CoLing Lab
The Computational Linguistics Laboratory is a research lab within the Department of Philology, Literature, and Linguistics of the University of Pisa.
The CoLing Lab aims to advance the scientific understanding of human language through computational modeling and empirical investigation. By integrating insights from linguistics, cognitive science, natural language processing (NLP), and artificial intelligence (AI), the lab develops theoretically grounded and empirically robust models of language processing, acquisition, and meaning.
CoLing Lab is committed to bridging foundational research and real-world applications. Through interdisciplinary collaboration and methodological innovation, the lab contributes to the development of transparent, reliable, and linguistically informed language technologies for both scientific inquiry and domain-specific applications.
Research at CoLing Lab mainly focuses on the following topics:
- Distributional semantics
- Computational models of language processing and acquisition
- Computational models of semantics and pragmatics
- Cognitively plausible language models for linguistic analyses
- Linguistic benchmarks for (multimodal) language models
- Explainability and interpretability of (multimodal) language models
- Computational linguistics for digital humanities
- NLP and AI for domain-specific (e.g., legal, Public Administration, etc.) applications
- AI applications for fake news detection and document-level semantic analysis