- Silvia Alma Piazzolla. degree obtained: Laura Magistrale – LM, Università di Trento (Italy). Dissertation: “Gender bias in commercial MT systems: a comparative evaluation on the MuST-SHE benchmark”, 2022
- Andrea Piergentili , degree obtained: Laurea Magistrale – LM, Lingue e Culture per la Comunicazione e Cooperazione Internazionale, Università dell’Aquila (Italy). Dissertation: “Creation of a multilingual benchmark for the evaluation of gender neutral automatic translation”, 2022
- Francesca Onorato, degree obtained: Laurea in Computer Science, University of Trento (Italy), Dissertation “Segmentation Strategies for End-to-End Simultaneous Speech Translation”, 2021
- Antonio Vespoli, degree obtained: Laurea in Computer Science, University of Trento (Italy), Dissertation: “Data-to-Text: Generating Forecast Bulletins from Raw Data”, 2020
- Andrea Alfieri, degree obtained: Master of Arts – MA, Specialized Translation, U. Bologna-Forlì, 2020
- Nicholas Ruiz, degree obtained: European Master Erasmus Mundus Language & Communication Technologies, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, 2011.
- Diego Pineda, degree obtained: European Master in Language and Speech, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2006. Dissertation: “A Punctuation Detector in Speech Recognition”. Now with SOGETI, Barcelona, Spain.
- Florian Hönig, degree obatined: Master in Electronic Engineering, Erlangen-Nuremberg University, 2005. Dissertation: “Modifications of Perceptual Linear Prediction and the Mel-Frequency Cepstrum”. Now PhD student at Erlangen-Nuremberg University, Germany.
- Michele Vescovi, degree obtained: degree in informatics, U. Trento, Mar 2003. Dissertation: “Algoritmi per la segmentazione audio basati sul criterio di informazione bayesiano: analisi, implementazione e sperimentazione”. Now PhD Student at U. of Trento.
- Erwin Leeuwis, degree obtained: degree in informatics, U. Twente, Feb 2003. Dissertation: “A Language Model for an ASR System for Lectures”. Now at Capgemini, Utrecht Area, Netherlands.
- Nicola Bertoldi, degree obtained: Laurea degree in mathematics, U. Trento, 2000. Dissertation: “Analysis and implementation of Statistical Models for POS tagging”. Now staff researcher at FBK-irst.
- Christian Girardi, degree obtained: degree in informatics, U. Trento, 2000. Dissertation: “Sviluppo di un’interfaccia grafica per un sistema di comunicazione vocale multilingua”. Now at FBK-irst.
The 22nd edition of IWSLT will be co-located with @aclmeeting in Vienna, Austria on 31 July-1 Aug 2025!
Stay tuned for the CFP and more info about our 2025 shared tasks! Join our google group for periodic updates.
In "Twists, Humps, and Pebbles: Multilingual Speech Recognition Models Exhibit Gender Performance Gaps," @BeatriceSavoldi, @DennisFucci, @dirk_hovy, and I show how speech recognition serves different gender groups differently and what to do about it.
Meet @sarapapi, @BeatriceSavoldi, and @negri_teo at EMNLP 2024 in Miami next week! 🌴
They will present two main conference papers about human-centered #MT and #genderbias, and #opensource #speech resources!
📍 Details here: https://mt.fbk.eu/our-postdocs-sara-papi-and-beatrice-savoldi-and-our-researcher-matteo-negri-at-emnlp-2024/
#NLProc #EMNLP2024
Weekly pick from the #MeetweenScientificWatch: "Vcoder: Versatile Vision Encoders for Multimodal LLMs" - A novel encoder boosts object perception in MLLMs, outperforming GPT-4V in visual reasoning! 🌆👀