From a scientific/technical perspective, LiveMemories aimed at scaling up content extraction techniques towards very large scale extraction from multimedia sources, setting the scene for a Content Management Platform for Trentino; using this information to support new ways of linking, summarizing and classifying data in a new generation of digital memories which are `aliveโ and user-centered; and to turn the creation of such memories into a communal web activity. Achieving these objectives made Trento a key player in the new Web Science Initiative, digital memories, and Web 2.0. But LiveMemories was also intended to have a social and cultural impact besides the scientific one: through the collection, analysis and preservation of digital memories of Trentino; by facilitating and encouraging the preservation of such community memories; and the fostering of new forms of community, and enrichment of our cultural and social heritage.
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)
Ci interessa anche raggiungere persone che non si occupano di AI!
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