Luisa Bentivogli

Luisa Bentivogli heads the Machine Translation Group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK). From 2008 to 2013 she was assigned to the Centre for the Evaluation of Language and Communication Technologies (CELCT), first as Research Manager with the role of coordinating the activities of the centre (2008-2012), then as Director of the centre (2012-2013).

Her research interests include the evaluation and analysis of Machine Translation (MT) and Speech Translation (ST) systems, creation and annotation of multilingual resources, translation technologies for translators, crowdsourcing for natural language processing, and computational lexicography in a multilingual environment. Her current focus is on creating multilingual resources for speech translation (ST) and on assessing and mitigating gender bias in MT and ST, for which she recently won an Amazon Research Award.