The Machine Translation group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler specializes in speech and text technologies for multilingual communication. We work on innovative neural architectures and multimodal resources for a range of topics and applications (e.g. subtitling, interpreting, gender inclusivity). We are part of the Digital Industry center.
If you are fascinated by languages, cutting edge technology and research challenges, check out our Join Us page!
Luisa Bentivogli at ACL 2026 🇺🇸
Jul 1, 2026
The Machine Translation unit is heading to the ACL 2026 Conference in San Diego, California! Luisa...
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MT Unit at ALT-EDIC Week 2026
Jun 17, 2026
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3 Papers Accepted at INTERSPEECH 2026
Jun 11, 2026
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MT Unit at LREC 2026 🏝️
May 11, 2026
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Celebrating Beomseok LEE’s PhD Defense 🎓
Apr 24, 2026
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Our pick of the week by
@FBKZhihangXie : "Speech-XL: Towards Long-Form Speech Understanding in Large Speech Language Models" by Haoqin Sun, @Chenyang_Lyu, Shiwan Zhao, Xuanfan Ni, Xiangyu Kong, @wangly0229, Weihua Luo and Yong Qin
#SpeechLLM #LongFormSpeech #SLU
🚀 New paper: Speech-XL for long-form SpeechLLMs
📄 https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05373
🧩 Uses Speech Summarization Tokens to compress local speech intervals into compact KV states efficiently.
✨ Improves long-form speech understanding while reducing memory and FLOPs on 10-minute audio.
Our pick of the week by
@BeatriceSavoldi
: "Accuracy: Community Perspectives on Machine Translation" by Yujun Wang,
@EhudReiter
, Shimei Pan,
@egere14
and Wei Zhao #MachineTranslation #TranslationQuality #Evaluation
📖 #PickoftheWeek @fbk_mt "Accuracy: Community Perspectives on Machine Translation"
A cool analysis of the conflicting interests of different communities around MT(AI developers, LSPs, and users)
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.09655
#NLP #MachineTranslation #DiverseStakeholders
We are at the Alliance for Language Technologies - #ALTEDIC Week 2026!
@luisabentivogli and @negri_teo are attending two project meetings (ALT-EDIC4EU and #LLMs4EU), presenting the Evaluation of Spoken Language Translation in the context of IWSLT.
#LanguageTechnologies #FBK