Alessio Miaschi

Full-time researcher (RTD) in Natural Language Processing

ItaliaNLP Lab (CNR-ILC)

Biography

I am a full-time researcher (RTD) at the ItaliaNLP Lab, Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli” (CNR-ILC, Pisa). In 2022, I received my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Pisa.

My research interests lie primarily in the context of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and in the study of Language Models (LM). I am particularly interested in the interpretability of large-scale LMs and in the evaluation of their internal representations, with a specific emphasis on understanding their inner linguistic abilities. Furthermore, I work in the development of NLP tools tailored for building educational applications.

In my free time, I enjoy going climbing, watching movies, listening to music, and reading books. Additionally, I have a passion for good beers and capturing moments with my analog camera.

Interests

Natural Language Processing
Language Models
Representation Learning
Interpretability for Deep Learning

Education

PhD in Computer Science, 2022

University of Pisa
MSc in Digital Humanities, 2017

University of Pisa
BSc in Digital Humanities, 2015

University of Pisa

Recent Publications

Davide Testa, Giovanni Bonetta, Raffaella Bernardi, Alessandro Bondielli, Alessandro Lenci, Alessio Miaschi, Lucia Passaro, Bernardo Magnini (2025). All-in-one: Understanding and Generation in Multimodal Reasoning with the MAIA Benchmark. Proceedings of the Findings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025, Suzhou, China) (upcoming).

Preprint

Cristiano Ciaccio, Gabriele Sarti, Alessio Miaschi, Felice Dell'Orletta (2025). Crossword Space: Latent Manifold Learning for Italian Crosswords and Beyond. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025, Cagliari) (upcoming).

Davide Testa, Giovanni Bonetta, Raffaella Bernardi, Alessandro Bondielli, Alessandro Lenci, Alessio Miaschi, Lucia Passaro, Bernardo Magnini (2025). MAIA: a Benchmark for Multimodal AI Assessment. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025, Cagliari) (upcoming).

Silvio Calderaro, Alessio Miaschi, Alessio Miaschi (2025). The OuLiBench Benchmark: Formal Constraints as a Lens into LLM Linguistic Competence . In Proceedings of the Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025, Cagliari) (upcoming).

Andrea Pedrotti, Michele Papucci, Cristiano Ciaccio, Alessio Miaschi, Giovanni Puccetti, Felice Dell'Orletta, Andrea Esuli (2025). Stress-testing Machine Generated Text Detection: Shifting Language Models Writing Style to Fool Detectors. Proceedings of the Findings of the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Findings of ACL 2025, Vienna, Austria).

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Teaching & Talks

Teaching

Teaching:

Linguistica Computazionale (Computational Linguistics), MSc Linguistics, University of Padova, a.y. 2022/23 - ongoing
Linguistica Computazionale II (Computational Linguistics II), MSc Digital Humanities, University of Pisa, a.y. 2022/23 - ongoing

Teaching assistant:

Linguistica Computazionale (Computational Linguistics), BSc Digital Humanities, University of Pisa, a.y. 2020/21, 2021/22
Progettazione e programmazione web (Web Design and Programming), BSc Digital Humanities, University of Pisa, a.y. 2018/19, 2019/20

Other courses:

Python per umanisti principianti (Python for beginners), corsi della didattica speciale "Hands on: Strumenti digitali per le DH", May - June, 2021 (Materials).

Thesis supervised/co-supervised:

Silvio Calderaro, OuLiBench: un nuovo framework per testare i Large Language Model attraverso sfide linguistiche sull'italiano, 10/04/2025 (MSc Digital Humanities, University of Pisa).
Elena Scaglione, The explanation game: il ruolo delle spiegazioni nel task di Natural Language Inference, 11/07/2024 (MSc Digital Humanities, University of Pisa).
Cristiano Ciaccio, Lilium lunaris e quadrofono. Large Language Models e Neologia computazionale di neoformazioni lessicali italiane, 15/02/2024 (MSc Digital Humanities, University of Pisa) [Emanuele Pianta Award for the Best Master Thesis @ CLiC-it 2024]

Talks

10/06/2025: Invited talk at the CNR-IVI Workshop on AI Technologies (CNR-ISTI, Pisa) - Linguistic Profiling of Large Language Models (Slides)
07/04/2025: Invited talk at the NLP4RE Workshop (REFSQ 2025 @ Barcelona, Spain) - Evaluating Linguistic Abilities of Neural Language Models (Slides)
20/02/2025: Talk at the FAIR Spoke Workshop 2025 (Sapienza Università di Roma) - Controllable Text Generation for Evaluating LLMs' Linguistic Competence (Slides)
09/12/2024: Invited Talk at the AI Seminar 2024/25 (PhD in Digital Humanities, University of Genova) - Evaluating Linguistic Abilities of Neural Language Models (Slides)
09/06/2023: Invited Talk at the DCP23 Workshop - Opening Large Language Models (Slides)
31/05/2023: Lab at the Lectures on Computational Linguistics 2023 - Explaining Neural Language Models from Internal Representations to Model Predictions (Github Repo)
08/03/2023: Talk at Seminario di Cultura Digitale (Informatica Umanistica, Università di Pisa) - Le risorse linguistiche al tempo delle reti neurali (Slides and Talk)
13/12/2022: Invited Talk at "Ab urbe condata" seminar series organized by KDD Lab - Profiling Neural Language Models
10/11/2022: Talk at ILC Seminars - Profiling a Neural Language Model (Slides)
27/10/2022: Tech Talk at the School of AI (Pi School) 2022 - Interpreting Neural Language Models (Slides and Code)
21/09/2022: Invited Talk at the International Summer School on "Advances in AI" 2022 - Profiling Neural Language Models (Slides)