Language Resources and Evaluation
- Francesca Grasso and Luigi Di Caro. A methodology for large-scale, disambiguated and unbiased lexical knowledge acquisition based on multilingual word alignment
- Teresa Paccosi, Alessio Palmero Aprosio and Sara Tonelli. It is MarkIT That is New: An Italian Treebank of Marked Constructions
- Giorgia Albertin, Alessio Miaschi and Dominique Brunato. On the role of Textual Connectives in Sentence Comprehension: a new Dataset for Italian
- Silvia Terragni and Elisabetta Fersini. OCTIS 2.0: Optimizing and Comparing Topic Models in Italian is even Simpler!
- Tiziano Labruna and Bernardo Magnini. From Cambridge to Pisa: a Journey into Cross-lingual Dialogue Domain Adaptation for Conversational Agents
- Silvia Casola and Alberto Lavelli. WITS: Wikipedia for Italian Text Summarization
- Katerina Papantoniou, Panagiotis Papadakos, Giorgos Flouris and Dimitris Plexousakis. Linguistic Cues of Deception in a Multilingual April Fools’ Day Context
- Francesca Masini, Simone Mattiola and Stefano Dei Rossi. The ListTyp Database
- Veronica Juliana Schmalz, Jennifer-Carmen Frey and Egon Stemle. Introducing a gold standard corpus from young multilinguals for the evaluation of automatic UD-PoS taggers for Italian
- Martina Di Bratto, Riccardo Orrico, Ancuta Budeanu, Marta Maffia and Loredana Schettino. Do you have any recommendation? An annotation system for the Seekers’ strategies in Recommendation Dialogues
- Fabio Celli, Mirko Lai, Armend Duzha, Cristina Bosco and Viviana Patti. Policycorpus XL: an Italian Corpus for the detection of Hate Speech Against Politics
- Akshay Aggarwal and Chiara Alzetta. Atypical or Under–Represented? A Pilot Study on Small Treebanks
Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing for the Humanities
- Francesco Grotto, Rachele Sprugnoli, Margherita Fantoli, Maria Simi, Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini and Marco Passarotti. The Annotation of Liber Abaci, a Domain-Specific Latin Resource
- Rachele Sprugnoli, Francesco Mambrini, Marco Passarotti and Giovanni Moretti. Sentiment Analysis of Latin Poetry: First Experiments on the Odes of Horace
- Aldo Cerulli, Dominique Brunato and Felice Dell’Orletta. Quale testo è scritto meglio? A study on Italian native speakers’ perception of writing quality
- Daniele Puccinelli, Silvia Demartini and Pier Luigi Ferrari. Tackling Italian University Assessment Tests with Transformer-Based Language Models
- Lavinia Aparaschivei, Lionel Nicolas and Alberto Barrón-Cedeño. Are Crescia and Piadina the same? Towards Identifying Synonymy or non-Synonymy between Italian words to Enable Crowdsourcing from Language Learners
Information Extraction, Information Retrieval and Question Answering
- Seyed Mahed Mousavi, Roberto Negro and Giuseppe Riccardi. An Unsupervised Approach to Extract Life-Events from Personal Narratives in the Mental Health Domain
- Andrea Zugarini and Marco Ernandes. A Multi-Strategy Approach to Crossword Clue Answer Retrieval and Ranking
- Emiliano Giovannetti, Davide Albanesi, Andrea Bellandi, Simone Marchi, Mafalda Papini and Flavia Sciolette. The Role of a Computational Lexicon for Query Expansion in Full-Text Search
- Gennaro Nolano, Mohammad Fazleh Elahi, Maria Pia Di Buono, Basil Ell and Philipp Cimiano. An Italian Question Answering System based on grammars automatically generated from ontology lexica
- Lucia Siciliani, Pierluigi Cassotti, Pierpaolo Basile, Marco de Gemmis, Pasquale Lops and Giovanni Semeraro. Extracting Relations from Italian Wikipedia using Self-Training
Computational Social Science and Social Media
- Komal Florio, Valerio Basile and Viviana Patti. Hate Speech and Topic Shift in the Covid-19 Public Discourse on Social Media in Italy
- Gosse Minnema, Sara Gemelli, Chiara Zanchi, Viviana Patti, Tommaso Caselli and Malvina Nissim. Frame Semantics for Social NLP in Italian: Analyzing Responsibility Framing in Femicide News Reports
- Elisabetta Fersini, Luca Rosato, Antonio Candelieri, Francesco Archetti and Enza Messina. Deep Learning Representations in Automatic Misogyny Identification:What Do We Gain and What Do We Miss?
