2023
- Alessandro Lenci, Magnus Sahlgren (2023), Distributional Semantics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
- Alessandro Lenci (2023), “Understanding Natural Language Understanding Systems. A Critical Analysis“, Sistemi Intelligenti, 35(2): 277-302 (DOI: 10.1422/107438).
- Carina Kauf, Anna A. Ivanova, Giulia Rambelli, Emmanuele Chersoni, Jingyuan Selena She, Zawad Chowdhury, Evelina Fedorenko, Alessandro Lenci (2023), “Event Knowledge in Large Language Models: The Gap Between the Impossible and the Unlikely“, Cognitive Science 47 (DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13386)
- Davide Testa, Emmanuele Chersoni, Alessandro Lenci (2023), “We Understand Elliptical Sentences, and Language Models Should Too: A New Dataset for Studying Ellipsis and its Interaction with Thematic Fit“, Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Volume 1: Long Papers, July 9-14, 2023: 3340-3353.
- Giulia Rambelli, Emmanuele Chersoni, Marco S. G. Senaldi, Philippe Blache, Alessandro Lenci (2023), “Are Frequent Phrases Directly Retrieved like Idioms? An Investigation with Self-paced Reading and Language Models“, Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2023), May 6, 2023: 87-98 (Best Paper Award).
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Yan Cong, Emmanuele Chersoni, Yu-Yin Hsu, Alessandro Lenci (2023). “Are Language Models Sensitive to Semantic Attraction? A Study on Surprisal“, Proceedings of the 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2023), July 13-14, 2023: 141-148.
- Serena Auriemma, Mauro Madeddu, Martina Miliani, Alessandro Bondielli, Lucia C. Passaro, Alessandro Lenci (2023), “BureauBERTo: adapting UmBERTo to the Italian bureaucratic language“, Proceedings of Ital-IA 2023: 3rd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, organized by CINI, May 29–31, 2023, Pisa, Italy.
- Lavinia Salicchi, Emmanuele Chersoni, Alessandro Lenci (2023), “A study on surprisal and semantic relatedness for eye-tracking data prediction“, Frontiers in Pyschology, 14:1112365 (doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1112365).
- Alessandro Bondielli, Pietro Dell’Oglio, Alessandro Lenci, Francesco Marcelloni, Lucia C. Passaro, Marco Sabbatini (2023), “MULTI-Fake-DetectiVE at EVALITA 2023: Overview of the MULTImodal Fake News Detection and VErification Task“, Proceedings of EVALITA 2023: 8th Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian, September 7 – 8, Parma.
2022
- Alessandro Lenci, Magnus Sahlgren, Patrick Jeuniaux, Amaru Cuba Gyllensten, Martina Miliani (2022), “A comparative evaluation and analysis of three generations of Distributional Semantic Models“, Language Resources & Evaluation, 56:1269-1313 (DOI: 10.1007/s10579-021-09575-z).
- Alessandro Lenci, Sebastian Padó (2022), “Editorial: Perspectives for natural language processing between AI, linguistics and cognitive science“, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 5:1059998, (DOI: 10.3389/frai.2022.1059998).
- Lucia C. Passaro, Alessandro Bondielli, Pietro Dell’Oglio, Alessandro Lenci, Francesco Marcelloni (2022), “In-context annotation of topic-oriented datasets of fake news: A case study on the notre-dame fire event“, Information Science, 615: 657-677.
- Paolo Pedinotti, Emmanuele Chersoni, Enrico Santus, Alessandro Lenci (2022), “Pragmatic and Logical Inferences in NLI Systems: The Case of Conjunction Buttressing“, Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Understanding Implicit and Underspecified Language, July 15, 2022: 8-16.
- Karim Lasri, Alessandro Lenci, Thierry Poibeau (2022), “Does BERT really agree? Fine-grained Analysis of Lexical Dependence on a Syntactic Task“, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022, Dublin, May 22-27, 2022: 2309-2315.
- Karim Lasri, Tiago Pimentel, Alessandro Lenci, Thierry Poibeau, Ryan Cotterell (2022), “Probing for the Usage of Grammatical Number“, Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Volume 1: Long Papers, Dublin, May 22-27, 2022: 8818-8831.
- Karim Lasri, Olga Seminck, Alessandro Lenci, Thierry Poibeau (2022), “Subject Verb Agreement Error Patterns in Meaningless Sentences: Humans vs. BERT“, Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2022), October 12–17: 37-43.
