Venue: Centre Broca
Special PhD seminar in the frame of the « Girls and Women in Science Day.
Programme
10:00 – NeuroPIC Seminar – Beatrice Savoldi
Beatrice Savoldi
Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
https://bsavoldi.github.io/
Language Technologies, Gender and Society
Abstract:
Language technologies have become an integral part of everyday life, mediating how we communicate, work, and access information. Yet, these systems are far from neutral: they reflect and at times amplify social biases and inequalities, including those related to gender. Widely used applications such as machine translation can reproduce stereotypes and struggle to generate feminine and inclusive linguistic forms, raising important questions about their social and cultural impact. With the rapid adoption of large, multilingual, and general-purpose language models, these issues now affect an ever-growing and increasingly diverse population of users and contexts. Drawing on my research and personal reflections, this talk explores the role of gender in natural language processing (NLP), examining how language technologies shape—and are shaped by—societal norms and interactions. I discuss how NLP systems can impact society and how they can, in turn, be leveraged for society.
Biosketch:
Beatrice Savoldi is a researcher in the Machine Translation Unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy. Her research lies at the intersection of language, computation, and society within the field of Natural Language Processing, with a particular focus on the social and ethical implications of language technologies. She has primarily worked on cross-lingual and multilingual tasks, including machine translation for both speech and text, and is deeply interested in understanding how people interact with language technologies in their everyday lives using human-centered approaches. In June 2023, she received her International Ph.D. from the University of Trento and Augsburg, making significant contributions to the study of gender bias and inclusivity in speech and machine translation. She has received multiple recognitions for her research, including the 2024 Trentino Prize for Young Researchers awarded by the Province of Trento for her work on gender-inclusive language technologies, two Social Impact Awards at EMNLP 2024, and an Outstanding Paper Award at COLING 2020. She is also active in the community, serving as an organizer of the Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT) and Mind the AI-GAP: Co-Designing Socio-Technical Systems (AI-GAP).
10:50 – Coffee break
11:30 – Announcement of the laureate of the Marian Diamond Prize
11:35 – PhD seminar – Pr. Christelle Jozet-Alves
Pr. Christelle Jozet-Alves
Univ. Caen, France
Invited by Florence Pontais (INCIA)
12:30 – Pizza lunch between PhD Students and post docs and the speakers. On registration.
Meet the speakers!
You are a research staff ? Write to Julia Goncalves who will organize the schedule.
You are a PhD student? You can register to share some pizza after the talks. Registrations are open.
Co-organized by NBA, Bordeaux Neurocampus, the Bordeaux Neurocampus Graduate Program and the NeuroPIC (Neurocampus Parity and Inclusion committee)