- Pierluigi Cassotti, Andrea Iovine, Pierpaolo Basile, Marco De Gemmis and Giovanni Semeraro. Emerging trends in gender-specific occupational titles in Italian Newspapers
- Alessandra Teresa Cignarella, Mirko Lai, Andrea Marra and Manuela Sanguinetti. “La ministro è incinta”: A Twitter account of Women’s Job Titles in Italian
Dialogue, Discourse and Natural Language Generation
- Samuel Louvan, Silvia Casola and Bernardo Magnini. Investigating Continued pretraining for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Spoken Language Understanding
- Lennert Jansen, Arabella Sinclair, Margot J. van der Goot, Raquel Fernández and Sandro Pezzelle. Detecting Age-Related Linguistic Patterns in Dialogue: Toward Adaptive Conversational Systems
- Anna Dall’Acqua and Fabio Tamburini. Implementing a Pragmatically Adequate Chatbot in DialogFlow CX
- Martina Di Bratto, Maria Di Maro, Antonio Origlia and Francesco Cutugno. Dialogue analysis with graph databases: characterising domain items usage for movie recommendations
Spoken Language Processing and Automatic Speech Understanding
- Roberta Bianca Luzietti, Niccolò Pretto, Frédéric Kaplan, Alain Dufaux and Sergio Canazza. FONTI 4.0: evaluating speech-to-text automatic transcription of digitized historical oral sources
- Fabio Tamburini. Playing with NeMo for building an Automatic Speech Recogniser for Italian
Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
- Maria De Martino and Annalisa Colella. La semplificazione dei testi dei notiziari televisivi per persone con disturbi cognitivi acquisiti: uno studio pilota
Linguistic Issues in CL and NLP
- Cristiano Chesi. A common algorithm for parsing and generation with expectation-based Minimalist Grammars (e-MGs)
- Emma Romani, Valerio Gattero and Elisabetta Jezek. T-PAS Scraper: an Application for Linguistic Data Extraction and Analysis
- Viviana Ventura and Elisabetta Jezek. ConteCorpus: an analysis of people response to institutional communications during the pandemic
- Guido Rocchietti, Flavia Achena, Giuseppe Marziano, Sara Salaris and Alessandro Lenci. FANCY: A diagnostic data-set for NLI models
- Agnese Lombardi and Alessandro Lenci. Agentività e telicità in GilBERTo: Implicazioni cognitive
Machine Learning for NLP
- Alessio Miaschi, Chiara Alzetta, Felice Dell’Orletta, Giulia Venturi and Dominique Brunato. Probing Tasks Under Pressure
- Veronica Juliana Schmalz and Alessio Brutti. Automatic assessment of English CEFR levels using BERT embeddings
- Leonardo Ranaldi, Michele Mastromattei, Dario Onorati, Elena Sofia Ruzzetti, Francesca Fallucchi and Fabio Massimo Zanzotto. KERMIT for Sentiment Analysis in Italian Healthcare Reviews
Machine Translation and Multilingualism
- Sara Papi, Matteo Negri and Marco Turchi. Visualization: the missing factor in Simultaneous Speech Translation
- Mauro Cettolo, Roldano Cattoni and Marco Turchi. On the Development of Customized Neural Machine Translation Models
Morphology and Syntax Processing
- Luca Anselma, Dario Ferrero and Alessandro Mazzei. Natural Language Queries for the Mediterranean Diet Domain
Pragmatics and Creativity
- Tolulope Ògúnrẹ̀mí, Nazanin Sabri, Valerio Basile and Tommaso Caselli. Leveraging Bias in Pre-trained Word Embeddings for Unsupervised Microaggression Detection
Research and Industrial NLP Applications
