AINEVA is the association of Italian regions and autonomous provinces which include Alps, whose goal is to coordinate efforts that local members play in the prevention and information in the field of snow and avalanches. On a daily basis, AINEVA members compile and make available bulletins of conditions and avalanche forecasts written in Italian. In order to allow their consultation to non-Italian people (e.g. foreign tourists), AINEVA members provide translations of original bulletins into languages such as English, French, German and Slovenian. AINEVA and FBK started a 20-month collaboration at the end of 2009 with the goal of developing a system for the automatic translation of such bulletins into English, French and German.
Our pick of the week by @DennisFucci: "Encoding of lexical tone in self-supervised models of spoken language" by @linguisticshen, @Phonologician
@afraalishahi, @AriannaBisazza, and @gchrupala, NAACL 2024.
#Speech #SpokenLanguageModels #ToneEncoding #Interpretability #Phonology
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Last on our power panel: none other than @HelenaMoniz5 🤩 President of @EAMTee and the International Association of Machine Translation. Currently Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Center for Responsible AI (https://centerforresponsible.ai/) with @Unbabel You don't want to miss this!
Our pick of the week by @beomseok_lee_: "UniverSLU: Universal Spoken Language Understanding for Diverse Tasks with Natural Language Instructions" by @Sid_Arora_18, @emonosuke, @pengyf21, @RoshanSSharma2, @shinjiw_at_cmu, et al., 2024.
#SLU #languageunderstanding #speech