Beatrice Savoldi

Researcher

    Short bio

    Beatrice Savoldi is a postdoc researcher at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) within the MT research unit, where she primarly works on trustworthy and gender inclusive translation technologies. Beatrice obtained a joint international PhD by the University of Trento and the University of Augsburg in 2023, with a dissertation on gender bias in Automatic Translation.

    Research topics

    translation technologies, gender bias and inclusivity, ethics in NLP

    Publications

    1. Attanasio, Giuseppe; La Quatra, Moreno; Santilli, Andrea; Savoldi, Beatrice,
      ItaEval: A CALAMITA Challenge,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024),
      ,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2024
      , pp. -
    2. Attanasio, Giuseppe; Delobelle, Pieter; La Quatra, Moreno; Santilli, Andrea; Savoldi, Beatrice,
      ItaEval and TweetyIta: A New Extensive Benchmark and Efficiency-First Language Model for Italian,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024),
      ,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2024
      , pp. -
    3. Attanasio, Giuseppe; Savoldi, Beatrice; Fucci, Dennis; Hovy, Dirk,
      Twists, Humps, and Pebbles: Multilingual Speech Recognition Models Exhibit Gender Performance Gaps,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing,
      Association for Computational Linguistics,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2024
      , pp. 21318-
      21340
    4. Frenda, Simona; Piergentili, Andrea; Savoldi, Beatrice; Madeddu, Marco; Rosola, Martina; Casola, Silvia; Ferrando, Chiara; Patti, Viviana; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa,
      GFG - Gender-Fair Generation: A CALAMITA Challenge,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024),
      ,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2024
      , pp. -
    5. Savoldi, Beatrice; Gaido, Marco; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa,
      FBK@IWSLT Test Suites Task: Gender Bias evaluation with MuST-SHE,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2024),
      Association for Computational Linguistics,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2024
      , pp. 65-
      71
    6. Piergentili, Andrea; Savoldi, Beatrice; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa,
      Enhancing Gender-Inclusive Machine Translation with Neomorphemes and Large Language Models,
      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
    7. Savoldi, Beatrice; Hackenbuchner, Janica; Bentivogli, Luisa; Daems, Joke; Vanmassenhove, Eva; Bastings, Jasmijn,
      Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies,
      European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT),
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2024
      , pp. -
    8. Fucci, Dennis; Savoldi, Beatrice; Gaido, Marco; Negri, Matteo; Cettolo, Mauro; Bentivogli, Luisa,
      Explainability for Speech Models: On the Challenges of Acoustic Feature Selection,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024),
      ,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2024
      , pp. -
    9. Savoldi, Beatrice; Papi, Sara; Negri, Matteo; Guerberof-Arenas, Ana; Bentivogli, Luisa,
      What the Harm? Quantifying the Tangible Impact of Gender Bias in Machine Translation with a Human-centered Study,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing,
      ,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2024
      , pp. 18048-
      18076
    10. Savoldi, Beatrice; Piergentili, Andrea; Fucci, Dennis; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa,
      A Prompt Response to the Demand for Automatic Gender-Neutral Translation,
      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
    11. Piazzolla, Silvia Alma; Savoldi, Beatrice; Bentivogli, Luisa,
      Good, but not always Fair: An Evaluation of Gender Bias for three Commercial Machine Translation Systems,
      in «HERMES»,
      n. 63,
      2023
    12. Piergentili, Andrea; Savoldi, Beatrice; Fucci, Dennis; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa,
      Hi Guys or Hi Folks? Benchmarking Gender-Neutral Machine Translation with the {G}e{NTE} Corpus,
      Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing,
      Association for Computational Linguistics,
      2023
      , pp. 14124-
      14140
    13. Savoldi, Beatrice; Gaido, Marco; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa,
      Test Suites Task: Evaluation of Gender Fairness in MT with MuST-SHE and INES,
      Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Machine Translation,
      2023
      , pp. 252-
      262
    14. Vanmassenhove, Eva; Savoldi, Beatrice; Bentivogli, Luisa; Daems, Joke; Hackenbuckner, Janica,
      Proceedings of the First Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies,
      Proceedings of the First Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies,
      European Association for Machine Translation,
      2023
    15. Piergentili, Andrea; Fucci, Dennis; Savoldi, Beatrice; Bentivogli, Luisa; Negri, Matteo,
      Gender Neutralization for an Inclusive Machine Translation: from Theoretical Foundations to Open Challenges,
      Proceedings of the First Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT 2023),
      European Association for Machine Translation,
      2023
      , pp. 71-
      83
    16. Savoldi, Beatrice; Gaido, Marco; Bentivogli, Luisa; Negri, Matteo; Turchi, Marco,
      On the Dynamics of Gender Learning in Speech Translation,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP),
      Association for Computational Linguistics,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2022
      , pp. 94-
      111
    17. Savoldi, Beatrice; Gaido, Marco; Bentivogli, Luisa; Negri, Matteo; Turchi, Marco,
      Under the Morphosyntactic Lens: A Multifaceted Evaluation of Gender Bias in Speech Translation,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers),
      Association for Computational Linguistics,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2022
      , pp. 1807-
      1824
    18. Gaido, Marco; Savoldi, Beatrice; Bentivogli, Luisa; Negri, Matteo; Turchi, Marco,
      How to Split: the Effect of Word Segmentation on Gender Bias in Speech Translation,
      in «»,
      Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021,
      Association for Computational Linguistics,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2021
      , pp. 3576-
      3589
    19. Savoldi, Beatrice; Bentivogli, Luisa,
      Gender bias and Machine Translation: On first looking into parallel corpora,
      Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies,
      2021
    20. Savoldi, Beatrice; Gaido, Marco; Bentivogli, Luisa; Negri, Marco; Turchi, Marco,
      Gender bias in machine translation,
      in «TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS»,
      ,
      ,
      vol. 9,
      n. ,
      2021
      , pp. 845-
      874
    21. Bentivogli, Luisa; Savoldi, Beatrice; Negri, Matteo; Di Gangi, Mattia Antonino; Cattoni, Roldano; Turchi, Marco,
      Gender in Danger? Evaluating Speech Translation Technology on the MuST-SHE Corpus,
      Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics,
      Association for Computational Linguistics,
      2020
      , pp. 6923-
      6933
    22. Gaido, Marco; Savoldi, Beatrice; Bentivogli, Luisa; Negri, Matteo; Turchi, Marco,
      Breeding Gender-aware Direct Speech Translation Systems,
      Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics,
      2020
      , pp. 3951-
      3964

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