NAACL 2021 Workshop Papers

4 papers accepted at NAACL 2021 workshops!

• ‘What Makes My Model Perplexed? A Linguistic Investigation on Neural Language Models Perplexity’ (with Dominique Brunato, Felice Dell’Orletta and Giulia Venturi): We studied how the linguistic structure of a sentence affects the perplexity of BERT and GPT-2 models (accepted at DeeLIO 2021).
• ‘How Do BERT Embeddings Organize Linguistic Knowledge?' (with Giovanni Puccetti e Felice Dell’Orletta): We proposed a study, based on Lasso regression, to understand how the information encoded by BERT sentence-level representations is arrange within its hidden units (accepted at DeeLIO 2021).
• ‘Teaching NLP with Bracelets and Restaurant Menus: An Interactive Workshop for Italian Students’ (with Ludovica Pannitto, Lucia Busso, Claudia Roberta Combei, Lucio Messina, Gabriele Sarti e Malvina Nissim): We illustrated an interactive workshop designed to delinate the basic principles of NLP and computational linguistics to high school Italian students aged between 13 and 18 years (accepted at Teaching NLP 2021).
• ‘A dissemination workshop for introducing young Italian students to NLP’ (with Lucio Messina, Lucia Busso, Claudia Roberta Combei, Ludovica Pannitto, Gabriele Sarti e Malvina Nissim): We described and made available the game-based material developed for the laboratory mentioned in ‘A dissemination workshop for introducing young Italian students to NLP’ (accepted at Teaching NLP 2021).