The Language Technology Research Highlights @ FBK 2024 (LT@FBK2024) was organised to bring together scientists, students, practitioners, and enthusiasts interested in language technologies who want to know more about the recent research achievements at FBK on this topic.
It showcased an invited keynote (Barbara Plank, LMU Munich) and a series of oral and poster presentations. In this first edition we featured twelve oral presentations of papers accepted at top-tier LT venues (*ACL and EMNLP). We also had a dedicated session where each LT unit discussed core activities, which provided interesting insights into the future progress of the field.
Our MT Unit presented the following papers:
- [ORAL] Sara Papi, Marco Gaido, Matteo Negri and Luisa Bentivogli. “StreamAtt: Streaming Speech-to-Text Speech Translation with Attention-based History Selection”. ACL 2024 (long paper).
- [ORAL] Marco Gaido*, Sara Papi*, Luisa Bentivogli, Alessio Brutti, Mauro Cettolo, Roberto Gretter, Marco Matassoni, Mohamed Nabih, Matteo Negri. “MOSEL: 950,000 Hours of Open-Source Compliant Speech Data for EU Languages” EMNLP 2024 (short paper).
- [ORAL] Marco Gaido, Sara Papi, Matteo Negri and Luisa Bentivogli. “Speech Translation with Speech Foundation Models and Large Language Models: What is There and What is Missing?”. ACL 2024 (long paper). Outstanding paper.
- [ORAL] Beatrice Savoldi, Sara Papi, Matteo Negri, Ana Guerberof, Luisa Bentivogli “What the harm: Quantifying the Tangible Impact of Gender Bias in Machine Translation with a Human-centered Study”. EMNLP 2024 (long paper).
- [ORAL] Sara Papi*, Marco Gaido*, Andrea Pilzer and Matteo Negri. “When Good and Reproducible Results are a Giant with Feet of Clay: The Importance of Software Quality in NLP“. ACL 2024 (long paper).
- [POSTER] Beatrice Savoldi, Andrea Piergentili, Dennis Fucci, Matteo Negri, Luisa Bentivogli. “A Prompt Response to the Emerging Need of Automatic Gender-Neutral Translation”. EACL 2024 (short paper).
- [POSTER] Marco Gaido, Sara Papi, Mauro Cettolo, Matteo Negri and Luisa Bentivogli. “SBAAM! Eliminating Transcript Dependency in Automatic Subtitling”. ACL 2024 (long paper).
- [POSTER] Marco Gaido, Sara Papi, Matteo Negri, Luisa Bentivogli, “How Do Hyenas Deal with Human Speech? Speech Recognition and Translation with ConfHyena”. LREC-COLING 2024 (short paper).
All information is available at the event website: https://lt-highlights.fbk.eu/
