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Luisa Bentivogli
@luisabentivogli.bsky.social
Head of the @fbk-mt.bsky.social research unit at FBK
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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
Can we make Speech LLMs actually think as they listen? 👂💭
This fascinating work applies CoT inspired by human “thinking while listening”, training models to find the inflection point when reasoning starts.
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2510.07497
Can Speech LLMs Think while Listening?
Recent advances in speech large language models (speech LLMs) have enabled seamless spoken interactions, but these systems still struggle with complex reasoning tasks. Previously, chain-of-thought (Co...
arxiv.org
October 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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🎉🎓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
November 1, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Extra shout-out to the battle-hardened crew joining for this round 🔥 @jhackenbuchner.bsky.social @luisabentivogli.bsky.social @jdaems.bsky.social @bsavoldi.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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🚀 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...
Jobs | Science and Technology Hub - Trento | A Researcher in Responsible and Trustworthy NLP
jobs.fbk.eu
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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🚀 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...
Jobs | Science and Technology Hub - Trento | A Junior Research Engineer in Multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs)
jobs.fbk.eu
November 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Happy to welcome our new PhD student Dhairya Suman, who will be researching model efficiency in machine translation!
#nlproc @uzumakidhairya.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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🚀 JOB ALERT 3: The FBK's MT Unit is hiring!

Join us as a Researcher in Responsible & Trustworthy NLP and advance ethical, fair, and transparent language technologies. If you care about building safe and accountable AI systems, you can apply here:
👉 jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Offe...
Jobs | Science and Technology Hub - Trento | A Researcher in Responsible and Trustworthy NLP
jobs.fbk.eu
December 5, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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🚀 JOB ALERT: The FBK's MT Unit is hiring!

Join us as a Researcher in Multimodal LLMs and work at the forefront of AI, combining text, speech, and video. If you’re passionate about deep learning and next-gen models, we want to hear from you!

Apply 👉 jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Jobs...
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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🚀 Exciting news from the @fbk-mt.bsky.social group!
@bsavoldi.bsky.social , @linaconti.bsky.social, @matteo-negri.bsky.social & @luisabentivogli.bsky.social are attending #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou 🇨🇳!

Come to our sessions & let's connect:
🔗 mt.fbk.eu/fbk-mt-at-em...

We’re also hiring postdocs!⚡
November 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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It was great having Hosein Mohebbi (@hmohebbi.bsky.social) speak about interpretability for speech Transformers at our #MTSeminars! Thanks for the insights 🎤 #NLP #XAI
December 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Amazing job @jhackenbuchner.bsky.social @jdaems.bsky.social @chiaramanna.bsky.social @bsavoldi.bsky.social @evavnmssnhv.bsky.social! You made also this third edition of @gitt-workshop.bsky.social energizing (despite the heat 🫠) and inspiring! I really wish I could have been there with you 😍
And that's a wrap on a very hot 🥵 yet very rewarding #GITT2025
💭 We need more languages, better quality estimation, and intersectionality
😍 Thanks to everyone who was there, presented, contributed to the discussion, and helped with practicalities.
🌞 Enjoy the rest of @mtsummit2025.bsky.social!
June 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM
June 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Poster session now happening at #GITT2025 Some really exciting research and potluck discussions happening! 🔥
June 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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@bsavoldi.bsky.social opening #GITT2025 nice turnout already!
First up: SOTA to get everyone up to speed again! 🚀
June 23, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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🔍 Stiamo studiando come l'AI viene usata in Italia e per farlo abbiamo costruito un sondaggio!

👉 bit.ly/sondaggio_ai...

(è anonimo, richiede ~10 minuti, e se partecipi o lo fai girare ci aiuti un sacco🙏)

Ci interessa anche raggiungere persone che non si occupano e non sono esperte di AI!
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June 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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May 16, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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🎉 Excited to share that our @sarapapi.bsky.social has won the 2024 Best PhD Award from the Information and Engineering Doctoral School for her thesis “Direct Speech Translation in Constrained Contexts: The Simultaneous and Subtitling Scenarios.”

#nlproc #speech #speechprocessing #speechtranslation
May 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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📢 One week left to apply for a fully funded 3-year PhD position in our group!

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

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

📆 Deadline: 12 May 2025, 4pm CEST

#NLProc #FBK
May 5, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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📢 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
iecs.unitn.it
April 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Happy to announce that our paper 'An LLM-as-a-judge Approach for Scalable Gender-Neutral Translation Evaluation' was accepted at @gitt-workshop.bsky.social ! 🙌

Check it out: arxiv.org/abs/2504.11934 🔥

Co-authors (🫶🏻): @bsavoldi.bsky.social, @matteo-negri.bsky.social, @luisabentivogli.bsky.social
An LLM-as-a-judge Approach for Scalable Gender-Neutral Translation Evaluation
Gender-neutral translation (GNT) aims to avoid expressing the gender of human referents when the source text lacks explicit cues about the gender of those referents. Evaluating GNT automatically is pa...
arxiv.org
April 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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@alessiobrutti.bsky.social is on the red carpet on his way to the Assembly of Members of the Alliance for Language Technology #ALTEDIC and the kick off of the LLMs4EU project: towards preserving our cultural and language diversity and giving european citizens open and ethical #languagetechnologies
March 18, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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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!

All info at sites.google.com/tilburgunive...
February 28, 2025 at 9:22 AM