I am super happy to share that I co-authored 4 papers accepted at the #ACL2024NLP main conference! 2 preprints already available about: -software quality in NLP: arxiv.org/abs/2303.16166 - speech translation: arxiv.org/abs/2402.12025 Other preprints and more details coming soon!

The day started with fantastic news: our 4 long papers have been accepted at the #ACL2024NLP main conference! And we have just released #opensource two new repos: - github.com/hlt-mt/pangoli… for unit testing your architectures - github.com/hlt-mt/subsonar to evaluate SRT quality

🐾 Do you wanna see a Hyena in action? 🐾 🥁 Tomorrow Marco Gaido will present the paper "How do Hyenas deal with Human Speech? Speech Recognition and Translation with ConfHyena" at LREC COLING 2024! ⏲️ Poster session 1: 11:00-12:40 🦴 See you there! #NLProc #LRECCOLING2024 #ASR #ST

COLING 2025 workshop proposal due date is approaching

Less than a month until we see all you wonderful people at #GITT2024 EAMT2024 🤩 Time to send in your questions and topics for the panel that will wrap up the workshop. Share your ideas here: forms.gle/2kFXWYUGaPSmi6…

#ICASSP2025 Call for Papers is now open! All paper submissions are due 9 September 2024. Learn more about the technical scope and submission details here: hubs.la/Q02yHk8m0

HIRING!! Given our heavy involvement in ELOQUENCE AI and Meetween, we are hiring a post-doc on multilingual and multimodal speech processing. Great opportunity for collaborating with top notch researchers and labs in Europe on speech tech. Details: tinyurl.com/speechtek

As everyone in the AI field is using the term "open source" for models that aren't so, this taxonomy of LLM and their adherence to the "open source" paradigm at different levels is very much needed: arxiv.org/pdf/2405.08597 MT Group at FBK #pickoftheweek

Many thanks to Slator for their article about SBAAM, our novel direct system for automatic #subtitling! 📺 🔬 The research paper will be presented at the #ACL2024NLP main conference in August in Bangkok! 🔗 Models and code are already available at github.com/hlt-mt/FBK-fai…

As we get ready for #EAMT2024 to kick off today, let's take a moment to 🙏 thank our brilliant sponsors 🙏 (old & new) for making #GITT2024 happen: - Tilburg University (Tilburg University ) - Ghent Unviersity Faculty of Arts & Philosophy (UGent) - Google (Research Sponsorship)

The #GITT2024 organisers are ready for an inspirational second edition at #EAMT2024, this time WITH Luisa Bentivogli 🤩🤩🤩 See you tomorrow?

🎉Congratulations to Marco Gaido MT Group at FBK for the prestigious Anthony C Clarke EAMT Best Thesis Award! The best European doctoral dissertation in the field of #machinetranslation, awarded by EAMT2024 Marco Turchi Luisa Bentivogli Matteo Negri 👉Read more buff.ly/4clqPYj

📢Come and join our group! We offer a fully funded 3-year PhD position with the IECS Doctorate School Università di Trento: Speech Translation in the LLM Era (Area A6) ⏱️Deadline: August 5th, 2024, h 4.00pm (CEST) 📌Application Details: iecs.unitn.it/education/admi… #NLProc Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK

📣 The IWSLT 2024 conference program is now available at iwslt.org/2024/program Please check the website for details about the event. ACL 2025 ELRA Marcello Federico Elizabeth Salesky Marine Carpuat Jan Niehues Atul Kr. Ojha

Meet the FBK MT group at #ACL2024 next week! 🐘 🥁Our Marco Gaido and Sara Papi will attend the conference and the IWSLT 2024 workshop and present the following papers! 📌More info is available on our website: mt.fbk.eu/our-postdocs-m… #ACL2024NLP #SPEECH #SQA #SFM #LLM #ST

🎉Great news! Our paper “Speech Translation with Speech Foundation Models and Large Language Models: What is There and What is Missing?” got the outstanding paper & area chair's awards!!! 👏 👇arxiv.org/pdf/2402.12025 #NLProc #ACL2024NLP

Super honoured to receive both Outstanding paper and Senior Area Chairs Award from #ACL2024NLP for our survey (authored by Marco Gaido, me, Matteo Negri, Luisa Bentivogli) on the emerging paradigm of speech foundation models + LLM for speech translation! 👉🏼arxiv.org/abs/2402.12025

Great to see works like this one that are extending the coverage of LLMs to a wide range of languages, including low-resource ones! arxiv.org/abs/2401.13303 MT Group at FBK

(🧵1/3) The MT unit co-authored 3 papers accepted at the EMNLP 2024 2024 Main conference: 🍷 "MOSEL: 950,000 Hours of Open-Source Compliant Speech Data for EU Languages" by Marco Gaido*, Sara Papi*, et al., in collaboration with the SpeechTek unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK #EMNLP2024

Reminder... Seeking shared task proposals for IWSLT 2025! For more info, see below: iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IW… 📅Deadline: Sept 30, 2024 Marine Carpuat Marcello Federico Elizabeth Salesky Atul Kr. Ojha Jan Niehues Katsuhito Sudoh (ja) ACL 2025 ELRA 中村哲 Satoshi Nakamura