🔖 Weekly pick from the #MeetweenScientificWatch: "PLLaVA: Parameter-free LLaVA Extension from Images to Videos for Video Dense Captioning" - A resource-light approach for adapting image-language models for video tasks, achieving new SOTA performance. arxiv.org/abs/2404.16994

⚠️⚠️⚠️DEADLINE EXTENSION⚠️⚠️⚠️ - 22/07/2024: EXTENDED paper submission deadline: regular papers and research communications (11:59 pm CEST) #clicit2024 AILC_NLP #NLProc

📢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

Our pick of the week by BeatriceSavoldi: "Rethinking Model Evaluation as Narrowing the Socio-Technical Gap" by Vera Liao and Ziang Xiao, 2023. arxiv.org/abs/2306.03100 #Human #HumanCentered #Model #Evaluation #ModelEvaluation #AI

Our pick of the week by Beomseok LEE @ INTERSPEECH 🇬🇷: "DiscreteSLU: A Large Language Model with Self-Supervised Discrete Speech Units for Spoken Language Understanding" by Shon, Shinji Watanabe, et al., 2024. #SLU #speech #LLM

Our pick of the week by Lina Conti: "Exploring NMT Explainability for Translators Using NMT Visualising Tools" by Gonzalez-Saez, Mariam Nakhlé, James Robert Turner, Raheel, didier_schwab, et al., 2024. hal.science/hal-04581586/ #NMT #NLP #NLProc #explainiableAI #XAI

📣 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

Our pick of the week by Dennis Fucci: "Following the Embedding: Identifying Transition Phenomena in Wav2vec 2.0 Representations of Speech Audio" by Patrick Cormac English, Erfan Shams, JohnDK, et al., ICASSP 2024. #speech #audio #AI #ICASSP2024

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

Wonderful poster session this evening at #ACL2024NLP 🐘 Want to know more about this work on simultaneous speech translation from unbounded speech? 👉🏼 Look here: arxiv.org/abs/2406.06097 #NLProc #ACL2024 #speech

What a poster session this morning at #ACL2024NLP ⚡️⚡️ Marco Gaido here was presenting SBAAM: Eliminating transcript dependency in automatic subtitling More info here: arxiv.org/abs/2405.10741 #NLProc #ACL2024 #subtitling #speech

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

Our Sara Papi presenting the findings of the IWSLT 2024 subtitling shared task. 👉More about the subtitling task: iwslt.org/2024/subtitling 👉All results: aclanthology.org/2024.iwslt-1.p… #nlproc #ACL2024NLP

🏆The paper "Speech Translation with Speech Foundation Models and Large Language Models: What is There and What is Missing?" won both the Outstanding Paper and Senior Area Chair Awards at #ACL2024 ! 🎉 ✍️MT Group at FBK Marco Gaido, Sara Papi, Matteo Negri, Luisa Bentivogli

Our pick of the week by Marco Gaido: "MaLA-500: Massive Language Adaptation of Large Language Models" by Peiqin Lin, Shaoxiong Ji, Jörg Tiedemann, Andre Martins and hinrich schuetze. #NLProc #LLM #multilingual #language #adaptation

Meet the FBK MT group at #INTERSPEECH2024 next week! 🇬🇷 Our Beomseok LEE will attend the conference and present the following paper! More info is available on our website: mt.fbk.eu/1-paper-accept… #INTERSPEECH2024 #SPEECH #SLU

📢📢 We invite proposals for IWSLT 2025 shared tasks! For further information on this initiative, please refer to iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IW… 📅Deadline: September 30th, 2024 Jan Niehues Marcello Federico Atul Kr. Ojha Elizabeth Salesky Katsuhito Sudoh (ja) Marine Carpuat

Our Beomseok LEE @ INTERSPEECH 🇬🇷 presenting "Speech-MASSIVE: A Multilingual Speech Dataset for SLU and Beyond" at #INTERSPEECH2024 🇬🇷 Check here for more details: arxiv.org/abs/2408.03900