PRESENTATIONS

Villani C., Loia A., Bolognesi M. (2025). Development of Linguistic-Mediated Abstraction: Insights from Word Ladders task. Oral presentation at COGSCI 2025 (Cognitive Science Society), San Francisco, USA (July 30-August 2, 2025).
Villani C. (2025) Invited speaker at the Interactive Minds Center, Aarhus University, Denmark. Talk title: The role of Abstractness and Specificity in language and dialogue. May 27, 2025.
Villani C. (2025) Organized and speaker at Workshop “Conversational Dynamics: How Abstraction and Abstractness Ebb and Flow in Interaction”. April 3rd, 2025, University of Bologna, Italy. Title talk: Abstractness and Specificity in Dialogue.
Lamarra T., Villani C., Bolognesi M. (2025). Abstraction processes affect conversational dynamics in interaction. Oral presentation at CLUB Day 2025 (Circolo Linguistico dell'Università di Bologna), University of Bologna, Bologna (May 19, 2025)
Lamarra T., Villani C., Bolognesi M. (2025). Ambiguity of abstraction: semantic information affects words processing in “Lexical ambiguity in the mind: theoretical challenges and interdisciplinary approaches” workshop. Oral presentation at SLE 2025 (58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea), Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Bordeaux, FR (August 26-29, 2025)
Ravelli, A. A., Lamarra, T., De Varda, A. G., Saponaro C., Giustolisi, B., & Bolognesi, M (2025). IconicITA: Iconicity in Italian affective lexicon between L1 and L2. Oral presentation at SLE 2025 (58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea), Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Bordeaux, FR (August 26-29, 2025)
Lamarra T., Ravelli A. A., Bolognesi M., Vigliocco G. (2025). Be concrete and specific: how speakers introduce novel topics in naturalistic language. Poster presentation at CogSci 2025 (Cognitive Science Society), San Francisco, CA (July 30-August 2, 2025)
Lamarra T., Ravelli A. A., Bolognesi M., Vigliocco G. (2025). The importance of being specific: Unfamiliar objects elicit more specific and concrete words in semi-naturalistic conversation. Oral talk at ESCOP 2025 (24th biennial conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology), Sheffield, UK (September 1-6, 2025)
Lamarra T., Ravelli A. A., Bolognesi M., Vigliocco G. (2025). Specificity and abstraction strategies impact language in semi-naturalistic conversations. Poster presentation at XPrag 2025 (11th Experimental Pragmatics Conference), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (September 17-19, 2025)
Bolognesi, M. (2025). Keynote speaker at international workshop “ABSTRACTION: Language — Science — Engineering” Talk title: ABSTRACTION: Unlocking meaning from experience through language. July 11th, Bolzano, Italy.
Bolognesi, M. (2025). Keynote speaker at international conference “Cognitive Futures in The Arts and Humanities 2025: Cognitive Tools in Action”. Title keynote: “Language-mediated abstraction as a cognitive tool: research methods, challenges, and opportunities” Messina (Italy) 2025 – 28-30 May 2025.
Ravelli A.A. (2025). Il dato linguistico oggi, tra Crowdsourcing e Large Language Models. Oral presentation at CLUB Day 2025 (Circolo Linguistico dell'Università di Bologna), University of Bologna, Bologna (May 19, 2025)
Rambelli, G. & Bolognesi, M. (2025). How Analogy Drives Language Comprehension: Interpreting Novel Noun-Noun Compounds. Oral presentation at the workshop Towards a better understanding of analogy: challenges, methods, and perspectives (colocated with SLE 2025). Bordeaux, France. August 2025.
Pedrotti, A., Rambelli, G., Villani, C., & Bolognesi, M. (2025). How Humans
and LLMs Organize Conceptual Knowledge: Exploring Subordinate Categories in Italian. Poster presentation at ACL 2025. Vienna, Austria.
Bolognesi, M. & Rambelli, G. (2025). Symposium “Analogy & Abstraction in AI”. Talk title: ABSTRACTION: Unlocking meaning from experience through language. Amsterdam, NL. May 19th.
Rambelli, G. (2025). 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), 2 May 2025.
Rambelli, G. (2025). Discovering Linguistic Abstraction. An overview of the ABSTRACTION project. Talk at the CLCG Linguistic Lunch, Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen. Groningen (The Netherlands), 1 May 2025
Rambelli, G. (2025). What Mechanisms Underlie Linguistic Generalization In Large Language Models? A Study On Noun-noun Compounds. Invited talk at the VU Amsterdam. Amsterdam (The Netherlands), 21 February 2025
Puccetti, G., Esuli, A. & Bolognesi, M. (2025). Oral presentation at “13° Global WordNet Conference (GWC2025)”. Talk Title: Wordnet and Word Ladders: Climbing the abstraction taxonomy with LLMs. January 27-31, Pavia, Italy.

