Deep learning researcher with expertise in speech processing, natural language processing, and multimodal learning.
Assistant Professor (RTD-A) at Kore University of Enna, Italy.
Design and implementation of an active learning algorithm for optimizing the trade-off between label cost and model accuracy in semi-automatic dataset annotation.
La Quatra, M., Koudounas, A., Vaiani, L., Baralis, E., Cagliero, L., Garza, P., & Siniscalchi, S.M. (2024).Benchmarking Representations for Speech, Music, and Acoustic Events.ICASSPW 2024. arXiv
Koudounas, A., La Quatra, M., Siniscalchi, S.M., & Baralis, E. (2025).voc2vec: A Foundation Model for Non-Verbal Vocalization.ICASSP 2025.
La Quatra, M., Orozco-Arroyave, J.R., & Siniscalchi, S.M. (2025).Bilingual Dual-Head Deep Model for Parkinson's Disease Detection from Speech.ICASSP 2025.
La Quatra, M., Koudounas, A., Salerno, V.M., & Siniscalchi, S.M. (2025).Exploring Generative Error Correction for Dysarthric Speech Recognition.INTERSPEECH 2025.
Koudounas, A., La Quatra, M., Vaiani, L., et al. (2023).ITALIC: An Italian Intent Classification Dataset.INTERSPEECH 2023.
Language & Multimodal
La Quatra, M., Gallipoli, G., & Cagliero, L. (2024).Self-supervised Text Style Transfer using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks.ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 15(5).
La Quatra, M., Cagliero, L., Baralis, E., Messina, A., & Montagnuolo, M. (2021).Summarize Dates First: A Paradigm Shift in Timeline Summarization.ACM SIGIR 2021.
Greco, S., La Quatra, M., Cagliero, L., & Cerquitelli, T. (2025).Towards AI-Assisted Inclusive Language Writing in Italian Formal Communications.ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 16(4).
La Quatra, M., Vaiani, L., Koudounas, A., Cagliero, L., Garza, P., & Baralis, E. (2022).How Much Attention Should We Pay to Mosquitoes?ACM MM 2022.
Vaiani, L., La Quatra, M., Cagliero, L., & Garza, P. (2022).ViPER: Video-Based Perceiver for Emotion Recognition.ACM MM 2022 (MuSe Workshop).