- 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.
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🌍 Human-Centred Evaluation Frameworks for Multilingual Technologies (A6)
🤖 Multimedia Personalization with Multimodal Large Language Models (A7)
⏰ Deadline: 15 May 2026
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Our pick of the week by
@FBKZhihangXie
: "Detecting Hallucination in SpeechLLMs at Inference Time Using Attention Maps" by @JWaldendorf, Bashar Awwad Shiekh Hasan and Evgenii Tsymbalov
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#SpeechLLM #Hallucination
🚀 New paper: Detecting Hallucinations in SpeechLLMs at Inference Time Using Attention Maps
📄 http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19565
🧩 Lightweight inference-time detection for SpeechLLM hallucinations via audio attention.
✨ Attention classifiers beat uncertainty baselines on ASR and S2TT.
🚀 New Shared Task: Model Compression for Machine Translation at #WMT2026 (co-located with #EMNLP2026)!
📅 Test data out on June 18th, submissions by July 2nd!
Can you shrink an LLM and keep translation quality high? 🧠🔧
👉 https://www2.statmt.org/wmt26/model-compression.html #NLP #ML #LLM #ModelCompression