In the context of three problem areas identified as critical for the future development of the Internet, WebFAQ aimed at addressing the problem of the analysis and representation of the information content. More specifically, the project concentrated on the access to information contained in very large, unstructured, heterogeneous repositories, on multimodal presentation of information, and on the assessment of the quality of information.
More great news! 🎉
Our paper “Echoes of Phonetics: Unveiling Relevant Acoustic Cues for ASR via Feature Attribution” was accepted at #Interspeech2025!
Interested in interpretability for speech models? Preprint coming soon!
✍🏼 @mgaido91, @negri_teo, M.Cettolo, @luisabentivogli
Our pick of the week by @BeatriceSavoldi: "Lost in Translation: Artificial Intelligence and the Demand for Foreign Language Skills" by @pmllanos and @carlbfrey (2025)
#AI #translation #MT
Super interesting preprint on the relation between MT improvements and the demand for foreign language skills #pickoftheweek @fbk_mt 📚https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/publications/lost-in-translation-artificial-intelligence-and-the-demand-for-foreign-language-skills
SHADES: a global dataset to uncover AI bias
Over 50 researchers, 16 languages, thousands of interactions analysed: the international SHADES project investigates how generative language models (LLM) reproduce and amplify cultural stereotypes
◾https://magazine.fbk.eu/en/news/shades-the-new-global-dataset-to-monitor-as-ai-reproduces-and-invents-cultural-stereotypes/
🎉 Excited to share our paper “Different Speech Translation Models Encode and Translate Speaker Gender Differently” was accepted at #ACL2025 (main)!
✍🏼 Big thanks to amazing co-authors: @mgaido91, @negri_teo, @luisabentivogli, @andre_t_martins, @peppeatta!
📄 Preprint out soon!