Professor Yong Man Ro’s Research Team Wins Outstanding Paper Award at AI Top tier Conference (ACL 2024)
<(from left) Se Jin Park ph.d. candidate, Chae Won Kim ph.d. candidate>
PhD students Se Jin Park and Chae Won Kim from Professor Yong-Man Ro’s research team in the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST have won the Outstanding Paper Award at the ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) 2024 conference, held in Bangkok.
ACL is recognized as the world’s leading conference in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and is one of the top-tier international conferences in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Their award-winning paper, titled “Let’s Go Real Talk: Spoken Dialogue Model for Face-to-Face Conversation,” introduces an innovative model designed to make interactions between humans and AI more natural and human-like.
Unlike traditional text-based or speech-based dialogue models, this research developed a Human Multimodal LLM (Large Language Model) that enables AI to comprehend both visual cues and vocal signals from humans. Additionally, it allows the AI to engage in conversations using human-like facial expressions and speech.
This breakthrough opens up new possibilities for improving the intuitiveness and effectiveness of human-AI interactions by simultaneously processing visual and auditory signals during conversations.
Professor Yong Man Ro stated, ” This research marks a significant advancement in human-AI interaction, and we hope this technology will be widely applied in various real-world applications.
This award is yet another example of the international recognition of the excellence of AI research at KAIST’s School of Electrical Engineering.”
