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