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 inclusivity in speech and machine translation.
I am an organizer of the Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT) and Mind the AI-GAP: Co-Designing Socio-Technical 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
| Sep 01, 2026 | 📄 Our paper SPES: Spectrogram Perturbation for Explainable Speech-to-Text Generation was accepted at TACL and will be presented at EMNLP 2026! |
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| Aug 20, 2026 | 📄 Our paper Ouvia: A User-centered Framework for Measuring Usability of Speech Translation in Real-World Communication Scenarios was accepted at EMNLP 2026! |
| Aug 10, 2026 | 📄 New paper Do Language Models Know Their Slang? Queer Slang Understanding in User-Generated Content to be presented at CLiC-it 2026! |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 🗣️ Invited talk at the HYBRIDIS Conference: Disinformation in the Age of AI, Trento. Multilingual Stereotypes in Large Language Models. |
| May 29, 2026 | 🗣️ Guest lecture at the University of Torino: Fair and Human-centered Multilingual Technologies. |
| May 23, 2026 | 📰 Our work on GenAI practices, literacy, and digital divides was featured again in Corriere della Sera! |
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achievements
| 2026 | 🎖️ Best Paper Award awarded to our paper Practising responsibility: Ethics in NLP as a hands-on course at TeachNLP |
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| 2025 |  ASN (Italy’s National Scientific Habilitation) for Associate Professor in CS (01/B1). |
| 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 |