Papers with semantic over-inference
Afrispeech Semantics: Evaluating Audio–Semantic Reasoning in Spoken Language Models Across Domains and Accents (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Recent multimodal models are trained on large collections of audio-text pairs using contrastive learning or nexttoken prediction objectives. |
| Approach: | They evaluate audio language models across five semantic and paralinguistic reasoning tasks: entailment, consistency, plausibility, accent drift, and accent restraint. |
| Outcome: | The evaluations assess models across five tasks including entailment, consistency, plausibility, accent drift, and accent restraint. |