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Luisa Bentivogli

@luisabentivogli.bsky.social
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Head of the @fbk-mt.bsky.social research unit at FBK

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GITT 2026 @gitt-workshop.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
And that's a wrap on #GITT2026 Thanks to all the wonderful people for attending, our brilliant keynotes and presenters for sharing their insights, and our sponsors for making this happen. See you at the reception! 🥂 (and maybe next year? 😉)
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GITT 2026 @gitt-workshop.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
And last but not least, our closing keynote, Sofie Decock, ready to tell us all about gender-neutral pronouns and inclusive interpreting at #GITT2026
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GITT 2026 @gitt-workshop.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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GITT 2026 @gitt-workshop.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Poster sessions in full swing at #GITT2026 - will continue a little after the coffee break as well ☕
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GITT 2026 @gitt-workshop.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
After a lovely lunch break with lively discussion, our second keynote of the day, @odettes.bsky.social now presenting on inclusive speech technology at #GITT2026 🤩
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GITT 2026 @gitt-workshop.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
And last but definitely not least, #GITT2026 's very own @bsavoldi.bsky.social
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GITT 2026 @gitt-workshop.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
@amelija166mp.bsky.social on gender bias in translated product reviews and Deniz Albayrak on WinoTR #GITT2026
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GITT 2026 @gitt-workshop.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Sophie Hennuy presenting the Inclupedie (see www.inclupedie.eu) and Marie Dewulf on a real world corpus for gender bias in the webcare domain #GITT2026
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GITT 2026 @gitt-workshop.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Paolo Di Natalie's very first PhD presentation here at #GITT2026 focusing on the real use case of Italian-German fully bilingual context and gender fair translation in South Tyrol (Italy)
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GITT 2026 @gitt-workshop.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
#GITT2026 's very own @manuellardelli.bsky.social presenting on nonbinary morphology in a real translation workflow for German and Italian (moving away from the English focus and binary limitations of many gender studies!)
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GITT 2026 @gitt-workshop.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Next on, @jdaems.bsky.social presenting their work on Dutch audience perceptions of human and machine-translated pronouns for non-binary referent in subtitles at #GITT2026
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GITT 2026 @gitt-workshop.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
After some technical hiccups, our opening keynote @katta.bsky.social is ready to tell us all about technology for dynamic concepts (like gender) at #GITT2026
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GITT 2026 @gitt-workshop.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Only one more week until we get to see those beautiful faces at #GITT2026 again! 🤩 Time to thank our magnificent sponsors making this event possible in the first place: - The European DVPS project, see dvps.translated.com - Ghent University's Faculty of Arts & Philosophy, see www.ugent.be/lw/en
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GITT 2026 @gitt-workshop.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Shoutout to our wonderful sponsors at #GITT2026
Shoutout to our wonderful sponsors at #GITT2026
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GITT 2026 @gitt-workshop.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
#GITT2026 is off at #EAMT2026 - @manuellardelli.bsky.social now opening the workshop. We'll attempt to live skywrite as we go!
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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
1️⃣ "Do What I Say: A Spoken Prompt Dataset for Instruction-Following" 👥 @maikezufle.bsky.social, @sarapapi.bsky.social, Fabian Retkowski, Szymon Mazurek, Marek Kasztelnik, Alexander Waibel, @luisabentivogli.bsky.social, @jan-niehues.bsky.social 🇪🇺 Meetween EU project 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2603.09881
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Do What I Say: A Spoken Prompt Dataset for Instruction-Following
Speech Large Language Models (SLLMs) have rapidly expanded, supporting a wide range of tasks. These models are typically evaluated using text prompts, which may not reflect real-world scenarios where ...
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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
2️⃣ "Better Late Than Never: Evaluating Latency Metrics for Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation" 👥 Peter Polak, @sarapapi.bsky.social, @luisabentivogli.bsky.social, Ondřej Bojar 🇪🇺 Meetween EU project 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2509.17349
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Better Late Than Never: Meta-Evaluation of Latency Metrics for Simultaneous Speech-to-Text Translation
Simultaneous speech-to-text translation systems must balance translation quality with latency. Although quality evaluation is well established, latency measurement remains a challenge. Existing metric...
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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
3️⃣ "Cross-Attention is Half Explanation in Speech-to-Text Models" 👥 @sarapapi.bsky.social, @dennisfucci.bsky.social, Marco Gaido, @matteo-negri.bsky.social, @luisabentivogli.bsky.social 🇪🇺 DVPS EU project 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2509.18010
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Cross-Attention is Half Explanation in Speech-to-Text Models
Cross-attention is a core mechanism in encoder-decoder architectures, widespread in many fields, including speech-to-text (S2T) processing. Its scores have been repurposed for various downstream appli...
