Publications | Machine Translation Unit

Lam, Tsz Kin; Gaido, Marco; Papi, Sara; Bentivogli, Luisa; Haddow, Barry,

Prepending or Cross-Attention for Speech-to-Text? An Empirical Comparison,
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Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers),
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2025
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Verdini, Francesco; Melucci, Pierfrancesco; Perna, Stefano; Cariaggi, Francesco; Gaido, Marco; Papi, Sara; Mazurek, Szymon; Kasztelnik, Marek; Bentivogli, Luisa; Bratières, Sebastien; Merialdo, Paolo; Scardapane, Simone,

How to Connect Speech Foundation Models and Large Language Models? What Matters and What Does Not,
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Proc. Interspeech 2025,
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2025
, pp. 1813-
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Piergentili, Andrea; Savoldi, Beatrice; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa,

Gender-Neutral Rewriting in Italian: Models, Approaches, and Trade-offs,
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Proceedings of the Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025),
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2025
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Papi, Sara; Gaido, Marco; Bentivogli, Luisa; Brutti, Alessio; Cettolo, Mauro; Gretter, Roberto; Matassoni, Marco; Nabih, Mohamed; Negri, Matteo,

FAMA: The First Large-Scale Open-Science Speech Foundation Model for English and Italian,
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Proceedings of the Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025),
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2025
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Savoldi, Beatrice; Bastings, Jasmijn; Bentivogli, Luisa; Vanmassenhove, Eva,

A decade of gender bias in machine translation,
in «PATTERNS»,
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vol. 6,
n. 6,
2025
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Gaido, Marco; Papi, Sara; Bentivogli, Luisa; Brutti, Alessio; Cettolo, Mauro; Gretter, Roberto; Matassoni, Marco; Nabih, Mohamed; Negri, Matteo,

The Warmup Dilemma: How Learning Rate Strategies Impact Speech-to-Text Model Convergence,
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Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2025),
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2025
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Abdulmumin, Idris; Agostinelli, Victor; Alumäe, Tanel; Anastasopoulos, Antonios; Bentivogli, Luisa; Bojar, Ondřej; Borg, Claudia; Bougares, Fethi; Cattoni, Roldano; Cettolo, Mauro; Chen, Lizhong; Chen, William; Dabre, Raj; Estève, Yannick; Federico, Marcello; Fishel, Mark; Gaido, Marco; Javorský, Dávid; Kasztelnik, Marek; Kponou, Fortuné; Krubiński, Mateusz; Kin Lam, Tsz; Liu, Danni; Matusov, Evgeny; Kumar Maurya, Chandresh; P. Mccrae, John; Mdhaffar, Salima; Moslem, Yasmin; Murray, Kenton; Nakamura, Satoshi; Negri, Matteo; Niehues, Jan; Kr. Ojha, Atul; Ortega, John E.; Papi, Sara; Pecina, Pavel; Polák, Peter; Połeć, Piotr; Sankar, Ashwin; Savoldi, Beatrice; Sethiya, Nivedita; Sikasote, Claytone; Sperber, Matthias; Stüker, Sebastian; Sudoh, Katsuhito; Thompson, Brian; Turchi, Marco; Waibel, Alex; Wilken, Patrick; Zevallos, Rodolfo; Zouhar, Vilém; Züfle, Maike,

Findings of the IWSLT 2025 Evaluation Campaign,
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Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2025),
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2025
, pp. 412-
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Fucci, Dennis; Gaido, Marco; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa; Martins, Andre; Attanasio, Giuseppe,

Different Speech Translation Models Encode and Translate Speaker Gender Differently,
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Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers),
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2025
, pp. 1005-
1019
Lee, Beomseok; Gaido, Marco; Calapodescu, Ioan; Besacier, Laurent; Negri, Matteo,

Speech Foundation Models and Crowdsourcing for Efficient, High-Quality Data Collection,
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Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics,
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2025
, pp. 6816-
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Piergentili, Andrea; Savoldi, Beatrice; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa,

An LLM-as-a-judge Approach for Scalable Gender-Neutral Translation Evaluation,
in «»,
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT 2025),
European Association for Machine Translation,
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2025
, pp. 46-
63
Züfle, Maike; Papi, Sara; Savoldi, Beatrice; Gaido, Marco; Bentivogli, Luisa; Niehues, Jan,

