Andrea Piergentili

PhD student

    Short bio

    Andrea Piergentili is a PhD student at the University of Trento and Fondazione Bruno Kessler, where he works in the Machine Translation unit.

    He obtained his BD and MD in modern languages at the University of L'Aquila.
    His research focuses on gender-inclusive language in machine translation (MT).
    This involves avoiding discriminatory practices, such as misgendering, stereotypical associations, and exclusionary language, as a way to make MT fair and inclusive of all gender identities.

    Publications

    1. Piergentili, Andrea; Savoldi, Beatrice; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025),
      ,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2025
      , pp. -
    2. Piergentili, Andrea; Savoldi, Beatrice; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT 2025),
      European Association for Machine Translation,
      vol. I,
      n. ,
      2025
      , pp. 46-
      63
    3. Savoldi, Beatrice; Attanasio, Giuseppe; Cupin, Eleonora; Gkovedarou, Eleni; Hackenbuchner, Jani(c(c))a; Lauscher, Anne; Negri, Matteo; Piergentili, Andrea; Thind, Manjinder; Bentivogli, Luisa,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing,
      Association for Computational Linguistics,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2025
      , pp. 13709-
      13731
    4. Savoldi, Beatrice; Piergentili, Andrea; Fucci, Dennis; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers),
      Association for Computational Linguistics,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2024
      , pp. 256-
      267
    5. Gaido, Marco; Papi, Sara; Cettolo, Mauro; Cattoni, Roldano; Piergentili, Andrea; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2024),
      ,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2024
      , pp. 86-
      96
    6. Cettolo, Mauro; Piergentili, Andrea; Papi, Sara; Gaido, Marco; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024),
      ,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2024
      , pp. -
    7. Piergentili, Andrea; Savoldi, Beatrice; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (Volume 1),
      European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT),
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2024
      , pp. 300-
      314
    8. Frenda, Simona; Piergentili, Andrea; Savoldi, Beatrice; Madeddu, Marco; Rosola, Martina; Casola, Silvia; Ferrando, Chiara; Patti, Viviana; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024),
      ,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2024
      , pp. -
    9. Piergentili, Andrea; Fucci, Dennis; Savoldi, Beatrice; Bentivogli, Luisa; Negri, Matteo,
      Proceedings of the First Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT 2023),
      European Association for Machine Translation,
      2023
      , pp. 71-
      83
    10. Piergentili, Andrea; Savoldi, Beatrice; Fucci, Dennis; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa,
      Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing,
      Association for Computational Linguistics,
      2023
      , pp. 14124-
      14140

    ⏰ 4 days left to apply!
    🎓 2 PhD positions still open:
    🎯 Human-Centred Evaluation Frameworks for Multilingual Technologies
    ✨ Multimedia Personalization with Multimodal Large Language Models
    📅 Deadline: 15 May 2026
    🔗 Full details: https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application

    🌍 @lina_conti and @luisabentivogli are heading to #LREC2026 in Palma! They'll present two papers:
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    🎓 Come and join our group! 🎓
    We offer 2 fully funded PhD positions:
    🌍 Human-Centred Evaluation Frameworks for Multilingual Technologies (A6)
    🤖 Multimedia Personalization with Multimodal Large Language Models (A7)
    ⏰ Deadline: 15 May 2026
    🔗 Details: https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application

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