Publications

Lorenzo Cima, Alessio Miaschi, Amaury Trujillo, Marco Avvenuti, Felice Dell'Orletta, Stefano Cresci (2025). Contextualized Counterspeech: Strategies for Adaptation, Personalization, and Evaluation. In Proceedings of the Web Conference 2025 (WWW 2025, Sydney, Australia) (upcoming).

Luca Moroni, Giovanni Puccetti, Pere-Lluís Huguet Cabot, Andrei Stefan Bejgu, Alessio Miaschi, Edoardo Barba, Felice Dell'Orletta, Andrea Esuli, Roberto Navigli (2025). Optimizing LLMs for Italian: Reducing Token Fertility and Enhancing Efficiency Through Vocabulary Adaptation. Proceedings of the Findings of the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the ACL (Findings of NAACL 2025, Albuquerque, Nex Mexico) (upcoming).

Michele Papucci, Alessio Miaschi, Felice Dell'Orletta (2024). Fantastic Labels and Where to Find Them: Attention-Based Label Selection for Text-to-Text Classification. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI @ AIxIA 2024).

Cristiano Ciaccio, Felice Dell'Orletta, Alessio Miaschi, Giulia Venturi (2024). Controllable Text Generation To Evaluate Linguistic Abilities of Italian LLMs. In Proceedings of the Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024, Pisa).

Alessio Miaschi, Felice Dell'Orletta, Giulia Venturi (2024). Evaluating Large Language Models via Linguistic Profiling. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2024, Miami, Florida).

Quim Motger, Alessio Miaschi, Felice Dell'Orletta, Xavier Franch, Jordi Marco (2024). Leveraging Large Language Models for Mobile App Review Feature Extraction. arXiv.

Alessio Miaschi, Felice Dell'Orletta, Giulia Venturi (2024). Linguistic Knowledge Can Enhance Encoder-Decoder Models (If You Let It). Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024, Turin).

Quim Motger, Alessio Miaschi, Felice Dell'Orletta, Xavier Franch, Jordi Marco (2024). T-FREX: A Transformer-based Feature Extraction Method for Mobile App Reviews. In Proceedings of The IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) 2024.

Chiara Alzetta, Felice Dell'Orletta, Chiara Fazzone, Alessio Miaschi, Giulia Venturi (2023). Unmasking the Wordsmith: Revealing Author Identity through Reader Reviews. In Proceedings of the Ninth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2023).

Michele Papucci, Alessio Miaschi, Felice Dell'Orletta (2023). Lost in Labels: An Ongoing Quest to Optimize Text-to-Text Label Selection for Classification. In Proceedings of the Ninth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2023).

Chiara Alzetta, Dominique Brunato, Felice Dell'Orletta, Alessio Miaschi, Kenji Sagae, Claudia H. Sánchez-Gutiérrez, Giulia Venturi (2023). LangLearn at EVALITA 2023: Overview of the Language Learning Development Task. In Proceedings of the Eighth Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop (EVALITA 2023).

Chiara Alzetta, Felice Dell'Orletta, Alessio Miaschi, Elena Prat, Giulia Venturi (2023). Tell me how you write and I'll tell you what you read: a study on the writing style of book reviews. Journal of Documentation.

Alessio Miaschi, Chiara Alzetta, Dominique Brunato, Felice Dell'Orletta, Giulia Venturi (2023). Testing the Effectiveness of the Diagnostic Probing Paradigm on Italian Treebanks. Information 2023, Volume 14, Number 3.

Alessio Miaschi, Dominique Brunato, Felice Dell'Orletta, Giulia Venturi (2022). On Robustness and Sensitivity of a Neural Language Model: A Case Study on Italian L1 Learner Errors. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Vol. 31, pages 426-438.

Michele Papucci, Chiara De Nigris, Alessio Miaschi, Felice Dell'Orletta (2022). Evaluating Text-To-Text Framework for Topic and Style Classification of Italian texts. In Proceedings of Sixth Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI @ AIxIA 2022).

Alessio Miaschi, Gabriele Sarti, Dominique Brunato, Felice Dell'Orletta, Giulia Venturi (2022). Probing Linguistic Knowledge in Italian Neural Language Models across Language Varieties. Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics (IJCoL), Vol. 8, N. 1, June 2022, pages 25-44.

Alessio Miaschi, Andrea Amelio Ravelli, Felice Dell'Orletta (2022). Punctuation Restoration in Spoken Italian Transcripts with Transformers. AIxIA 2021 – Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AIxIA 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13196. Springer.

Alessio Miaschi (2022). Tracking Linguistic Abilities in Neural Language Models. PhD Thesis in Computer Science, University of Pisa.

Alessio Miaschi, Chiara Alzetta, Dominique Brunato, Felice Dell'Orletta, Giulia Venturi (2021). Probing Tasks Under Pressure. In Proceedings of the Eighth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2021).

Giorgia Albertin, Alessio Miaschi, Dominique Brunato (2021). On the role of Textual Connectives in Sentence Comprehension: a new Dataset for Italian. In Proceedings of the Eighth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2021).

