Proceedings of the Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025)
Cristina Bosco, Elisabetta Jezek, Marco Polignano, Manuela Sanguinetti (Editors)
- Anthology ID:
- 2025.clicit-1
- Month:
- September
- Year:
- 2025
- Address:
- Cagliari, Italy
- Venue:
- CLiC-it
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- CEUR Workshop Proceedings
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2025.clicit-1/
- DOI:
- ISBN:
- 979-12-243-0587-3
- PDF:
- https://aclanthology.org/2025.clicit-1.pdf
Proceedings of the Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025)
Cristina Bosco
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Elisabetta Jezek
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Marco Polignano
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Manuela Sanguinetti
Preface
Cristina Bosco
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Elisabetta Jezek
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Marco Polignano
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Manuela Sanguinetti
Contemporary Voices in Ancient Tongue: Integrating Papal Encyclicals into the LiLa KB
Aurora Alagni
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Federica Iurescia
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Eleonora Litta
Ellipsis in Enhanced Dependencies: A Case Study on Latin
Lisa Sophie Albertelli
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Lorenzo Augello
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Giulia Calvi
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Annachiara Clementelli
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Federica Iurescia
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Claudia Corbetta
Low- vs High-level Lemmatization for Historical Languages. a Case Study on Italian
Chiara Alzetta
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Simonetta Montemagni
PeRAG: Multi-Modal Perspective-Oriented Verbalization with RAG for Inclusive Decision Making
Muhammad Saad Amin
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Horacio Jesús Jarquín-Vásquez
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Franco Sansonetti
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Simona Lo Giudice
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Valerio Basile
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Viviana Patti
Beyond Raw Text: Knowledge-Augmented Italian Relation Extraction with Large Language Models
Gianmaria Balducci
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Elisabetta Fersini
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Messina Enza
When Figures Speak with Irony: Investigating the Role of Rhetorical Figures in Irony Generation with LLMs
Pier Felice Balestrucci
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Michael Oliverio
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Soda Marem Lo
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Luca Anselma
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Valerio Basile
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Alessandro Mazzei
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Viviana Patti
BLiMP-IT: Harnessing Automatic Minimal Pair Generation for Italian Language Model Evaluation
Matilde Barbini
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Maria Letizia Piccini Bianchessi
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Veronica Bressan
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Achille Fusco
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Sofia Neri
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Sarah Rossi
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Tommaso Sgrizzi
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Cristiano Chesi
Do LLMs Authentically Represent Affective Experiences of People with Disabilities on Social Media?
Marco Bombieri
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Simone Paolo Ponzetto
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Marco Rospocher
LLMs Struggle on Explicit Causality in Italian
Alessandro Bondielli
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Martina Miliani
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Luca Paglione
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Serena Auriemma
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Lucia C. Passaro
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Alessandro Lenci
Sparse Autoencoders Find Partially Interpretable Features in Italian Small Language Models
Alessandro Bondielli
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Lucia C. Passaro
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Alessandro Lenci
A Novel Real-World Dataset of Italian Clinical Notes for NLP-based Decision Support in Low Back Pain Treatment
Agnese Bonfigli
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Ruben Piperno
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Luca Bacco
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Felice Dell’Orletta
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Dominique Brunato
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Filippo Crispino
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Giuseppe Francesco Papalia
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Fabrizio Russo
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Gianluca Vadalà
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Rocco Papalia
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Mario Merone
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Leandro Pecchia
MakeItSample: A Python Library for Generating Typological Language Samples Based on the Diversity Value Metric
Luca Brigada Villa
The OuLiBench Benchmark: Formal Constraints as a Lens into LLM Linguistic Competence
Silvio Calderaro
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Alessio Miaschi
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Felice Dell’Orletta
BES4RAG: A Framework for Embedding Model Selection in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Lorenzo Canale
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Stefano Scotta
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Alberto Messina
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Laura Farinetti
BAMBI Goes to School: Evaluating Italian BabyLMs with Invalsi-ITA
Luca Capone
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Alice Suozzi
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Gianluca Lebani
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Alessandro Lenci
