December 04

09:30 – 12:30 Tutorial: You are What You Eat: Processing Data for Training and Evaluating LLMs (Giovanni Bonetta, Bernardo Magnini)

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:30 Opening Session

14:30 – 15:30 Oral Presentations

• Leonardo Ranaldi, Giulia Pucci and Fabio Massimo Zanzotto. When the order Matters: Analysis of the Role of Sequence Composition on Language Model Pre-Training
• Achille Fusco, Matilde Barbini, Maria Letizia Piccini Bianchessi, Veronica Bressan, Sofia Neri, Sarah Rossi, Tommaso Sgrizzi and Cristiano Chesi. Recurrent Networks are (Linguistically) Better? An (Ongoing) Experiment on Small-LM training on Child-Directed Speech in Italian
• Daniele Licari, Canio Benedetto, Praveen Bushipaka, Alessandro De Gregorio, Marco De Leonardis and Tommaso Cucinotta. A Novel Multi-Step Prompt Approach for LLM-based Q&As on Banking Supervisory Regulation
• Sofia Lugli and Carlo Strapparava. Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Metaphor Generation

15:30 – 16:30 Poster Session + Coffe Break

• Antonio Scaiella, Stefano Costanzo, Elisa Passone, Danilo Croce and Giorgio Gambosi. Leveraging Large Language Models for Fact Verification in Italian
• Bernardo Magnini and Roberto Zanoli. Understanding High-complexity Technical Documents with State-of-Art Models
• Daniel Scalena, Elisabetta Fersini and Malvina Nissim. A gentle push funziona benissimo: making instructed models in Italian via contrastive activation steering
• Luca Simonetti, Elisabetta Jezek and Guido Vetere. Subcategorization of Italian Verbs with LLMs and T-PAS
• Dario Onorati, Davide Venditti, Elena Sofia Ruzzetti, Federico Ranaldi, Leonardo Ranaldi and Fabio Massimo Zanzotto. Measuring bias in Instruction-Following models with ItaP-AT for the Italian Language
• Giulio Leonardi, Dominique Brunato and Felice Dell’Orletta. Hits or Misses? A Linguistically Explainable Formula for Fanfiction Success
• Jérémie Cabessa, Hugo Hernault and Umer Mushtaq. Argument Mining in BioMedicine: Zero-Shot, In-Context Learning and Fine-tuning with LLMs
• Muhammad Saad Amin, Luca Anselma and Alessandro Mazzei. Data Augmentation for Low-Resource Italian NLP: Enhancing Semantic Processing with DRS
• Gaia Caligiore, Raffaele Mineo, Concetto Spampinato, Egidio Ragonese, Simone Palazzo and sabina fontana. Multisource Approaches to Italian Sign Language (LIS) Recognition: Insights from the MultiMedaLIS Dataset
• Laura Occhipinti. Introducing MultiLS-IT: A Dataset for Lexical Simplification in Italian
• Irene Fioravanti, luciana forti and Stefania Spina. Automatic Error Detection: Comparing AI vs. Human Performance on L2 Italian Texts
• Viola Gullace, David Kletz, Thierry Poibeau, Alessandro Lenci and Pascal Amsili. The Self-Contained Italian Negation Test (SCIN)
• Alessandro Lento, Andrea Nadalini, Nadia Khlif, vito pirrelli, Claudia Marzi and Marcello Ferro. Comparative Evaluation of Computational Models Predicting Eye Fixation Patterns During Reading: Insights from Transformers and Simpler Architectures
• Francesca Chiusaroli, Federico Sangati, Johanna Monti, Maria Laura Pierucci and Tiberio Uricchio. Emojilingo: Harnessing AI to Translate Words into Emojis
• Lorenzo Bocchi and Alessio Palmero Aprosio. Title is (Not) All You Need for EuroVoc Multi-Label Classification of European Laws
• Giorgia Albertin and Elena Martinelli. Exploring the Use of Cohesive Devices in Dementia within an Elderly Italian Semi-spontaneous Speech Corpus
• Marco Vassallo, Giuliano Gabrieli, Valerio Basile and Cristina Bosco. Neutral Score Detection in Lexicon-based Sentiment Analysis: the Quartile-based Approach
• Hamit Kavas, Marc Serra-Vidal and Leo Wanner. Enhancing Job Posting Classification with Multilingual Embeddings and Large Language Models
• Alessandro Giaconia, Valeria Chiariello and Marco Carlo Passarotti. Topic modeling for auditing purposes in the banking sector
• Pierluigi Cassotti, Pierpaolo Basile and Nina Tahmasebi. DWUGs-IT: Extending and Standardizing Lexical Semantic Change Detection for Italian
• Yuri Noviello and Fabio Tamburini. Exploring Text-Embedding Retrieval Models for the Italian Language
• Roberto Basile Giannini, Antonio Origlia and Maria Di Maro. Taking decisions in a Hybrid Conversational AI architecture using Influence Diagrams
• Giovanni Valer, Nicolò Penzo and Jacopo Staiano. Nesciun Lengaz Lascià Endò: Machine Translation for Fassa Ladin
• Eleonora Delfino, Roberta Leotta, Marco Passarotti and Giovanni Moretti. Building CorefLat. A linguistic resource for coreference and anaphora resolution in Latin
• Marco Russodivito, Vittorio Ganfi, Giuliana Fiorentino and Rocco Oliveto. AI vs. Human: Effectiveness of LLMs in Simplifying Italian Administrative Documents
• Eliana Di Palma. ELIta: A New Italian Language Resource for Emotion Analysis
• Giada Palmieri and Konstantinos Kogkalidis. Nominal Class Assignment in Swahili: A Computational Account
• Rachele Sprugnoli and Arianna Redaelli. Annotation and Detection of Emotion Polarity in “I Promessi Sposi”: Dataset and Experiments

