Sara Papi

Researcher

    Publications

    1. Papi, Sara; Polák, Peter; Macháček, Dominik; Bojar, Ondřej,
      How “Real” is Your Real-Time Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation System?,
      in «TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS»,
      ,
      ,
      vol. 13,
      n. ,
      2025
      , pp. 281-
      313
    2. Rao Koluguri, Nithin; Sekoyan, Monica; Zelenfroynd, George; Meister, Sasha; Ding, Shuoyang; Kostandian, Sofia; Huang, He; Karpov, Nikolay; Balam, Jagadeesh; Lavrukhin, Vitaly; Peng, Yifan; Papi, Sara; Gaido, Marco; Brutti, Alessio; Ginsburg, Boris,
      Granary: Speech Recognition and Translation Dataset in 25 European Languages,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of Interspeech,
      ,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2025
      , pp. 3923-
      3927
    3. Züfle, Maike; Papi, Sara; Savoldi, Beatrice; Gaido, Marco; Bentivogli, Luisa; Niehues, Jan,
      NUTSHELL: A Dataset for Abstract Generation from Scientific Talks,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2025),
      ,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2025
      , pp. 19-
      32
    4. Abdulmumin, Idris; Agostinelli, Victor; Alumäe, Tanel; Anastasopoulos, Antonios; Bentivogli, Luisa; Bojar, Ondřej; Borg, Claudia; Bougares, Fethi; Cattoni, Roldano; Cettolo, Mauro; Chen, Lizhong; Chen, William; Dabre, Raj; Estève, Yannick; Federico, Marcello; Fishel, Mark; Gaido, Marco; Javorský, Dávid; Kasztelnik, Marek; Kponou, Fortuné; Krubiński, Mateusz; Kin Lam, Tsz; Liu, Danni; Matusov, Evgeny; Kumar Maurya, Chandresh; P. Mccrae, John; Mdhaffar, Salima; Moslem, Yasmin; Murray, Kenton; Nakamura, Satoshi; Negri, Matteo; Niehues, Jan; Kr. Ojha, Atul; Ortega, John E.; Papi, Sara; Pecina, Pavel; Polák, Peter; Połeć, Piotr; Sankar, Ashwin; Savoldi, Beatrice; Sethiya, Nivedita; Sikasote, Claytone; Sperber, Matthias; Stüker, Sebastian; Sudoh, Katsuhito; Thompson, Brian; Turchi, Marco; Waibel, Alex; Wilken, Patrick; Zevallos, Rodolfo; Zouhar, Vilém; Züfle, Maike,
      Findings of the IWSLT 2025 Evaluation Campaign,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2025),
      ,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2025
      , pp. 412-
      481
    5. Gaido, Marco; Papi, Sara; Bentivogli, Luisa; Brutti, Alessio; Cettolo, Mauro; Gretter, Roberto; Matassoni, Marco; Nabih, Mohamed; Negri, Matteo,
      The Warmup Dilemma: How Learning Rate Strategies Impact Speech-to-Text Model Convergence,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2025),
      ,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2025
      , pp. 47-
      55
    6. Papi, Sara; Gaido, Marco; Bentivogli, Luisa; Brutti, Alessio; Cettolo, Mauro; Gretter, Roberto; Matassoni, Marco; Nabih, Mohamed; Negri, Matteo,
      FAMA: The First Large-Scale Open-Science Speech Foundation Model for English and Italian,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025),
      ,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2025
      , pp. -
    7. Verdini, Francesco; Melucci, Pierfrancesco; Perna, Stefano; Cariaggi, Francesco; Gaido, Marco; Papi, Sara; Mazurek, Szymon; Kasztelnik, Marek; Bentivogli, Luisa; Bratières, Sebastien; Merialdo, Paolo; Scardapane, Simone,
      How to Connect Speech Foundation Models and Large Language Models? What Matters and What Does Not,
      in «»,
      Proc. Interspeech 2025,
      ,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2025
      , pp. 1813-
      1817
    8. Lam, Tsz Kin; Gaido, Marco; Papi, Sara; Bentivogli, Luisa; Haddow, Barry,
      Prepending or Cross-Attention for Speech-to-Text? An Empirical Comparison,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers),
      ,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2025
      , pp. 2994-
      3006
    9. Gaido, Marco; Papi, Sara; Cettolo, Mauro; Cattoni, Roldano; Piergentili, Andrea; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa,