Arbuli Sunnu: A Sicilian-Italian Parallel Treebank
Caterina Maria Cappello
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Sabrina D’Alì
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Mario Guglielmetti
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Elisa Di Nuovo
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Cristina Bosco
A BERT-Based Approach for Part-of-Speech Tagging in the Low-Resource Context of Sardinian
Salvatore Mario Carta
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Filippo Concas
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Gianni Fenu
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Alessandro Giuliani
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Marco Manolo Manca
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Mirko Marras
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Piergiorgio Mura
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Simone Pisano
A Hypothesis-Driven Framework for Detecting Lexical Semantic Change
Pierluigi Cassotti
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Nina Tahmasebi
Balancing Translation Quality and Environmental Impact: Comparing Large and Small Language Models
Antonio Castaldo
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Petra Giommarelli
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Johanna Monti
On the Impact of Hate Speech Synthetic Data on Model Fairness
Camilla Casula
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Sara Tonelli
Classifying Gas Pipe Damage Descriptions in Low-Diversity Corpora
Luca Catalano
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Federico D’Asaro
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Michele Pantaleo
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Minal Jamshed
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Prima Acharjee
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Nicola Giulietti
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Eugenio Fossat
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Giuseppe Rizzo
Knowledge-Grounded Detection of Factual Hallucinations in Large Language Models
Cristian Ceccarelli
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Alessandro Raganato
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Marco Viviani
Benchmarking Historical Phase Recognition from Text and Events
Fabio Celli
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Marco Rovera
Ontology-Guided Domain Entity Recognition in Environmental Texts: Evaluating Syntax-Driven and LLM Approaches Using BabelNet and GEMET
Elisa Chierchiello
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Patricia Chiril
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Adriana Pagano
Crossword Space: Latent Manifold Learning for Italian Crosswords and beyond
Cristiano Ciaccio
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Gabriele Sarti
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Alessio Miaschi
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Felice Dell’Orletta
Veras Audire Et Reddere Voces: A Corpus of Prosodically-Correct Latin Poetic Audio from Large-Language-Model TTS
Michele Ciletti
A Tough Hoe to Row: Instruction Fine-Tuning LLaMA 3.2 for Multilingual Idiom Processing
Debora Ciminari
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Alberto Barrón-Cedeño
Semantic Priming in GPT: Investigating LLMs through a Cognitive Psychology Lens
Filippo Colombi
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Carlo Strapparava
Verso La Valutazione Automatizzata Dell’italiano L2: ETET Tra LLM E Tecnologie Vocali
Anna Vignoli
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Claudia Roberta Combei
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Francesco Zappulla
What Is Better for Syntactic Parsing? A Comparison between Supervised and Unsupervised Models on Dante and Cavalcanti
Claudia Corbetta
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Anna Erminia Colombi
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Giovanni Moretti
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Marco Passarotti
Segmenting Italian Sentences for Easy Reading
Marta Cozzini
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Horacio Saggion
Unveiling Stereotypes: Combining Knowledge Graphs and LLMs for Implied Stereotype Generation
Marco Cuccarini
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Lia Draetta
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Beatrice Fiumanò
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Stefano Bistarelli
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Rossana Damiano
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Valentina Presutti
Detecting Semantic Reuse in Ancient Greek Literature: A Computational Approach
Caterina D’Angelo
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Andrea Taddei
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Alessandro Lenci
WorthIt: Check-worthiness Estimation of Italian Social Media Posts
Agnese Daffara
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Alan Ramponi
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Sara Tonelli
Diffusion-Aided RAG: Elevating Dense-Retrieval Chatbots via Graph-Based Diffusion Reranking
Sai Teja Dampanaboina
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Sai Nishchal Gamini
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Karishma Kunwar
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Marco Polignano
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Marco Levantesi
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Giovanni Semeraro
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Ernesto William De Luca
When Less Is More? Diagnosing ASR Predictions in Sardinian via Layer-Wise Decoding
Domenico De Cristofaro
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Alessandro Vietti
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Marianne Pouplier
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Aleese Block
Meta-evaluation of Automatic Machine Translation Metrics between Italian and a Minor Language Variety of German
Paolo Di Natale
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Elena Chiocchetti
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Egon Waldemar Stemle
Linking Emotions: Affective and Lexical Resources for Italian in Linked Open Data
Eliana Di Palma
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Valerio Basile
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Agnese Vardanega
