Papers by Youchao Zhou
Pardon? Evaluating Conversational Repair in Large Audio-Language Models (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing evaluations of large audio-language models focus on answer accuracy and robustness to acoustic perturbations, but they assume that inputs remain semantically answerable. |
| Approach: | They propose a repair-aware evaluation setting that explicitly distinguishes between answerable and unanswerable audio inputs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed evaluation setting distinguishes between answerable and unanswerable audio inputs. |
Would LLMs be Good Historical Linguists and Chinese Dialect Learners? (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Large language models struggle with low-resource Chinese dialects due to substantial phonological divergence. |
| Approach: | They propose to incorporate Middle Chinese, the common historical ancestor of modern Chinese dialects, into LLMs to improve dialectal pronunciation modeling. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves on standard Chinese but struggles with low-resource Chinese dialects . the proposed model improves over baselines while revealing variation across dialects. |