Lina Conti
PhD Student at the University of Trento and @fbk-mt.bsky.social |Interpretability, bias, and fairness in speech translation
- 💬 Pick of the week @fbk-mt.bsky.social: "Voice gender diversity: expression, perception and acoustics." A great review of gender-diverse voices. Covers acoustic properties, perception and the gap between self-expression of gender and how voices are heard. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
- 🎙️ Pick of the week @fbk-mt.bsky.social: "Lost in Transcription, Found in Distribution Shift" Traditional WER masks dangerous hallucinations in ASR systems. This paper proposes a dedicated metric to detect them. aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
- 🎉 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...
- 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
- 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.
- Reposted by Lina Conti📢 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
- 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-...
