- 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
@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
We are at the Alliance for Language Technologies - #ALTEDIC Week 2026!
@luisabentivogli and @negri_teo are attending two project meetings (ALT-EDIC4EU and #LLMs4EU), presenting the Evaluation of Spoken Language Translation in the context of IWSLT.
#LanguageTechnologies #FBK