- Matteo Amodio, degree obtained: Laura Magistrale, University of Udine. “Evaluating Language Models for Football Possession Analytics: Team Assignment from Transcripts”, 2025.
- Eleonora Cupin, degree obtained: Laura Magistrale, University of Bologna, Forlì Campus. “Breaking gender bias in Machine Translation: Expanding the GeNTE corpus and exploring LLMs (inclusive) capabilities”, 2025.
- Manjinde Thind, degree obtained: Laura Magistrale, University of Bologna, Forlì Campus. “mGeNTE: A Multilingual Resource for Gender-Neutral Language and Translation”, 2025.
- 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.
Late update, but we had two great talks last month!
#MachineTranslation #FBK #NLProc #GenderBias #SpeechSynthesis
Our pick of the week by @dhairya_su47605
: "Scaling Laws for Precision" by @tanishqkumar07, Zachary Ankner, @bfspectorShiekh, @blake__bordelon, @Muennighoff, @mansiege, @CPehlevan, Christopher R´e, @AdtRaghunathan
📰
#Quantization #LLM #ScalingLaw
Pick of the week @fbk_mt
Super interesting paper on the limitations of quantization, demonstrating how post-training quantization scales poorly in data.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04330
⭐ For our #PickOfTheWeek, this paper explores an important question for modern speech AI:
🎙️ Which Evaluation for Which Speech Model?
👥 Authors: @Maureendss , @EeshanDhekane
Speech foundation models are evolving rapidly, but evaluation practices are still fragmented.
🏝️ Yesterday at #LREC2026, Palma de Mallorca!
@lina_conti presented "Voice, Bias, and Coreference: An Interpretability Study of Gender in Speech Translation" at the poster session.
📄Paper:
💻Code: https://github.com/lina-conti/voice-bias-coreference
#SpeechTranslation #NLProc