- Mattia Proietti, Gianluca E. Lebani, Alessandro Lenci (2022), “Does BERT Recognize an Agent? Modeling Dowty’s Proto-Roles with Contextual Embeddings“, Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2022), October 12–17: 4101-4112.
- Karim Lasri, Alessandro Lenci, Thierry Poibeau (2022), “Word Order Matters When You Increase Masking“, Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022), December 7-11: 1808-1815.
- Ludovica Cerini, Eliana Di Palma, Alessandro lenci (2022), “From speed to car and back. An exploratory study about associations between abstract nouns and images“, Proceedings of the 2022 CLASP Conference on (Dis)embodiment, September 15-16: 80-88.
- Martina Miliani, Serena Auriemma, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Alessandro Lenci (2022), “Neural Readability Pairwise Ranking for Sentences in Italian Administrative Language“, Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), November 20–23, 2022: 849-866.
- Danilo Croce, Lucia C. Passaro, Alessandro Lenci, Roberto Basili (2022), “GQA-it: Italian Question Answering on Image Scene Graphs“, Proceedings of the Eighth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CliC-it 2021, Milan, Italy, 29 June – 1 July, 2022: 92-99.
- Guido Rocchietti, Flavia Achena, Giuseppe Marziano, Sara Salaris, Alessandro Lenci (2022), “FANCY: A Diagnostic Data-Set for NLI Models“, Proceedings of the Eighth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CliC-it 2021, Milan, Italy, 29 June – 1 July, 2022: 287-292.
- Serena Auriemma, Martina Miliani, Alessandro Bondielli, Lucia C. Passaro, Alessandro Lenci (2022), “Evaluating Pre-Trained Transformers on Italian Administrative Texts“, Proceedings of AIxPA 2022: 1st Workshop on AI for Public Administration, December 2nd, Udine, Italy.
2021
- Alessandro Bondielli, Lucia C. Passaro (2021), “Leveraging CLIP for Image Emotion Recognition“, Fifth Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI 2021)
- Emmanuele Chersoni, Enrico Santus, Chu-Ren Huang, Alessandro Lenci (2021),”Decoding Word Embeddings with Brain-Based Semantic Features“, Computational Linguistics, 47(3): 663-698 (DOI: 10.1162/COLI_a_00412)
- Paolo Pedinotti, Giulia Rambelli, Emmanuele Chersoni, Enrico Santus, Alessandro Lenci, Phlippe Blache (2021), “Did the Cat Drink the Coffee? Challenging Transformers with Generalized Event Knowledge“, Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), August 5–6, 2021, Bangkok, Thailand (online): 1-11. (Best Paper Award)
- Emmanuele Chersoni, Enrico Santus, Alessandro Lenci, Philippe Blache, Chu-Ren Huang (2021), “Not all arguments are processed equally: a distributional model of argument complexity“, Language Resources and Evaluation, 55(4): 873-900 (DOI: 10.1007/s10579-021-09533-9).
- Lucia Busso, Florent Perek, Alessandro Lenci (2021), “Constructional associations trump lexical associations in processing valency coercion“, Cognitive Linguistics, 32(2): 287-318 (DOI: 10.1515/cog-2020-0050).
- Martina Miliani, Marina Benedetti, Alessandro Lenci (2021), “Language Disparity in the Interaction with Chatbots for the Administrative Domain“, AIUCD 2021 – DHs for society: e-quality, participation, rights and values in the Digital Age. Book of extended abstracts of the 10th national conference, Pisa: 545-549 (ISBN: 9788894253559).
- Alessandro Lenci (2021), “Chi ha paura delle Digital Humanities? Miti e realtà del rapporto tra computer, testo e lingua“, in Letteratura e Scienze, Atti delle sessioni parallele del XXIII Congresso dell’ADI (Associazione degli Italianisti), Pisa, 12-14 settembre 2019, a cura di Alberto Casadei, Francesca Fedi, Annalisa Nacinovich, Andrea Torre, Roma, Adi editore, 2021.
- Lavinia Salicchi, Alessandro Lenci (2021), “PIHKers at CMCL 2021 Shared Task: Cosine Similarity and Surprisal to Predict Human Reading Patterns“, Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, Online Event, June 10, 2021: 102-107.
- Paolo Pedinotti, Eliana Di Palma, Ludovica Cerini, Alessandro Lenci (2021), “A howling success or a working sea? Testing what BERT knows about metaphors, Proceedings of the Fourth BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, Online, November 11, 2021: 192-204
- Pier Marco Bertinetto, Clémentine Talaato, Alessandro Lenci (2021), “On the acquisition of verbal tenses in Mòoré (Gur): a morphology-based approach“, Lingue e Linguaggio, 20(1): 111-160.
