There are two interleaved high-level goals for the EXCITEMENT project. The first is to set up, for the first time, a generic architecture and a comprehensive implementation for a multilingual textual inference platform and to make it available to the scientific and technological communities. The second goal of the project is to develop a new generation of inference-based industrial text exploration applications for customer interactions, which enables businesses to better analyze and make sense of their diverse and often unpredicted client content. These goals were be achieved for three languages, i.e. English, German and Italian, and for three customer interaction channels, i.e. speech (transcriptions), email and social media.
Emanuele Pianta Award for the Best Master’s Thesis in Computational Linguistics submitted at an Italian university and defended between August 1st 2024 and July 31st 2025
- Deadline: August 1st, 2025 (11:59 pm CEST)
- All details online: https://clic2025.unica.it/emanuele-pianta-award-for-the-best-masters-thesis/
Our pick of the week by @DennisFucci: "Speech Representation Analysis Based on Inter- and Intra-Model Similarities" by Yassine El Kheir, Ahmed Ali, and Shammur Absar Chowdhury (ICASSP Workshops 2024)
#speech #speechtech
Findings from https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10669908 show that speech SSL models converge on similar embedding spaces, but via different routes. While overall representations align, individual neurons learn distinct localized concepts.
Interesting read! @fbk_mt
Cosa chiedono davvero gli italiani all’intelligenza artificiale?
FBK in collaborazione con RiTA lancia un’indagine aperta a tutte/i per capire usi reali, abitudini e bisogni.
Bastano 10 minuti per partecipare, scopri di più: https://magazine.fbk.eu/it/news/italiani-e-ia-cosa-chiediamo-veramente-allintelligenza-artificiale/
🚀 Last call for the Model Compression for Machine Translation task at #WMT2025 (co-located with #EMNLP2025)!
Test data out on June 19 ➡️ 2 weeks for evaluation!
Can you shrink an LLM and keep translation quality high?
👉 https://www2.statmt.org/wmt25/model-compression.html #NLP #ML #LLM #ModelCompression