arXiv AI

PVminerLLM2: Improving Structured Extraction of Patient Voice via Preference Optimization

arXiv:2606. 16074v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Motivation: Patient-generated text contains critical information on patients' lived experiences, social context, and care engagement, but remains largely unstructured, limiting its use in patient-centered outcomes research.

arXiv AI
Jun 9

End-to-End Training for Discrete Token LLM based TTS System

arXiv:2606. 09234v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent state-of-the-art (SOTA) text-to-speech (TTS) systems typically adopt a cascaded pipeline consisting of a speech tokenizer, an autoregressive large language model (LLM), and a diffusion based flow-matching (FM) model, with these components trained independently.

By Changfeng Gao, Yong Ren, Jun Yuan, Ye Bai, Zhao You, ShiDong Shang
arXiv AI
Jun 11

Self-Prompting Small Language Models for Privacy-Sensitive Clinical Information Extraction

arXiv:2605. 04221v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Clinical named entity recognition from dental progress notes is challenging because documentation is highly unstructured, domain-specific, and often privacy-sensitive.

By Yao-Shun Chuang, Tushti Mody, Uday Pratap Singh, Shirindokht Shiraz, Chun-Teh Lee, Ryan Brandon, Muhammad F Walji, Xiaoqian Jiang, Bunmi Tokede
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 18

Dictionary-Constrained Grapheme-to-Phoneme for Unsegmented Languages from LLM-Annotated Data

The paper introduces a context‑aware neural grapheme‑to‑phoneme (G2P) system for unsegmented languages like Japanese, using a discriminative conditional random field over a word lattice built from dictionaries. It addresses data scarcity by generating over two million sentences with large language models. Experiments show the method surpasses traditional morphological analyzers and neural sequence models, achieving 99.62% target word reading accuracy and very low phoneme error rates on the Joyo‑Kanji‑Yomi benchmark.

By Rui Hu, Zhenpeng Zhan, Xiaolong Lin
arXiv AI
Aug 18

Prompting is not enough: supervised baselines and leakage control for measuring shared decision-making with LLMs in pediatric encounters

arXiv:2608. 14792v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Objectives: To determine whether zero-shot prompting of a large language model (LLM) is sufficient to detect shared decision-making (SDM) behaviors in real clinical encounters, and whether supervised learning adds value under patient-grouped, nested evaluation.

By Bernardo Modenesi, Jody Lin, Kimberly Kaphingst, Angela Zhu, Maya Wheeler, Peilu Zhang, Angela Fagerlin
arXiv Computation and Language
6d ago

Training-Free Pronunciation Transcription via Text-Constrained Acoustic Rescoring

The paper introduces a training‑free speech‑and‑text‑to‑pronunciation (ST2P) pipeline that combines lexical candidates from G2P tools with acoustic rescoring using frozen pretrained S2P models. By performing a left‑to‑right greedy search over whole‑sequence negative log‑likelihoods, the method achieves a dramatic reduction in character error rate on Japanese corpora, outperforming both baseline G2P/S2P approaches and commercial multimodal LLMs. The approach is also significantly faster—3–3.5× faster than beam search and twice as fast as direct decoding—while maintaining high accuracy across multiple languages.

By Hikaru Asano, Yotaro Kubo, So Kuroki