A major condition for the take-off of the field of Language Resources and Language Technologies is the creation of a shared policy for the next years. FLaReNet aims at developing a common vision of the area and fostering a European strategy for consolidating the sector, thus enhancing competitiveness at EU level and worldwide. By creating a consensus among major players in the field, the mission of FLaReNet is to identify priorities as well as short, medium, and long-term strategic objectives and provide consensual recommendations in the form of a plan of action for EC, national organisations and industry. Through the exploitation of new collaborative modalities as well as workshops and meetings, FLaReNet will sustain international cooperation and (re)create a wide Language community.
Our pick of the week by @FBKZhihangXie: "#Speech Discrete Tokens or Continuous Features? A Comparative Analysis for Spoken Language Understanding in #SpeechLLMs" by @WangDingdo2603, Junan Li, @HelenMeng_CUHK, et al. (#EMNLP2025)
#SLU #SpeechTech
๐ New paper: Speech Discrete Tokens or Continuous Features?
๐ https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.1266.pdf
๐งฉ A comprehensive benchmark of SpeechLLMs using HuBERT/WavLM with Qwen & LLaMA.
โจ Continuous features outperform overall, while discrete tokens excel at phoneme-level detail.
๐ Exciting news from the @FBK_MT group!
Four of our members @BeatriceSavoldi, @lina_conti, @negri_teo & @luisabentivogli are attending #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou ๐จ๐ณ with 5 accepted papers!
Come to our sessions & let's connect:
๐ https://mt.fbk.eu/fbk-mt-at-emnlp-2025/
Weโre also hiring postdocs!โก
๐๐Congratulations to our PhD student @DennisFucci on a very successful thesis defense! ๐
Many thanks to the evaluation committee members @debora_nozza, @mirco_ravanelli, and Leonardo Badino for their insightful feedback and appreciation of his work!
#nlproc