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. 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
    2. 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
    3. 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. -
    4. 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
    5. 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. -
    6. 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
    7. 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

    Today's task: model compression!!

    🎯 Goal: Compress a large, general-purpose multimodal model, making speech translation more efficient ⚡️, deployable 📲, and sustainable ♻️, while preserving translation quality ⭐️
    #AI #SpeechTech #ModelCompression #LLMcompression

    First up, a new task for 2025:
    *Instruction-following for speech processing!*

    Explore instruction-following for speech ⇨
    Integrate speech foundation models with LLMs across tasks such as speech translation, recognition, summarization, and QA.

    🔗:

    📢Workshop gratuito 05/02: “Lo stato dell'arte nelle tecnologie per il riconoscimento del parlato.”
    Diretta YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/i4x7w8fIIXo?si=wYvvrO3-MSh7Yik4
    Registrazione: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/biglietti-lo-stato-dellarte-nelle-tecnologie-per-il-riconoscimento-del-parlato-1109098797359?aff=oddtdtcreator

    I'm happy to share that our paper "Prepending or Cross-Attention for Speech-to-Text? An Empirical Comparison" has been accepted at @naacl @naaclmeeting 2025! #NAACL2025

    @Lam19Tk @mgaido91 👏

    📃 Preprint:
    ⏰ Code will be released soon

    #NLProc #Speech

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