NUTSHELL: A Dataset for Abstract Generation from Scientific Talks,
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Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2025),
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2025
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Fucci, Dennis; Gaido, Marco; Negri, Matteo; Cettolo, Mauro; Bentivogli, Luisa,

Echoes of Phonetics: Unveiling Relevant Acoustic Cues for ASR via Feature Attribution,
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Proceedings of Interspeech 2025,
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2025
, pp. 206-
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Rao Koluguri, Nithin; Sekoyan, Monica; Zelenfroynd, George; Meister, Sasha; Ding, Shuoyang; Kostandian, Sofia; Huang, He; Karpov, Nikolay; Balam, Jagadeesh; Lavrukhin, Vitaly; Peng, Yifan; Papi, Sara; Gaido, Marco; Brutti, Alessio; Ginsburg, Boris,

Granary: Speech Recognition and Translation Dataset in 25 European Languages,
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Proceedings of Interspeech,
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2025
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Mitchell, Margaret; Attanasio, Giuseppe; Baldini, Ioana; Clinciu, Miruna; Clive, Jordan; Delobelle, Pieter; Dey, Manan; Hamilton, Sil; Dill, Timm; Doughman, Jad; Dutt, Ritam; Ghosh, Avijit; Zosa Forde, Jessica; Holtermann, Carolin; Lucie-Aim('e)e, ; Tanmay Laud, Kaffee; Lauscher, Anne; L Lopez-Davila, Roberto; Masoud, Maraim; Nangia, Nikita; Ovalle, Anaelia; Pistilli, Giada; Radev, Dragomir; Savoldi, Beatrice; Raheja, Vipul; Qin, Jeremy; Ploeger, Esther; Subramonian, Arjun; Dhole, Kaustubh; Sun, Kaiser; Djanibekov, Amirbek; Mansurov, Jonibek; Yin, Kayo; Villa Cueva, Emilio; Mukherjee, Sagnik; Huang, Jerry; Shen, Xudong; Gala, Jay; Al-Ali, Hamdan; Tair, Djanibekov; Mukhituly, Nurdaulet; Nie, Shangrui; Sharma, Shanya; Stanczak, Karolina; Szczechla, Eliza; Timponi Torrent, Tiago; Tunuguntla, Deepak; Viridiano, Marcelo; Van Der Wal, Oskar; Yakefu, Adina; N('e)v('e)ol, Aur('e)lie; Zhang, Mike; Zink, Sydney; Talat, Zeerak,

{SHADES}: Towards a Multilingual Assessment of Stereotypes in Large Language Models,
in «»,
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers),
Association for Computational Linguistics,
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2025
, pp. 11995-
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Papi, Sara; Polák, Peter; Macháček, Dominik; Bojar, Ondřej,

How “Real” is Your Real-Time Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation System?,
in «TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS»,
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2025
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Savoldi, Beatrice; Ramponi, Alan; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa,

Translation in the Hands of Many: Centering Lay Users in Machine Translation Interactions,
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Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing,
Association for Computational Linguistics,
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2025
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Conti, Lina; Fucci, Dennis; Gaido, Marco; Negri, Matteo; Wisniewski, Guillaume; Bentivogli, Luisa,

The Unheard Alternative: Contrastive Explanations for Speech-to-Text Models,
in «»,
Proceedings of the 8th BlackboxNLP Workshop: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP,
Association for Computational Linguistics,
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2025
, pp. 398-
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Savoldi, Beatrice; Attanasio, Giuseppe; Cupin, Eleonora; Gkovedarou, Eleni; Hackenbuchner, Jani(c(c))a; Lauscher, Anne; Negri, Matteo; Piergentili, Andrea; Thind, Manjinder; Bentivogli, Luisa,

Mind the Inclusivity Gap: Multilingual Gender-Neutral Translation Evaluation with m{G}e{NTE},
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Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing,
Association for Computational Linguistics,
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2025
, pp. 13709-
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Hackenbuchner, Janiça; Bentivogli, Luisa; Daems, Joke; Manna, Chiara; Savoldi, Beatrice; Vanmassenhove, Eva,

Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT 2025),
in «»,
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT 2025),
European Association for Machine Translation,
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2025
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Savoldi, Beatrice; Piergentili, Andrea; Fucci, Dennis; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa,

A Prompt Response to the Demand for Automatic Gender-Neutral Translation,
in «»,
Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers),
Association for Computational Linguistics,
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2024
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