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…

Event Date: Thursday, 3 October, 2019 Location: 10:00-12:00, Sala Riunioni, Pal. Venera Speaker: Jane Lutken (John Hopkins University, USA) Title: An introduction to Optimality Theory: survival of the fit enough Abstract: Language variation has been attributed to differences in parameter settings (Chomsky, 1981). Optimality Theory…

Event Date: Tuesday, 2 July, 2019 Location: 11:30-13:30, Sala Colonne, Pal. Venera Speaker: Prof. Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) Title: With a little help from NLP: My Language Technology applications with impact on society Abstract: The talk will present three original methodologies developed by the…

Event Date: Thursday, 13 June, 2019 Location: 11-13, Sala Riunioni, Pal. Venera Speaker: Prof. James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University) Title: The Semantics of Affordances Abstract: In this talk, I discuss the requirements on a semantics for situated and grounded meaning. I argue that the creation and…

Event Date: Wednesday, 22 May, 2019 Location: 11-13, Sala Colonne, Pal. Venera Speaker: Dr. Rachel Ryskin (MIT) Title: Lifelong learning of linguistic representations Abstract: Like much of the perceptual input that humans experience, language is highly variable. Two speakers may produce the same phoneme with…