Kazushi Kato

Preprint Aug 2026

CultureConverse: A Multilingual Multi-turn Simulation Harness for Culturally Grounded Assistance in East and Southeast Asia

CultureConverse is introduced, a scalable, multilingual simulation and evaluation harness for culturally grounded assistant dialogue that covers 10 East and Southeast Asian regions, 58 subgroup identities, and 7 domains and performance gains from fine-tuning on 27,860 high-quality CultureConverse-DS samples improve in-...

Bryan Chen Zhengyu Tan, Wei-Hua Zheng, Thong T. Doan et al. · 0 citations

#robotics Preprint Sep 2026

Human-robot conversation with multiple participants in noisy public spaces

This work proposes an audio system that can be used for both an attentive listening system with the android ERICA and a conversation support system with mobile Teleco robots, with one of them acting as an avatar for a remote operator.

Divesh Lala, Yogeeswaran Muthukumaran, Vincent Fernandes et al. · 0 citations

#natural language process... Preprint Aug 2026

CultureConverse: A Multilingual Multi-turn Simulation Harness for Culturally Grounded Assistance in East and Southeast Asia

CultureConverse is introduced, a scalable, multilingual simulation and evaluation harness for culturally grounded assistant dialogue that covers 10 East and Southeast Asian regions, 58 subgroup identities, and 7 domains and performance gains from fine-tuning on 27,860 high-quality CultureConverse-DS samples improve in-...

Bryan Chen Zhengyu Tan, Weihua Zheng, Thong T. Doan et al. · 0 citations