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?
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...
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 @linaconti.bsky.social: "Voice gender diversity: expression, perception and acoustics" by @victor-rosi.bsky.social and Carolyn McGettigan, Royal Society Open Science (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
Our #PickOfTheWeek by @beomseok-lee.bsky.social: "Can Speech LLMs Think while Listening?" by Yi-Jen Shih, @rdesh26.bsky.social, Chunyang Wu, Wei Zhou, SK Bong, Yashesh Gaur, Jay Mahadeokar, Ozlem Kalinli, Mike Seltzer (2025).
#Speech #SpeechLLM #LLM #SpeechTech #AI
🎉🎓Congratulations to our PhD student @dennisfucci.bsky.social on a very successful thesis defense! 👏
Many thanks to the evaluation committee members @deboranozza.bsky.social, Mirco Ravanelli, and Leonardo Badino for their insightful feedback and appreciation of his work!
#nlproc
Extra shout-out to the battle-hardened crew joining for this round 🔥 @jhackenbuchner.bsky.social @luisabentivogli.bsky.social @jdaems.bsky.social @bsavoldi.bsky.social
🚀 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...
🚀 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...
Happy to welcome our new PhD student Dhairya Suman, who will be researching model efficiency in machine translation!
#nlproc @uzumakidhairya.bsky.social
🚀 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...
🚀 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...
🚀 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!⚡
It was great having Hosein Mohebbi (@hmohebbi.bsky.social) speak about interpretability for speech Transformers at our #MTSeminars! Thanks for the insights 🎤 #NLP #XAI
Amazing job @jhackenbuchner.bsky.social @jdaems.bsky.social @chiaramanna.bsky.social @bsavoldi.bsky.social @evavnmssnhv.bsky.social! You made also this third edition of @gitt-workshop.bsky.social energizing (despite the heat 🫠) and inspiring! I really wish I could have been there with you 😍
Paper here: arxiv.org/pdf/2504.11934
Poster session now happening at #GITT2025 Some really exciting research and potluck discussions happening! 🔥
If you'd like to read more, check out the paper at www.cell.com/patterns/ful... by @bsavoldi.bsky.social @jasmijn.bastings.me @luisabentivogli.bsky.social @evavnmssnhv.bsky.social #GITT2025
@bsavoldi.bsky.social opening #GITT2025 nice turnout already!
First up: SOTA to get everyone up to speed again! 🚀
🔍 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!
Co-authored with:
@mgaido91.bsky.social, @matteo-negri.bsky.social, @mcettolo.bsky.social, @luisabentivogli.bsky.social
Big thanks to amazing co-authors: @mgaido91.bsky.social, @matteo-negri.bsky.social, @luisabentivogli.bsky.social, @andre-t-martins.bsky.social, @gattanasio.cc!
🎉 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 “Direct Speech Translation in Constrained Contexts: The Simultaneous and Subtitling Scenarios.”
#nlproc #speech #speechprocessing #speechtranslation
📢 One week left to apply for a fully funded 3-year PhD position in our group!
📔Automatic translation with large multimodal models: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad...
📌Full details for application: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad...
📆 Deadline: 12 May 2025, 4pm CEST
#NLProc #FBK
📢 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
Happy to announce that our paper 'An LLM-as-a-judge Approach for Scalable Gender-Neutral Translation Evaluation' was accepted at @gitt-workshop.bsky.social ! 🙌
Check it out: arxiv.org/abs/2504.11934 🔥
Co-authors (🫶🏻): @bsavoldi.bsky.social, @matteo-negri.bsky.social, @luisabentivogli.bsky.social
@alessiobrutti.bsky.social is on the red carpet on his way to the Assembly of Members of the Alliance for Language Technology #ALTEDIC and the kick off of the LLMs4EU project: towards preserving our cultural and language diversity and giving european citizens open and ethical #languagetechnologies
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...
