The FACILE project aimed at the development of a system for the categorisation of texts from the area of finance and business news in an exact and specific way. The intended users of the system were institutions from finance and commerce that have a vital interest in up-to-date business information stemming from online news agencies and periodicals. An important consideration in FACILE has been its use across country and language borders. The possibility to process texts in various languages and to derive factual information in a language independent, formatted form allowed for the rapid dissemination of information across borders.
Our pick of the week by @beomseok_lee_: "ALAS: Measuring Latent Speech-Text Alignment For Spoken Language Understanding In Multimodal LLMs" by Pooneh Mousavi, @yingzhi_wang, @mirco_ravanelli, and @CemSubakan (2025)
#SLU #speech #multimodal #LLM
Speech-language models show promise in multimodal tasksโbut how well are speech & text actually aligned? ๐ค
This paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19937 proposes a new metric to measure layer-wise correlation between the two, with a focus on SLU tasks. ๐๐ฃ๏ธ๐
๐ Ciao! Stiamo studiando come l'AI viene usata in Italia e per farlo abbiamo costruito un sondaggio!
๐https://bocconi.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2nTelXaXvJlinbg (รจ anonimo, dura ~10 m, se partecipi o lo diffondi ci aiuti un sacco๐)
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Our pick of the week by @apierg: "Agree to Disagree? A Meta-Evaluation of LLM Misgendering" by Arjun Subramonian, Vagrant Gautam, Preethi Seshadri, Dietrich Klakow, @kaiwei_chang, @YizhouSun (2025).
#LLM #misgendering #gender
Super interesting paper by Subramonian et al: "Agree to Disagree? A Meta-Evaluation of LLM Misgendering" https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.17075
Turns out, misgendering is messier than just pronouns. I'd love to see this analysis extended to grammatical gender languages! #LLM #AI #ethics @fbk_mt
๐ New tech report out! Meet FAMA, our open-science speech foundation model family for both ASR and ST in ๐ฌ๐ง English and ๐ฎ๐น Italian.
The models are live and ready to try on @huggingface ๐
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#ASR #ST #OpenScience #MultilingualAI