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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We are at the Alliance for Language Technologies - #ALTEDIC Week 2026! @luisabentivogli.bsky.social and @matteo-negri.bsky.social are attending two project meetings (ALT-EDIC4EU and #LLMs4EU), presenting the Evaluation of Spoken Language Translation in the context of IWSLT. #LanguageTechnologies
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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Our #PickofTheWeek by @linaconti.bsky.social on Gender bias in Speech LLMs "Greater accessibility can amplify discrimination in generative AI" by Carolin Holtermann, Minh Duc Bui2, Kaitlyn Zhou, Valentin Hofmann, Katharina von der Wense, Anne Lauscher
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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
From @jhackenbuchner.bsky.social, a PhD candidate at @lt3-ugent.bsky.social on 📄 "Contextual Cues and Gender Ambiguity in MT: From Human Perception to Model Interpretability"
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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Our #PickofTheWeek by @uzumakidhairya.bsky.social: "Scaling Laws for Precision" by Tanishq Kumar, Zachary Ankner, Benjamin F. Spector, Blake Bordelon, Niklas Muennighoff, Mansheej Paul, Cengiz Pehlevan, Christopher Ré, Aditi Raghunathan (ICLR 2025)
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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
🏝️ Yesterday at #LREC2026, Palma de Mallorca! @linaconti.bsky.social presented "Voice, Bias, and Coreference: An Interpretability Study of Gender in Speech Translation" at the poster session. 📄Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.21517 💻Code: github.com/lina-conti/v... #SpeechTranslation #NLProc
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Voice, Bias, and Coreference: An Interpretability Study of Gender in Speech Translation
Unlike text, speech conveys information about the speaker, such as gender, through acoustic cues like pitch. This gives rise to modality-specific bias concerns. For example, in speech translation (ST)...
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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
🏝️ Also at #LREC2026, Palma de Mallorca! @luisabentivogli.bsky.social presented our second paper. "Phonetic-based Ranking for Improved Pseudo-Labeling in Low-Resource ASR" 📄 Paper: eloquenceai.eu/wp-content/u... Bravi!! 🎉
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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The paper "Data-Centric Lessons To Improve Speech-Language Pretraining" by Vishaal Udandarao, Zhiyun Lu, Xuankai Chang, Yongqiang Wang, Violet Z. Yao, Albin Madapally Jose, Fartash Faghri, Josh Gardner & Chung-Cheng Chiu provides the answers! Read more: arxiv.org/abs/2510.20860 #SpeechLLM #LLM #AI
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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
⏰ 4 days left to apply! 🎓 2 PhD positions still open: 🎯 Human-Centred Evaluation Frameworks for Multilingual Technologies ✨ Multimedia Personalization with Multimodal Large Language Models 📅 Deadline: 15 May 2026 🔗 Full details: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad...
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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
@linaconti.bsky.social & @luisabentivogli.bsky.social are heading to #LREC2026 in Palma! They'll present two papers: 📄 Voice, Bias, and Coreference: An Interpretability Study of Gender in Speech Translation 📄 Phonetic-based Ranking for Improved Pseudo-Labelling in Low-Resource ASR See you there! 🌴
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Luca Corbucci @lucacorbucci.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
🤔 What Matters in Data for DPO? I asked myself this question a few days ago while trying to understand how to generate a dataset with preferences to run #DPO. This recent #NeurIPS paper answered some of my questions.
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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Our #PickOfTheWeek by @lucacorbucci.bsky.social : "What Matters in Data for DPO? " by Yu Pan, Zhongze Cai, Guanting Chen, Huaiyang Zhong, Chonghuan Wang (NeurIPS 2025).
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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
🎓 Come and join our group! 🎓 We offer 2 fully funded PhD positions: 🌍 Human-Centred Evaluation Frameworks for Multilingual Technologies (A6) 🤖 Multimedia Personalization with Multimodal Large Language Models (A7) ⏰ Deadline: 15 May 2026 🔗 Details: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad...
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Call for application | Doctoral Program - Information Engineering and Computer Science
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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
At our last seminar, @maikezufle.bsky.social presented her work on Duplex Models, "Building Controllable Speech Systems"
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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
🎉We’re happy to welcome our new research engineer, Yiu Chung Leung, joining us to work on multimodal LLMs with a focus on speech. Excited for what’s ahead! 🚀
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GITT 2026 @gitt-workshop.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
📣2nd #CFP for #GITT2026 at @eamt2026.bsky.social (15 June 2026) 🏁Deadline = 20 April 🕵️Gender bias in translation and MT, inclusive language, mitigation strategies, and more 📝Research papers, abstracts, communications & potluck presentations welcome! 🕸️All info on: sites.google.com/view/gitt202...
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a man is sitting at a table with his hand to his mouth and the word submit written on his face .
ALT: a man is sitting at a table with his hand to his mouth and the word submit written on his face .