- Gianluca E. Lebani, Alessandro Lenci (2021), “Investigating Dowty’s proto-roles with embeddings“, Lingue e Linguaggio, 20(2): 165-197.
2020
- Giulia Rambelli, Emmanuele Chersoni, Alessandro Lenci, Phlippe Blache, Chu-Ren Huang (2020), “Comparing Probabilistic, Distributional and Transformer-Based Models on Logical Metonymy Interpretation“, Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL) and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJNLP), December 4 – 7, 2020: 224-234 (Best Paper Award)
- Paolo Pedinotti, Alessandro Lenci (2020), “Don’t Invite BERT to Drink a Bottle: Modeling the Interpretation of Metonymies Using BERT and Distributional Representations“, in Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2020), Barcelona, Spain: 6831-6837.
- Giulia Cappelli, Alessandro Lenci (2020), “PISA: A measure of Preference In Selection of Arguments to model verb argument recoverability“, in Proceedings of the Ninth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2020), Barcelona, Spain: 131-136.
- Lucia C. Passaro, Alessandro Bondielli, Alessandro Lenci, Francesco Marcelloni (2020), “UNIPI-NLE at CheckThat! 2020 : Approaching Fact Checking from a Sentence Similarity Perspective Through the Lens of Transformers“, Working Notes of {CLEF} 2020 – Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 22-25, 2020, CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
- Martina Miliani, Lucia C. Passaro, Alessandro Lenci (2020), “FRAQUE: a FRAme-based QUEstion-answering system for the Public Administration domain“, Proceedings of the First workshop on Language Technologies for Government and Public Admnistration (LT4Gov), Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2020), Marseille, 11–16 May 2020: 7-14.
- Alessandro Bondielli, Gianluca E. Lebani, Lucia C. Passaro, Alessandro Lenci (2020), “CAPISCO @ CONcreTEXT 2020: (Un)supervised Systems to Contextualize Concreteness with Norming Data“, Proceedings of the Seventh Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian Final Workshop (EVALITA 2020): 327 – 333 (ISBN: 9791280136275).
- Lucia C. Passaro, Alessandro Lenci (2020), “Less is MORE: a MultimOdal system for tag REfinement“, Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI 2020), November 25th-27th, 2020: 44-58.
- Sergio E. Chaigneau, Enrique Canessa, Alessandro Lenci, Barry J. Devereux (2020). “Eliciting semantic properties: methods and applications“. Cognitive Processing, 21, 583-586 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-020-00999-z).
- Irene Sucameli, Alessandro Lenci, Bernardo Magnini, Maria Simi, Manuela Speranza (2020), “Becoming JILDA“, Proceedings of the Seventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2020), Bologna, Italy, March 1-3, 2021: 409-414.
- Lucia Busso, Alessandro Lenci, Florent Perek (2020), “Valency coercion in Italian. An Exploratory Study“, Constructions and Frames, 12(2): 171-205 (https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.00039.bus).
- Irene Fioravanti, Marco S.G. Senaldi, Alessandro Lenci, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia (2020), “Lexical fixedness and compositionality in L1 speakers’ and L2 learners’ intuitions about word combinations: Evidence from Italian“, Second Language Research (DOI: 10.1177/0267658320941560).
- Paolo Acquaviva, Alessandro Lenci, Carita Paradis and Ida Raffaelli (2020), “Models of lexical meaning“, in Vito Pirrelli, Ingo Plag and Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds.), Word Knowledge and Word Usage, Berlin, De Gruyter Mouton: 353–404 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110440577-010).
- Emmanuele Chersoni, Ludovica Pannitto, Enrico Santus, Alessandro Lenci and Chu-Ren Huang (2020), “Are Word Embeddings Really a Bad Fit for the Estimation of Thematic Fit?“, Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Marseille, 1-16 May 2020: 5708-5713.
- Irene Sucameli, Alessandro Lenci (2020), “Representing Verbs with Visual Argument Vectors“, Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Marseille, 1-16 May 2020: 5865-5870.
