We regularly host external speakers to disseminate research and ideas within our group. Talks are typically informal, virtual, and biweekly on Thursdays. If you are interested in presenting your work to our group, reach out! We are also happy to discuss ongoing or upcoming research.
Speakers 2026
- Janiça Hackenbuchner. “Contextual Cues and Gender Ambiguity in MT: From Human Perception to Model Interpretability”
- Harm Lameris. “Linguistically-informed speech synthesis”
- Maike Züfle. “Building Controllable Conversational Speech Systems”
- Gabriele Sarti. “Interpreting Context Usage in Generative Language Models”
- Jacqueline Rowe. “Beyond benchmarks? Measuring gender bias in multilingual LLMs”
- Alessandra Teresa Cignarella. “6,000 Papers, One New Dataset, and Several Confused LLMs: A Story About Stereotype Detection in NLP”
- Elizabeth Salesky. “Translation and Language Modeling with Pixels”
Speakers 2025
- Hosein Mohebbi. “Actionable Interpretability for Text and Speech Transformers”
- Marcely Zanon Boito. “Training Speech LLMs: Insights and Lessons Learned”
- Francesco Paissan. “What Did You Hear? Explainability for Audio Foundation Models”