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Giuliano Gabrieli
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Marco Vassallo
Dissonant Ballerinas and Crafty Carrots: A Comparative Multi-modal Analysis of Italian Brain Rot
Anca Dinu
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Andra-Maria Florescu
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Marius Micluța-Câmpeanu
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Ștefana Arina Tăbușcă
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Claudiu Creangă
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Andreiana Mihail
The Role of Eye-Tracking Data in Encoder-Based Models: An In-depth Linguistic Analysis
Lucia Domenichelli
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Luca Dini
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Dominique Brunato
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Felice Dell’Orletta
Seeing Cause and Time: A Visually Grounded Evaluation of Multimodal Models
Salvatore Ergoli
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Alessandro Bondielli
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Alessandro Lenci
Mapping Meaning in Latin with Large Language Models: A Multi-Task Evaluation of Preverbed Motion Verbs and Spatial Relation Detection in LLMs
Andrea Farina
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Andrea Ballatore
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Barbara McGillivray
MAMITA: Benchmarking Misogyny in Italian Memes
Elisabetta Fersini
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Francesca Gasparini
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Giulia Rizzi
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Aurora Saibene
LEARN: On the Feasibility of Learner Error AutoRegressive Neural Annotation
Paolo Gajo
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Daniele Polizzi
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Adriano Ferraresi
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Alberto Barrón-Cedeño
The Meaning of Beatus: Disambiguating Latin with Contemporary AI Models
Eleonora Ghizzota
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Pierpaolo Basile
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Lucia Siciliani
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Giovanni Semeraro
LLMike: Exploring Large Language Models’ Abilities in Wheel of Fortune Riddles
Ejdis Gjinika
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Nicola Arici
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Andrea Loreggia
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Luca Putelli
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Ivan Serina
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Alfonso Emilio Gerevini
Bidirectional Emotional Influence in Human-LLM Interaction: Empirical Analysis and Methodological Framework
Manuel Gozzi
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Francesca Fallucchi
A Multilingual Investigation of Anthropocentrism in GPT-4O
Francesca Grasso
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Stefano Locci
Surprisal and Crossword Clues Difficulty: Evaluating Linguistic Processing between LLMs and Humans
Tommaso Iaquinta
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Asya Zanollo
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Achille Fusco
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Kamyar Zeinalipour
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Cristiano Chesi
AI-Driven Resume Analysis and Enhancement Using Semantic Modeling and Large Language Feedback Loops
Achal Jagadeesh
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Chinmayi Ravi Shankar
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Sahithya Narayanaswamy Patel
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Marco Levantesi
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Giovanni Semeraro
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Ernesto William De Luca
DIETA: A Decoder-only Transformer-based Model for Italian-English Machine TrAnslation
Pranav Kasela
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Marco Braga
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Alessandro Ghiotto
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Andrea Pilzer
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Marco Viviani
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Alessandro Raganato
Positional Bias in Binary Question Answering: How Uncertainty Shapes Model Preferences
Tiziano Labruna
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Simone Gallo
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Giovanni Da San Martino
Is It Still a Village? Tracing Grammaticalization with Word Embeddings
Joseph E. Larson
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Patrícia Amaral
MedBench-IT: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models on Italian Medical Entrance Examinations
Ruggero Marino Lazzaroni
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Alessandro Angioi
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Michelangelo Puliga
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Davide Sanna
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Roberto Marras
MuLTa-Telegram: A Fine-Grained Italian and Polish Dataset for Hate Speech and Target Detection
Elisa Leonardelli
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Camilla Casula
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Sebastiano Vecellio Salto
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Joanna Ewa Bak
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Elisa Muratore
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Anna Kołos
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Thomas Louf
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Sara Tonelli
Linking CompL-it to the LiITA Knowledge Base
Eleonora Litta
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Marco Passarotti
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Giovanni Moretti
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Paolo Brasolin
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Francesco Mambrini
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Valerio Basile
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Andrea Di Fabio
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Eliana Di Palma
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Emiliano Giovannetti
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Simone Marchi
