- Arianna Denitto (University of Torino), Nov 2025 – Apr 2026. Topic: Language Modelling for subcultural LGBTQ + User Generated Content.
- Elia Soliman (University of Trento), Oct 2025 – Apr 2026. Topic: Design and implementation of a web interface for multilingual annotation of video subtitles.
- Amirbek Djanibekov (MBZUAI), Jun-Nov 2025. Topic: Simul-U: An Inference-Time Simultaneous Speech Translation Agent for Long-form Speech.
- Eleonora Cupin (University of Bologna, Forlì Campus), Feb-Jul 2024. Topic: Breaking gender bias in Machine Translation: Expanding the GeNTE corpus and exploring LLMs (inclusive) capabilities.
- Manjinde Thind (University of Bologna, Forlì Campus), Jun-Nov 2024. Topic: mGeNTE: A Multilingual Resource for Gender-Neutral Language and Translation.
- Paolo Mainardi (University of Bologna, Campus Forlì, DIT), Sep-Nov 2022. Topic: Inclusive language and machine tranlsation.
- Sabrina Raus (University of Bolzano), Feb-Apr 2022. Topic: Creation of an English-German data set for the evaluation of gender bias in Speech Translation.
- Abess Benissmail (University of Bolzano), Feb-Apr 2022. Topic: creation of an English-German data set for the evaluation of gender bias in Speech Translation.
- Shantanu Nath (University of Trento), Oct-Dec 2022. Topic: Automatic Evaluation of Speech Translation Systems.
- Silvia Alma Piazzolla (University of Trento), March-July 2021. Topic: Evaluating Gender Bias in Speech Translation Systems.
- Francesco Fernicola (University of Bologna, Campus Forlì, DIT), March-July 2021. Topic: Evaluating Gender Bias in Speech Translation Systems.
- Melanie Prati (University of Bologna, Campus Forlì, DIT), March-July 2021. Topic: Evaluating Gender Bias in Speech Translation Systems.
- Sara Giuliani (University of Bologna, Campus Forlì, DIT), March-July 2021. Topic: Evaluating Gender Bias in Speech Translation Systems.
- Jana Waldmann (University of Saarland), March-July 2021. Topic: Evaluating Gender Bias in Speech Translation Systems.
- Lorena del Rocio Martin Rodriguez (University of Tübingen), March-July 2021. Topic: Evaluating Gender Bias in Speech Translation Systems.
- Francesca Onorato (University of Trento, Italy), Feb 2020-May 2021. Topic: Simultaneous Speech Translation
- Nivranshu Pasricha (University of Galway, Ireland), Jun-Nov 2021. Topic: Neural machine translation for data-to-text generation tasks.
- Alberto Martinelli, University of Trento, Sept-Dec 2020.
- Erick Garcia Chavez, University of Trento, Sept-Dec 2020.
- Giuseppe Martucci, University of Trento, Sept- Nov 2020.
- Sara Papi, University of Siena, July-Oct 2020.
- Antonio Vespoli, University of Trento, Feb-Sept 2020.
- Dan Nguyen, University of Edinburgh, Aug-Nov 2019. Topic: non-parametric domain adaptation.
- Beatrice Savoldi, University of Trento, June-Oct 2019. Topic: creation of a multi-lingual data set for the evaluation of gender bias in Speech Translation.
- Viet Nguyen, University of Trento, Jul-Aug 2019. Topic: instance-based adaptation for machine translation.
- Andrea Alfieri, University of Bologna, Jul-Aug 2019. Topic: evaluation of different speech-to-text machine translation systems.
- Vahid Asadi, University of Siena, July 2019. Topic: terminology in machine translation.
- Vladislav Karyukin, Al-Farabi, Kazakh National University Kazakhstan . Jun-Jul 2019, Topic: cross lingual sentiment classification.
- Randy Scansani, University of Bologna, Jan-Feb 2019. Topic: Machine translation for institutional academic texts: output quality, terminology translation and post-editor trust.
- Roberto Dessi, University of Trento, Jul-Dec 2018. Topic: neural network-based models for Speech Translation
- Aliia Erofeeva, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia, Mar-May 2018. Topic: domain adaptation in neural machine translation
- Mara Chinea Rios, University of Valencia, Spain, Jul-Sep 2016. Topic: Unsupervised clustering of commercial domains for adaptive machine translation
- Costanza Conforti, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany. Jul-Oct 2016. Topic: Neural Machine Translation
- Mattia di Gangi, University of Palermo, Italy, Aug-Sep 2016. Topic: Neural machine translation
- Vevake Balaraman, University of Trento, Italy, Jul-Sep 2016. Topic: Neural machine translation
- Gebremedhen Yebrehu, University of Trento, Italy, July-Oct 2016. Topic: Automatic post editing
- Safà El Koura, University of Trento, Italy, Aug-Sep 2016. Topic: Manual annotation of terminology in the MMT benchmark
- Lucas Bechberger, Karlsruhe Institut of Technology, Oct 2015 – Mar 2016. Topic: Text generation.
