Although large language models (LLMs) have shown considerable progress in pragmatic language understanding, prior research has focused mainly on their comprehension of verbal behavior.Nonetheless, non-verbal behavior remains a fundamental component of human communication, especially when deliberately utilized in isolation to convey indirect meanings.In this work, we present the first systematic evaluation of LLMs' ability to infer pragmatic meaning in dialogue consisting solely of non-verbal responses.We explore three research questions: (1) Can LLMs recognize indirect intent conveyed through non-verbal responses?(2) When and how do LLMs fail to capture non-verbal intent?(3) How can we improve LLMs' ability to interpret non-verbal intent?.Through the evaluation, we observe that LLMs struggle to infer underlying meaning from non-verbal responses, with accuracy dropping by up to 60% points compared to verbal ones.Further extensive analysis reveals a behavioral pattern in LLMs' interpretations of non-verbal behavior and demonstrates that incontext learning facilitates pragmatic inference.

A sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture has emerged as a highly scalable solution by conditionally activating sub-modules without a proportional increase in computational costs.However, improving expert specialization to enhance performance and generalization remains a challenge for MoE, especially in instruction tuning scenarios characterized by significant input heterogeneity.In this work, we propose the Mixture-of-Clustered-Experts (MoCE) to address this limitation through a dual-stage routing mechanism.The first stage in the mechanism performs expert group routing based on sequence-level features, while the second stage activates the top-k experts within the group at the token level.This approach enables the effective partitioning of heterogeneous inputs based on their knowledge requirements, encouraging expert group specialization while maintaining the advantages of token-level routing.We evaluate MoCE across a comprehensive set of benchmarks, demonstrating its consistent superiority over strong baselines and its enhanced generalization capabilities.Detailed analysis further highlights the robustness and effectiveness of MoCE.

Recent machine translation (MT) systems have overcome language barriers for a wide range of users, yet they still carry the risk of critical meaning deviation. Critical error detection (CED) is a task that identifies an inherent risk of catastrophic meaning distortions in the machine translation output. With the importance of reflecting cultural elements in detecting critical errors, we introduce the culture-aware “Politeness” type in detecting English-Korean critical translation errors. Besides, we facilitate two tasks by providing multiclass labels: critical error detection and critical error type classification (CETC). Empirical evaluations reveal that our introduced data augmentation approach using a newly presented perturber significantly outperforms existing baselines in both tasks. Further analysis highlights the significance of multiclass labeling by demonstrating its superior effectiveness compared to binary labels.

Counter-narrative generation, i.e., the generation of fact-based responses to hate speech with the aim of correcting discriminatory beliefs, has been demonstrated to be an effective method to combat hate speech. However, its effectiveness is limited by the resource-intensive nature of dataset construction processes and only focuses on the primary language. To alleviate this problem, we propose a Korean Hate Speech Counter Punch (KHSCP), a cost-effective counter-narrative generation method in the Korean language. To this end, we release the first counter-narrative generation dataset in Korean and pose two research questions. Under the questions, we propose an effective augmentation method and investigate the reasonability of a large language model to overcome data scarcity in low-resource environments by leveraging existing resources. In this regard, we conduct several experiments to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. Our results reveal that applying pre-existing resources can improve the generation performance by a significant margin. Through deep analysis on these experiments, this work proposes the possibility of overcoming the challenges of generating counter-narratives in low-resource environments.

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are instrumental across various applications, with their performance being critically tied to user satisfaction.Conventional evaluation metrics for ASR systems produce a singular aggregate score, which is insufficient for understanding specific system vulnerabilities.Therefore, we aim to address the limitations of the previous ASR evaluation methods by introducing the Korean Error Explainable Benchmark Dataset for ASR and Post-processing (KEBAP).KE-BAP enables comprehensive analysis of ASR systems at both speech-and text levels, thereby facilitating a more balanced assessment encompassing speech recognition accuracy and user readability.KEBAP provides 37 newly defined speech-level resources incorporating diverse noise environments and speaker characteristics categories, also presenting 13 distinct textlevel error types.This paper demonstrates detailed statistical analyses of colloquial noise categories and textual error types.Furthermore, we conduct extensive validation and analysis on commercially deployed ASR systems, providing valuable insights into their performance.As a more fine-grained and real-world-centric evaluation method, KEBAP contributes to identifying and mitigating potential weaknesses in ASR systems.* Equally contributed, ‡ Corresponding author 1 Recognition accuracy is the measure of accurately perceiving phonemes as they are externally expressed, regardless of user input quality (Liao et al., 2022).Conventional (WER, CER) 0.45 KEBAP Error types Explainability Noise Type Description Washer/dryer machine Home appliances Vacuum cleaner Difficulty in recognition due to ambient electrical appliance noise.Motorcycle Siren Individual transportation Honk Difficulty in recognition due to surrounding individual transportation noise.Road side Street Crowd Difficulty in recognition due to the surrounding street noise.Conversation Cafe/restaurant Non-conversation Challenges in perception due to the noise in cafes/restaurants.Traditional market Market/shopping mall Shopping mall Difficulties in perception caused by the noise in markets/shopping malls.Subway platform Inside the subway Inside the train (STR/KTX) Public transportation Inside the bus Difficulty in recognition due to surrounding public transportation noise.Train terminal waiting room Terminal Bus terminal waiting room Challenges in perception due to the noise at terminals.Outdoor construction site Construction site Indoor construction site Difficulties in perception caused by the noise at construction sites.processing process Factory Assembly process Difficulties in perception caused by the noise in factories.Sound of rain Nature ambient Sound of the waves Challenges in perception due to natural ambient noise.Noisy environment Etc.Artificial mechanical sound In cases where external noise is present, although not falling into the aforementioned categories.

