The Machine Translation group atย 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).ย We are part of the Digital Industry center.
If you are fascinated by languages, cutting edge technology and research challenges,ย check out our Join Usย page!
2 New PhD Positions to start in 2026
Apr 22, 2026 | News
MT Unit at LREC 2026 ๐๏ธ
May 11, 2026
The MT Unit is heading to LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca (May 11โ16)! Lina Conti and Luisa...
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Celebrating Beomseok LEEโs PhD Defense ๐
Apr 24, 2026
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Sara Papi at ICLR ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฒ ๐ง๐ท
Apr 22, 2026
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Celebrating Andrea Piergentiliโs PhD Defense ๐
Apr 20, 2026
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Best Paper Award at TeachNLP 2026
Apr 2, 2026
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โฐ 4 days left to apply!
๐ 2 PhD positions still open:
๐ฏ Human-Centred Evaluation Frameworks for Multilingual Technologies
โจ Multimedia Personalization with Multimodal Large Language Models
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Deadline: 15 May 2026
๐ Full details: https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application
๐ @lina_conti and @luisabentivogli are heading to #LREC2026 in Palma! They'll present two papers:
๐ "Voice, Bias, and Coreference: An Interpretability Study of Gender in Speech Translation"
Paper link:
๐ค 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. The findings are simple but crucial for data creation:
๐ Come and join our group! ๐
We offer 2 fully funded PhD positions:
๐ Human-Centred Evaluation Frameworks for Multilingual Technologies (A6)
๐ค Multimedia Personalization with Multimodal Large Language Models (A7)
โฐ Deadline: 15 May 2026
๐ Details: https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application