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.
Our #PickOfTheWeek by @sarapapi: "RASST: Fast Cross-modal Retrieval-Augmented #Simultaneous #Speech #Translation" by Jiaxuan Luo, @siqi_ouyang, and @lileics (2026).
#RAG #SpeechTech
Very interesting new paper about combining Simultaneous Speech Translation and RAG to improve translation quality! Check it out: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.22777
#Speech #SpeechTech #Translation #RAG
Takeaway from our #2 DVPS consortium meeting: scaling with a few modalities won’t unlock the next leap. Progress we need to push in Europe now requires grounding intelligence in interaction and real-time feedback; we’re working on building the most promising MMFM architecture.
Oggi 11 febbraio è la Giornata Internazionale delle Donne e delle Ragazze nella Scienza.
Un’occasione per FBK di condividere e rilanciare il proprio impegno per l’uguaglianza di genere attraverso il Gender Equality Plan 2025-2028, recentemente approvato
https://magazine.fbk.eu/it/news/rinnovato-e-rafforzato-limpegno-verso-luguaglianza-di-genere-in-fbk/
🚀 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: @iwslt Instruction Following 2026
Build general-purpose instruction-following speech models for 🌍 EN/DE/IT/ZH languages!
📅 Eval: 𝗔𝗽𝗿 1 | Submit: 𝗔𝗽𝗿 15
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#IWSLT2026 #SpeechAI #MultimodalAI