PRESENTATIONS

    • 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).
    • 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
    • Bolognesi, M. (2024). Invited participation to DAGSTUHL Seminar "Generalizations by people and machines" 
    • 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) 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).
    • 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)
    • 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)