Santosh T.Y.S.S

Spoken language models (SpeechLMs) are increasingly real-time conversational actors. Yet many culturally consequential aspects of spoken interaction are not primarily lexical. Across sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and conversation analysis, meaning emerges through how talk is produced...

Human Label Variation (HLV) refers to legitimate disagreement in annotation that reflects the diversity of human perspectives rather than mere error. Long treated in NLP as \textit{noise} to be eliminated, HLV has only recently been reframed as a \textit{signal} for improving model robustness. Wi...