ItaliaNLP Lab

It’s panel time! 🔥 With Danilo Croce, Felice Dell’Orletta, Elisabetta Fersini and Viviana Patti! @EVALITAcampaign @AILC_NLP #NLProc

And now it’s the turn of Cristiano Ciaccio, presenting the Cruciverb-IT Shared Task (with @gsarti_, @AlessioMiaschi, Dell’Orletta F. and @MalvinaNissim)! 🔥 @EVALITAcampaign @AILC_NLP #NLProc

EVALITA 2026 has officially kicked off! 🔥 @AlessioMiaschi is opening this year’s edition — stay tuned for an exciting program ahead! @EVALITAcampaign @AILC_NLP #NLProc

Big day! Our PhD student @lucadini_ is defining his thesis! 🔥 #NLProc

Cristiano Ciaccio won the CLiC-it Best Student Paper Award for the work “Crossword Space: Latent Manifold Learning for Italian Crosswords and beyond” (with @gsarti_, @AlessioMiaschi and Felice Dell’Orletta)!! 🔥🔥🔥 @AILC_NLP #NLProc

Last but not least, Agnese Bonfigli presenting “A Novel Real-World Dataset of Italian Clinical Notes for NLP-based Decision Support in Low Back Pain Treatment”! 🥳 Link to the paper: clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/upl… #NLProc

Afternoon session with Ruben Piperno presenting “Doctor, Is That You? Evaluating Large Language Models on Italy’s Medical School Entrance Exams” (with Bonfigli A., Dell’Orletta F., Pecchia L., Merone M. and @LBacco1)! 🔥 Link to the paper: clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/upl… #NLProc

And now Silvio Calderaro presenting “The OuLiBench Benchmark: Formal Constraints as a Lens into LLM Linguistic Competence” (with @AlessioMiaschi and Felice Dell’Orletta)! 📖 Link to the paper: clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/upl… #NLProc

First talk of the morning with @mpapucci_ presenting “Generating and Evaluating Multi-Level Text Simplification: A Case Study on Italian” (with Giulia Venturi and Felice Dell’Orletta)! 🔥 Link to the paper: clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/upl… #NLProc

Last but not least (for today), @lucadini_ presenting “The Role of Eye-Tracking Data in Encoder-Based Models: An In-depth Linguistic Analysis” (with @workerplacemint, Dominique Brunato and Felice Dell’Orletta)! 👁️ Link to the paper: clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/upl… #NLProc

🧩 And now some crossword solving with Cristiano Ciaccio presenting “Crossword Space: Latent Manifold Learning for Italian Crosswords and beyond” (with @gsarti_, @AlessioMiaschi and Felice Dell’Orletta)! Link to the paper: clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/upl… #NLProc

Ad now, Massimiliano Orsini presenting “Direct and Indirect Interpretations of Speech Acts: Evidence from Human Judgments and Large Language Models” (with Dominique Brunato)! 🔥 Link to the paper: clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/upl… #NLProc

Afternoon oral session at CLiC-it 2025 (@AILC_NLP): @AlzettaChiara presenting “Low- vs High-level Lemmatization for Historical Languages. a Case Study on Italian”! 🔥 📖 For more info: clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/upl… #NLProc

That’s a wrap for @aclmeeting 2025! 🎉 We presented 4 papers, had great discussions, and lots of fun at the poster sessions. Thanks to everyone who stopped by, see you next time! #ACL2025NLP #NLProc

🎉 Great news! We got 9 papers accepted at CLiC-it 2025! Looking forward to presenting them this year in Cagliari! 🇮🇹 #CLiCit2025 #NLProc @CLiC_it_conf @AILC_NLP

[4/4] 📄 Read the paper 👉 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 💻 Code on GitHub 👉 github.com/Andrew-Wyn/aug… #ExplainableAI #EyeTracking #LanguageModels #CognitiveScience #HumanCenteredAI

[3/4] 🔑 Key findings: • LMs already encode gaze patterns during pretraining 🔍 • Fine-tuning on eye-tracking data improves alignment with human attention 👁️ • No drop in downstream performance — no catastrophic forgetting! ✅

[1/4] ✨ Excited to share that our paper, “In the eyes of a language model: A comprehensive examination through eye-tracking data”, is now published in Neurocomputing! 🤝 With @lucadini_, Luca Moroni, Dominique Brunato & Felice Dell'Orletta, Luca Moroni. #NLProc