- Alessandro Lenci, Simonetta Montemagni, Federico Boschetti, Irene De Felice, Stefano Dei Rossi, Felice Dell’Orletta, Michele Di Giorgio, Martina Miliani, Lucia C. Passaro, Angelica Puddu, Giulia Venturi, Nicola Labanca (2020), “Voices of the great war: A richly annotated corpus of Italian texts on the first world war”, Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Marseille, 1-16 May 2020: 911-918.
2019
- Emmanuele Chersoni, Enrico Santus, Ludovica Pannitto, Alessandro Lenci, Philippe Blache, Chu-Ren Huang (2019), “A structured distributional model of sentence meaning and processing“, Natural Language Engineering, 25: 483-502. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1351324919000214.
- Michela Cennamo, Alessandro Lenci (2019), “Gradience in Subcategorization? Locative Phrases with Italian Verbs of Motion“, Studia Linguistica, 73(2): 369-397
- Valentina Benedettini, Pier Marco Bertinetto, Alessandro Lenci, Ken McRae (2019), “Multimodal Event Knowledge in Online Sentence Comprehension: The Influence of Visual Context on Anticipatory Eye Movements“, Proceedings of CogSci 2019, Montreal, Canada, July 24-27, 2019: 1395-1401.
- Ludovica Pannitto, Alessandro Lenci (2019), “Event Knowledge in Compositional Distributional Semantics“, Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics, 5(1): 73-88.
- Giulia Rambelli, Emmanuele Chersoni, Philippe Blache, Chu-Ren Huang, Alessandro Lenci (2019), “Distributional Semantics Meets Construction Grammar. towards a Unified Usage-Based Model of Grammar and Meaning“, Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations, ACL, Florence, August 1, 2019: 110-120.
- Lucia C. Passaro, Marco Senaldi, Alessandro Lenci (2019), “Do Idioms Have a Heart? The SIDE (Sentiment of IDiomatic Expressions) Project“. Proceedings of The 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, 1, e101. https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-vkwf-dr08.
- Marco Senaldi, Yuri Bizzoni, Alessandro Lenci (2019), “What Do Neural Networks Actually Learn, When They Learn to Identify Idioms?“, Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL) 2019, New York City, New York, January 3-6, 2019: 310-313.
- Martina Miliani, Lucia C. Passaro, Alessandro Lenci (2019), “Text Frame Detector: Slot Filling Based On Domain Knowledge Bases“, Proceedings of the Sixth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2019), Bari, Italy, November 13-15, 2019.
2018
- Alessandro Lenci (2018), “Distributional Models of Word Meaning“, Annual Review of Linguistics, 4:151-171 (https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-030514-125254).
- Alessandro Lenci, Gianluca E. Lebani, Lucia C. Passaro (2018), “The Emotions of Abstract Words: A Distributional Semantic Analysis“, Topics in Cognitive Science, 10(3): 550-572 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tops.12335).
- Marta Ponari, Courtenay Frazier Norbury, Armand Rotaru, Alessandro Lenci, Gabriella Vigliocco Vigliocco, G. (2018), “Learning abstract words and concepts : insights from developmental language disorder“, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 373, 20170140 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0140).
- Gianluca E. Lebani, Alessandro Lenci (2018), “A Distributional Model of Verb-Specific Semantic Roles Inferences“, in Thierry Poibeau and Aline Villavicencio (eds.), Language, Cognition, and Computational Models, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 118-158.
- Paolo Vassallo, Emmanuele Chersoni, Enrico Santus, Alessandro Lenci, Philippe Blache (2018), “Event Knowledge in Sentence Processing: A New Dataset for the Evaluation of Argument Typicality“, Proceedings of LREC 2018 Workshop: Linguistic and Neuro-Cognitive Resources (LiNCR). Miyazaki, Japan: 1-7.
- Alicia Krebs, Alessandro Lenci, Denis Paperno (2018), “SemEval-2018 Task 10: Capturing Discriminative Attributes“, Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2018), New Orleans, Louisiana, June 5-6, 2018: 732–740
- Alessandro Bondielli, Lucia C. Passaro, Alessandro Lenci (2018), “CoreNLP-it: A UD pipeline for Italian based on Stanford CoreNLP“, Proceedings of the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2018), Torino, Italy, December 10-12, 2018: 57-61.
- Lucia Busso, Ludovica Pannitto, Alessandro Lenci (2018), “Modelling Italian construction flexibility with distributional semantics: Are constructions enough?“, Proceedings of the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2018), Torino, Italy, December 10-12, 2018: 68-74.
