MT Group at FBK

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!⚡

🎉🎓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

@bsavoldi.bsky.social from @fbk-mt.bsky.social will present Translation in the Hands of Many: Centering Lay Users in Machine Translation Interactions at the poster session on Wed Nov. 5th, 11:00-12:30 in Hall C

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

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

Our Marco Gaido presenting FAMA, the first family of large-scale open-science speech foundation models for English and Italian.

Joint work with the @speechtekfbk.bsky.social group.

Data, code, models publicly available, check all info in the paper:
clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/u...

#lt2025fbk

@bsavoldi.bsky.social presenting our new multilingual benchmark for evaluating LLMs on gender-neutral translation.

Catch our paper at #EMNLP2025
ℹ️ arxiv.org/pdf/2501.09409

#lt2025fbk

Now it's the turn of our @dennisfucci.bsky.social presenting the #ACL2025NLP paper on explaining gender bias in speech translation

📖 aclanthology.org/2025.acl-sho...
#lt2025fbk