16:30 – 17:30 Interview (Oliviero Stock, Nicoletta Calzolari)

17:30 – 18:30 Oral Presentations

• Ilaria Chizzoni and Alessandro Vietti. Towards an ASR system for documenting endangered languages: a preliminary study on Sardinian
• Alessandro Vietti, Domenico De Cristofaro and Picciau Sara. Sensitivity of Syllable-Based ASR Predictions to Token Frequency and Lexical Stress
• Shibingfeng Zhang, Gloria Gagliardi and Fabio Tamburini. Voice Activity Detection on Italian Language
• Vincenzo Norman Vitale, Loredana Schettino and Francesco Cutugno. Modelling filled particles and prolongation using end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition systems: a quantitative and qualitative analysis.

19:30 – 21:30 Welcome Drink

December 05

09:00 – 10:00 Oral Presentations

• Giulia Calvi, Riccardo Ginevra and Federica Iurescia. Combining Universal Dependencies and FrameNet to identify constructions in a poetic corpus: syntax and semantics of Latin felix and infelix in Virgilian poetics
• Fabio Celli and Valerio Basile. History Repeats: Historical Phase Recognition from Short Texts
• Teresa Paccosi and Sara Tonelli. Benchmarking the Semantics of Taste: Towards the Automatic Extraction of Gustatory Language
• Arianna Redaelli and Rachele Sprugnoli. Is Sentence Splitting a Solved Task? Experiments to the Intersection Between NLP and Italian Linguistics

