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Ravi Shekhar

University of Essex, Queen Mary University of London, University of Trento

ORCID iD 0000-0002-8798-641X
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Employment

  • University of Essex Lecturer
    2023 - Present
  • Queen Mary University of London Postdoctoral Research Assistant
    2019 - 2023

Education

  • University of Trento Ph.D.
    ? - 2019

Projects & Funding

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Publications (32)

  • On the Role of Encoder Depth: Pruning Whisper and LoRA Fine-Tuning in SLAM-ASR
    Proceedings of the Speakable:Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings:Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (LREC Workshop) 2026
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  • Speak in Context: Multilingual ASR with Speech–Context Alignment via Contrastive Learning
    Proceedings of the Fifteenth biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026) 2026
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  • Language Family Matters: Evaluating LLM-Based ASR Across Linguistic Boundaries
    Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2026) 2026
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  • CARD: Cross-component Audio Representation Distillation for Encoder-Free Audio Captioning
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.04619 2026
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  • CLARA: Clip-Level Multimodal Alignment with VLM-Derived Rationales for Hateful Video Detection
    Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM2026) 2026
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  • OasisSimp: An Open-source Asian-English Sentence Simplification Dataset
    Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 2026 DOI: 10.63317/4ws5ja7xyadd
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  • Addressing Blind Guessing: Calibration of Selection Bias in Multiple-Choice Question Answering by Video Language Models
    Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) 2025
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  • SiTSE: Sinhala Text Simplification Dataset and Evaluation
    ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing 2025 DOI: 10.1145/3723160
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  • Power and vulnerability: managing sensitive language in organizational communication
    Frontiers in Psychology 2024 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1266425
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  • Making the Pick: Understanding Professional Editor Comment Curation in Online News
    Proceedings of the 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) 2024
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