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 #PickOfTheWeek by @sarapapi: "RASST: Fast Cross-modal Retrieval-Augmented #Simultaneous #Speech #Translation" by Jiaxuan Luo, @siqi_ouyang, and @lileics (2026).
#RAG #SpeechTech
Very interesting new paper about combining Simultaneous Speech Translation and RAG to improve translation quality! Check it out: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.22777
#Speech #SpeechTech #Translation #RAG
Takeaway from our #2 DVPS consortium meeting: scaling with a few modalities won’t unlock the next leap. Progress we need to push in Europe now requires grounding intelligence in interaction and real-time feedback; we’re working on building the most promising MMFM architecture.
Oggi 11 febbraio è la Giornata Internazionale delle Donne e delle Ragazze nella Scienza.
Un’occasione per FBK di condividere e rilanciare il proprio impegno per l’uguaglianza di genere attraverso il Gender Equality Plan 2025-2028, recentemente approvato
https://magazine.fbk.eu/it/news/rinnovato-e-rafforzato-limpegno-verso-luguaglianza-di-genere-in-fbk/
🚀 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: @iwslt Instruction Following 2026
Build general-purpose instruction-following speech models for 🌍 EN/DE/IT/ZH languages!
📅 Eval: 𝗔𝗽𝗿 1 | Submit: 𝗔𝗽𝗿 15
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#IWSLT2026 #SpeechAI #MultimodalAI