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CORA: A Protocol for Diagnosing Boundary Robustness in Text-to-Audio Retrieval under Query Reformulations
Text-to-Audio (T2A) retrievers are typically evaluated with caption style queries, but the same user intent can be expressed in many forms. We introduce CORA (Caption-Offset Retrieval for Audio), a caption anchored diagnostic protocol that rewrites each source caption into five intent preserving forms (Command, Questio …