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 UniversitΓ© Paris CitΓ© (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,
      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,
      Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing,
      2023
      , pp. 10362-
      10371

    πŸŽ“ Come and join our group! πŸŽ“
    We offer 2 fully funded PhD positions:
    🌍 Human-Centred Evaluation Frameworks for Multilingual Technologies (A6)
    πŸ€– Multimedia Personalization with Multimodal Large Language Models (A7)
    ⏰ Deadline: 15 May 2026
    πŸ”— Details: https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application

    πŸš€ New Shared Task: Model Compression for Machine Translation at #WMT2026 (co-located with #EMNLP2026)!
    πŸ“… Test data out on June 18th, submissions by July 2nd!
    Can you shrink an LLM and keep translation quality high? πŸ§ πŸ”§
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