10:00 – 11:00 Poster session (Research Communication) + Coffe Break

• Helena Bonaldi, Yi-Ling Chung, Gavin Abercrombie and Marco Guerini. NLP for Counterspeech against Hate: A Survey and How-To Guide
• Beatrice Savoldi, Andrea Piergentili, Dennis Fucci, Matteo Negri and Luisa Bentivogli. Guys or Folks? Toward Gender-Neutral Machine Translation
• Liviu P. Dinu, Ana Sabina Uban, Alina Maria Cristea, Anca Dinu, Ioan-Bogdan Iordache, Simona Georgescu and Laurentiu Zoicas. RoBoCoP: A Comprehensive ROmance BOrrowing COgnate Package and Benchmark for Multilingual Cognate Identification
• Stefano Perrella, Lorenzo Proietti, Alessandro Scirè, Edoardo Barba and Roberto Navigli. Guardians of the Machine Translation Meta-Evaluation: Sentinel Metrics Fall In!
• Daniela Occhipinti, Michele Marchi, Irene Mondella, Huiyuan Lai, Felice Dell’Orletta, Malvina Nissim and Marco Guerini. Fine-tuning with HED-IT: The impact of human post-editing for dialogical language models
• Alan Ramponi. Language Varieties of Italy: Technology Challenges and Opportunities
• Muhammad Saad Amin, Luca Anselma and Alessandro Mazzei. Exploring Data Augmentation in Neural DRS-to-Text Generation
• Gabriele Sarti, Grzegorz Chrupała, Malvina Nissim and Arianna Bisazza. Quantifying the Plausibility of Context Reliance in Neural Machine Translation
• Gabriele Sarti, Nils Feldhus, Ludwig Sickert, Oskar van der Wal, Malvina Nissim and Arianna Bisazza. Inseq: An Interpretability Toolkit for Sequence Generation Models
• Silvia Casola, Simona Frenda, Soda Marem Lo, Erhan Sezerer, Antonio Uva, Valerio Basile, Cristina Bosco, Alessandro Pedrani, Chiara Rubagotti, Viviana Patti and Davide Bernardi. MultiPICo: Multilingual Perspectivist Irony Corpus
• Elisa Di Nuovo, Manuela Sanguinetti, Pier Felice Balestrucci, Cristian Bernareggi, Luca Anselma and Alessandro Mazzei. Educational Dialogue Systems for Visually Impaired Students: Introducing a Task-Oriented User-Agent Corpus
• Pierluigi Cassotti, Stefano De Pascale and Nina Tahmasebi. Using Synchronic Definitions and Semantic Relations to Classify Semantic Change Types
• Giulia Rambelli, Emmanuele Chersoni, Claudia Collacciani and marianna bolognesi. Can Large Language Models Interpret Noun-Noun Compounds? A Linguistically-Motivated Study on Lexicalized and Novel Compounds
• Giuliano Martinelli, Edoardo Barba and Roberto Navigli. Maverick: Efficient and Accurate Coreference Resolution Defying Recent Trends
• Alessandro Scirè, Karim Ghonim and Roberto Navigli. FENICE: Factuality Evaluation of summarization based on Natural Language Inference and Claim Extraction
• Giulia Rizzi, Francesca Gasparini, Aurora Saibene, Paolo Rosso and Elisabetta Fersini. Recognizing Misogynous Memes: Biased Models and Tricky Archetypes
• Leonardo Ranaldi and Giulia Pucci. Reasoning Beyond English in Large Language Models
• Andrei Stefan Bejgu, Edoardo Barba, Luigi Procopio, Alberte Fernández-Castro and Roberto Navigli. Word Sense Linking: Disambiguating Outside the Sandbox
• Daniel Russo, Shane Kaszefski-Yaschuk, Jacopo Staiano and Marco Guerini. Countering Misinformation via Emotional Response Generation

11:00 – 12:00 Invited Talk: Meaning and grammar in parallel architecture for language processing (Giosuè Baggio)

12:00 – 13:30 Oral Presentations

• Nicolò Donati, Matteo Periani, Paolo Di Natale, Giuseppe Savino and Paolo Torroni. Generation and Evaluation of English Grammar Multiple-Choice Cloze Exercises
• Daniel Russo, Oscar Araque and Marco Guerini. To Click it or not to Click it: An Italian Dataset for Neutralising Clickbait Headlines
• Lorenzo Bocchi, Camilla Casula and Alessio Palmero Aprosio. KEVLAR: the Complete Resource for EuroVoc Classification of Legal Documents
• Chiara Alzetta, Felice Dell’Orletta, Chiara Fazzone and Giulia Venturi. SimilEx: the First Italian Dataset for Sentence Similarity with Natural Language Explanations
• Luca Capone, Alice Suozzi, Gianluca Lebani and Alessandro Lenci.. BaBIEs: A Benchmark for the Linguistic Evaluation of Italian Baby Language Models
• Martina Saccomando, Andrea Zaninello and Francesca Masini. Morphological vs. Lexical Antonyms in Italian: a Computational Study on Lexical Competition