- Simona Frenda, Alessandra Teresa Cignarella, Marco Antonio Stranisci, Mirko Lai, Cristina Bosco and Viviana Patti. Recognizing Hate with NLP: The teaching experience of the #DeactivHate lab in Italian High Schools
- Samuel Fabrizi, Maria Iacono, Andrea Tesei and Lorenzo De Mattei. A First Step Towards Automatic Consolidation of Legal Acts: reliable Classification of Textual Modifications
- Luca Di Liello, Olga Uryupina and Alessandro Moschitti. Language Transfer for Identifying Diagnostic Paragraphs in Clinical Notes
- Maria Iacono, Laura Rossi, Paolo Dangelo, Andrea Tesei and Lorenzo De Mattei. An Obligations Extraction system for Heterogeneous Legal Documents: Building and Evaluating Data and Model
- Teresa Paccosi and Alessio Palmero Aprosio. REDIT: a Tool and Dataset for Extraction of Personal Data in Documents of the Public Administration Domain
- Vorakit Vorakitphan, Elena Cabrio and Serena Villata. PROTECT – A Pipeline for Propaganda Detection and Classification
- Irene Dini, Felice Dell’Orletta, Fabio Ferri, Biancamaria Gismondi and Simonetta Montemagni. Trattamento Automatico della Lingua a Supporto dell’Editoria: Primi Esperimenti con il Devoto-Oli Junior
Semantics, Knowledge Representation
- Francesco Mambrini, Eleonora Litta, Marco Passarotti and Paolo Ruffolo. Linking the Lewis & Short Dictionary to the LiLa Knowledge Base of Interoperable Linguistic Resources for Latin
- Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Marco Marelli and Carlo Reverberi. Moving from human ratings to word vectors to classify people with focal dementias: are we there yet?
- Rocco Tripodi. How Contextualized Word Embeddings Represent Word Senses
Vision, Robotics, Multimodal and Grounding
- Danilo Croce, Lucia C. Passaro, Alessandro Lenci and Roberto Basili. GQA-it: Italian Question Answering on Image Scene Graphs
- Andrea Amelio Ravelli, Andrea Cimino and Felice Dell’Orletta. Audience Engagement Prediction in Guided Tours through Multimodal Features
Research Communication - Beatrice Savoldi, Marco Gaido, Luisa Bentivogli, Matteo Negri and Marco Turchi. Gender Bias in Machine Translation
- Ignazio Mauro Mirto. Measuring meaning
- Andrea Tagarelli and Andrea Simeri. LamBERTa: Law article mining based on BERT architecture for the Italian Civil Code
- Mario Giulianelli, Arabella Sinclair and Raquel Fernández. Analysing Human Strategies of Information Transmission as a Function of Discourse Context
- Paolo Pedinotti, Giulia Rambelli, Emmanuele Chersoni, Enrico Santus, Alessandro Lenci and Philippe Blache. Did the Cat Drink the Coffee? Challenging Transformers with Generalized Event Knowledge
- Paolo Pedinotti, Eliana Di Palma, Ludovica Cerini and Alessandro Lenci. A howling success or a working sea? Testing what BERT knows about metaphors
- Federico Frau, Luca Bischetti, Federica Cuoco, Giulia Agostoni, Roberto Cavallaro, Margherita Bechi, Mariachiara Buonocore, Jacopo Sapienza, Marta Bosia and Valentina Bambini. Can language detect different clinical profiles in schizophrenia? A semi-automated analysis on Italian-speaking patients
- Silvia Terragni. Cross-lingual Contextualized Topic Models with Zero-shot Learning
- Endang Wahyu Pamungkas, Valerio Basile and Viviana Patti. A Joint Learning Approach with Knowledge Injection for Zero-shot Cross-lingual Hate Speech Detection
- Margherita Fanton, Helena Bonaldi, Serra Sinem Tekiroğlu and Marco Guerini. Human-in-the-Loop for Data Collection: a Multi-Target Counter Narrative Dataset to Fight Online Hate Speech