3 Papers Accepted at CLiC-it 2026 2026

Aug 5, 2026 | News, Uncategorized

We are happy to announce that 3 papers, co-authored by our Machine Translation Group, have been accepted at the CLiC-it conference 2026!

“Do Language Models Know Their Slang? Queer Slang Understanding in User-Generated Content” – Authored by Arianna Denitto and Beatrice Savoldi. – Preprint available on arXiv
“SENSEI: A Simple, Elegant, and Nimble Subtitle Editing Interface” – Authored by Mauro Cettolo, Elia Soliman, Roldano Cattoni, Matteo Negri, Luisa Bentivogli, and Alessio Palmero Aprosio.
“Training Small LLMs from Scratch: Lessons from Zagreus and Nesso” – Authored by Alessandro Ercolani, Edoardo Federici, Luisa Bentivogli, and Luca Corbucci

Congrats to all the authors, and see you in Palermo!

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12 Aug

Our pick of the week:

"Large Language Diffusion Model" by Shen Nie, Fengqi Zhu, @ZebinYou, Xiaolu Zhang, Jingyang Ou, Jun Hu, Jun Zhou, Yankai Lin, Ji-Rong Wen, @LiChongxuan

It is very cool to see how the researcher combine diffusion model and transformer blocks to train

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24 Jul

Our pick of the week by
@mgaido91

: "FlexiSLM: A Dynamic and Controllable Frame Rate Spoken Language Model" by Jiaqi Li, Chaoren Wang, Xiaohai Tian, Mingjie Chen, Xinyu Liang, Xu Li, Yufan Lin, Junwen Qiu, Jun Zhang, Lu Lu, Haizhou Li and @drwuz
#SLM #EfficientInference

Marco Gaido @mgaido91

Cool to see a work that adaptively chooses at inference how much to compress the input speech sequence, to control inference costs and quality based on the input, without enforcing a global trade-off to each segment: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.31247

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8 Jul

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

Zhihang Xie @FBKZhihangXie

🚀 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.

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25 Jun

Last week, we had a great talk for our MT Seminar Series!
@julius_gulius a PhD from @cambridgenlp presented a talk on "Effective uses of grammatical knowledge in extremely low-resource Machine Translation"
#MachineTranslation #LowResourceMT #NLProc #FBK

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