Bradly, I am focused on how humans and machines understand and generalize meaning. My research specifically investigates the tension between compositionality (interpreting word-by-word) and analogy (mapping known patterns to new ones).
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. After obtaining my PhD, I did a three-year postdoc at the University of Bologna as a member of the ERC-founded project ABSTRACTION, lead by Marianna Bolognesi.
I am a trained computational linguist with a strong interdisciplinary expertise: I use psycholinguistic experiments to understand human processing, and then use those insights to probe and evaluate Large Language Models.
I received several awards, including the Baidu AACL-IJCNLP Best Paper Award 2020, the Best Paper Award at *SEM 2021, and the Outstanding Paper Award at MWE 2023. In 2024, I published my first monograph, Constructions and Compositionality: Cognitive and Computational Explorations (link), with Cambridge University Press. I published in major *CL conferences and workshops.
I am part of the organizing committee of the international workshops Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (since 2023) and Bridges and Gaps between Formal and Computational Linguistics, Co-Chair of the evaluation campaign EVALITA 2026, and Area-Chair for CoNLL 2026. I was also part of the organizing commitee for Analogy-angle II.
Since 2026, I am also an Adjunct professor in Formal Methods and Models for Computational Linguistics (50hours), MA in Computing Linguistics at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy).