Sara Papi

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in Computer Science, specifically in Speech Processing, at FBK (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) in the MT Unit. I am interested in Speech Processing in general and its applications, with a particular focus on Speech Translation.
(I love elephants ♥️🐘)
News
Mar 28, 2025 | 🏆 Highly Commended EAMT Best PhD Thesis |
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Nov 28, 2024 | 🏆 Honorable Mention for the Best Italian PhD Thesis at AIxIA |
Nov 14, 2024 | 🏆 Social Impact Paper Award at EMNLP 2024! |
Aug 14, 2024 | 🏆 Outstanding Paper and other Achievement at ACL 2024! |
Aug 07, 2024 | I am presenting 5 papers at ACL 2024! 🎉 |
Apr 18, 2024 | I successfully defended my PhD 🎊 |
Feb 20, 2024 | “How do Hyenas deal with Human Speech? Speech Recognition and Translation with ConfHyena” accepted at LREC-COLING 2024 🎊 |
Dec 16, 2023 | My second Microsoft internship paper was accepted at ICASSP 2024 🎊 |
Nov 28, 2023 | My first Microsoft internship paper was accepted at ASRU 2023 🎊 |
Selected Publications
- EMNLPWhat the Harm? Quantifying the Tangible Impact of Gender Bias in Machine Translation with a Human-centered StudyIn Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Social Impact Paper Award) , Nov 2024
- ACLSpeech TranslationStreamAtt: Direct Streaming Speech-to-Text Translation with Attention-based Audio History SelectionIn , Aug 2024
- ACLSpeech TranslationSpeech Translation with Speech Foundation Models and Large Language Models: What is There and What is Missing?In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (Outstanding Paper and SAC Award) , Aug 2024
- ACLAutomatic SubtitlingSBAAM! Eliminating Transcript Dependency in Automatic SubtitlingIn Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), Aug 2024
- ACLWhen Good and Reproducible Results are a Giant with Feet of Clay: The Importance of Software Quality in NLPIn Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), Aug 2024