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.
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2 New PhD Positions to start in 2026
Apr 22, 2026 | News
MT Unit at LREC 2026 🏝️
May 11, 2026
The MT Unit is heading to LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca (May 11–16)! Lina Conti and Luisa...
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Celebrating Beomseok LEE’s PhD Defense 🎓
Apr 24, 2026
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Sara Papi at ICLR 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 🇧🇷
Apr 22, 2026
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Celebrating Andrea Piergentili’s PhD Defense 🎓
Apr 20, 2026
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Best Paper Award at TeachNLP 2026
Apr 2, 2026
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🏝️ Yesterday at #LREC2026, Palma de Mallorca!
@lina_conti presented "Voice, Bias, and Coreference: An Interpretability Study of Gender in Speech Translation" at the poster session.
📄Paper:
💻Code: https://github.com/lina-conti/voice-bias-coreference
#SpeechTranslation #NLProc
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?🧐
🎙️ Our paper on connecting Speech Foundation Models with LLMs is featured in the SpeechLMM Training Journal on Weights & Biases.
Read it 👉 https://bit.ly/4svG7ll
SpeechLMM 2.0 coming this summer. 👀
#Meetween #SpeechLMM #AI #NLP