Language Technology @ FBK 2026
26th of November 2026
26th of November 2026
The Language Technology Research Highlights 2026 event aims to bring together scientists, students, practitioners, and enthusiasts interested in language technologies and the latest research achievements at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (and not only).
This one-day event will take place at FBK’s Santa Croce premises in Via Santa Croce 77, Trento, on 26 November 2026. The programme will feature two invited speakers, two oral, one poster and two demo sessions showcasing research by FBK researchers, and one poster session featuring researchers from outside FBK. Presentations will cover research published at leading language technology venues, such as EMNLP, ACL, and TACL, as well as ongoing activities.
Free registration through Eventbrite is required to attend in person (link available soon)
Marco Turchi (Head of the Machine Translation group at Zoom)
Antonella De Angeli (Professor of Human-Computer Interaction by Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
09.00 - 09.15
Opening by Paolo Traverso and Luisa Bentivogli
09.15 - 10.00
Keynote talk 1: Marco Turchi - Head of the Machine Translation group at Zoom
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 - 12.00
Oral Session 1: Understanding, Benchmarking and Improving Language and Multimodal Models
12.00 - 13.00
Poster and Demo Session 1
13.00 - 14.00
Lunch
14.00 - 14.45
Keynote talk 2: Antonella De Angeli - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
14.45 - 16.15
Oral Session 2: Human-Centred LT: Evaluation, Interaction and Social Applications
16.15 - 17.15
(External) Poster and Demo Session 2 AND Coffee break
17.15 - 17.30
Closing remarks