Event Date: Wednesday, 14 September, 2022 Location: 12:00-13:00, Sala Riunioni, Pal. Venera (II piano) Speaker: Prof. Florent Perek (University of Birmingham) Title: Direct object definiteness and verb meaning: A corpus-based investigation Abstract: Research on English and other languages typically makes two basic assumptions about the grammar…

Event Date: Wednesday, 14 September, 2022 Location: 11:00-12:00, Sala Riunioni, Pal. Venera (II piano) Speaker: Prof. Philippe Blache (CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université) Title: Compositionality, unification and the good-enough perspective Abstract: Many different works address the question of knowing whether language processing is compositional or not. As…

Event Date: Monday, 11 July, 2022 Location: 11:00-13:00, Teams:https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YzAxMDQ4ZDEtODY2Ny00ZjNiLWI4NTgtYTY0ZWM2YmE3ODVh%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22c7456b31-a220-47f5-be52-473828670aa1%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22443d4793-d453-4744-9862-1db273b59c4d%22%7d Speaker: Dr. Lucia Busso & Prof. Tim Grant (Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics) Title: The FOrensic Linguistic Databank: the challenge of open science in Forensic Linguistics Abstract: The talk presents an innovative online resource for sharing…

Event Date: Friday, 8 April, 2022 Location: 11:00-13:00, Aula Magna, Pal. Matteucci Speaker: Prof. Giosuè Baggio (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Title: Composition and compositionality in a parallel architecture for language processing Abstract: Compositionality has been a central concept in linguistics and philosophy for…

The paper “Did the Cat Drink the Coffee? Challenging Transformers with Generalized Event Knowledge“ by Paolo Pedinotti, Giulia Rambelli, Emmanuele Chersoni, Enrico Santus, Alessandro Lenci, and Philippe Blache has received the Best Paper Award at *SEM – The 10th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational…

Event Date: Wednesday, 10 March, 2021 (15:00) Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YmM1OGVmYWMtOTBkZi00MmZlLWE2ZGEtMjQyNTVkOWRjZjhh%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22c7456b31-a220-47f5-be52-473828670aa1%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22a53a14ac-fe44-4cb2-8a05-854c63a23450%22%7d Speaker: Prof. Ekaterina Shutova (University of Amsterdam) Title: Modelling the interplay of metaphor and emotion Abstract: Besides making our thoughts more vivid and filling our communication with richer imagery, metaphor plays a fundamental structural role in…

The paper “Comparing Probabilistic, Distributional and Transformer-Based Models on Logical Metonymy Interpretation“ by Giulia Rambelli, Emmanuele Chersoni, Alessandro Lenci, Philippe Blache, and Chu-Ren Huang has received the Best Paper Award at the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL),…

The system UNIPI-NLE developed by Alessandro Bondielli and Lucia Passaro has achieved the second top score at the CLEF2020 Fact Checking Challenge: CheckThat! – Enabling Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims in Social Media. The system is the result of a collaboration between CoLing Lab…

Dank Memes is one of the tasks selected for the 7th edition of EVALITA, the contest of Natural Language Processing and Speech for Italian. The final workshop of the evaluation campaign will be held on December 3rd in Bologna, as a co-located event of the…

Event Date: Tuesday, 8 October, 2019 Location: 12:00-14:00, Sala Colonne, Pal. Venera Speaker: Prof. Sabine Schulte im Walde (IMS, University of Stuttgart) Title: Distributional Semantic Spaces and Classification Models of Abstractness and Figurative Language Abstract: Distributional models assume that the contexts of a linguistic unit…