Alice Suozzi
2025
BAMBI Goes to School: Evaluating Italian BabyLMs with Invalsi-ITA
Luca Capone | Alice Suozzi | Gianluca Lebani | Alessandro Lenci
Proceedings of the Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025)
Luca Capone | Alice Suozzi | Gianluca Lebani | Alessandro Lenci
Proceedings of the Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025)
Language Models and the Magic of Metaphor: A Comparative Evaluation with Human Judgments
Simone Mazzoli | Alice Suozzi | Gianluca Lebani
Proceedings of the Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025)
Simone Mazzoli | Alice Suozzi | Gianluca Lebani
Proceedings of the Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025)
2024
BaBIEs: A Benchmark for the Linguistic Evaluation of Italian Baby Language Models
Luca Capone | Alice Suozzi | Gianluca Lebani | Alessandro Lenci
Proceedings of the Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024)
Luca Capone | Alice Suozzi | Gianluca Lebani | Alessandro Lenci
Proceedings of the Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024)
The possibility of comparing the linguistic competence of Language Models (LMs) to that of children has gained growing attention lately, raising the need for effective tools for evaluating both the former and the latter. To this purpose, we developed a resource for the linguistic evaluation of BabyLMs, which are LMs trained on datasets that comparable to the linguistic stimulus received by children. This resource adapts four standardized tests for the evaluation of linguistic skills of Italian-speaking children (BVL, TROG-2, TCGB-2 and Peabody). To verify the effectiveness of our benchmark, we administered it to Minerva, a LLM pretrained from scratch on Italian. Our results indicate that Minerva struggles to master certain linguistic aspects, achieving an age-equivalent score of 4 years, and that the type of task administered affects the model’s performance.