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Andrea Bellandi
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Flavia Sciolette
Subjectivity in Stereotypes against Migrants in Italian: An Experimental Annotation Procedure
Soda Marem Lo
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Marco Antonio Stranisci
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Alessandra Teresa Cignarella
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Simona Frenda
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Valerio Basile
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Elisabetta Jezek
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Viviana Patti
Doing Things with Words: Rethinking Theory of Mind Simulation in Large Language Models
Agnese Lombardi
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Alessandro Lenci
BeaverTails-IT: Towards a Safety Benchmark for Evaluating Italian Large Language Models
Giuseppe Magazzù
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Alberto Sormani
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Giulia Rizzi
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Francesca Pulerà
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Daniel Scalena
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Stefano Cariddi
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Edoardo Michielon
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Marco Pasqualini
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Claudio Stamile
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Elisabetta Fersini
A Leaderboard for Benchmarking LLMs on Italian
Bernardo Magnini
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Marco Madeddu
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Michele Resta
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Roberto Zanoli
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Martin Cimmino
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Paolo Albano
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Viviana Patti
Towards the Semi-Automated Population of the Ancient Greek WordNet
Beatrice Marchesi
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Annachiara Clementelli
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Andrea Maurizio Mammarella
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Silvia Zampetta
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Erica Biagetti
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Luca Brigada Villa
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Virginia Mastellari
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Riccardo Ginevra
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Claudia Roberta Combei
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Chiara Zanchi
Evaluating Large Language Models on Wikipedia Graph Navigation: Insights from the WikiGame
Daniele Margiotta
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Danilo Croce
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Roberto Basili
Linguistic Markers of Population Replacement Conspiracy Theories in YouTube Immigration Discourse
Erik Bran Marino
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Davide Bassi
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Renata Vieira
Exploring the Adaptability of Large Speech Models to Non-Verbal Vocalization Task
Juan José Márquez Villacís
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Federico D’Asaro
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Giuseppe Rizzo
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Andrea Bottino
Strategic Conversations: LLMs Argumentation and User Perception in Movie Recommendation Dialogues
Valeria Mauro
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Martina Di Bratto
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Valentina Russo
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Azzurra Mancini
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Marco Grazioso
Uni-Mate: A Retrieval-Augmented Generation System to Provide High School Students with Accurate Academic Guidance
Samuele Mazzei
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Lorenzo Zambotto
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Gabriele Tealdo
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Alberto Macagno
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Alessio Palmero Aprosio
Language Models and the Magic of Metaphor: A Comparative Evaluation with Human Judgments
Simone Mazzoli
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Alice Suozzi
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Gianluca Lebani
Easy to Complete, Hard to Choose: Investigating LLM Performance on the ProverbIT Benchmark
Enrico Mensa
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Lorenzo Zane
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Calogero Jerik Scozzaro
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Matteo Delsanto
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Tommaso Milani
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Daniele P. Radicioni
Mamma Mia! Where’s My Name? De-Identifying Italian Clinical Notes with Large Language Models
Michele Miranda
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Sébastien Bratières
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Stefano Patarnello
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Livia Lilli
Sustainable Italian LLM Evaluation: Community Perspectives and Methodological Guidelines
Luca Moroni
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Gianmarco Pappacoda
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Edoardo Barba
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Simone Conia
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Andrea Galassi
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Bernardo Magnini
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Roberto Navigli
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Paolo Torroni
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Roberto Zanoli
What We Learned from Continually Training Minerva: A Case Study on Italian
Luca Moroni
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Tommaso Bonomo
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Luca Gioffré
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Lu Xu
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Domenico Fedele
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Leonardo Colosi
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Andrei Stefan Bejgu