      Automatic Subtitling and Subtitle Compression: FBK at the IWSLT 2024 Subtitling track,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2024),
      ,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2024
      , pp. 86-
      96
    10. Papi, Sara; Gaido, Marco; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa,
      SimulSeamless: FBK at IWSLT 2024 Simultaneous Speech Translation,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2024),
      ,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2024
      , pp. 72-
      79
    11. Gaido, Marco; Papi, Sara; Negri, Matteo; Cettolo, Mauro; Bentivogli, Luisa,
      SBAAM! Eliminating Transcript Dependency in Automatic Subtitling,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers),
      ,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2024
      , pp. 3673-
      3691
    12. Papi, Sara; Gaido, Marco; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa,
      StreamAtt: Direct Streaming Speech-to-Text Translation with Attention-based Audio History Selection,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers),
      ,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2024
      , pp. 3692-
      3707
    13. Gaido, Marco; Papi, Sara; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa,
      Speech Translation with Speech Foundation Models and Large Language Models: What is There and What is Missing?,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers),
      ,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2024
      , pp. 14760-
      14778
    14. Gaido, Marco; Papi, Sara; Bentivogli, Luisa; Brutti, Alessio; Cettolo, Mauro; Gretter, Roberto; Matassoni, Marco; Nabih, Mohamed; Negri, Matteo,
      MOSEL: 950,000 Hours of Speech Data for Open-Source Speech Foundation Model Training on EU Languages,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing,
      ,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2024
      , pp. 13934-
      13947
    15. 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
    16. Ahmad, Ibrahim Said; Anastasopoulos, Antonios; Bojar, Ondřej; Borg, Claudia; Carpuat, Marine; Cattoni, Roldano; Cettolo, Mauro; Chen, William; Dong, Qianqian; Federico, Marcello; Haddow, Barry; Javorský, Dávid; Krubiński, Mateusz; Kim Lam, Tsz; Ma, Xutai; Mathur, Prashant; Matusov, Evgeny; Maurya, Chandresh; Mccrae, John; Murray, Kenton; Nakamura, Satoshi; Negri, Matteo; Niehues, Jan; Niu, Xing; Ojha, Atul Kr.; Ortega, John; Papi, Sara; Polák, Peter; Pospíšil, Adam; Pecina, Pavel; Salesky, Elizabeth; Sethiya, Nivedita; Sarkar, Balaram; Shi, Jiatong; Sikasote, Claytone; Sperber, Matthias; Stüker, Sebastian; Sudoh, Katsuhito; Thompson, Brian; Waibel, Alex; Watanabe, Shinji; Wilken, Patrick; Zemánek, Petr; Zevallos, Rodolfo,
      FINDINGS OF THE IWSLT 2024 EVALUATION CAMPAIGN,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2024),
      ,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2024
      , pp. 1-
      11
    17. Papi, Sara; Gaido, Marco; Pilzer, Andrea; Negri, Matteo,
      When Good and Reproducible Results are a Giant with Feet of Clay: The Importance of Software Quality in NLP,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers),
      ,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2024
      , pp. 3657-
      3672
    18. Cettolo, Mauro; Piergentili, Andrea; Papi, Sara; Gaido, Marco; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa,
      MAGNET - MAchines GeNErating Translations: A CALAMITA Challenge,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024),
      ,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2024
      , pp. -
    19. Papi, Sara; Wang, Peidong; Chen, Junkun; Xue, Jian; Kanda, Naoyuki; Li, Jinyu; Gaur, Yashesh,
      Leveraging Timestamp Information for Serialized Joint Streaming Recognition and Translation,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP),
      IEEE,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2024
      , pp. -
    20. Gaido, Marco; Papi, Sara; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa,
