Angelo Montanari
Author directory2026
Fixing FOLIO and MALLS: Verified Annotations and an LLM-assisted Framework to Focus Human Relabeling
Andrea Brunello | Cristian Curaba | Luca Geatti | Michele Mignani | Angelo Montanari | Nicola Saccomanno
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Andrea Brunello | Cristian Curaba | Luca Geatti | Michele Mignani | Angelo Montanari | Nicola Saccomanno
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Accurate translation from Natural Language to First-Order Logic (NL-to-FOL) underpins neurosymbolic AI systems and Natural Language Inference (NLI), making the quality of NL-to-FOL benchmarks essential—yet these datasets have never been rigorously audited. Our first contribution is to present a systematic human inspection of the validation split of and a subset of test instances, finding that approximately 42.5% and 42% of entries, respectively, contain incorrect FOL formalizations (i.e., ground truth labels), with additional rates of ambiguous NL sentences (17.8% and 51%) and incorrect NLI labels in (8.4%). Our second contribution is to develop and release corrected ground truths for such datasets, showing that annotation errors distort model evaluation on a reference benchmark task: testing three state-of-the-art LLMs (Gemma 4 31B-it, Qwen3-30B-A3B, and GPT-4o-mini) with the corrected ground truths yields accuracy gains from +11 to +23 percentage points. Motivated by these findings, we propose an LLM based framework to support humans in manual reviewing NL-to-FOL datasets. By directing reviewers toward the most error-prone instances, we empirically show that it is possible to achieve 90% dataset accuracy after reviewing fewer than 20% of instances, compared to over 76% required by unguided review. We release all human-verified annotations and the code for our framework.
Natural Language to First-Order Logic LLM-based Autoformalization
Andrea Brunello | Cristian Curaba | Luca Geatti | Michele Mignani | Angelo Montanari | Nicola Saccomanno
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Andrea Brunello | Cristian Curaba | Luca Geatti | Michele Mignani | Angelo Montanari | Nicola Saccomanno
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Large Language Models (LLMs) have renewed interest in autoformalization. Yet, when First-Order Logic (FOL) is considered as the target formalism, the field still lacks a unified task formulation and a systematic survey. This paper addresses this gap: we first provide a principled definition for the FOL-autoformalization task by distinguishing Ontology Extraction from Logical Translation, showing how their conflation obscures (cross-study) evaluation; we review existing datasets, evaluation metrics, and LLM-based methods, including fine-tuning, prompting, and verification-based refinement; we identify open challenges in benchmarking, semantic evaluation, ontology-aware methods, and end-to-end applications.