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Alessandro Scirè
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Roberto Navigli
Automatic GRI-SDG Annotation and LLM-Based Filtering for Sustainability Reports
Seyed Alireza Mousavian Anaraki
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Danilo Croce
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Roberto Basili
Benchmarking Large Language Models for Target-Based Financial Sentiment Analysis
Iftikhar Muhammad
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Marco Rospocher
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Timotej Knez
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Slavko Žitnik
Is Multimodality Still Required for Multimodal Machine Translation? A Case Study on English and Italian
Elio Musacchio
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Lucia Siciliani
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Pierpaolo Basile
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Giovanni Semeraro
Extending Italian Large Language Models for Vision-language Tasks
Elio Musacchio
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Lucia Siciliani
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Pierpaolo Basile
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Asia Beatrice Uboldi
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Giovanni Germani
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Giovanni Semeraro
Probing Feminist Representations: A Study of Bias in LLMs and Word Embeddings
Arianna Muti
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Elisa Bassignana
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Emanuele Moscato
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Debora Nozza
Multilingual vs. Monolingual Transformer Models in Encoding Linguistic Structure and Lexical Abstraction
Vivi Nastase
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Giuseppe Samo
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Chunyang Jiang
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Paola Merlo
Direct and Indirect Interpretations of Speech Acts: Evidence from Human Judgments and Large Language Models
Massimiliano Orsini
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Dominique Brunato
Narrative Conflicts: A Tri-Modal Computational Analysis of Antagonism in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Aylin Özkan
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İrem Ertaş
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Mehmet Can Yavuz
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Lucia Cascone
FAMA: The First Large-Scale Open-Science Speech Foundation Model for English and Italian
Sara Papi
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Marco Gaido
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Luisa Bentivogli
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Alessio Brutti
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Mauro Cettolo
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Roberto Gretter
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Marco Matassoni
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Mohamed Nabih Ali Mohamed Nawar
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Matteo Negri
Generating and Evaluating Multi-Level Text Simplification: A Case Study on Italian
Michele Papucci
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Giulia Venturi
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Felice Dell’Orletta
Analyzing Femicide Reactions in YouTube Comments: A Comparative Study of Giulia Cecchettin and Carol Maltesi
Sveva Silvia Pasini
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Marco Madeddu
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Chiara Ferrando
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Chiara Zanchi
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Viviana Patti
Gender-Neutral Rewriting in Italian: Models, Approaches, and Trade-offs
Andrea Piergentili
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Beatrice Savoldi
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Matteo Negri
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Luisa Bentivogli
Doctor, Is That You? Evaluating Large Language Models on Italy’s Medical School Entrance Exams
Ruben Piperno
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Agnese Bonfigli
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Felice Dell’Orletta
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Leandro Pecchia
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Mario Merone
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Luca Bacco
A Modular LLM-based Dialog System for Accessible Exploration of Finite State Automata
Stefano Vittorio Porta
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Pier Felice Balestrucci
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Michael Oliverio
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Luca Anselma
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Alessandro Mazzei
Leveraging LLMs to Build a Semi-synthetic Dataset for Legal Information Retrieval: A Case Study on the Italian Civil Code and GPT4-O
Mattia Proietti
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Lucia C. Passaro
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Alessandro Lenci
No Longer Left Behind: Self-training Reasoning Models in Italian
Federico Ranaldi
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Leonardo Ranaldi
Evaluating Models, Prompting Strategies, and Task Formats: A Case Study on the MACID Challenge
Matteo Rinaldi
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Rossella Varvara
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Lorenzo Gregori
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Andrea Amelio Ravelli
Gender Violence in Numbers: Prompting Italian LLMs to Characterize Crimes against Women
Giulia Rizzi
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Daniel Scalena
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Elisabetta Fersini
Uncovering Unsafety Traits in Italian Language Models
Giulia Rizzi
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Giuseppe Magazzù
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Alberto Sormani
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Francesca Pulerà
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Daniel Scalena
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Elisabetta Fersini
Can LLMs Help Recollect and Elaborate on Our Personal Experiences?