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 16:30 Oral Presentations

• Fabio Tamburini. Complexifying BERT using LoRA Adapters
• Natalia Graziuso, Andrea Zugarini and Stefano Melacci. Task-Incremental Learning on Long Text Sequences
• Gabriele Sarti, Tommaso Caselli, Malvina Nissim and Arianna Bisazza. Non Verbis, Sed Rebus: Large Language Models are Weak Solvers of Italian Rebuses
• Lia Draetta, Chiara Ferrando, Marco Cuccarini, Liam James and Viviana Patti. ReCLAIM Project: Exploring Italian Slurs Reappropriation with Large Language Models
• Riccardo Orlando, Luca Moroni, ‪Pere-Lluís Huguet Cabot, Simone Conia, Edoardo Barba, Sergio Orlandini, Giuseppe Fiameni and Roberto Navigli. Minerva LLMs: The First Family of Large Language Models Trained from Scratch on Italian Data
• Luca Moroni, Simone Conia, Federico Martelli and Roberto Navigli. Towards a More Comprehensive Evaluation for Italian LLMs
• Kamyar Zeinalipour, Achille Fusco, Asya Zanollo, Marco Maggini and Marco Gori. Harnessing LLMs for Educational Content-Driven Italian Crossword Generation
• Claudiu Daniel Hromei, Danilo Croce, Rodolfo Delmonte and Roberto Basili. La non canonica l’hai studiata? Exploring LLMs and Sentence Canonicity in Italian

16:30 – 17:30 Poster Session + Coffe Break

• Claudia Corbetta, Giovanni Moretti and Marco Passarotti. Join Together? Combining Data to Parse Italian Texts
• Dennis Fucci, Beatrice Savoldi, Marco Gaido, Matteo Negri, Mauro Cettolo and Luisa Bentivogli. Explainability for Speech Models: On the Challenges of Acoustic Feature Selection
• Vittoria Tonini, Simona Frenda, Marco Antonio Stranisci and Viviana Patti. How do we counter hate speech in Italy?
• Alessio Cascione, Aldo Cerulli, Marta Marchiori Manerba and Lucia C. Passaro. Women’s Professions and Targeted Misogyny Online
• Anna Colli, Diego Rossini and Delphine BATTISTELLI. A modal sense classifier for the French modal verb pouvoir
• Elena Sofia Ruzzetti, Federico Ranaldi, Dario Onorati, Davide Venditti, Leonardo Ranaldi, Tommaso Caselli and Fabio Massimo Zanzotto. Assessing the Asymmetric Behaviour of Italian Large Language Models across Different Syntactic Structures
• luca capone, Serena Auriemma, Martina Miliani, Alessandro Bondielli and Alessandro Lenci. Lost in Disambiguation: How Instruction-Tuned LLMs Master Lexical Ambiguity
• Elio Musacchio, Lucia Siciliani, Pierpaolo Basile, Edoardo Michielon, Marco Pasqualini, Asia Beatrice Uboldi and Giovanni Semeraro. A study on the soundness of closed-ended evaluation of Large Language Models adapted to the Italian language
• Michele Joshua Maggini and Pablo Gamallo Otero. Leveraging Advanced Prompting Strategies in LLaMA3-8b for Enhanced Hyperpartisan News Detection