Rambelli, G., Chersoni, E., Collacciani, C., & Bolognesi M. (2024). Can Large Language Models Interpret Noun-Noun Compounds? A Linguistically-Motivated Study on Lexicalized and Novel Compounds. Poster presentation at CliC-It 2024 (research communication). Pisa, Italy (4-6 Dec 2024). https://clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/program/

Ravelli, A.A., Varvara, R., Gregori, L. (2024). MACID - Multimodal ACtion IDentification: A CALAMITA Challenge, in: Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024), Pisa, Italy, December 4 - December 6, 2024, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR-WS.org, 2024.
Puccetti, G. Collacciani, C. Ravelli, A.A. Esuli, A., Bolognesi, M. (2024). ABRICOT - ABstRactness and Inclusiveness in COntexT: A CALAMITA Challenge, in: Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024), Pisa, Italy, December 4 - December 6, 2024, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR-WS.org, 2024.

Lamarra T., Villani C., Mazzuca C., Borghi A. M., Bolognesi M. (2024). How does sentence specificity shape uncertainty and curiosity in conversational dynamics? Oral presentation at AISC (20th Annual Conference of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences), Sapienza University of Rome (September, 18-20). https://aisc2024.istc.cnr.it/program/
Villani C., Mazzuca C., Lamarra T., Bolognesi M., Borghi A. M. (2024). Abstractness and social interaction: insights from sentences processing. Oral talk at Xprag.it 2024 (5th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference), San Camillo Hospital IRCCS, Venezia Lido (September, 26-27 2024). https://sites.google.com/view/xpragit2024/conference-programme
Loia A., Bolognesi M. (2024). Evaluating Mispelling Patterns in Gamified Data: a Sociodemographic Analysis for Linguistic Research. Poster session at Xprag.it 2024 (5th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference), San Camillo Hospital IRCCS, Venezia Lido (September, 26-27 2024). https://sites.google.com/view/xpragit2024/conference-programme
Lamarra T., Villani C., Mazzuca C., Borghi A. M., Bolognesi M. (2024). How does sentence specificity shape uncertainty and curiosity in conversational dynamics? Poster session at Xprag.it 2024 (5th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference), San Camillo Hospital IRCCS, Venezia Lido (September, 26-27 2024). https://sites.google.com/view/xpragit2024/conference-programme
Mazzuca M., Villani C., Lamarra T., Bolognesi M., Borghi A. (2024). Abstract Sentences elicit more Uncertainty and Curiosity than Concrete Sentences. Oral presentation at CogSci (Cognitive Science Society), Rotterdam (July 24-27, 2024)

Rambelli, G., Chersoni, E., Collacciani, C., & Bolognesi M. (2024). Can Large Language Models Interpret Noun-Noun Compounds? A Linguistically-Motivated Study on Lexicalized and Novel Compounds. Poster presentation at ACL 2024 (the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics), Bangkok, Thailand (11-17 Aug 2024). https://2024.aclweb.org/program/main_conference_papers/
Collacciani, C., Rambelli, G., & Bolognesi, M. (2024). Quantifying Generalizations: Exploring the Divide Between Human and LLMs’ Sensitivity to Quantification. Poster presentation at ACL 2024 (the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics), Bangkok, Thailand (11-17 Aug 2024). https://2024.aclweb.org/program/main_conference_papers/
Giulia Rambelli (2024). Word Specificity: A Measure to Investigate Semantic Abstraction and Linguistic Creativity. Invited talk at CBS Seminars, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (7 Aug 2024).
Rambelli, G., Chersoni, E., Collacciani, C., & Bolognesi M. (2024). Can Large Language Models Interpret Noun-Noun Compounds? A Linguistically-Motivated Study on Lexicalized and Novel Compounds. Oral presentation at Analogy-ANGLE (The First Workshop on Analogical Abstraction in Cognition, Perception, and Language) co-located with IJCAI 2024, Jeju, South Korea (4 Aug 2024). https://analogy-angle.github.io/
Giulia Rambelli (2024). Word Specificity: A Measure to Investigate Semantic Abstraction and Linguistic Creativity. Invited talk at the School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (6 Jun 2024)