- Irene De Felice, Felice Dell’Orletta, Giulia Venturi, Alessandro Lenci, Simonetta Montemagni (2018), “Italian in the Trenches: Linguistic Annotation and Analysis of Texts of the Great War“, Proceedings of the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2018), Torino, Italy, December 10-12, 2018: 160-164.
- Ludovica Pannitto, Alessandro Lenci (2018), “MEDEA: Merging Event knowledge and Distributional vEctor Addition“, Proceedings of the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2018), Torino, Italy, December 10-12, 2018: 318-323.
- Yuri Bizzoni, Marco S. G. Senaldi, Alessandro Lenci (2018), “Finding the Neural Net: Deep-learning Idiom Type Identification from Distributional Vectors“, Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics, 4(1): 27-41.
- Ludovica Pannitto, Lavinia Salicchi, Alessandro Lenci (2018),”Refining the Distributional Inclusion Hypothesis for Unsupervised Hypernym Identification“, Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics, 4(2): 45-56.
2017
- Alessandra Zarcone, Ken McRae, Alessandro Lenci, Sebastian Padó (2017), “Complement Coercion: The Joint Effect of Type and Typicality“, Frontiers in Psychology, 8:1-10 (https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01987).
- Emmanuele Chersoni, Alessandro Lenci, Philippe Blache (2017), “Logical Metonymy in a Distributional Model of Sentence Comprehension“, Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2017), Vancouver, Canada, August 3-4, 2017: 168-177.
- Emmanuele Chersoni, Enrico Santus, Philippe Blache, Alessandro Lenci (2017), “Is Structure Necessary for Modeling Argument Expectations in Distributional Semantics?“, Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2017), Montpellier, France, 19-22 September 2017.
- Enrico Santus, Emmanuele Chersoni, Alessandro Lenci, Philippe Blache (2017), “Measuring Thematic Fit with Distributional Feature Overlap“, Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 7–11: 659-669.
- Gianluca E. Lebani, Alessandro Lenci (2017), “Modelling the Meaning of Argument Constructions with Distributional Semantics“, The AAAI 2017 Spring Symposium on Computational Construction Grammar and Natural Language Understanding, Technical Report SS-17-02, Stanford, CA: 197-204.
- Irene Amato, Alessandro Lenci (2017), “Story of a Construction: Statistical and Distributional Analysis of the Development of the Italian Gerundival Construction“, in Giovanna Marotta and Francesca Strik Livers (eds.), Strutture linguistiche e dati empirici in diacronia e sincronia, Pisa, Pisa University Press: 135-158.
- Giulia Rambelli, Alessandro Lenci, Thierry Poibeau (2017), “UDLex: Towards Cross-language Subcategorization Lexicons“, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling 2017), Pisa, Italy, September 18-20: 207-217.
- Martina A. Rodda, Marco S. G. Senaldi, Alessandro Lenci (2017), “Panta Rei: Tracking Semantic Change with Distributional Semantics in Ancient Greek“, Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics, 3(1): 11-24.
- Marco S. G. Senaldi, Gianluca E. Lebani, Alessandro Lenci (2017), “Determining the Compositionality of Noun-Adjective Pairs with Lexical Variants and Distributional Semantics“, Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics, 3(1): 43-58.
- Yuri Bizzoni, Marco S. G. Senaldi, Alessandro Lenci (2017), “Deep-learning the Ropes: Modeling Idiomaticity with Neural Networks“, Proceedings of the Fourth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2017), Rome, Italy, December 11-12: 36-41.
- Alessandro Bondielli, Lucia C. Passaro and Alessandro Lenci (2017), “Emo2Val: Inferring Valence Scores from fine-grained Emotion Values“, Proceedings of the Fourth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2017), Rome, Italy, December 11-12: 48-52.
- Lucia C. Passaro, Alessandro Lenci, Anna Gabbolini (2017), “INFORMed PA: A NER for the Italian Public Administration Domain“, Proceedings of the Fourth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2017), Rome, Italy, December 11-12: 246-251.
- Irene Sucameli, Alessandro Lenci (2017), “PARAD-it: Eliciting Italian Paradigmatic Relations with Crowdsourcing“, Proceedings of the Fourth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2017), Rome, Italy, December 11-12: 310-315.
- Ludovica Pannitto, Lavinia Salicchi, Alessandro Lenci (2017), “AHyDA: Automatic Hypernym Detection with feature Augmentation“, Proceedings of the Fourth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2017), Rome, Italy, December 11-12: 240-245.
