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

We're excited to share that three papers from our lab have been accepted at #Interspeech2026 !! 🍾 #SpeechTranslation #SpeechAI #NLProc #FBK #Interspeech

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

Late update, but we had two great talks last month! #MachineTranslation #FBK #NLProc #GenderBias #SpeechSynthesis From Harm Lameris, a PhD candidate at KTHuniversity on "Communicative Functions of Synthesized Speech: Modelling Prosody and Voice Quality Dynamics"

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

#PickOfTheWeek How does the granularity of speech-text pairs impact SpeechLLM performance, and what is the optimal way to interleave tokens? Furthermore, what are the best practices for generating synthetic data to boost training?🧐

⏰ 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! 🌴

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...

Our #PickOfTheWeek by @zhihangxie.bsky.social: "Detecting Hallucinations in SpeechLLMs at Inference Time Using Attention Maps" by Jonas Waldendorf, Bashar Awwad Shiekh Hasan, and Evgenii Tsymbalov (Findings of ACL 2026).

🚀 New Shared Task: Model Compression for Machine Translation at hashtag#WMT2026 (co-located with hashtag#EMNLP2026)! 📅 Test data out on June 18th, submissions by July 2nd! Can you shrink an LLM and keep translation quality high? 🧠🔧 👉 www2.statmt.org/wmt26/model-... #NLP #ML #LLM #ModelCompression

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! 🚀

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

🎉 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! 🚀

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?

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...

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

The Language Technology at FBK workshop has just started with a truly insightful talk by @deboranozza.bsky.social: "A Roadmap for the Everyday Use of LLMs: Emerging Risks and Research Directions" #LT2025FBK

Our pick of the week by @linaconti.bsky.social: "Lost in Transcription, Found in Distribution Shift: Demystifying Hallucination in Speech Foundation Models" by Hanin Atwany, @abdulwaheed.bsky.social, Rita Singh, Monojit Choudhury, and Bhiksha Raj (ACL Findings 2025) aclanthology.org/2025.finding...

🚀 Join us for the LT@FBK day 2025! Discover cutting-edge research and highlights in speech and language technologies from Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) 📅 October 28, 2025 📍FBK, Trento ℹ️ lt-highlights.fbk.eu

Our pick of the week by @bsavoldi.bsky.social: "Acoustic-based Gender Differentiation in Speech-aware Language Models" by Junhyuk Choi, Jihwan Seol, Nayeon Kim, Chanhee Cho, EunBin Cho, Bugeun Kim. arxiv.org/abs/2509.21125 #Gender #SpeechLLM #Speech

🚀 Our annual, full-day Language Technologies showcase is back! Dive into the latest research highlights from FBK groups. Want in? We'd love to see you, but don't forget to register! www.fbk.eu/en/event/346...