Korean morphological variations present unique opportunities and challenges in natural language processing (NLP), necessitating an advanced understanding of morpheme-based sentence construction.The complexity of morphological variations allows for diverse sentence forms based on the syntactic-semantic integration of functional morphemes (i.e., affixes) to lexical morphemes (i.e., roots).With this in mind, we propose a method -CHEF, replicating the morphological transformations inherent in sentences based on lexical and functional morpheme combinations through generative data augmentation.CHEF operates using a morpheme blender and a label discriminator, thereby enhancing the diversity of Korean sentence forms by capturing the properties of agglutination while maintaining label consistency.We conduct experiments on Korean multiple classification datasets, improving model performance in full-and few-shot settings.Our proposed method boosts performance beyond the preceding data augmentation methods without incurring external data usage.We demonstrate that our approach achieves comparable results yielded by augmentation techniques that use large language models (LLMs).

DaHyun Jung, Sugyeong Eo, Chanjun Park, Hyeonseok Moon, Jaehyung Seo, Heuiseok Lim. Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2023.

With the recent advance in neural machine translation demonstrating its importance, research on quality estimation (QE) has been steadily progressing. QE aims to automatically predict the quality of machine translation (MT) output without reference sentences. Despite its high utility in the real world, there remain several limitations concerning manual QE data creation: inevitably incurred non-trivial costs due to the need for translation experts, and issues with data scaling and language expansion. To tackle these limitations, we present QUAK, a Korean-English synthetic QE dataset generated in a fully automatic manner. This consists of three sub-QUAK datasets QUAK-M, QUAK-P, and QUAK-H, produced through three strategies that are relatively free from language constraints. Since each strategy requires no human effort, which facilitates scalability, we scale our data up to 1.58M for QUAK-P, H and 6.58M for QUAK-M. As an experiment, we quantitatively analyze word-level QE results in various ways while performing statistical analysis. Moreover, we show that datasets scaled in an efficient way also contribute to performance improvements by observing meaningful performance gains in QUAK-M, P when adding data up to 1.58M.

Automatic post-editing (APE) refers to a research field that aims to automatically correct errors included in the translation sentences derived by the machine translation system. This study has several limitations, considering the data acquisition, because there is no official dataset for most language pairs. Moreover, the amount of data is restricted even for language pairs in which official data has been released, such as WMT. To solve this problem and promote universal APE research regardless of APE data existence, this study proposes a method for automatically generating APE data based on a noising scheme from a parallel corpus. Particularly, we propose a human mimicking errors-based noising scheme that considers a practical correction process at the human level. We propose a precise inspection to attain high performance, and we derived the optimal noising schemes that show substantial effectiveness. Through these, we also demonstrate that depending on the type of noise, the noising scheme-based APE data generation may lead to inferior performance. In addition, we propose a dynamic noise injection strategy that enables the acquisition of a robust error correction capability and demonstrated its effectiveness by comparative analysis. This study enables obtaining a high performance APE model without human-generated data and can promote universal APE research for all language pairs targeting English.

In recent years, there has been an increasing need for the restoration and translation of historical languages. In this study, we attempt to translate historical records in ancient Korean language based on neural machine translation (NMT). Inspired by priming, a cognitive science theory that two different stimuli influence each other, we propose novel priming ancient-Korean NMT (AKNMT) using bilingual subword embedding initialization with structural property awareness in the ancient documents. Finally, we obtain state-of-the-art results in the AKNMT task. To the best of our knowledge, we confirm the possibility of developing a human-centric model that incorporates the concepts of cognitive science and analyzes the result from the perspective of interference and cognitive dissonance theory for the first time.