2025

October

Charting a Decade of Computational Linguistics in Italy: The CLiC-it Corpus

Lesson at the Autumn School in AI, PhD in Digital Humanities (Università di Genova)

All-in-one: Understanding and Generation in Multimodal Reasoning with the MAIA Benchmark

September

Best Student Paper Award @ CLiC-it 2025

Crossword Space: Latent Manifold Learning for Italian Crosswords and Beyond [🏆 Best Student Paper Award 🏆]

MAIA: a Benchmark for Multimodal AI Assessment

The OuLiBench Benchmark: Formal Constraints as a Lens into LLM Linguistic Competence

LM4DH @ RANLP 2025 Invited Talk

Cruciverb-IT (Shared task at EVALITA 2026)

CLiC-it 2025 Papers

August

Cruciverb-IT @ EVALITA 2026

EMNLP 2025 Findings Paper

July

Beyond the Spelling Miracle: Investigating Substring Awareness in Character-Blind Language Models

Evaluating Lexical Proficiency in Neural Language Models

Stress-testing Machine Generated Text Detection: Shifting Language Models Writing Style to Fool Detectors

Co-organizing EVALITA 2026

June

Parallel Trees: a novel resource with aligned dependency and constituency syntactic representations

May

LLMs Anatomy Course

ACL 2025 Papers

April

Optimizing LLMs for Italian: Reducing Token Fertility and Enhancing Efficiency Through Vocabulary Adaptation

Leveraging encoder-only large language models for mobile app review feature extraction

Invited Talk at NLP4RE @ REFSQ 2025 (Barcelona, Spain)

Contextualized Counterspeech: Strategies for Adaptation, Personalization, and Evaluation

February

Talk at FAIR Spoke Workshop 2025

January

NAACL 2025 Findings Paper

WWW 2025 Paper

2024

December

Controllable Text Generation To Evaluate Linguistic Abilities of Italian LLMs

Talk at AI Seminars 2024/25

November

Fantastic Labels and Where to Find Them: Attention-Based Label Selection for Text-to-Text Classification

Evaluating Large Language Models via Linguistic Profiling

LLM Profiling Data

October

CLiC-it 2024 Paper

NL4AI 2024 Paper

September

EMNLP 2024 Paper

June

New Position

May

Linguistic Knowledge Can Enhance Encoder-Decoder Models (If You Let It)

Linguistically Informed T5

March

T-FREX: A Transformer-based Feature Extraction Method for Mobile App Reviews

February

LREC-COLING 2024 Paper

January

Premio di ricerca “Dino Buzzetti” 2023

2023

December

SANER 2024 Paper

November

Lost in Labels: An Ongoing Quest to Optimize Text-to-Text Label Selection for Classification

Unmasking the Wordsmith: Revealing Author Identity through Reader Reviews

October

Lab @ Bright Night 2023

September

LANGLEARN @ EVALITA 2023

LangLearn at EVALITA 2023: Overview of the Language Learning Development Task

June

Journal of Documentation 2023

Tell me how you write and I’ll tell you what you read: a study on the writing style of book reviews

Talk at DCP23

May

XNLM Lab

Lab @ Lectures on Computational Linguistics 2023

February

Information 2023, Volume 14, Number 3

Testing the Effectiveness of the Diagnostic Probing Paradigm on Italian Treebanks

2022

October

CLiC-it 2023 Papers

December

LangLearn (Shared task at EVALITA 2023)

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

On Robustness and Sensitivity of a Neural Language Model: A Case Study on Italian L1 Learner Errors

November

NL4AI 2022 (AIxIA) Paper

Evaluating Text-To-Text Framework for Topic and Style Classification of Italian texts

October

Tech Talk

September

Summer School - Advances in AI

July

Probing Linguistic Knowledge in Italian Neural Language Models across Language Varieties

Punctuation Restoration in Spoken Italian Transcripts with Transformers

May

PhD Thesis Defense

Tracking Linguistic Abilities in Neural Language Models

2021

December

On the role of Textual Connectives in Sentence Comprehension: a new Dataset for Italian

Probing Tasks Under Pressure

November

NL4AI 2021 (AIxIA) Paper

Evaluating Transformer Models for Punctuation Restoration in Italian

October

GPT-Dante

CLiC-it 2021 Papers

May

Python for Beginners

A dissemination workshop for introducing young Italian students to NLP

How Do BERT Embeddings Organize Linguistic Knowledge?

Teaching NLP with Bracelets and Restaurant Menus: An Interactive Workshop for Italian Students

What Makes My Model Perplexed? A Linguistic Investigation on Neural Language Models Perplexity

April

Science Web Festival Workshop

NAACL 2021 Workshop Papers

Journal of Writing Research (JoWR) Paper

A NLP-based stylometric approach for tracking the evolution of L1 written language compentece

2020

December

ATE_ABSITA @ EVALITA2020: Overview of the Aspect Term Extraction and Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis Task

Is Neural Language Model Perplexity Related to Readability?

Italian Transformers Under the Linguistic Lens

PRELEARN @ EVALITA 2020: Overview of the Prerequisite Relation Learning Task for Italian

COLING 2020 Outstanding Paper Award

October

CLiC-it 2020 Papers

September

COLING 2020 Paper

June

Linguistic Profiling of a Neural Language Model [🏆 Outstanding Paper Award 🏆]

Contextual and Non-Contextual Word Embeddings: an in-depth Linguistic Investigation

Tracking the Evolution of Written Language Competence in L2 Spanish Learners

May

BEA-2020 Paper

RepL4NLP-2020 Paper

March

Shared tasks at EVALITA 2020

2019

November

Prerequisite or Not Prerequisite? That’s the problem! An NLP-based Approach for Concept Prerequisite Learning

PhD Giveback Event

August

Linguistically-Driven Strategy for Concept Prerequisites Learning on Italian

March

Trattamento Automatico della Lingua per la creazione di percorsi didattici personalizzati

2017

December

Deep learning for social sensing from tweets

October

Il Codice Pelavicino tra edizione digitale e Public History

1970

January

PRELEARN @ EVALITA 2020

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