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3/3 "Do Slides Help? Multi-modal Context for Automatic Transcription of Conference Talks" led by Supriti

Summarizing Speech: A Comprehensive Survey Speech summarization has become an essential tool for efficiently managing and accessing the growing volume of spoken and audiovisual content. However, despite its increasing importance, speech summar...

2/3 "Summarizing Speech: A Comprehensive Survey" led by Fabian and Maike @maikezufle.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2504.08024

Are Generative Models Underconfident? Better Quality Estimation with Boosted Model Probability Quality Estimation (QE) is estimating quality of the model output during inference when the ground truth is not available. Deriving output quality from the models' output probability is the most trivi...

1/3 "Are Generative Models Underconfident? Better Quality Estimation with Boosted Model Probability" led by Tu Anh
arxiv.org/abs/2502.11115

🎉 Starting the week with some great news: 3 of our papers have been accepted to #EMNLP Main! 🧵👇

Big congratulations to all co-authors! 📚✨ Looking forward to presenting in #Suzhou!

Our team is growing! Today, we’re excited to welcome our new colleague Yuka Ko, who joins us as a postdoc on the EU Project DVPS.

Looking forward to collaborating and achieving great things together. Welcome aboard! 🚀

#Interspeech2025 Excited to present our work on in-context language learning for endangered languages! 🤩

Come chat with Zhaolin Li today 14:30–16:30 (A09-P1-04)!

🔗 www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_...

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

Neat year #NLP conferences:
📍 #EACL2026: 24–29 March 🇲🇦 Rabat (ARR deadline: 6 Oct)
📍 #LREC2026: 11–16 May 🇪🇸 Palma de Mallorca (deadline: 17 Oct)
📍 #ACL2026: 2–7 July 🇺🇸 San Diego (ARR deadline: 6 Jan)
📍 #COLING2027: 9–14 May 2027 🇲🇴 Macao

🇦🇹 I’ll be in Vienna for #ACL2025NLP!

Interested in training a speech-aware LLM without a lot of parameteres or data? Come to my poster:
🖼️ Mon, 18:00

Also into Speech Summarization? Join my IWSLT talk in collab with @fbk-mt.bsky.social
🎤 Fri, 14:00

Happy to chat - come say hi! 😎

Papers in 🧵

@jan-niehues.bsky.social @maikezufle.bsky.social

Excited to share 8 papers at #ACL2025 and affiliated venues! 🎉

Our team explored topics including multimodality, cross-lingual transfer, evaluation, decoding, and low-resource languages.

Looking forward to presenting our work and connecting with the community! See you soon! 🤩

🚀 Today marks the official start of the #HorizonEurope DVPS project (dvps.translated.com). Happy that @kit.edu is part of this collaboration with 20 leading AI organizations!

📍 This week we're in Rome for the kickoff meeting. Looking forward to exciting collaborations!
#DVPS #KIT #MultimodalAI

Excited to share 7 papers accepted at #ACL2025 and affiliated venues! 🎉

Topics include multimodality, cross-lingual transfer, benchmarks, decoding, low-resource languages and more.

See you in Vienna! 🤩 #nlproc #acl2025nlp

Program und Lageplan beim Tag der offenen Tür am KIT (Campus Süd) am 17. Mai 2025 #Karlsruhe

Wir freuen uns, bei der diesjährigen #TagDerOffenenTür @kit.edu dabei zu sein! Kommt vorbei und lernt #KITCat, unseren interaktiven KI-Assistenten kennen, und erlebt unser mehrsprachiges Sprachübersetzungssystem in Aktion!

Thrilled to take part in this year's #TagDerOffenenTür @kit.edu!
Come meet #KITCat, our interactive AI assistant, and experience our multilingual speech translation system in action!

@zouharvi.bsky.social and I had fun presenting our poster on efficient reranking for machine translation! Check out our paper with @juliuscheng.bsky.social

aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-l...

📢 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

Fabian and I've landed in Albuquerque for #NAACL25🌞 Can’t wait to connect with everyone!

🎤 Talks & 🖼️Posters from @kit.edu on:
- Efficient MT reranking
- Length-controlled summaries
- Cross-modal representations
- Low-resource ASR
- Annotation for qualitative research

🧵👇

Also proud of our collaboration with @juliuscheng.bsky.social and @zouharvi.bsky.social on Bayesian optimization for MT reranking! 🤝 aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-l...

Excited to attend #NAACL in Albuquerque! 🎈🌞
We are presenting works on:

🌐 multilingual & multimodal representations in foundation models aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-s...

🔊 contextual learning for low-resource ASR (LM4UC workshop) aclanthology.org/2025.lm4uc-1.1

We had a great time hosting enthusiastic high schoolers at #GirlsDay2025! We explored #LLM basics, played "Break the AI" games, and shared study abroad opportunities at #KIT.

Thanks @maikezufle.bsky.social for organizing and @kit.edu @girls-day.de for this initiative! 👩‍💻🌟

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! ⏰

Please email task organizers or the google group with any questions 🥳

Just returning from Hannover Messe #HM25, where we had the chance to showcase the KIT Lecture Translator at the Baden-Württemberg Evening Reception.

📢 The evaluation period of the Instruction Following task at
@iwslt.bsky.social just started!

🖥️ 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)!
➡️ iwslt2025.speechm.cloud.cyfronet.pl

First up, a new task for 2025:
*Instruction-following for speech processing!*

Explore instruction-following for speech ⇨
Integrate speech foundation models with LLMs across tasks such as speech translation, recognition, summarization, and QA.

🔗: iwslt.org/2025/instruc...

Next up: simultaneous speech translation!

🎯 Goal: to explore ways to translate speech into another language like simultaneous interpreting.

🔗 Link: iwslt.org/2025/simulta...

Today's task: model compression!!
🆕 New at IWSLT! But no less exciting 🔥

🎯 Goal: Compress a large, general-purpose multimodal model, making speech translation more efficient ⚡️, deployable 📲, and sustainable ♻️, while preserving translation quality ⭐️
#AI #SpeechTech #ModelCompression #LLMcompression

Exciting news: IWSLT will be co-located with @aclmeeting.bsky.social 2025 again this year! 🎉

Interested in speech processing? Check out the new task on instruction following — any model can participate! 🚀

📅 Data release: April 1
⏳ Submission deadline: April 15

💬 iwslt.org/2025/instruc...

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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!