ItaliaNLP Lab

🧶 3/3 We show that models fine-tuned on IMPaCTS outperform instruction-tuned zero-shot LLMs on controlled sentence simplification tasks, becoming proficient in both simplifying texts and in adhering at the specified target readability level. Paper: tinyurl.com/s37f4nth

🧶 2/3 In this work, we introduce IMPaCTS: a new multi-level sentence simplification dataset for Italian, automatically generated to support controllable text simplification research. 😊 Dataset on HF: huggingface.co/datasets/mpapu… 🔧 Dataset on GitHub: github.com/michelepapucci…

🧶 1/3 We’re excited to share our second paper presented at #LREC2026 in Palma: “Controllable Sentence Simplification in Italian: Fine-Tuning Large Language Models on Automatically Generated Resources” by @mpapucci_, Giulia Venturi and Felice Dell'Orletta

In this work we present UGLD, a decoding method that nudges LLMs toward or against a predefined vocabulary at inference time. No fine-tuning needed and without loss of fluency. 📄 Paper: minifyurl.in/xGNf 🔧 GitHub: github.com/michelepapucci… 🐍 Install UGLD: pip install ugld

🚀 Excited to share our latest work at READIxTSAR workshop at #LREC2026 "Lexical Conditioning of Model's Distribution through Uncertainty-gated Soft-Mixing of Probabilities" by @mpapucci_ Giulia Venturi and Felice Dell'Orletta.

[4/4] 🧑‍💻 Code & experiments: github.com/lucadinidue/cu… Happy to discuss, feedback welcome! 🙌

[3/4] We examine effects on: • Perplexity dynamics • Linguistic probing • Downstream tasks performance • Embedding geometry Data ordering shapes both learning dynamics and representations.

[1/4] How does the order of pretraining data impact Neural Language Models? We study this in our 🎉new paper🎉: "On the impact of pretraining data ordering in transformer encoder- and decoder-only language models" Published in Knowledge-Based Systems 🔗sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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