- Masoud Jalili Sabet, University of Tehran, Iran, Jul-Oct 2015. Topic: TMop: Translation Memory open-source purifier
- Lorenzo De Mattei, University of Pisa, Italy, Aug-Sep 2015. Topic: Comparison of a Continuous Space Word Alignment Model to FastAlign
- Nihal Yagmur Aydin, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, Jul-Aug 2015. Topic: Speech-to-Text on Android
- Ondrej Klejch, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Jul-Aug 2015. Topic: Client/server architecture for stream-based speech transcription web-service
- Maria Giulia Zen, University of Trento, Italy, Aug-Oct 2014. Topic: Development and distribution of online linguistic resources
- Marion Weller, University of Stuttgart, Germany, Jul-Sep 2014. Topic: Building of an automatic post editor learned from human post editions
- Hamed Zamani, University of Tehran, Iran, Jul-Sep 2014. Topic: Quality estimation for automatic speech recognition systems
- Daniel Torregrosa Rivero, University of Alicante, Spain, Jun-Sep 2014. Topic: Automatic classification of machine translation output errors
- Quang Vinh Dang, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, Jul-Aug 2014. Topic: Mobile application for Content Processing
- Lisa Beinborn, University of Darmstadt, Germany, Jul-Aug 2014. Topic: Large-Scale Distributed Language Models
- Vanessa Hanschke, University of Edinburgh, Undergraduate Student, 2014. Topic: Analyzing human post-editing in a CAT tool environment
- Amandyk Kartbayev, Almaty English Kazakh MT University, PhD student, Nov 2013 – Feb 2014. Topic: Machine Translation
- Antonin Delpeuch, bachelor student, ENS Paris, France, Jun-Aug 2013. Topic: Machine Translation
- Ales Tamchyna, PhD student, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Jun-Jul 2013. Topic: Machine Translation
- Antonios Anastasopoulos, master student, University of Ioannina, Greece, Jul-Aug 2013. Topic: Quality Estimation for Machine Translation
- Michael Arcan PhD student, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, Jul-Aug 2013. Topic: Terminology for Machine Translation
- Dieke Oele, bachelor student, University of Anvers, Belgium, Aug-Sept 2013, Topic: ASR tools for Dutch
- Ondrej Platek, Charles University (Prague), master student. Jul-Sep 2012. Topic: Incremental MT adaptation
- Miquel Esplà-Gomis, University of Alicante, Spain, Jun-Sep 2012. Topic: Weighting lexical (mis-)alignments for cross-lingual textual entailment
- Roger Leitzke Granada, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Jun-Aug 2012. Topic: Building cross-lingual distributional similarity models from Wikipedia.
- Alina Petrova (University of Dresden, Germany). Jun-Sep 2011, Topic: “Textual Entailment with Richer Linguistic Features”.
- Joannis Klasinas, master student, U. of Creete, Jun-Sep 2010. Topic: statistical machine translation
Mark Sinclair, master student, U. of Glasgow, UK Jan-Ott 2010.Topic: speech recognition. - Maria Nadejde, master student, U. Bolzano, Italy, Jul-Sep 2010. Topic: Class-based LMs for improving decoding efficiency in phrase-based SMT.
- Lamar Payson, master student, U. Bolzano, Italy, Jul-Aug 2010. Topic: Online Discriminative Training for feature-based SMT systems.
- Stefania Tabarelli, master student, ISIT Trento, Italy, Sep-Oct 2009. Topic: speech transcription.
- Elena Bresolin, master student, ISIT Trento, Italy, Sep-Oct 2009. Topic: speech transcription.
- Septina Larasati, master student, U. Bolzano, Jul-Aug 2009. Topic: statistical machine translation.
- F. A. Salim, master student, U. Bolzano, Jul-Aug 2009. Topic: statistical machine translation.
- German Sanchis-Trilles, phd student, UP Valencia, Spain, Jun-Sep 2009. Topic: statistical machine translation.
- Md. Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury (Free University of Bolzano), Apr-Aug 2008. Topic: “Expected Answer Type Recognition using Support Vector Machines”.
- Madalina Barbaiani, phd student, U.Tarragona, Spain. May-Aug 2008. Topic: statistical machine translation.
- Christian Hardmeier, master student, U. Zurich, Swizerland, Jul-Aug 2008. Topic: statistical machine translation.
- Jana Goetze, master student, U. Potsdam, Germany, 15 Jan-17 Feb 2007. Topic: evaluation of machine translation.
- Ioannis Klasinas, master student, U. Creete, Greece. Jun-Jul 2006. Topic: statistical machine translation.
- Janis Petersons, master student, U. Bozen, Italy. 8 Jun-21 Jul 2006. Topic: statistical machine translation.
Our pick of the week by
@mgaido91
: "FlexiSLM: A Dynamic and Controllable Frame Rate Spoken Language Model" by Jiaqi Li, Chaoren Wang, Xiaohai Tian, Mingjie Chen, Xinyu Liang, Xu Li, Yufan Lin, Junwen Qiu, Jun Zhang, Lu Lu, Haizhou Li and @drwuz
#SLM #EfficientInference
Cool to see a work that adaptively chooses at inference how much to compress the input speech sequence, to control inference costs and quality based on the input, without enforcing a global trade-off to each segment: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.31247
@fbk_mt
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