Explaining speech classification models via word-level audio segments and paralinguistic features

E Pastor, A Koudounas, G Attanasio, D Hovy… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recent advances in eXplainable AI (XAI) have provided new insights into how models for
vision, language, and tabular data operate. However, few approaches exist for …

Italic: An italian intent classification dataset

A Koudounas, M La Quatra, L Vaiani… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recent large-scale Spoken Language Understanding datasets focus predominantly on
English and do not account for language-specific phenomena such as particular phonemes …

A Contrastive Learning Approach to Mitigate Bias in Speech Models

A Koudounas, F Giobergia, E Pastor… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Speech models may be affected by performance imbalance in different population
subgroups, raising concerns about fair treatment across these groups. Prior attempts to …

Towards comprehensive subgroup performance analysis in speech models

A Koudounas, E Pastor, G Attanasio… - … on Audio, Speech …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The evaluation of spoken language understanding (SLU) systems is often restricted to
assessing their global performance or examining predefined subgroups of interest …

Prioritizing data acquisition for end-to-end speech model improvement

A Koudounas, E Pastor, G Attanasio… - ICASSP 2024-2024 …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As speech processing moves toward more data-hungry models, data selection and
acquisition become crucial to building better systems. Recent efforts have championed …

PoliToHFI at SemEval-2023 task 6: leveraging entity-aware and hierarchical transformers for legal entity recognition and court judgment prediction

I Benedetto, A Koudounas, L Vaiani… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
Abstract The use of Natural Language Processing techniques in the legal domain has
become established for supporting attorneys and domain experts in content retrieval and …

Bad exoplanet! explaining degraded performance when reconstructing exoplanets atmospheric parameters

A Koudounas, F Giobergia, E Baralis - NeurIPS 2023 AI for Science …, 2023 - openreview.net
Deep learning techniques have been widely adopted to automate the reconstruction of
atmospheric parameters in exoplanets, at a fraction of the computational cost required by …

Boosting court judgment prediction and explanation using legal entities

I Benedetto, A Koudounas, L Vaiani, E Pastor… - Artificial Intelligence and …, 2024 - Springer
The automatic prediction of court case judgments using Deep Learning and Natural
Language Processing is challenged by the variety of norms and regulations, the inherent …

Ex (o) plain: Subgroup-level analysis of exoplanet atmospheric parameters

A Koudounas, F Giobergia, E Baralis - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning has been shown to be a valuable tool in astrophysics. In the field of
exoplanetary science, deep learning-based approaches are being used extensively to …

Large Language Models-aided Literature Reviews: A Study on Few-Shot Relevance Classification

F Giobergia, A Koudounas… - 2024 IEEE 18th …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Conducting a comprehensive literature review is a critical step in the research process, often
requiring significant time and effort to identify and evaluate relevant academic papers …