๐ 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.
๐ Deadline: Dec 10, 2025
๐ Apply: jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Offe...
Our next presentation is by @sarapapi.bsky.social: "How real is your real-time simultaneous speech-to-text translation system?"
Look for the answer in her TACL paper: direct.mit.edu/tacl/article...#lt2025fbk
An interesting survey about #RAG and its interplay with #multimodality: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for AI-Generated Content: A Survey
arxiv.org/pdf/2402.19473@fbk-mt.bsky.social
Sara Papi, Maike Z\"ufle, Marco Gaido, Beatrice Savoldi, Danni Liu, Ioannis Douros, Luisa Bentivogli, Jan Niehues
MCIF: Multimodal Crosslingual Instruction-Following Benchmark from Scientific Talks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19634
๐ฅ Is your real-time SimulST system REAL?
Our TACL paper analyzes 110 works and reveals:
๐ซ Overreliance on short-form speech
๐ Terminology chaos
๐ Real-world deployment gaps
We bring order-New taxonomy, trends & recommendations!
๐#ACL2025 Poster: Monday 11-12:30, Hall 4/5
#Speech#SpeechTech
๐ Stiamo studiando come l'AI viene usata in Italia e per farlo abbiamo costruito un sondaggio!
๐ bit.ly/sondaggio_ai...
(รจ anonimo, richiede ~10 minuti, e se partecipi o lo fai girare ci aiuti un sacco๐)
Ci interessa anche raggiungere persone che non si occupano e non sono esperte di AI!
๐ New tech report out! Meet FAMA, our open-science speech foundation model family for both ASR and ST in ๐ฌ๐ง English and ๐ฎ๐น Italian.
The models are live and ready to try on @hf.co:
๐ huggingface.co/collections/...
๐ Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2505.22759#ASR#ST#OpenScience#MultilingualAI
If you're finishing your camera-ready for ACL or ICML and want to cite co-first authors more fairly, I just made a simple fix to do this! Just add $^*$ to the authors' names in your bibtex, and the citations should change :)
github.com/tpimentelms/...
๐ Excited to share that our @sarapapi.bsky.social has won the 2024 Best PhD Award from the Information and Engineering Doctoral School for her thesis โDirect Speech Translation in Constrained Contexts: The Simultaneous and Subtitling Scenarios.โ
#nlproc#speech#speechprocessing#speechtranslation
The evaluation period has begun for our shared tasks!
The test data is now available on our website, and submissions are due Tuesday April 15! โฐ
Please email task organizers or the google group with any questions ๐ฅณ
๐ข The evaluation period of the Instruction Following task at
@iwslt.bsky.social just started!
๐ฅ๏ธ Consider submitting your speech-to-text system!
The outputs can be easily uploaded on the SPEECHM platform developed in the Meetween project (www.meetween.eu)!
โก๏ธ iwslt2025.speechm.cloud.cyfronet.pl
I'm thrilled to be one of the speakers at the next MT Marathon in Helsinki ๐
I look forward to sharing insights on automatic translation and related topics with our community!
Call for participation: We just opened the registration for this year's MT Marathon in August in Helsinki, Finland: blogs.helsinki.fi/language-tec..., featuring:
- Ayodele Awokoya
- Wilker Aziz
- Marta Costa-Jussa
- Barry Haddow
- Amit Moryosse
- Sara Papi
- Jรถrg Tiedemann
- Marco Turchi
Glad to see that the model weights of the new Step-Audio, a speech foundation model + large language model (+ speech decoder) architecture, are published under open licenses! ๐
arxiv.org/abs/2502.11946
As if you needed more reasons to submit to #GITT2025:
๐๐ต Cristina Anselmi, video game #localization & #AI expert with a focus on #inclusive#language will be our keynote speaker!
๐ธRegistration fees are on the MTSummit website and you can register just for GITT if you so choose ๐
๐ See you there! ๐
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 ๐
๐ Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.02370
โฐ Code will be released soon
#NLProc#Speech
Hello world! ๐ 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!
Exciting news: IWSLT will be co-located with @aclmeeting.bsky.social 2025 again this year! ๐
Interested in speech processing? Check out the new task on instruction following โ any model can participate! ๐
๐ Data release: April 1
โณ Submission deadline: April 15
๐ฌ iwslt.org/2025/instruc...
Iโm glad to announce that our work โHow "Real" is Your Real-Time Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation System?โ has been accepted at the Transactions of @aclmeeting.bsky.social (TACL)! ๐
The preprint is available here:
arxiv.org/pdf/2412.18495
๐ Interested in Simultaneous Translation? We're organizing the IWSLT SimulST Shared Task and would love your input for the 2025 edition. ๐ฃ๏ธ
๐ Share your thoughts here: forms.gle/LwkF3284NzZd...
Today @luisabentivogli.bsky.social, Dennis Fucci, and @apierg.bsky.social presented a research communication about gender-neutral translation in the morning poster session #CLiCit2024#NLProc
We are happy to announce that our PhD students Dennis Fucci and @apierg.bsky.social along with our head of unit @luisabentivogli.bsky.social, will attend #CLiCit2024 in Pisa! Meet them at the poster presentations during the main conference and the #CALAMITA event!
With our first post on Bluesky we are glad to announce that our @sarapapi.bsky.social received the Special Mention for the Best PhD Thesis Award assigned by AIxIA 2024!
mt.fbk.eu/our-postdoc-...