🚀 New Shared Task: Model Compression for Machine Translation at hashtag#WMT2026 (co-located with hashtag#EMNLP2026)!
📅 Test data out on June 18th, submissions by July 2nd!
Can you shrink an LLM and keep translation quality high? 🧠🔧
👉 www2.statmt.org/wmt26/model-... #NLP #ML #LLM #ModelCompression
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!
📢Thrilled to welcome our new postdoc, @wafaaissa.bsky.social! Looking forward to working together on trustworthy and responsible language technologies 🚀
For our seminars at FBK, last week we had a great talk by @gsarti.com on Interpreting Context Usage in Generative Language Models
🎉 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! 🚀
Will #GITT2026 be worth it? If our brilliant keynotes are anything to go by...😉 Introducing @odettes.bsky.social Full Professor of Inclusive Speech Communication at 🇳🇱 Delft University of Technology. Human & automatic speech, combining technical x ethical x societal, just how we like it! Excited yet?
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).
Great seminar last week by Alessandra Teresa Cignarella @cerveza-inglesa.bsky.social
"6,000 Papers, One New Dataset, and Several Confused LLMs: A Story About Stereotype Detection in NLP"
#NLP #StereotypeDetection
🗞️ Pick of the week @fbk-mt.bsky.social: Most LLM dev centers current adopters, so what are we missing? Worth a read!
👇https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.15951
#NLP #LLMs #HCI
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
Our pick of the week by @linaconti.bsky.social: "Voice gender diversity: expression, perception and acoustics" by @victor-rosi.bsky.social and Carolyn McGettigan, Royal Society Open Science (2025)
Our pick of the week by @apierg.bsky.social: "Glitter: A Multi-Sentence, Multi-Reference Benchmark for Gender-Fair German Machine Translation" by Praval, @jhackenbuchner.bsky.social, @gattanasio.cc, and @a-lauscher.bsky.social (EMNLP 2025 Findings)
Our pick of the week by @uzumakidhairya.bsky.social: "How Does Quantization Affect Multilingual LLMs?" by Kelly Marchisio, Saurabh Dash, @hongyuchen.bsky.social, Dennis Aumiller, Ahmet Üstün, @sarahooker.bsky.social, @sebruder.bsky.social (EMNLP 2024 Findings)
aclanthology.org/2024.finding...
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...
Happy to welcome our new PhD student Dhairya Suman, who will be researching model efficiency in machine translation!
#nlproc @uzumakidhairya.bsky.social
🚀 JOB ALERT2: The FBK's MT Unit is hiring!
Join us as a Junior Research Engineer in Multimodal LLMs and help build next-gen AI across text, speech, and video. If you’re passionate about deep learning and multimodal NLP, we want to hear from you!
Apply at jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Jobs...
🚀 JOB ALERT: The FBK's MT Unit is hiring!
Join us as a Researcher in Multimodal LLMs and work at the forefront of AI, combining text, speech, and video. If you’re passionate about deep learning and next-gen models, we want to hear from you!
Apply 👉 jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Jobs...
🚀 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...
@matteo-negri.bsky.social presented the findings of the WMT 2025 shared task on model compression
📌 aclanthology.org/2025.wmt-1.2...
(5/5)
@linaconti.bsky.social presented “The Unheard Alternative: Contrastive Explanations for Speech-to-Text Models” at the #BlackboxNLP Workshop
📌 aclanthology.org/2025.blackbo...
(4/5)
@luisabentivogli.bsky.social contributed to “An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human-Centered Machine Translation”.
📌 aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
(3/5)
@bsavoldi.bsky.social presented:
"Translation in the Hands of Many: Centering Lay Users in Machine Translation Interactions"
📌 aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
"Mind the Inclusivity Gap: Multilingual Gender-Neutral Translation Evaluation with MGENTE"
📌 aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
(2/5)
Heading home tired but very happy after a fantastic #EMNLP2025 (and some well-deserved vacation 😎).
We were super busy presenting 5 papers! It was fantastic catching up with colleagues, exchanging ideas, and seeing all the amazing work in the #NLProc community!
(1/5)
Our pick of the week by @zhihangxie.bsky.social: "#Speech Discrete Tokens or Continuous Features? A Comparative Analysis for Spoken Language Understanding in #SpeechLLMs" by Dingdong Wang, Junan Li, Mingyu Cui, et al. (#EMNLP2025)
aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
#SLU #SpeechTech
🚀 Exciting news from the @fbk-mt.bsky.social group!
@bsavoldi.bsky.social , @linaconti.bsky.social, @matteo-negri.bsky.social & @luisabentivogli.bsky.social are attending #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou 🇨🇳!
Come to our sessions & let's connect:
🔗 mt.fbk.eu/fbk-mt-at-em...
We’re also hiring postdocs!⚡