• Francesca Nannetti and Matteo Di Cristofaro. Understanding the Future Green Workforce through a Corpus of Curricula Vitae from Recent Graduates
• Marco Saioni and Cristina Giannone. Multimodal Attention is all you need
• Mariachiara Pascucci and Mirko Tavosanis. Confronto tra diversi tipi di valutazione del miglioramento della chiarezza di testi amministrativi in lingua italiana
• Michele Corazza, Leonardo Zilli and Monica Palmirani. Topic Similarity of Heterogeneous Legal Sources Supporting the Legislative Process
• Vivi Nastase, Giuseppe Samo, Chunyang Jiang and Paola Merlo. Exploring Italian sentence embeddings properties through multi-tasking
• Chiara Ferrando, Marco Madeddu, Viviana Patti, Mirko Lai, Sveva Silvia Pasini, Giulia Telari and Beatrice Antola. Exploring YouTube Comments Reacting to Femicide News in Italian
• Marco Polignano, Marco de Gemmis and Giovanni Semeraro. Unraveling the Enigma of SPLIT in Large-Language Models: The Unforeseen Impact of System Prompts on LLMs with Dissociative Identity Disorder
• Tiziano Labruna, Sofia Brenna, Giovanni Bonetta and Bernardo Magnini. Are you a Good Assistant? Assessing LLM Trustability in Task-oriented Dialogues
• Paolo Gajo and Alberto Barrón-Cedeño. On Cross-Language Entity Label Projection and Recognition
• Francesco Ortame, Mauro Bruno, Elena Catanese and Francesco Pugliese. Towards a Hate Speech Index with Attention-based LSTMs and BERT
• Ludovica Pannitto, Lorenzo Albanesi, Laura Marion, Federica Maria Martines, Carmelo Caruso, Claudia Savina Bianchini, Francesca Masini and Caterina Mauri. Did somebody say ‘Gest-IT’? A pilot exploration of multimodal data management
• Giuseppe Attanasio, Pieter Delobelle, Moreno La Quatra, Andrea Santilli and Beatrice Savoldi. ItaEval and TweetyIta: A New Extensive Benchmark and Efficiency-First Language Model for Italian
• Wolfgang S. Schmeisser-Nieto, Giacomo Ricci, Simona Frenda, Mariona Taule and Cristina Bosco. Implicit Stereotypes: A Corpus-Based Study for Italian
• Irene Siragusa and Roberto Pirrone. Open Unipa-GPT: an alternative to ChatGPT for Italian chatbot
• Leonardo Ranaldi, Giulia Pucci, Federico Ranaldi, Elena Sofia Ruzzetti and Fabio Massimo Zanzotto. When Italian is not enough: The limits of the language in multilingual reasoning
• Tommaso Bonomo, Simone Conia and Roberto Navigli. Exploring the Dissociated Nucleus Phenomenon in Semantic Role Labeling
• Ibai Guillén-Pacho, Arianna Longo, Marco Antonio Stranisci, Viviana Patti and Carlos Badenes-Olmedo. The Vulnerable Identities Recognition Corpus (VIRC) for Hate Speech Analysis
• Jan Nehring, Akhil Juneja, Adnan Ahmad, Roland Roller and Dietrich Klakow. Dynamic Prompting: Large Language Models for Task Oriented Dialog

