2024
September 23, 2024 - I attended Philip Wicke(LMU, Munich)’s seminar “Exploring Spatial Intuitions and Analogical Reasoning in Large Language Models” organized by ABSTRACTION. [video]
September 20, 2024 - I attended prof.Tony Veale (UCD, Dublin)’s seminars “Why So Serious Building AIs with a Real Sense of Humour” [video] and “Me, Myself and Irony Exploring different facets of Irony with Analogies and LLMs” [video] organized by ABSTRACTION.
August 15th, 2024 - We organized 13th edition of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2024) co-located with ACL 2024, Thanks to the other organizers Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Ece Takmaz, Philipp Wicke, Yohei Oseki. [proceedings]
August 11th, 2024 - I arrived in Bangkok for attending ACL2024! I will present two papers from ABSTRACTION project: “Can Large Language Models Interpret Noun-Noun Compounds? A Linguistically-Motivated Study on Lexicalized and Novel Compounds” at poster session 5 (August 13 @ 16:00) and “Quantifying Generalizations: Exploring the Divide Between Human and LLMs’ Sensitivity to Quantification” at poster session 6 (August 14 @ 10:30). See you there!
August 7th, 2024 - I was invited to give a talk “Word Specificity: A Measure to Investigate Semantic Abstraction and Linguistic Creativity” in the CBS Seminars at Hong Kong PolyU. Thank you for prof. Emmanuele Chersoni for inviting me and for the in-person and online attendees!
August 4th, 2024 - I had the opportunity to talk and hear about analogy by attending The First Workshop on Analogical Abstraction in Cognition, Perception, and Language (Analogy-ANGLE) (co-located with IJCAI 2024) in Jeju (South Korea). I presented two research dissemination papers: “Can Large Language Models Interpret Noun-Noun Compounds? A Linguistically-Motivated Study on Lexicalized and Novel Compounds” (accepted at ACL 2024!) and “Compositionality as an Analogical Process: Introducing ANNE” (presented at CogALex in 2022). Moreover, I had the honour to partecipate to a round table with the invited speakers. Lots of food for thoughts!
June 19th-21st, 2024 - I attended the Lectures on Computational Linguistics in Bary (Italy). As always, it was a great occasion to meet people from Italian (and international) CL and NLP community!
June 6th, 2024 - I presented my advances in the ABSTRACTION projet at Trinity Colledge (Dublin, Ireland). “Word Specificity: A Measure to Investigate Semantic Abstraction and Linguistic Creativity”
May 20th, 2024 – ABSTRACTION team goes to LREC-COLING 2024! We got 2 papers in the main conference. I’ll present the poster The Contextual Variability of English Nouns: The Impact of Categorical Specificity beyond Conceptual Concreteness on May, 22nd at 11am. Find the paper and related materials in Publications section
May 15th, 2024 – We got two papers accepted to the main conference of ACL 2024! Can Large Language Models Interpret Noun-Noun Compounds? A Linguistically-Motivated Study on Lexicalized and Novel Compounds (Rambelli, Chersoni, Collacciani, Bolognesi) and Quantifying Generalizations: Exploring the Divide Between Human and LLMs’ Sensitivity to Quantification (Collacciani, Rambelli, Bolognesi). See you in Bangkok!
May 13th-14th, 2024 – I followed online this amazing event: New Horizons in Language Science: Large Language Models, Language Structure, and the Cognitive and Neural Basis of Language. That was some great food for thought!
2023
December 1st, 2023 – Our paper got accepted at CliC-It 2023 (Venice, Italy)! I also presented two research communication papers as posters: Compositionality as an Analogical Process: Introducing ANNE (CogALex 2022) and Contextual Variability Depends on Categorical Specificity rather than Conceptual Concreteness: A Distributional Investigation on Italian data (IWCS 2023). Find out more in Publications section
June 20th-23th, 2023 – I presented the work Contextual Variability Depends on Categorical Specificity rather than Conceptual Concreteness: A Distributional Investigation on Italian data at IWCS 2023 held in Nancy (France).
May 29th-31st, 2023 – I attended the Lectures on Computational Liguistics (organized by AILC) in Pisa. They were three very intensive days, but it was so nice to see lots of old colleagues!
May 6th, 2023 – Best Paper Honorable Mention at the MWE 2023 Workshop🥈:Are Frequent Phrases Directly Retrieved like Idioms? An Investigation with Self-Paced Reading and Language Models. Thanks to all the amazing and cool collaborators!
May 4th-6th, 2023 – I attended EACL 2023 at Dubrovnik (Croatia). So nice to attend in person after the pandemic!
February 1st, 2023 – I followed online CompCog2023. Great tutorial from prof. Cynthia Siew (National University of Singapore) called Network Analysis for Psycholinguists.
January 11st, 2023 – I followed the talk of Tommaso Caselli at UniBo.
2022
December 13, 2022 – I gave a talk in the Master course “Teoria del Lessico / Semantica e Lessico” organized by professor Francesca Masini @ UniBo.
November 20, 2022 – I presented my work on at CogAlex VII workshop!
November 7, 2022 – First in presence meeting of the ABSTRACTION team at UniBo!
November 1, 2022 – Today I started as a postoctoral researcher in ABSTRACTION team! Looking forward to this new adventure :)
October 7, 2022 – I was invited from prof. Aline Villavicencio to give a talk about the experiments of my PhD thesis in front of the Natural Language Processing group at the University of Sheffield (online).
September 29, 2022 – I was invited to present part of my PhD thesis at the HK PolyU CBS (online).
September 14, 2022 – In a hybrid virtual - physical setting, I finally got my title! It was a important moment, many thanks to those of you that were there, virtually or physically.