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 @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