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GITT 2026 @gitt-workshop.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Did someone say 'more international keynotes'? 😉 #GITT2026 will have it all: Introducing Professor Sofie Decock (Ghent University, 🇧🇪), who works on the use and perception of #genderinclusive #language in professional communication, from newspapers to #interpreting ➡️ sites.google.com/view/gitt202...
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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
🎉 We’re very happy to welcome our new postdoc @lucacorbucci.bsky.social, who will be working on multimodal LLMs. Looking forward to the exciting research ahead! 🚀
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Beatrice Savoldi @bsavoldi.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
With @malvinanissim.bsky.social and @vivipatti.bsky.social, we've been teaching ethics in NLP as a hands-on course across Groningen, Pavia & Turin. We wrote up the experience and received the ✨Best Paper Award✨ at #EACL2026's TeachNLP Workshop. Huge thanks to the organizers and all our students!
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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
📢Thrilled to welcome our new postdoc, @wafaaissa.bsky.social! Looking forward to working together on trustworthy and responsible language technologies 🚀
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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
For our seminars at FBK, last week we had a great talk by @gsarti.com on Interpreting Context Usage in Generative Language Models
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Luca Corbucci @lucacorbucci.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
📣 Announcement time! A few weeks have already passed since I joined the @fbk-mt.bsky.social by @luisabentivogli.bsky.social at FBK as a Postdoctoral researcher to work on hashtag #Multimodal #LLMs. I’m really happy to be here and excited about the projects I’m starting to explore.
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GITT 2026 @gitt-workshop.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Will #GITT2026 be worth it? If our brilliant keynotes are anything to go by...😉 Introducing @odettes.bsky.social Full Professor of Inclusive Speech Communication at 🇳🇱 Delft University of Technology. Human & automatic speech, combining technical x ethical x societal, just how we like it! Excited yet?
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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Our pick of the week by @uzumakidhairya.bsky.social: "How Does Quantization Affect Multilingual LLMs?" by Kelly Marchisio, Saurabh Dash, @hongyuchen.bsky.social, Dennis Aumiller, Ahmet Üstün, @sarahooker.bsky.social, @sebruder.bsky.social (EMNLP 2024 Findings) aclanthology.org/2024.finding...
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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Our pick of the week by @apierg.bsky.social: "Glitter: A Multi-Sentence, Multi-Reference Benchmark for Gender-Fair German Machine Translation" by Praval, @jhackenbuchner.bsky.social, @gattanasio.cc, and @a-lauscher.bsky.social (EMNLP 2025 Findings)
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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Our pick of the week by @linaconti.bsky.social: "Voice gender diversity: expression, perception and acoustics" by @victor-rosi.bsky.social and Carolyn McGettigan, Royal Society Open Science (2025)
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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Last week at the @fbk-mt.bsky.social seminars, we hosted Elizabeth Salesky from Google DeepMind, presenting her work on "Translation and Language Modeling with Pixels" #NLProc #tokenization #MT
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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Our #PickOfTheWeek by @beomseok-lee.bsky.social: "Can Speech LLMs Think while Listening?" by Yi-Jen Shih, @rdesh26.bsky.social, Chunyang Wu, Wei Zhou, SK Bong, Yashesh Gaur, Jay Mahadeokar, Ozlem Kalinli, Mike Seltzer (2025). #Speech #SpeechLLM #LLM #SpeechTech #AI
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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
🎉🎓Congratulations to our PhD student @dennisfucci.bsky.social on a very successful thesis defense! 👏 Many thanks to the evaluation committee members @deboranozza.bsky.social, Mirco Ravanelli, and Leonardo Badino for their insightful feedback and appreciation of his work! #nlproc
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GITT 2026 @gitt-workshop.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Extra shout-out to the battle-hardened crew joining for this round 🔥 @jhackenbuchner.bsky.social @luisabentivogli.bsky.social @jdaems.bsky.social @bsavoldi.bsky.social
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Beatrice Savoldi @bsavoldi.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
🚀 We're hiring a Researcher in Responsible & Trustworthy NLP! Join our research group @fbk-mt.bsky.social at Fondazione Bruno Kessler to work on fairness and trustworthiness in multilingual technologies. 📅 Deadline: Dec 10, 2025 🔗 Apply: jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Offe...
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Jobs | Science and Technology Hub - Trento | A Researcher in Responsible and Trustworthy NLP
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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
🚀 JOB ALERT2: The FBK's MT Unit is hiring! Join us as a Junior Research Engineer in Multimodal LLMs and help build next-gen AI across text, speech, and video. If you’re passionate about deep learning and multimodal NLP, we want to hear from you! Apply at jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Jobs...
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Jobs | Science and Technology Hub - Trento | A Junior Research Engineer in Multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs)
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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Happy to welcome our new PhD student Dhairya Suman, who will be researching model efficiency in machine translation! #nlproc @uzumakidhairya.bsky.social
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