8 papers
Ouvia: A User-centered Framework for Measuring Usability of Speech Translation in Real-World Communication Scenarios
Giuseppe Attanasio, Beatrice Savoldi, Daniel Chechelnitsky +4
Speech translation (ST) is increasingly adopted in user applications, yet its evaluation largely focuses on decontextualized testbeds and holistic quality, rather than end users' c…
Mind the Inclusivity Gap: Multilingual Gender-Neutral Translation Evaluation with mGeNTE
Beatrice Savoldi, Giuseppe Attanasio, Eleonora Cupin +7
Avoiding the propagation of undue (binary) gender inferences and default masculine language remains a key challenge towards inclusive multilingual technologies, particularly when t…
Gender-Neutral Rewriting in Italian: Models, Approaches, and Trade-offs
Andrea Piergentili, Beatrice Savoldi, Matteo Negri +1
Gender-neutral rewriting (GNR) aims to reformulate text to eliminate unnecessary gender specifications while preserving meaning, a particularly challenging task in grammatical-gend…
SPES: Spectrogram Perturbation for Explainable Speech-to-Text Generation
Dennis Fucci, Marco Gaido, Beatrice Savoldi +3
Spurred by the demand for interpretable models, research on eXplainable AI for language technologies has experienced significant growth, with feature attribution methods emerging a…
GFG -- Gender-Fair Generation: A CALAMITA Challenge
Simona Frenda, Andrea Piergentili, Beatrice Savoldi +7
Gender-fair language aims at promoting gender equality by using terms and expressions that include all identities and avoid reinforcing gender stereotypes. Implementing gender-fair…
What the Harm? Quantifying the Tangible Impact of Gender Bias in Machine Translation with a Human-centered Study
Beatrice Savoldi, Sara Papi, Matteo Negri +2
Gender bias in machine translation (MT) is recognized as an issue that can harm people and society. And yet, advancements in the field rarely involve people, the final MT users, or…