Gabriel Roccabruna
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Olha Khomyn
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Michele Yin
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Giuseppe Riccardi
IMB: An Italian Medical Benchmark for Question Answering
Antonio Romano
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Giuseppe Riccio
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Mariano Barone
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Marco Postiglione
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Vincenzo Moscato
Acquisition in Babies and Machines: Comparing the Learning Trajectories of LMs in Terms of Syntactic Structures (ATTracTSS Test Set)
Sarah Rossi
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Guido Formichi
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Sofia Neri
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Tommaso Sgrizzi
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Asya Zanollo
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Veronica Bressan
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Cristiano Chesi
Context-Aware Search Space Adaptation of Hyperparameters and Architectures for AutoML in Text Classification
Parisa Safikhani
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David Broneske
Evaluating Linguistic Speaker Profiles on Response Selection in Multi-Party Dialogue
Maryam Sajedinia
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Seyed Mahed Mousavi
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Valerio Basile
MLLMs Construction Company: Investigating Multimodal LLMs’ Communicative Skills in a Collaborative Building Task
Marika Sarzotti
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Giovanni Duca
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Chris Madge
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Raffaella Bernardi
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Massimo Poesio
Toward Optimised Datasets to Fine-tune ASR Systems Leveraging Less but More Informative Speech
Loredana Schettino
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Vincenzo Norman Vitale
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Alessandro Vietti
Using End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognizers’ Internals to Model Disfluencies in Italian Patients with Early-stage Parkinson’s Disease
Loredana Schettino
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Vincenzo Norman Vitale
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Marta Maffia
Structural Sensitivity Does Not Entail Grammaticality: Assessing LLMs against the Universal Functional Hierarchy
Tommaso Sgrizzi
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Asya Zanollo
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Cristiano Chesi
Evaluation of Italian and English Small Language Models for Domain-based QA in Low-Resource Scenario
Irene Siragusa
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Roberto Pirrone
Annotating Manzoni: Challenges in the Annotation of Lemmas, POS and Features in “I Promessi Sposi”
Rachele Sprugnoli
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Arianna Redaelli
Ciallabacialla! Modeling and Linking a Regional Lexical Resource to Include Sicilian in the Semantic Web
Rachele Sprugnoli
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Giovanni Moretti
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Domenico Giuseppe Muscianisi
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Eleonora Litta
Curated Data Does Not Mean Representative Data When Training Large Language Models: An Experiment Using Representative Data for Italian
Fabio Tamburini
BABILong-ITA: A New Benchmark for Testing Large Language Models Effective Context Length and a Context Extension Method
Fabio Tamburini
MAIA: A Benchmark for Multimodal AI Assessment
Davide Testa
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Giovanni Bonetta
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Raffaella Bernardi
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Alessandro Bondielli
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Alessandro Lenci
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Alessio Miaschi
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Lucia C. Passaro
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Bernardo Magnini
Building It-tok: An Italian TikTok Corpus
Luisa Troncone
Protecting the Privacy in Velvet with Model Editing
Giancarlo A. Xompero
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Elena Sofia Ruzzetti
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Cristina Giannone
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Andrea Favalli
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Raniero Romagnoli
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Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
“I Understand, but...”: Towards a Comprehensive Account of the Explainee’s Voice in Explanatory Dialogues
Andrea Zaninello
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Petar Bodlovic
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Marcin Lewinski
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Bernardo Magnini
PharmaER.IT: An Italian Dataset for Entity Recognition in the Pharmaceutical Domain
Andrea Zugarini
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Leonardo Rigutini