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
@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