Giulia Rambelli
I am a Post-doc for the Institute of Language, Communication, and the Brain (ILCB) at Aix-Marseille University (France).
My research is at the intersection between theoretical linguistics, cognitive science, and machine learning. I investigate the meaning aspects of language, interested in the underlying mechanisms in sentence interpretation and productivity. In my thesis, I studied the balance between compositional and direct access to meaning, and how the cognitive process of analogy can be represented as a source of linguistic productivity from a theoretical and computational perspective.
Since my PhD and especially during my postdoc at the University of Bologna (ERC-founded project ABSTRACTION), I became more and more fascinated about how do people generalize from specific linguistic expressions to generate novel creative ones. My research agenda is therefore to investigate the tension between linguistic productivity and creativity, to understand the cognitive mechanisms of linguistic innovation and how do humans and machines generalize linguistic meaning beyond experience.
My research is at the intersection between theoretical linguistics, cognitive science, and machine learning. I investigate the meaning aspects of language, interested in the underlying mechanisms in sentence interpretation and productivity. In my thesis, I studied the balance between compositional and direct access to meaning, and how the cognitive process of analogy can be represented as a source of linguistic productivity from a theoretical and computational perspective.
Since my PhD and especially during my postdoc at the University of Bologna (ERC-founded project ABSTRACTION), I became more and more fascinated about how do people generalize from specific linguistic expressions to generate novel creative ones. My research agenda is therefore to investigate the tension between linguistic productivity and creativity, to understand the cognitive mechanisms of linguistic innovation and how do humans and machines generalize linguistic meaning beyond experience.
News
- 12.01.2026 - I am invited to give a talk at the Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS) at the University of Stuttgart.
- 1.01.2026 - Happy to announce that I started my Postoctoral Fellowship at the Aix-Marseille University, under the joint supervision of prof. Abdellah Fourtassi and Laurent Prévot!
Latest publications
- Sommerauer, Pia, Rambelli, Giulia, Caselli, Tommaso (2025). Simulating Identity, Propagating Bias: Abstraction and Stereotypes in LLM-Generated Text. In *Findings of EMNLP 2025 (Suzhou, China)*
- Andrea Pedrotti, Giulia Rambelli, Caterina Villani, Marianna Bolognesi (2025). How Humans and LLMs Organize Conceptual Knowledge: Exploring Subordinate Categories in Italian. In *ACL 2025 (Vienna, Austria)*
- Giulia Rambelli (2024). Constructions and Compositionality: Cognitive and Computational Explorations. Cambridge University