in different contextual environments. |