Will do 🫡

Looking ahead to 2025, my goal is to keep the momentum and build on this year’s lessons: being more intentional about time management, becoming a better collaborator, and and carving out time for deep, focused work.

The rest of the year was spent on testing new things, new collaborations, reading and reviewing papers, and traveling around for conferences. No doubt this has been the year where I learned the most so far, and 99% of the learning happened because I had access to some amazing (and patient) people.

I also developed a demo showcasing gender-neutral translation with LLMs, which I had the chance to present at FBK’s Digital Industry Center Demo Day. Unfortunately the demo is not open to the public for now, but here is a photo of @bsavoldi.bsky.social and me presenting it ✌️

Two key resources enabled the research progress we made this year: GeNTE (2023) and Neo-GATE (2024). They are benchmarks for the conservative and the innovative approach respectively and are both freely available on Hugging Face:

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My research topic is gender-inclusive MT, and this year we explored two directions: the "conservative" one with gender-neutral translation and the "innovative" one, using neomorphemes (like ə and *, in Italian). I worked on papers published at venues ranging from top conferences to local workshops.