And that's a wrap on #GITT2026 Thanks to all the wonderful people for attending, our brilliant keynotes and presenters for sharing their insights, and our sponsors for making this happen. See you at the reception! 🥂 (and maybe next year? 😉)

And last but not least, our closing keynote, Sofie Decock, ready to tell us all about gender-neutral pronouns and inclusive interpreting at #GITT2026

Poster sessions in full swing at #GITT2026 - will continue a little after the coffee break as well ☕

After a lovely lunch break with lively discussion, our second keynote of the day, @odettes.bsky.social now presenting on inclusive speech technology at #GITT2026 🤩

And last but definitely not least, #GITT2026 's very own @bsavoldi.bsky.social

@amelija166mp.bsky.social on gender bias in translated product reviews and Deniz Albayrak on WinoTR #GITT2026

Sophie Hennuy presenting the Inclupedie (see www.inclupedie.eu) and Marie Dewulf on a real world corpus for gender bias in the webcare domain #GITT2026

Paolo Di Natalie's very first PhD presentation here at #GITT2026 focusing on the real use case of Italian-German fully bilingual context and gender fair translation in South Tyrol (Italy)

#GITT2026 's very own @manuellardelli.bsky.social presenting on nonbinary morphology in a real translation workflow for German and Italian (moving away from the English focus and binary limitations of many gender studies!)

Next on, @jdaems.bsky.social presenting their work on Dutch audience perceptions of human and machine-translated pronouns for non-binary referent in subtitles at #GITT2026

After some technical hiccups, our opening keynote @katta.bsky.social is ready to tell us all about technology for dynamic concepts (like gender) at #GITT2026

Only one more week until we get to see those beautiful faces at #GITT2026 again! 🤩 Time to thank our magnificent sponsors making this event possible in the first place: - The European DVPS project, see dvps.translated.com - Ghent University's Faculty of Arts & Philosophy, see www.ugent.be/lw/en

Shoutout to our wonderful sponsors at #GITT2026

#GITT2026 is off at #EAMT2026 - @manuellardelli.bsky.social now opening the workshop. We'll attempt to live skywrite as we go!

1️⃣ "Do What I Say: A Spoken Prompt Dataset for Instruction-Following" 👥 @maikezufle.bsky.social, @sarapapi.bsky.social, Fabian Retkowski, Szymon Mazurek, Marek Kasztelnik, Alexander Waibel, @luisabentivogli.bsky.social, @jan-niehues.bsky.social 🇪🇺 Meetween EU project 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2603.09881

2️⃣ "Better Late Than Never: Evaluating Latency Metrics for Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation" 👥 Peter Polak, @sarapapi.bsky.social, @luisabentivogli.bsky.social, Ondřej Bojar 🇪🇺 Meetween EU project 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2509.17349

3️⃣ "Cross-Attention is Half Explanation in Speech-to-Text Models" 👥 @sarapapi.bsky.social, @dennisfucci.bsky.social, Marco Gaido, @matteo-negri.bsky.social, @luisabentivogli.bsky.social 🇪🇺 DVPS EU project 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2509.18010

We are at the Alliance for Language Technologies - #ALTEDIC Week 2026! @luisabentivogli.bsky.social and @matteo-negri.bsky.social are attending two project meetings (ALT-EDIC4EU and #LLMs4EU), presenting the Evaluation of Spoken Language Translation in the context of IWSLT. #LanguageTechnologies

Our #PickofTheWeek by @linaconti.bsky.social on Gender bias in Speech LLMs "Greater accessibility can amplify discrimination in generative AI" by Carolin Holtermann, Minh Duc Bui2, Kaitlyn Zhou, Valentin Hofmann, Katharina von der Wense, Anne Lauscher

From @jhackenbuchner.bsky.social, a PhD candidate at @lt3-ugent.bsky.social on 📄 "Contextual Cues and Gender Ambiguity in MT: From Human Perception to Model Interpretability"

Our #PickofTheWeek by @uzumakidhairya.bsky.social: "Scaling Laws for Precision" by Tanishq Kumar, Zachary Ankner, Benjamin F. Spector, Blake Bordelon, Niklas Muennighoff, Mansheej Paul, Cengiz Pehlevan, Christopher Ré, Aditi Raghunathan (ICLR 2025)

🏝️ Yesterday at #LREC2026, Palma de Mallorca! @linaconti.bsky.social presented "Voice, Bias, and Coreference: An Interpretability Study of Gender in Speech Translation" at the poster session. 📄Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.21517 💻Code: github.com/lina-conti/v... #SpeechTranslation #NLProc

🏝️ Also at #LREC2026, Palma de Mallorca! @luisabentivogli.bsky.social presented our second paper. "Phonetic-based Ranking for Improved Pseudo-Labeling in Low-Resource ASR" 📄 Paper: eloquenceai.eu/wp-content/u... Bravi!! 🎉

The paper "Data-Centric Lessons To Improve Speech-Language Pretraining" by Vishaal Udandarao, Zhiyun Lu, Xuankai Chang, Yongqiang Wang, Violet Z. Yao, Albin Madapally Jose, Fartash Faghri, Josh Gardner & Chung-Cheng Chiu provides the answers! Read more: arxiv.org/abs/2510.20860 #SpeechLLM #LLM #AI

⏰ 4 days left to apply! 🎓 2 PhD positions still open: 🎯 Human-Centred Evaluation Frameworks for Multilingual Technologies ✨ Multimedia Personalization with Multimodal Large Language Models 📅 Deadline: 15 May 2026 🔗 Full details: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad...

@linaconti.bsky.social & @luisabentivogli.bsky.social are heading to #LREC2026 in Palma! They'll present two papers: 📄 Voice, Bias, and Coreference: An Interpretability Study of Gender in Speech Translation 📄 Phonetic-based Ranking for Improved Pseudo-Labelling in Low-Resource ASR See you there! 🌴

🤔 What Matters in Data for DPO? I asked myself this question a few days ago while trying to understand how to generate a dataset with preferences to run #DPO. This recent #NeurIPS paper answered some of my questions.

Our #PickOfTheWeek by @lucacorbucci.bsky.social : "What Matters in Data for DPO? " by Yu Pan, Zhongze Cai, Guanting Chen, Huaiyang Zhong, Chonghuan Wang (NeurIPS 2025).

🎓 Come and join our group! 🎓 We offer 2 fully funded PhD positions: 🌍 Human-Centred Evaluation Frameworks for Multilingual Technologies (A6) 🤖 Multimedia Personalization with Multimodal Large Language Models (A7) ⏰ Deadline: 15 May 2026 🔗 Details: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad...

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! 🚀

📣2nd #CFP for #GITT2026 at @eamt2026.bsky.social (15 June 2026) 🏁Deadline = 20 April 🕵️Gender bias in translation and MT, inclusive language, mitigation strategies, and more 📝Research papers, abstracts, communications & potluck presentations welcome! 🕸️All info on: sites.google.com/view/gitt202...

Did someone say 'more international keynotes'? 😉 #GITT2026 will have it all: Introducing Professor Sofie Decock (Ghent University, 🇧🇪), who works on the use and perception of #genderinclusive #language in professional communication, from newspapers to #interpreting ➡️ sites.google.com/view/gitt202...

🎉 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! 🚀

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

📣 Announcement time! A few weeks have already passed since I joined the @fbk-mt.bsky.social by @luisabentivogli.bsky.social at FBK as a Postdoctoral researcher to work on hashtag #Multimodal #LLMs. I’m really happy to be here and excited about the projects I’m starting to explore.

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