Bolognesi, M. (2024). La gamification per la raccolta di dati linguistici. Keynote speaker at CLUBPhD2024 Il dialogo tra scienze linguistiche e nuove tecnologie, Università di Bologna (4 giugno 2024).
Bolognesi, M. (2024). Partecipazione su invito a Seminario DAGSTUHL "Generalizations by people and machines" (5-8 maggio 2024).
Bolognesi, M. (2024). Specificity ratings in Italian and English languages. Invited seminar at Computational Linguistics & Text Mining Lab, VU University Amsterdam (19 Feb 2024).
Collacciani, C., Ravelli, A.A., Bolognesi, M. (2024). Specifying Genericity through Inclusiveness and Abstractness Continuous Scales. Poster presentation at LREC-COLING 2024 (The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation), Turin (20-25 May 2024).
Collacciani, C. (2024) Quantifying Generalizations: Exploring the Divide Between Human and LLMs’ Sensitivity to Quantification / Exploring in-context genericity of words through continuous annotations. Talks at Computational Linguistics & Text Mining Lab, VU University Amsterdam (19 Feb 2024).
Rambelli, G., Bolognesi, M. (2024). The Contextual Variability of English Nouns: The Impact of Categorical Specificity beyond Conceptual Concreteness. Poster presentation at LREC-COLING 2024 (The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation). Torino, Italia
Ravelli, A. A., Lamarra, T., De Varda, A. G., Saponaro C., Giustolisi, B., & Bolognesi, M. (2024) IconicITA: unraveling iconicity in Italian affective lexicon. Talk at XIV International Conference “Iconicity in Language and Literature” (ILL 14). University of Catania (30-31 May/1 June 2024).
Villani C. Abstractness and Specificity in Social Interaction. (2024). Invited talk at Traincrease Closing Conference (Poland, 24-27 May 2024).
Villani C., Rambelli G., Bolognesi M., (2024). Exploring subordinate categories organization in Human and Artificial cognition. Oral presentation at AISC (Associazione Italiana di Scienze Cognitive), University of Genoa, (December, 14-17, 2023). https://aisc2023.unige.it/speakers_programme
Villani C., Loia A., Bolognesi M., (2023). The semantic content of concrete, abstract, specific and generic concepts. Oral presentation at ESLP (Embodied and Situated Language Processing Conference), University of Messina (September 29-30, 2023). https://eslp2023.files.wordpress.com/2023/09/eslp-book_final.pdf
Villani C., Loia A., Bolognesi M., Il contenuto semantico di concetti specifici, generici, astratti e concreti. (2023) Oral presentation at AIP, XXIX Congresso AIP - Sezione Sperimentale, Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca (September 18-20, 2023). https://aipsperimentale2023.imtlucca.it/programma
Bolognesi, M. (2023) Conceptual concreteness and categorical specificity in word processing and representation. Invited seminar at ACLC University of Amsterdam (7 Dec 2023).
Rambelli, G., Bolognesi, M. (2023) Contextual Variability Depends on Categorical Specificity rather than Conceptual Concreteness: A Distributional Investigation on Italian data. Poster presentation at CLIC-IT 2023 (Ninth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics). Venezia, Ca Foscari.
Bolognesi, M. (2023) Disentangling conceptual concreteness and categorical specificity Invited keynote talk at CompCog23 (Complexity and Cognition conference). University of Trento.
Bolognesi, M. (2023) L’astrazione e il suo funzionamento nella mente e nella lingua Invited plenary speaker at Convegno Linguaggio e Conoscenza. Università di Messina.
Rambelli, G., Bolognesi, M. (2023). Contextual Variability depends on Categorical Specificity rather than Conceptual Concreteness: A Distributional Investigation on Italian data. Oral presentation at IWCS2024 (The 15th International Workshop on Computational Semantics). Nancy, France (21 giugno 2023).https://iwcs2023.loria.fr/program/
Collacciani, C. (2023) How do speakers perceive generics? Oral presentation at Graduate Conference LinUD “Ambiguity and Vagueness in Languages”, University of Florence (14 June 2023). https://sites.google.com/view/linud2022/linud-seconda-edizione/programma-schedule
Collacciani, C. (2023) Decomposing genericity through inclusiveness and abstractness: a pilot study. Poster presentation at Student Session of Lectures on Computational Linguistics 2023, University of Pisa (29-31 May 2023). https://www.ai-lc.it/en/lectures-2/lectures-2023/
Collacciani, C., Rambelli, G. (2023) Interpretation of Generalization in Masked Language Models: An Investigation Straddling Quantifiers and Generics. Oral presentation at CLIC-IT 2023 (Ninth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics). Venezia, Ca Foscari. https://clic2023.ilc.cnr.it/accepted-papers/
Lamarra, T., Villani, C., Bolognesi, M. (2023) Lexical Decision e semantic processing per parole che variano in concretezza e in specificità. Mini talk at XXIX Congresso AIP - Sezione Sperimentale, Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca (September 18-20, 2023). https://aipsperimentale2023.imtlucca.it/programma
Lamarra, T., Villani, C., Bolognesi, M. (2023) Lexical Decision e semantic processing latencies for words that vary in concreteness and specificity. Poster session/Blitz talk at ESLP 2023 (Embodied and Situated Language Processing conference). University of Messina (29-30 September 2023)