Beatrice Savoldi
Researcher
I am a researcher in the MT Unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy.
My research interests mainly lie at the intersection of language, computation and society within the field of Natural Language Processing, and on the social and ethical implications of language technologies. I have primarily focused on cross-lingual and multilingual tasks such as machine translation, for both speech and text. I am also deeply interested in understanding how people use language technologies in their everyday lives, and how to best measure their impact on lay users with human-centered approaches.
In June 2023, I obtained my International Ph.D. (summa cum laude) from the University of Trento and Augsburg making contributions to the study of gender bias and inclusivty in speech and machine translation (thesis).
I am an organizer of the Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT) and Mind the AI-GAP: Co-Designing SocioTechnical Systems (AI-GAP). I am also co-organizing the Speech Instruction-Following shared task at IWSLT.
I am passionate about interdisciplinary work, activities and dissemination.
news
| Jan 08, 2026 | 📄 New preprint on our course Practising responsibility: Ethics in NLP as a hands-on course is out! |
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| Dec 10, 2025 | 👥 We are organizing the 4th edition of the GITT Workshop at EAMT 2026, Tilburg (NL) |
| Dec 04, 2025 | 📄 New preprint Generative AI Practices, Literacy, and Divides: An Empirical Analysis in the Italian Context is out! |
| Nov 22, 2025 |  I obtained the ASN (Italy’s National Scientific Habilitation) for Associate Professor in CS (01/B1). |
| Nov 04, 2025 | At EMNLP presenting two papers on gender-neutral translation and human-centered MT |
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achievements
| 2025 | ASN (Italy’s National Scientific Habilitation) for Associate Professor in CS (01/B1). |
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| 2024 | 🎖️ Two Social Impact Awards at EMNLP. Our papers What the Harm? Quantifying the Tangible Impact of Gender Bias in Machine Translation with a Human-centered Study and Twists, Humps, and Pebbles: Multilingual Speech Recognition Models Exhibit Gender Performance Gaps received two Social Impact Awards (out of 3 assigned)! |
| 2024 | 🎖️ Trentino Prize for Young Researchers awarded by the Province of Trento for my research on gender inclusive language technologies |
| 2023 | 🎖️ Best PhD Thesis to my PhD work on Gender Bias in Automatic Translation awarded by the University of Augsburg Foundation |
| 2020 | 🎖️ Outstanding Paper at COLING awarded to our paper Breeding Gender-aware Direct Speech Translation Systems |