VoxRAG: A Step Toward Transcription-Free RAG Systems in Spoken Question Answering
Rackauckas, Z., & Hirschberg, J. (2025). "VoxRAG: A Step Toward Transcription-Free RAG Systems in Spoken Question Answering." MAGMaR @ ACL 2025.
CV
Education
- Ph.D in Version Control Theory, GitHub University, 2018 (expected)
- M.S. in Jekyll, GitHub University, 2014
- B.S. in GitHub, GitHub University, 2012
Work experience
- Spring 2024: Academic Pages Collaborator
- GitHub University
- Duties includes: Updates and improvements to template
- Supervisor: The Users
- Fall 2015: Research Assistant
- GitHub University
- Duties included: Merging pull requests
- Supervisor: Professor Hub
- Summer 2015: Research Assistant
- GitHub University
- Duties included: Tagging issues
- Supervisor: Professor Git
Skills
- Skill 1
- Skill 2
- Sub-skill 2.1
- Sub-skill 2.2
- Sub-skill 2.3
- Skill 3
Publications
Re:Member: Emotional Question Generation from Personal Memories
Rackauckas, Z., Minematsu, N., & Hirschberg, J. (2025). "Re:Member: Emotional Question Generation from Personal Memories." HCI+NLP @ EMNLP 2025.
LangInLab: Augmenting Engineering Lab Instruction with Vision- and Voice-Enabled AI Agents for Language Learning
Shigi, M., Rackauckas, Z., Akiyama, Y., & Minematsu, N. (2025). "LangInLab: Augmenting Engineering Lab Instruction with Vision- and Voice-Enabled AI Agents for Language Learning." HAI 2025.
Learning Japanese with Jouzu: Interaction Outcomes with Stylized Dialogue Fictional Agents
Rackauckas, Z., & Hirschberg, J. (2025). "Learning Japanese with Jouzu: Interaction Outcomes with Stylized Dialogue Fictional Agents." arXiv.
Learner Interactions with Jouzu, the Mobile Application with Conversational Characters
Rackauckas, Z. (2025). "Learner Interactions with Jouzu, the Mobile Application with Conversational Characters." JALTCALL Trends.
Comparative Evaluation of Expressive Japanese Character Text-to-Speech with VITS and Style-BERT-VITS2
Rackauckas, Z., & Hirschberg, J. (2025). "Comparative Evaluation of Expressive Japanese Character Text-to-Speech with VITS and Style-BERT-VITS2." IEEE UEMCON 2025.
Evaluating RAG-Fusion with RAGElo: An Automated Elo-Based Framework
Rackauckas, Z., Camara, A., & Zavrel, J. (2024). "Evaluating RAG-Fusion with RAGElo: An Automated Elo-Based Framework." LLM4Eval @ SIGIR 2024.
RAG-Fusion: A New Take on Traditional RAG
Rackauckas, Z. (2024). "RAG-Fusion: A New Take on Traditional RAG." International Journal on Natural Language Computing, 13(1), 11.
Talks
Conference Proceeding talk 3 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
Conference proceedings talk at Testing Institute of America 2014 Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Talk 2 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
Talk at London School of Testing, London, UK
Tutorial 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
Tutorial at UC-Berkeley Institute for Testing Science, Berkeley, CA, USA
Talk 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
Talk at UC San Francisco, Department of Testing, San Francisco, CA, USA
Teaching
Service and leadership
- Currently signed in to 43 different slack teams