Lina Conti

PhD Student

    Short bio

    Lina Conti is a PhD student at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler and the University of Trento (Italy), specializing in the interpretability of multilingual and multimodal foundation models for translation, with a focus on understanding gender bias in speech translation systems.

    She holds a master's degree in Computational Linguistics from Université Paris Cité (France) and bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and in Philosophy from Sorbonne University (France).

    Research topics


    • interpretability

    • XAI

    • speech translation

    • gender bias

    Publications

    1. Conti, Lina; Fucci, Dennis; Gaido, Marco; Negri, Matteo; Wisniewski, Guillaume; Bentivogli, Luisa,
      The Unheard Alternative: Contrastive Explanations for Speech-to-Text Models,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the 8th BlackboxNLP Workshop: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP,
      Association for Computational Linguistics,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2025
      , pp. 398-
      414
    2. Conti, Lina; Wisniewski, Guillaume,
      Using Artificial French Data to Understand the Emergence of Gender Bias in Transformer Language Models,
      Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing,
      2023
      , pp. 10362-
      10371

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    11 Jun

    3️⃣ "Cross-Attention is Half Explanation in Speech-to-Text Models"
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    1️⃣ "Do What I Say: A Spoken Prompt Dataset for Instruction-Following"
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    11 Jun

    We're excited to share that three papers from our lab have been accepted at #Interspeech2026 !! 🍾

    #SpeechTranslation #SpeechAI #NLProc #FBK #Interspeech

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