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
@FBKZhihangXie : "Speech-XL: Towards Long-Form Speech Understanding in Large Speech Language Models" by Haoqin Sun, @Chenyang_Lyu, Shiwan Zhao, Xuanfan Ni, Xiangyu Kong, @wangly0229, Weihua Luo and Yong Qin
#SpeechLLM #LongFormSpeech #SLU
🚀 New paper: Speech-XL for long-form SpeechLLMs
📄 https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05373
🧩 Uses Speech Summarization Tokens to compress local speech intervals into compact KV states efficiently.
✨ Improves long-form speech understanding while reducing memory and FLOPs on 10-minute audio.
Our pick of the week by
@BeatriceSavoldi
: "Accuracy: Community Perspectives on Machine Translation" by Yujun Wang,
@EhudReiter
, Shimei Pan,
@egere14
and Wei Zhao #MachineTranslation #TranslationQuality #Evaluation
📖 #PickoftheWeek @fbk_mt "Accuracy: Community Perspectives on Machine Translation"
A cool analysis of the conflicting interests of different communities around MT(AI developers, LSPs, and users)
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.09655
#NLP #MachineTranslation #DiverseStakeholders
We are at the Alliance for Language Technologies - #ALTEDIC Week 2026!
@luisabentivogli and @negri_teo are attending two project meetings (ALT-EDIC4EU and #LLMs4EU), presenting the Evaluation of Spoken Language Translation in the context of IWSLT.
#LanguageTechnologies #FBK