Alessio Miaschi, Andrea Amelio Ravelli, Felice Dell'Orletta (2021). Evaluating Transformer Models for Punctuation Restoration in Italian. In Proceedings of 5th Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI @ AIxIA 2021).

Alessio Miaschi, Dominique Brunato, Felice Dell'Orletta, Giulia Venturi (2021). What Makes My Model Perplexed? A Linguistic Investigation on Neural Language Models Perplexity. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on DeeLIO (NAACL 2021, Online).

Giovanni Puccetti, Alessio Miaschi, Felice Dell'Orletta (2021). How Do BERT Embeddings Organize Linguistic Knowledge?. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on DeeLIO (NAACL 2021, Online).

Ludovica Pannitto, Lucia Busso, Claudia Roberta Combei, Lucio Messina, Alessio Miaschi, Gabriele Sarti, Malvina Nissim (2021). Teaching NLP with Bracelets and Restaurant Menus: An Interactive Workshop for Italian Students. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Teaching NLP (NAACL 2021, Online).

Lucio Messina, Lucia Busso, Claudia Roberta Combei, Ludovica Pannitto, Alessio Miaschi, Gabriele Sarti, Malvina Nissim (2021). A dissemination workshop for introducing young Italian students to NLP. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Teaching NLP (NAACL 2021, Online).

Alessio Miaschi, Dominique Brunato, Felice Dell'Orletta (2021). A NLP-based stylometric approach for tracking the evolution of L1 written language compentece. Journal of Writing Research (JoWR), Vol. 13, Issue 1, pages 71-105.

Alessio Miaschi, Gabriele Sarti, Dominique Brunato, Felice Dell'Orletta, Giulia Venturi (2020). Italian Transformers Under the Linguistic Lens. In Proceedings of the Seventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2020).

Alessio Miaschi, Chiara Alzetta, Dominique Brunato, Felice Dell'Orletta, Giulia Venturi (2020). Is Neural Language Model Perplexity Related to Readability?. In Proceedings of the Seventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2020).

Chiara Alzetta, Alessio Miaschi, Felice Dell'Orletta, Frosina Koceva, Ilaria Torre (2020). PRELEARN @ EVALITA 2020: Overview of the Prerequisite Relation Learning Task for Italian. In Proceedings of Seventh Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop (EVALITA 2020), Online. CEUR.org.

Lorenzo De Mattei, Graziella De Martino, Andrea Iovine, Alessio Miaschi, Marco Polignano, Giulia Rambelli (2020). ATE_ABSITA @ EVALITA2020: Overview of the Aspect Term Extraction and Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis Task. In Proceedings of the 7th evaluation campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech tools for Italian (EVALITA 2020), Online. CEUR.org.

Alessio Miaschi, Dominique Brunato, Felice Dell'Orletta, Giulia Venturi (2020). Linguistic Profiling of a Neural Language Model. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2020, Online) [Outstanding Paper for COLING 2020].

Alessio Miaschi, Sam Davidson, Dominique Brunato, Felice Dell'Orletta, Kenji Sagae, Claudia Helena Sanchez-Gutierrez, Giulia Venturi (2020). Tracking the Evolution of Written Language Competence in L2 Spanish Learners. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (ACL 2020, Online).

Alessio Miaschi, Felice Dell'Orletta (2020). Contextual and Non-Contextual Word Embeddings: an in-depth Linguistic Investigation. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (ACL 2020, Online).

Chiara Alzetta, Alessio Miaschi, Giovanni Adorni, Felice Dell'Orletta, Frosina Koceva, Samuele Passalacqua, Ilaria Torre (2019). Prerequisite or Not Prerequisite? That's the problem! An NLP-based Approach for Concept Prerequisite Learning. In Proceedings of the Sixth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2019, Bari).

Alessio Miaschi, Chiara Alzetta, Franco Alberto Cardillo, Felice Dell'Orletta (2019). Linguistically-Driven Strategy for Concept Prerequisites Learning on Italian. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (ACL 2019, Florence).

Chiara Alzetta, Dominique Brunato, Andrea Cimino, Felice Dell'Orletta, Alessio Miaschi, Simonetta Montemagni, Valeria Quochi, Giulia Venturi (2019). Trattamento Automatico della Lingua per la creazione di percorsi didattici personalizzati. In Proceedings of Ital-IA 2019 (Rome).

Enrica Salvatori, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco, Chiara Alzetta, Chiara Di Pietro, Chiara Mannari, Alessio Miaschi (2017). Il Codice Pelavicino tra edizione digitale e Public History. Umanistica Digitale 1.1.

Giuseppe Attardi, Laura Gorrieri, Alessio Miaschi, Ruggero Petrolito (2015). Deep learning for social sensing from tweets. In Proceedings of the Second Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2015, Trento).

Enrica Salvatori, Emilio Riccardini, Laura Balletto, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco, Chiara Alzetta, Chiara Di Pietro, Chiara Mannari, Raffaele Masotti, Alessio Miaschi (2015). Codice Pelavicino. Edizione Digitale.