At our last seminar, @maikezufle.bsky.social presented her work on Duplex Models, "Building Controllable Speech Systems"

🎉We’re happy to welcome our new research engineer, Yiu Chung Leung, joining us to work on multimodal LLMs with a focus on speech. Excited for what’s ahead! 🚀

With @malvinanissim.bsky.social and @vivipatti.bsky.social, we've been teaching ethics in NLP as a hands-on course across Groningen, Pavia & Turin. We wrote up the experience and received the ✨Best Paper Award✨ at #EACL2026's TeachNLP Workshop. Huge thanks to the organizers and all our students!

🎉 We’re very happy to welcome our new postdoc @lucacorbucci.bsky.social, who will be working on multimodal LLMs.
Looking forward to the exciting research ahead! 🚀

At our last MT seminar, we had @jacquelinerowe.bsky.social from @edinburghuni.bsky.social presenting her work "Beyond Benchmarks? Measuring Gender Bias in Multilingual LLMs"

🎓 Today we attended the FBK PhD Day, and our amazing students presented their research lines:
@apierg.bsky.social: gender-inclusive MT
@linaconti.bsky.social: explainable speech translation
@zhihangxie.bsky.social: long-form SpeechLLMs
@uzumakidhairya.bsky.social: resource-efficient translation

Our #PickOfTheWeek by @bsavoldi.bsky.social: "Attention to Non-Adopters" by @kaitlynzhou.bsky.social, @gligoric.bsky.social, @myra.bsky.social, @mlam.bsky.social, @vyoma-raman.bsky.social, Boluwatife Aminu, Caeley Woo, Michael Brockman, @hannah-cha.bsky.social, @jurafsky.bsky.social (2025).

Last week at the @fbk-mt.bsky.social seminars, we hosted Elizabeth Salesky from Google DeepMind, presenting her work on "Translation and Language Modeling with Pixels"

#NLProc #tokenization #MT

It was great having Hosein Mohebbi (@hmohebbi.bsky.social) speak about interpretability for speech Transformers at our #MTSeminars! Thanks for the insights 🎤 #NLP #XAI

🚀 JOB ALERT 3: The FBK's MT Unit is hiring!

Join us as a Researcher in Responsible & Trustworthy NLP and advance ethical, fair, and transparent language technologies. If you care about building safe and accountable AI systems, you can apply here:
👉 jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Offe...

🚀 We're hiring a Researcher in Responsible & Trustworthy NLP! Join our research group @fbk-mt.bsky.social at Fondazione Bruno Kessler to work on fairness and trustworthiness in multilingual technologies.

📅 Deadline: Dec 10, 2025
🔗 Apply: jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Offe...

🔍 Stiamo studiando come l'AI viene usata in Italia e per farlo abbiamo costruito un sondaggio!

👉 bit.ly/sondaggio_ai...

(è anonimo, richiede ~10 minuti, e se partecipi o lo fai girare ci aiuti un sacco🙏)

Ci interessa anche raggiungere persone che non si occupano e non sono esperte di AI!

📢 Come and join our group!
We offer a fully funded 3-year PhD position:

📔 Automatic translation with large multimodal models: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad...

📍Full details for application: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad...

📅 Deadline May 12, 2025

#NLProc #FBK

While we look forward to a sunny Geneva, why wait to join the conversation?

We’ve created a starter pack for our #GITT2025 friends!
🕵️ Follow researchers working on gender bias in MT
💬 Stay up to date and dive into the discussion!

All info at sites.google.com/tilburgunive...

As if you needed more reasons to submit to #GITT2025:
🔑🎵 Cristina Anselmi, video game #localization & #AI expert with a focus on #inclusive #language will be our keynote speaker!
💸Registration fees are on the MTSummit website and you can register just for GITT if you so choose 😎
👀 See you there! 👀

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2nd Call For Papers #CFP up on our website! sites.google.com/tilburgunive...
⏳Deadline = 10 March
📝All the submission types you could wish for (research paper, extended abstract, research communications) AND MORE:
🍀 Potluck Presentations for new ideas, brainstorms, and explorations 💡
We can't wait!

Prepending or Cross-Attention for Speech-to-Text? An Empirical Comparison Following the remarkable success of Large Language Models (LLMs) in NLP tasks, there is increasing interest in extending their capabilities to speech -- the most common form in communication. To integ...

I'm happy to share that our paper "Prepending or Cross-Attention for Speech-to-Text? An Empirical Comparison" has been accepted at @naaclmeeting.bsky.social 2025! #NAACL2025

@mgaido91.bsky.social 👏

📃 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.02370
⏰ Code will be released soon

#NLProc #Speech

We are very pleased to welcome @zhihangxie.bsky.social, our new PhD student, to the FBK MT Unit! 🎉

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Hello world! 👋 We're coming out of hibernation to bring you this happy news:
1) We're organising the 3rd edition of GITT at #MTSummit! Working on #gender & #translation #technology? We'll see you there!
2) We're moving away from Twitter, so share the news and help us find old and new GITT friends!

Isaac Asimov's Laws of Robotics Need an Update for AI We need to add a 4th law of robotics

spectrum.ieee.org/isaac-asimov...

🙌🏼 Excited to share our work on Speech Foundation Model for data crowdsourcing at COLING 2025 🙌🏼

Our co-author Laurent Besacier (@lbesacier.bsky.social) at NAVER LABS Europe will be presenting -- don't miss it.

👉🏼 Details: mt.fbk.eu/1-paper-acce...

I’m glad to announce that our work “How "Real" is Your Real-Time Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation System?” has been accepted at the Transactions of @aclmeeting.bsky.social (TACL)! 🎉

The preprint is available here:
arxiv.org/pdf/2412.18495