At the conference EMNLP 2024 two prestigious Best Social Impact Paper Awards were presented:
Twists, Humps, and Pebbles: Multilingual Speech Recognition Models Exhibit Gender Performance Gaps
Authors: Giuseppe Attanasio (Instituto de Telecomunicações), Beatrice Savoldi (FBK), Dennis Fucci (FBK), Dirk Hovy (Bocconi)
What the Harm? Quantifying the Tangible Impact of Gender Bias in Machine Translation with a Human-centered Study
Authors: Beatrice Savoldi (FBK), Sara Papi (FBK), Matteo Negri (FBK), Ana Guerberof Arenas (University of Groningen), Luisa Bentivogli (FBK)