- Alessandro Lenci, Francesca Masini, Malvina Nissim, Sara Castagnoli, Gianluca E. Lebani, Lucia C. Passaro, Marco S. G. Senaldi (2017), “How to harvest Word Combinations from corpora. Methods, evaluation and perspectives“, Studi e Saggi Linguistici, 55(2): 45-68.
- Lucia C. Passaro, Alessandro Bondielli, Alessandro Lenci (2017), “Learning affect with Distributional Semantic Models“, Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics, 3(2): 23-36.
2016
- Magnus Sahlgren, Alessandro Lenci (2016), “The Effects of Data Size and Frequency Range on Distributional Semantic Models“, Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Austin, Texas, November 1-5, 2016: 975-980.
- Emmanuele Chersoni, Enrico Santus, Alessandro Lenci, Philippe Blache, Chu-Ren Huang (2016), “Representing Verbs with Rich Contexts: an Evaluation on Verb Similarity“, Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Austin, Texas, November 1-5, 2016: 1967-1972.
- Emmanuele Chersoni, Philippe Blache, Alessandro Lenci (2016), “Towards a Distributional Model of Semantic Complexity“, Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity, Osaka, Japan, December 11-17 2016: 12-22.
- Gianluca E. Lebani, Alessandro Lenci (2016), “Beware the Jabberwock, dear reader! Testing the distributional reality of construction semantics“, Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-V), Osaka, Japan, December 11-17 2016: 9-18.
- Andreana Pastena, Alessandro Lenci (2016), “Antonymy and Canonicity: Experimental and Distributional Evidence“, Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-V), Osaka, Japan, December 11-17 2016: 166-175.
- Enrico Santus, Anna Gladkova, Alessandro Lenci, Stefan Evert (2016), “The CogALex-V Shared Task on the Corpus-Based Identification of Semantic Relations“, Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-V), Osaka, Japan, December 11-17 2016: 69-79.
- Giacomo Handjaras, Emiliano Ricciardi, Andrea Leo, Alessandro Lenci, Luca Cecchetti, Mirco Cosottini, Giovanna Marotta, Pietro Pietrini (2016), “How concepts are encoded in the human brain: A modality independent, category-based cortical organization of semantic knowledge“, Neuroimage, 135: 232-242
- Alessandro Lenci, Nicola Labanca, Claudio Marazzini, Simonetta Montemagni (2016), “Voci della Grande Guerra: An Annotated Corpus of Italian Texts on World War I“, Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics, 2(2): 101-108.
- Marco S. G. Senaldi, Gianluca E. Lebani, Alessandro Lenci (2016), “Determining the Compositionality of Noun-Adjective Pairs with Lexical Variants and Distributional Semantics“, Proceedings of the Third Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2016). Distinguished Young Paper Award.
- Martina A. Rodda, Marco S. G. Senaldi, Alessandro Lenci (2016), “Panta Rei: Tracking Semantic Change with Distributional Semantics in Ancient Greek“, Proceedings of the Third Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2016). Distinguished Young Paper Award.
- Lucia C. Passaro, Alessandro Bondielli, Alessandro Lenci (2016), “FB-NEWS15: A Topic-Annotated Facebook Corpus for Emotion Detection and Sentiment Analysis“, Proceedings of the Third Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2016).
- Lucia C. Passaro, Alessandro Bondielli, Alessandro Lenci (2016), “Exploiting Emotive Features for the Sentiment Polarity Classification of tweets“, Proceedings of the Fifth Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian (EVALITA 2016).
- Marco S. G. Senaldi, Gianluca E. Lebani, Alessandro Lenci (2016), “Lexical Variability and Compositionality: Investigating Idiomaticity with Distributional Semantic Models“, Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2016): 21-31.
- Giulia Rambelli, Gianluca E. Lebani, Laurent Prévot, Alessandro Lenci (2016), “LexFr: adapting the LexIt framework to build a corpus-based French subcategorization lexicon“, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016): 930-937.
- Lucia Busso, Alessandro Lenci (2016), “Italian VerbNet: A Construction-based Approach to Italian Verb Classification“, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016): 2633-2642.
- Lucia C. Passaro, Alessandro Lenci (2016), “Evaluating Context Selection Strategies to Build Emotive Vector Space Models“, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016): 2185-2191.
- Enrico Santus, Alessandro Lenci, Tin-Shing Chiu, Qin Lu, Chu-Ren Huang (2016), “Nine Features in a Random Forest to Learn Taxonomical Semantic Relations“, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016): 4557-4564.
