Our #PickOfTheWeek by @lina_conti: "#Voice #gender #diversity: expression, perception and acoustics" by Victor Rosi and Carolyn McGettigan (Royal Society Open Science 2025).
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💬Pick of the week @fbk_mt: "Voice gender diversity: expression, perception and acoustics."
A comprehensive review of gender-diverse voices. Covers acoustic properties, perception, and the gap between self-expression of gender and how voices are heard.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article/12/10/251193/236071/Voice-gender-diversity-expression-perception-and
Our pick of the week by @apierg: "Glitter: A Multi-Sentence, Multi-Reference #Benchmark for #Gender-Fair German Machine Translation" by A Pranav, Janiça Hackenbuchner, @peppeatta, @manuellardelli, @anne_lauscher (Findings #EMNLP2025)
#MT #Translation
Impressive work by the Glitter team: a new human-made benchmark for German gender-inclusive MT with long passages and multiple inclusive approaches + experiments showing that MT systems and LLMs still fall short in generating inclusive outputs.
https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-emnlp.1002/ ✨
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Our pick of the week by @dhairya_su47605: "How Does #Quantization Affect #Multilingual #LLMs?" by @cheeesio, @TheyCallMeMr_, Hongyu Chen, @d_aumiller, @ahmetustun89, @sarahookr, @seb_ruder (Findings EMNLP, 2024)
Pick of the week @fbk_mt: How Does Quantization Affect Multilingual LLMs?
Quantization has become a widely adopted technique for model compression. This work investigates the impact of quantization on different languages in multilingual LLMs.
https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.935.pdf