The Machine Translation unit is heading to the ACL 2026 Conference in San Diego, California!

Luisa Bentivogli is representing the group in person, and Marco Gaido will present online at the co-located IWSLT2026, the 23rd International Conference on Spoken Language Translation:
Our works are the following:
π Findings of the IWSLT Model Compression Task
π https://iwslt.org/2026/compression
π “Towards Zero-Shot SLU: An Empirical Study of Competing Architectural Paradigms”
π₯ Beomseok LEE, Marco Gaido, Ioan Calapodescu, Laurent Besacier, Matteo Negri
π€ In collaboration with NAVER LABS Europe
πͺπΊ Funded by the Meetween EU project
π https://aclanthology.org/2026.iwslt-1.1/
Come say hi if you’re around! π