- Enrico Santus, Alessandro Lenci, Tin-Shing Chiu, Qin Lu, Chu-Ren Huang (2016), “What a Nerd! Beating Students and Vector Cosine in the ESL and TOEFL Datasets“, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016): 4565-4572.
- Sara Castagnoli, Gianluca E. Lebani, Alessandro Lenci, Francesca Masini, Malvina Nissim, Lucia Passaro (2016), “Pos-Patterns or Syntax? Comparing Methods for Extracting Word Combinations“, in Computerised and Corpus-based Approaches to Phraseology: Monolingual and Multilingual Perspectives, Geneva, Editions Tradulex: 116-128.
- Alessandro Lenci (2016), “Semantica distribuzionale. Un modello computazionale del significato“, in Edoardo Maria Ponti and Marco Budassi (eds.), “Compter, Parler, Soigner: Tra linguistica e intelligenza artificiale”, Pavia, Pavia University Press: 39-53.
- Lucia Passaro, Alessandro Lenci (2016), “Extracting Terms with EXTra“, Computerised and Corpus-based Approaches to Phraseology: Monolingual and Multilingual Perspectives, Geneva, Editions Tradulex: 188-196.
2015
- Cécile Fabre, Alessandro Lenci (2015), “Distributional Semantics Today“, Traitement automatique des langues, 56(2): 7-20.
- Cécile Fabre, Alessandro Lenci (eds.) (2015), Sémantique distributionelle, Special issue of Traitement automatique des langues, 56(2).
- Gianluca E. Lebani, Alessandro Bondielli, Alessandro Lenci (2015), “You are what you do. An empirical characterization of the semantic content of the thematic roles for a group of Italian verbs“, Journal of Cognitive Science, 16 (4): 401-430.
- Gianluca E. Lebani, Marco S. G. Senaldi, Alessandro Lenci (2015), “Modeling Idiom Variability with Entropy and Distributional Semantics“, Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics.
- Marco S.G. Senaldi (2015), “Casting Light on Idiom Flexibility: A Corpus-based Approach“, Master Thesis, Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, University of Pisa.
- Pier Marco Bertinetto, Eva Maria Freiberger, Alessandro Lenci, Sabrina Noccetti, Maddalena Agonigi (2015), “The acquisition of tense and aspect in a morphology-sensitive framework: Data from Italian and Austrian-German children“, Linguistics, 53(5): 1113-1168.
- Alessandra Zarcone, Sebastian Padó, Alessandro Lenci (2015), “Same same but different: type and typicality in a distributional model of complement coercion, in Proceedings of the NetWordS Final Conference on Word Knowledge and Word Usage: Representations and Processes in the Mental Lexicon, Pisa, Italy, March 30-April 1, 2015: 91-94.
- Alessandro Lenci, Gianluca E. Lebani, Marco S. G. Senaldi, Sara Castagnoli, Francesca Masini, Malvina Nissim (2015), “Mapping the constructicon with SYMPAThy. Italian word combinations between fixedness and productivity“, in Proceedings of the NetWordS Final Conference on Word Knowledge and Word Usage: Representations and Processes in the Mental Lexicon, Pisa, Italy, March 30-April 1, 2015: 144-149.
- Alessandro Lenci (2015), “Modelli computazionali del linguaggio tra regole e probabilità“, in Nicola Grandi (ed.), La grammatica e l’errore: Le lingue naturali tra regole, loro violazioni ed eccezioni, Bologna, Bononia University Press: 85-100.
- Enrico Santus, Alessandro Lenci, Qin Lu, Chu-Ren Huang (2015), “When Similarity Becomes Opposition: Synonyms and Antonyms Discrimination in DSMs“, Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics, 1(1): 41-54.
- Enrico Santus, Frances Yung, Alessandro Lenci, Chu-Ren Huang (2015), “EVALution 1.0: an Evolving Semantic Dataset for Training and Evaluation of Distributional Semantic Models“, Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2015), Beijing, China: 64–69,
2014
- Alessandro Lenci (2014), “Carving Verb Classes from Corpora“, in Raffaele Simone and Francesca Masini (eds.), Word Classes: Nature, Typology, and Representations, Amsterdam, John Benjamins: 17-36.
