Corpus Quality Improves, Retrieval Utility Does Not: An Ablation of Preprocessing and Refinement in a Speech-to-QA Pipeline

arXiv:2610.27652 · cs.CL, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-10-20 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-10-20

Updated: 2026-10-20

Comments: 14 pages, 3 figures, 9 tables. Code and data: https://github.com/wonsupshin-flitto/speech-corpus-ablation

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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