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.
Our pick of the week by @beomseok_lee_: "#Speech Discrete Tokens or Continuous Features? A Comparative Analysis for Spoken Language Understanding in #SpeechLLMs" by Dingdong Wang, Junan Li, Mingyu Cui, Dongchao Yang, Xueyuan Chen, Helen Meng (#EMNLP2025)
#SLU #SpeechTech
π€ Ever wondered how discrete tokens vs. continuous features behave in SpeechLLMs?
This new work dives into 6 SLU tasks and reveals some interesting takeaways!
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17863
Our pick of the week by @lina_conti: "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Rhyme: Uncovering Internal Phonetic Representations in LLaMA 3.2" Oliver McLaughlin, Arjun Khurana, @jack_merullo_ (2025)
#XAI #LLM #interpretability
Pick of the week @fbk_mt : "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Rhyme" π a dive into how LLaMA develops internal phonetic representations despite never hearing speech.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.02527
#XAI #LLM #interpretability
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At IWSLT 2025, researchers and industry share ways to boost β‘ speed, π quality, π¬ subtitles, model π¦ size, and low-resource language coverage π β all ready for deployment π
#speech #translation #ASR #LLMs #subtitling @iwslt @AppTek_McLeanβ¦
π’π’ We invite proposals for @iwslt 2026 shared tasks! For further information on this initiative, please refer to the https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2026-Call_for_Tasks.pdf
Submission deadline: September 30th, 2025
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