Greta H. Franzini
2026
South Tyrolean Dialect-to-Standard Speech Translation: A Resource
Greta H. Franzini | Luca Ducceschi
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Dialects in NLP — A Resource Perspective
Greta H. Franzini | Luca Ducceschi
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Dialects in NLP — A Resource Perspective
This paper presents a developing oral resource for South Tyrolean, a German dialect spoken in Northern Italy. The dialect is ubiquitous in spoken communication but lacks a standardised orthography. In this context, strict transcription into dialect is of limited to no utility to the local community. Instead, there is a distinct and strong demand for technology capable of directly translating spoken dialect into Standard German. To address this specific need, we introduce a dynamic, incrementally growing dataset designed to fine-tune ASR models for this translation task. Our corpus aggregates diverse sources, including media and research interviews, totalling over 13 hours of aligned audio. We describe a collaborative workflow where community partners contribute audio archives in exchange for automated transcriptions, creating a virtuous cycle of data improvement. Additionally, we detail our iterative model fine-tuning strategy, data collection challenges and the resulting improvements in model performance.
2023
bot.zen at LangLearn: regressing towards interpretability (short paper)
Egon W. Stemle | Martina Tebaldini | Francesca Bonanni | Filippo Pellegrino | Paolo Brasolin | Greta H. Franzini | Jennifer-Carmen Frey | Olga Lopopolo | Stefania Spina
Proceedings of the Eighth Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop (EVALITA 2023)
Egon W. Stemle | Martina Tebaldini | Francesca Bonanni | Filippo Pellegrino | Paolo Brasolin | Greta H. Franzini | Jennifer-Carmen Frey | Olga Lopopolo | Stefania Spina
Proceedings of the Eighth Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop (EVALITA 2023)