      How Do Hyenas Deal with Human Speech? Speech Recognition and Translation with ConfHyena,
      in «»,
      Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024),
      ,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2024
      , pp. 8184-
      8191
    21. Gaido, Marco; Papi, Sara; Negri, Matteo; Turchi, Marco,
      Joint Speech Translation and Named Entity Recognition,
      INTERSPEECH 2023,
      2023
      , pp. 47-
      51
    22. Papi, Sara; Negri, Matteo; Turchi, Marco,
      Attention as a Guide for Simultaneous Speech Translation,
      Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers),
      2023
      , pp. 13340-
      13356
    23. Papi, Sara; Gaido, Marco; Negri, Matteo,
      Direct Models for Simultaneous Translation and Automatic Subtitling: FBK@IWSLT2023,
      Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2023),
      2023
      , pp. 159-
      168
    24. Papi, Sara; Turchi, Marco; Negri, Matteo,
      AlignAtt: Using Attention-based Audio-Translation Alignments as a Guide for Simultaneous Speech Translation,
      INTERSPEECH 2023,
      2023
      , pp. 3974-
      3978
    25. 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,
      ,
      vol. ,
      n. ,
      2023
      , pp. 11505-
      11517
    26. Papi, Sara; Gaido, Marco; Karakanta, Alina; Cettolo, Mauro; Negri, Matteo; Turchi, Marco,
      Direct Speech Translation for Automatic Subtitling,
      in «TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS»,
      vol. 11,
      2023
      , pp. 1355-
      1376
    27. Papi, Sara; Wang, Peidon; Chen, Junku; Xue, Jian; Li, Jinyu; Gaur, Yashesh,
      Token-Level Serialized Output Training for Joint Streaming ASR and ST Leveraging Textual Alignments,
      Proceedings of 2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU),
      2023
    28. Papi, Sara; Gaido, Marco; Negri, Matteo; Turchi, Marco,
      Does Simultaneous Speech Translation need Simultaneous Models?,
      Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022,
      2022
      , pp. 141-
      153
    29. Papi, Sara; Karakanta, Alina; Negri, Matteo; Turchi, Marco,
      Dodging the Data Bottleneck: Automatic Subtitling with Automatically Segmented ST Corpora,
      Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers),
      Association for Computational Linguistics,
      2022
      , pp. 480-
      487
    30. Papi, Sara; Gaido, Marco; Negri, Matteo; Turchi, Marco,
      Over-Generation Cannot Be Rewarded: Length-Adaptive Average Lagging for Simultaneous Speech Translation,
      Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Automatic Simultaneous Translation,
      Association for Computational Linguistics,
      2022
      , pp. 12-
      17
    31. 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
    32. Papi, Sara; Gaido, Marco; Negri, Matteo; Turchi, Marco,
      Dealing with training and test segmentation mismatch: FBK@IWSLT 2021,
      Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2021),
      2021
      , pp. 84-
      91
    33. Karakanta, A.; Papi, S.; Negri, M.; Turchi, M.,
      Simultaneous speech translation for live subtitling: From delay to display,
      Proceedings of MT Summit 2021,
      2021
    34. Papi, S.; Negri, M.; Turchi, M.,
      Visualization: The missing factor in simultaneous speech translation,
      Proceedings of the Eighth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics,
      vol. 3033,
      2021
    35. Papi, Sara; Gaido, Marco; Negri, Matteo; Turchi, Marco,
      Speechformer: Reducing Information Loss in Direct Speech Translation,
      Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing,
      2021
      , pp. 1698-
      1706
    36. Papi, Sara; Trentin, Edmondo; Gretter, Roberto; Matassoni, Marco; Falavigna, Daniele,
      Mixtures of Deep Neural Experts for Automated Speech Scoring,
      Proceedings of Interspeech 2020,
      2020
      , pp. 3845-
      3849

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