- Marco Turchi, post-doc in machine translation. Now at Zoom Video Communications.
- Nicola Bertoldi, post-doc in machine translation. Now at Translated, Italy.
- Dino Seppi, post-doc in automatic speech recognition. Dino moved to Polderland Language & Speech Technology in Nijmegen (NL), and then to Leuven University, Belgium.
- Gabriele Musillo, post-doc in machine translation, Oct 2009-Aug 2010. Project: EuromatrixPlus. Currently senior researcher for Localot Research, Boston.
- Boxing Chen, post-doc in machine translation, Jan 2005-Mar 2007. Project: TC-STAR. Currently senior researcher at Institute of Infocomm Research, Singapore.
- Deepa Gupta, post-doc in machine translation, Jan 2005-Mar 2007. Project: TC-STAR. Now at IIIT – Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India.
- Georg Stemmer, post-doc in automatic speech recognition, Sep 2003-Mar 2005. Post-doc grant from the autonomous Province of Trento. Now with Siemens AG, Munich, Germany.
Our pick of the week by @DennisFucci: "Encoding of lexical tone in self-supervised models of spoken language" by @linguisticshen, @Phonologician
@afraalishahi, @AriannaBisazza, and @gchrupala, NAACL 2024.
#Speech #SpokenLanguageModels #ToneEncoding #Interpretability #Phonology
⏳Hurry up! Only 4 days left to apply for a PhD position on “Resource-efficient Foundation Models for Automatic Translation” (A10). Don't miss this opportunity!
📅 Deadline: May 7, 4pm (CEST)
👉Info: https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application
#PhD #NLProc
Last on our power panel: none other than @HelenaMoniz5 🤩 President of @EAMTee and the International Association of Machine Translation. Currently Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Center for Responsible AI (https://centerforresponsible.ai/) with @Unbabel You don't want to miss this!
Our pick of the week by @beomseok_lee_: "UniverSLU: Universal Spoken Language Understanding for Diverse Tasks with Natural Language Instructions" by @Sid_Arora_18, @emonosuke, @pengyf21, @RoshanSSharma2, @shinjiw_at_cmu, et al., 2024.
#SLU #languageunderstanding #speech