17:30 – 19:00 AILC Meeting

20:00 – 23:00 Social Dinner

December 06

09:00 – 10:30 Oral Presentations

• Olga Uryupina. Life and Death of Fakes: on Data Persistence for Manipulative Social Media Content
• Emanuele Brugnoli and Donald Ruggiero Lo Sardo. Community-based Stance Detection
• Aenne Cecilia Kristine Knierim, Michael Achmann-Denkler, Ulrich Heid and Christian Wolff. Divergent Discourses: A Comparative Examination of Blackout Tuesday and #BlackLivesMatter on Instagram
• Chiara Di Bonaventura, Lucia Siciliani, Pierpaolo Basile, Albert Merono Penuela and Barbara McGillivray. Is Explanation All You Need? An Expert Survey on LLM-generated Explanations for Abusive Language Detection
• Giulia Rizzi, Paolo Rosso and Elisabetta Fersini. From Explanation to Detection: Multimodal Insights into Disagreement in Misogynous Memes
• Federica Manzi, Leon Weber-Genzel and Barbara Plank. Fine-grained Sexism Detection in Italian Newspapers

10:30 – 11:30 Poster session + Coffe Break

• Simone Manai, Laura Gemme, Roberto Zanoli and Alberto Lavelli. IDRE: AI Generated Dataset for Enhancing Empathetic Chatbot Interactions in Italian language.
• Lucia Busso and Claudia Roberta Combei. Written Goodbyes: How Genre and Sociolinguistic Factors Influence the Content and Style of Suicide Notes
• Francesca Grasso, Ronny Patz and Manfred Stede. NYTAC-CC: A Climate Change Subcorpus of New York Times Articles
• Federico D’Asaro, Juan José Márquez Villacís, Giuseppe Rizzo and Andrea Bottino. Using Large Speech Models for Feature Extraction in Cross-Lingual Speech Emotion Recognition
• Laura Occhipinti. Enhancing Lexical Complexity Prediction in Italian through Automatic Morphological Segmentation
• Livia Lilli, Laura Antenucci, Augusta Ortolan, Silvia Laura Bosello, Maria Antonietta D’Agostino, Stefano Patarnello, Carlotta Masciocchi and Jacopo Lenkowicz. Lupus Alberto: A Transformer-Based Approach for SLE Information Extraction from Italian Clinical Reports
• Eleonora Cappuccio, Benedetta Muscato, Laura Pollacci, Marta Marchiori Manerba, Clara Punzi, Chandana Sree Mala, Margherita Lalli, Gizem Gezici, Michela Natilli and Fosca Giannotti. Beyond Headlines: A Corpus of Femicides News Coverage in Italian Newspapers
• Manuela Sanguinetti, Alessandro Pani, Alessandra Perniciano, Luca Zedda, Andrea Loddo and Maurizio Atzori. Assessing Italian Large Language Models on Energy Feedback Generation: A Human Evaluation Study
• Tom Bourgeade, Silvia Casola, Adel Mahmoud Wizan and Cristina Bosco . Data Augmentation through Back-Translation for Stereotypes and Irony Detection
• Veronica Mangiaterra, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro and Valentina Bambini. Temporal word embeddings in the study of metaphor change over time and across genres: a proof-of-concept study on English
• Alice Fedotova, Adriano Ferraresi, Maja Miličević Petrović and Alberto Barrón-Cedeño. Constructing a Multimodal, Multilingual Translation and Interpreting Corpus: A Modular Pipeline and an Evaluation of ASR for Verbatim Transcription
• Aria Rastegar and Pegah Ramezani. From ‘It’s All Greek to Me’ to ‘Nur Bahnhof verstehen’: An Investigation of mBERT’s Cross-Linguistic Capabilities
• Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Ludovico Frizziero and Filippo Tessaro. Scalable Query Understanding for E-commerce: An Ensemble Architecture with Graph-based Optimization
• Cristiano Ciaccio, Felice Dell’Orletta, Alessio Miaschi and Giulia Venturi. Controllable Text Generation To Evaluate Linguistic Abilities of Italian LLMs
• Olga Uryupina. Multimodal Online Manipulation: Empirical Analysis of Fact-Checking Reports
• Fabio Pernisi, Giuseppe Attanasio and Debora Nozza. MONICA: Monitoring Coverage and Attitudes of Italian Measures in Response to COVID-19
• Liviu P. Dinu, Ioan-Bogdan Iordache, Simona Georgescu, Alina Maria Cristea and Bianca Guita. ItGraSyll: A Computational Analysis of Graphical Syllabification and Stress Assignment in Italian
• Filippo Pellegrino, Jennifer Carmen Frey and Lorenzo Zanasi. Towards an Automatic Evaluation of (In)coherence in Student Essays
• Anca Dinu and Andra Maria Florescu. Comparing Large Language Models verbal creativity to human verbal creativity
• Eleonora Litta, Marco Passarotti, Paolo Brasolin, Giovanni Moretti, Valerio Basile, Andrea Di Fabio and Cristina Bosco. The Lemma Bank of the LiITA Knowledge Base of Interoperable Resources for Italian
• Andrew Zamai, Leonardo Rigutini, Marco Maggini and Andrea Zugarini. SLIMER-IT: Zero-Shot NER on Italian Language
• Andrea Esuli, Fabrizio Falchi, Marco Malvaldi and Giovanni Puccetti. You write like a GPT
• Moritz Kronberger and Viviana Ventura. THAVQA: a German task-oriented VQA dataset annotated with human visual attention
• Vivi Nastase, Giuseppe Samo, Chunyang Jiang and Paola Merlo. Exploring syntactic information in sentence embeddings through multilingual subject-verb agreement
• Aurora Alagni, Francesco Mambrini and Marco Passarotti. Lifeless winter without break: Ovid’s exile works and the LiLa Knowledge Base
• Irene De Felice and Francesca Strik Lievers. Building a pragmatically annotated diachronic corpus: the DIADIta project
• Pierpaolo Basile, Marco DeGemmis, Marco Polignano, Giovanni Semeraro, Lucia Siciliani, Vincenzo Tamburrano, Fabiana Battista and Rosa Scardigno. LLaMAntino against Cyber Intimate Partner Violence

11:30 – 12:30 Invited Talk: Generalisation in LLMs (Dieuwke Hupkes)

12:30 – 13:00 Closing Session

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 19:00 CALAMITA