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Lina Conti
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PhD Student at the University of Trento and @fbk-mt.bsky.social | NLP, Interpretability, Speech, Machine Translation
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Lina Conti @linaconti.bsky.social · 8d
🎉 Excited to share that my paper "The Unheard Alternative" was accepted to @blackboxnlp.bsky.social 2025!
We introduce contrastive explanations for speech-to-text, identifying which audio features ST models use to assign a grammatical gender to the speaker.
📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.265...
The Unheard Alternative: Contrastive Explanations for Speech-to-Text Models
Contrastive explanations, which indicate why an AI system produced one output (the target) instead of another (the foil), are widely regarded in explainable AI as more informative and interpretable th...
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Lina Conti @linaconti.bsky.social · Aug 20
Pick of the week @fbk-mt.bsky.social: "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Rhyme" 👄 a dive into how LLaMA develops internal phonetic representations despite never hearing speech.
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.02527
#XAI #LLM #interpretability
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Lina Conti @linaconti.bsky.social · May 29
Pick of the week @fbk-mt.bsky.social : arxiv.org/abs/2505.19606 by @cislmu.bsky.social @barbaraplank.bsky.social. XAI work on cross-lingual alignment in speech-to-text models that disentangles phonetics and semantics. Plus: their XAI insights yield actionable improvements for low-resource languages.
Languages in Multilingual Speech Foundation Models Align Both Phonetically and Semantically
Cross-lingual alignment in pretrained language models (LMs) has enabled efficient transfer in text-based LMs. Such an alignment has also been observed in speech foundation models. However, it remains ...
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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · Apr 22
📢 Come and join our group!
We offer a fully funded 3-year PhD position:

📔 Automatic translation with large multimodal models: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad...

📍Full details for application: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad...

📅 Deadline May 12, 2025

#NLProc #FBK
Reserved topic scholarships | Doctoral Program - Information Engineering and Computer Science
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Lina Conti @linaconti.bsky.social · Mar 6
My pick of the week @fbk-mt.bsky.social: "MuPe Life Stories Dataset" introduces a spontaneous speech corpus that captures Brazilian diversity—across education levels, regional accents & age groups aclanthology.org/2025.coling-...
MuPe Life Stories Dataset: Spontaneous Speech in Brazilian Portuguese with a Case Study Evaluation on ASR Bias against Speakers Groups and Topic Modeling
Sidney Evaldo Leal, Arnaldo Candido Junior, Ricardo Marcacini, Edresson Casanova, Odilon Gonçalves, Anderson Silva Soares, Rodrigo Freitas Lima, Lucas Rafael Stefanel Gris, Sandra Aluísio. Proceedings...
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GITT 2025 @gitt-workshop.bsky.social · Feb 28
While we look forward to a sunny Geneva, why wait to join the conversation?

We’ve created a starter pack for our #GITT2025 friends!
🕵️ Follow researchers working on gender bias in MT
💬 Stay up to date and dive into the discussion!

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