Presentations

July, 9 – FONDAMENTI DI IA GENERATIVA E PROMPT ENGINEERING: Concetti, Terminologia e Metodi. Ciclo di incontri IA PER UMANI(STI): APPLICAZIONI PRATICHE. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Online talk. [Slides]
June 23 – Generalizing by Analogy: The Key to Linguistic Creativity-Exploring Analogical Generalization via Noun-Noun Compound Interpretation. Poster at the MEDAL summer school in computational modeling. Birmingham (UK). [Poster]
May 19 – ABSTRACTION: Unlocking meaning from experience through language. Presentation with prof. Marianna Bolognesi at the “Analogy and Abstraction in AI” meeting at UvA’s Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS). Amsterdam (The Nederlands) [Slides]
May 2 – What Mechanisms Underlie Linguistic Generalizations In Large Language Models? Investigate How LLMs Process Generics and Noun-noun Compounds. Invited Talk at GroNLP reading group. Groningen (The Netherlands) [Slides]
May 1 – Discovering Linguistic Abstraction. An overview of the ABSTRACTION project. Talk at the CLCG Linguistic Lunch, Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen. Groningen (The Netherlands) [Slides]
February 21 – What Mechanisms Underlie Linguistic Generalization In Large Language Models? A Study On Noun-noun Compounds. Invited talk at the VU Amsterdam. Amsterdam (The Netherlands) [Slides]
February 21 – ABSTRACTION project. Overview of the results. Invited talk at the VU Amsterdam. Amsterdam (The Netherlands) [Slides]

August, 6 – Word Specificity: A Measure to Investigate Semantic Abstraction and Linguistic Creativity. Invited talk at the CBS Seminars organized by prof. Emmanuele Chersoni, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Hong Kong. [Slides]
June, 6 – Word Specificity: A Measure to Investigate Semantic Abstraction and Linguistic Creativity. Invited talk at Trinity College organized by prof. Tony Veale. Dublin (Ireland) [Slides]

October, 7 – Compositionality beyond simple compositionality. A constructionist and distributional perspective. Invited talk at the Natural Language Processing group organized by prof. Aline Villavicencio, University of Sheffield. Online.
September, 28 – Compositionality as an Analogical Process. Invited talk at the CBS Research Group Meeting organized by prof. Emmanuele Chersoni, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Online.