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 @FBKZhihangXie: "#Speech Discrete Tokens or Continuous Features? A Comparative Analysis for Spoken Language Understanding in #SpeechLLMs" by @WangDingdo2603, Junan Li, @HelenMeng_CUHK, et al. (#EMNLP2025)
#SLU #SpeechTech
๐ New paper: Speech Discrete Tokens or Continuous Features?
๐ https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.1266.pdf
๐งฉ A comprehensive benchmark of SpeechLLMs using HuBERT/WavLM with Qwen & LLaMA.
โจ Continuous features outperform overall, while discrete tokens excel at phoneme-level detail.
๐ Exciting news from the @FBK_MT group!
Four of our members @BeatriceSavoldi, @lina_conti, @negri_teo & @luisabentivogli are attending #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou ๐จ๐ณ with 5 accepted papers!
Come to our sessions & let's connect:
๐ https://mt.fbk.eu/fbk-mt-at-emnlp-2025/
Weโre also hiring postdocs!โก
๐๐Congratulations to our PhD student @DennisFucci on a very successful thesis defense! ๐
Many thanks to the evaluation committee members @debora_nozza, @mirco_ravanelli, and Leonardo Badino for their insightful feedback and appreciation of his work!
#nlproc