Dennis Fucci

Dennis Fucci is a PhD student in Information Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Trento, affiliated with Fondazione Bruno Kessler.

He holds a master's degree in Humanities from the University of Bologna, specializing in Computational Linguistics.

Speech Translation, Automatic Speech Recognition, Machine Translation, Gender Bias, eXplainable AI

1. Fucci, Dennis; Gaido, Marco; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa; Martins, Andre; Attanasio, Giuseppe,
   Different Speech Translation Models Encode and Translate Speaker Gender Differently,
   in «»,
   Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers),
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   vol. ,
   n. ,
   2025
   , pp. 1005-
   1019
2. Fucci, Dennis; Gaido, Marco; Negri, Matteo; Cettolo, Mauro; Bentivogli, Luisa,
   Echoes of Phonetics: Unveiling Relevant Acoustic Cues for ASR via Feature Attribution,
   in «»,
   Proceedings of Interspeech 2025,
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   vol. ,
   n. ,
   2025
   , pp. 206-
   210
3. 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
4. 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),
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   vol. ,
   n. ,
   2024
   , pp. -
5. 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
6. 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
7. Gaido, Marco; Fucci, Dennis; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa,
   How To Build Competitive Multi-gender Speech Translation Models For Controlling Speaker Gender Translation,
   in «»,
   Proceedings of the 9th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics,
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   vol. ,
   n. ,
   2023
   , pp. -
8. Fucci, Dennis; Gaido, Marco; Papi, Sara; Cettolo, Mauro; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa,
   Integrating Language Models into Direct Speech Translation: An Inference-Time Solution to Control Gender Inflection,
   in «»,
   Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing,
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   vol. ,
   n. ,
   2023
   , pp. 11505-
   11517
9. Fucci, Dennis; Gaido, Marco; Negri, Matteo; Cettolo, Mauro; Bentivogli, Luisa,
   No Pitch Left Behind: Addressing Gender Unbalance In Automatic Speech Recognition Through Pitch Manipulation,
   in «»,
   Proceedings of 2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU),
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   vol. ,
   n. ,
   2023
   , pp. -
   8
10. 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
11. Gaido, Marco; Papi, Sara; Fucci, Dennis; Fiameni, Giuseppe; Negri, Matteo; Turchi, Marco,
    Efficient yet Competitive Speech Translation: FBK@IWSLT2022,
    in «»,
    Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2022),
    Association for Computational Linguistics,
    vol. ,
    n. ,
    2022
    , pp. 177-
    189