Giulia Rambelli
I am a Post-doc for the ABSTRACTION project. 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. I published in major *CL conferences and workshops.
I obtained a joint PhD degree in Linguistics from the University of Pisa (Italy) and Aix-Marseille University (France), under the joint supervision of Alessandro Lenci and Philippe Blache. I collaborate with the Computational Liguistics Laboratory (University of Pisa). I was a member of the Laboratoire Parole et Language (AMU) of the Institute of Language, Communication, and the Brain (ILCB).
I am part of the organizing committee of the international workshops Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (since 2023) and Analogy-angle (since 2025), colocated with leading conferences in NLP and AI (*CL, IJCAI).
News
- 23.06.2025 - I am attending the MEDAL summer school in computational modeling in Birmingham (UK).
- 20.05.2025 - Our paper "How Humans and LLMs Organize Conceptual Knowledge: Exploring Subordinate Categories in Italian" got accepted at ACL 2025 main coference! See you in Vienna!
- 19.05.2025 - Marianna Bolognesi (ABSTRACTION PI) and I attended the cross-disciplinary meeting "Analogy and Abstraction in AI" at the UvA's Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) in Amsterdam.
- 07.04.2025 - I'm in Groningen visiting the Computational Linguistics Group for one month!
Latest publications
- 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
- Giulia Rambelli, Emmanuele Chersoni, Claudia Collacciani, Marianna Bolognesi (2024). Can Large Language Models Interpret Noun-Noun Compounds? A Linguistically-Motivated Study on Lexicalized and Novel Compounds. In *ACL 2024 (Bangkok, Thailand)*