Gabrielle Gauthier Melancon
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2026
EVA-Bench: A New End-to-end Framework for Evaluating Voice Agents
Tara Bogavelli | Gabrielle Gauthier Melancon | Katrina Stankiewicz | Oluwanifemi Bamgbose | Fanny Riols | Hoang H Nguyen | Raghav Mehndiratta | Lindsay Devon Brin | Hari Subramani | Joseph Marinier | Sridhar Krishna Nemala | Anil Madamala | Srinivas Sunkara
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Tara Bogavelli | Gabrielle Gauthier Melancon | Katrina Stankiewicz | Oluwanifemi Bamgbose | Fanny Riols | Hoang H Nguyen | Raghav Mehndiratta | Lindsay Devon Brin | Hari Subramani | Joseph Marinier | Sridhar Krishna Nemala | Anil Madamala | Srinivas Sunkara
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Voice agents are increasingly deployed across enterprise applications. However, no existing benchmark jointly addresses realistic conversation simulation and comprehensive voice-specific evaluation. We present EVA-Bench, an end-to-end evaluation framework that addresses both. On the simulation side, EVA-Bench orchestrates dynamic bot-to-bot audio conversations with automatic simulation validation that detects user simulator error and appropriately regenerates conversations before scoring. On the measurement side, EVA-Bench introduces two composite metrics: EVA-A (Accuracy) and EVA-X (Experience). EVA-Bench includes 213 scenarios across three enterprise domains, a controlled perturbation suite for accent and noise robustness, and multi-trial measurements that distinguish peak from reliable capability. Across 12 systems spanning three architectures, we find: (1) no system simultaneously exceeds 0.5 on both EVA-A pass@1 and EVA-X pass@1; (2) peak and reliable performance diverge substantially (median pass@k - pass^k gap of 0.44 on EVA-A; and (3) accent and noise perturbations expose substantial robustness gaps, with effects varying across architectures, systems, and metrics (mean Δ up to 0.314). We release EVA-Bench under an open-source license.
2022
Azimuth: Systematic Error Analysis for Text Classification
Gabrielle Gauthier-melancon | Orlando Marquez Ayala | Lindsay Brin | Chris Tyler | Frederic Branchaud-charron | Joseph Marinier | Karine Grande | Di Le
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
Gabrielle Gauthier-melancon | Orlando Marquez Ayala | Lindsay Brin | Chris Tyler | Frederic Branchaud-charron | Joseph Marinier | Karine Grande | Di Le
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
We present Azimuth, an open-source and easy-to-use tool to perform error analysis for text classification. Compared to other stages of the ML development cycle, such as model training and hyper-parameter tuning, the process and tooling for the error analysis stage are less mature. However, this stage is critical for the development of reliable and trustworthy AI systems. To make error analysis more systematic, we propose an approach comprising dataset analysis and model quality assessment, which Azimuth facilitates. We aim to help AI practitioners discover and address areas where the model does not generalize by leveraging and integrating a range of ML techniques, such as saliency maps, similarity, uncertainty, and behavioral analyses, all in one tool. Our code and documentation are available at github.com/servicenow/azimuth.