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# Massimo Piccardi

Massimo Piccardi has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Inigo Jauregi Unanue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/inigo-jauregi-unanue/).

2 papers in our library · 2026

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5080014791) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9250-6604) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82894163) · [**h-index 32**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5080014791) · [267 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5080014791) · [8,578 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5080014791&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/massimo-piccardi/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 13 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/massimo-piccardi/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #12128](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/122/#star-12128)

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Massimo+Piccardi) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Massimo+Piccardi) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Massimo+Piccardi) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Massimo+Piccardi)

## Affiliations

[🎓**University of Technology Sydney** Sydney · Australia 2002–2026 · 181 papersEmployment since 2002*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-technology-sydney/) · [🎓**University of Ferrara** Ferrara · Italy 1995–2003 · 27 papers](https://ror.org/041zkgm14) · [🎓**University of Bologna** Bologna · Italy 1995–2002 · 4 papersEducation until 1991 · Laurea Degree in Electronic Engineering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-bologna/)

🏛️**Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR)** Bologna · [Italy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/italy/) 1995Education until 1995 · PhD in Computer Engineering

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

## Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Signal Processing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/signal-processing/)

🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Speech & spoken language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/massimo-piccardi/year/2026/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Attribute-Controlled Translation with Preference Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/unanue-2026-attribute-controlled-translation-preference-optimization/)** *(2026)* Attribute-controlled translation (ACT) asks a system to translate accurately while also respecting a requested property of the output, such as formality or grammatical gender.
2. **[ViMedCSS: A Vietnamese Medical Code-Switching Speech Dataset & Benchmark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nguyen-2026-vimedcss-vietnamese-medical-code-switching/)** *(2026)* Vietnamese clinicians often drop English terms such as drug names, procedures and biomarkers into otherwise Vietnamese speech.

## All works

3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. **[BERTTune: Fine-Tuning Neural Machine Translation with BERTScore ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-short.115/) Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers) · no summary yet**Inigo Jauregi Unanue, Jacob Parnell, Massimo Piccardi*2021 · 14 citations*
2. **[Attribute-Controlled Translation with Preference Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/unanue-2026-attribute-controlled-translation-preference-optimization/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Inigo Jauregi Unanue, Najmeh Sadoughi, Vimal Bhat, et al.*2026*
3. **[ViMedCSS: A Vietnamese Medical Code-Switching Speech Dataset & Benchmark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nguyen-2026-vimedcss-vietnamese-medical-code-switching/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Tung X. Nguyen, Nhu Vo, Giang-Son Nguyen, et al.*2026*

## Co-authors here

1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Inigo Jauregi Unanue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/inigo-jauregi-unanue/) ×2

## Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

- [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/)
- [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2026/)
- Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 13 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/massimo-piccardi/cited-by/).

Updated 1 November 2026