- Enrico Santus, Qin Lu, Alessandro Lenci, Chu-Ren Huang (2014), “Taking antonymy mask off in vector space“, in Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computing, Phuket, Thailand, December 12-14, 2014
- Lucia C. Passaro, Gianluca E. Lebani, Laura Pollacci, Emmanuele Chersoni, Alessandro Lenci (2014), “The CoLing Lab system for Sentiment Polarity Classification of tweets“, in Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop EVALITA 2014, Pisa, Italy, December 11 2014: 87–92
- Alessandro Lenci, Gianluca E. Lebani, Sara Castagnoli, Francesca Masini, Malvina Nissim (2014), “SYMPAThy: Towards a comprehensive approach to the extraction of Italian Word Combinations“, in Proceedings of the First Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, Pisa, Italy, December 9-10 2014: 234–238
- Lucia Passaro, Alessandro Lenci (2014), ““Il Piave mormorava…”: Recognizing Locations and other Named Entities in Italian Texts on the Great War“, in Proceedings of the First Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, Pisa, Italy, December 9-10 2014: 286–290
- Enrico Santus, Qin Lu, Alessandro Lenci, Chu-Ren Huang (2014), “Unsupervised Antonym-Synonym Discrimination in Vector Space“, in Proceedings of the First Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, Pisa, Italy, December 9-10 2014: 328–332
- Mireia Hernández, Scott L. Fairhall, Alessandro Lenci, Marco Baroni, Alfonso Caramazza (2014), “Predication drives verb cortical signatures“. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26(8): 1829-1839 doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_00598
- Alessandra Zarcone, Sebastian Padó, Alessandro Lenci (2014), “Logical Metonymy Resolution in a Words-as-Cues Framework: Evidence From Self-Paced Reading and Probe Recognition“. Cognitive Science, 38: 973-996. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12108
- Enrico Santus, Alessandro Lenci, Qin Lu, Sabine Schulte im Walde (2014), “Chasing Hypernyms in Vector Spaces with Entropy“, in Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Gothenburg, Sweden, April 26-30 2014: 38–42
- Lauren Romeo, Gianluca E. Lebani, Núria Bel, Alessandro Lenci (2014), “Choosing which to Use? A Study of Distributional Models for Nominal Lexical Semantic Classification“, in Proceedings of the 9th Edition of the Language, Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2014), Reykjavik, 26-31 May 2014: 4366-4373.
- Gianluca E. Lebani, Veronica Viola, Alessandro Lenci (2014), “Bootstrapping an Italian VerbNet: Data-driven Analysis of Verb Alternations“, in Proceedings of the 9th Edition of the Language, Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2014), Reykjavik, 26-31 May 2014: 1127-1134.
- Federico Boschetti, Andrea Cimino, Felice Dell’Orletta, Gianluca E. Lebani, Lucia Passaro, Paolo Picchi, Giulia Venturi, Simonetta Montemagni, Alessandro Lenci (2014), “Computational Analysis of Historical Documents: An Application to Italian War Bulletins in World War I and II“, in Proceedings of the LREC 2014 Workshop on “Language resources and technologies for processing and linking historical documents and archives – Deploying Linked Open Data in Cultural Heritage” (LRT4HDA 2014), Reykjavik, 26 May 2014.
- Rachele Sprugnoli, Alessandro Lenci (2014), “Crowdsourcing for the Identification of Event Nominals: An Experiment“, Proceedings of the 9th Edition of the Language, Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2014), Reykjavik, 26-31 May 2014: 1949-1955.
2013
- Giulia Benotto (2013), “Modelli distribuzionali delle relazioni semantiche: il caso dell’iperonimia”, in C. Adornetti & F. Cominetti (eds.), Animali, Umani, Macchine. Atti del Convegno 2012 del CODISCO (ISBN : 978-88-98138-06-7): 85-98.
- Emmanuele Chersoni (2013), “Distributional methods for sentiment analysis“, Master Thesis, Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, University of Pisa.
- Alessandro Lenci, Marco Baroni, Giulia Cazzolli, Giovanna Marotta (2013), “BLIND: a set of semantic feature norms from the congenitally blind“, Behavior Research Methods, 45(4): 1218-1233.
- Alessandra Zarcone, Alessandro Lenci, Sebastian Padó, Jason Utt (2013), “Fitting, Not Clashing! A Distributional Semantic Model of Logical Metonymy“, in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2013), Potsdam: 404-410.
- Jason Utt, Alessandra Zarcone, Sebastian Padó, Alessandro Lenci (2013), “The Curious Case of Metonymic Verbs: A Distributional Characterization“, in Proceedings of IWCS 2013 Workshop Towards a Formal Distributional Semantics, Potsdam: 30-39
2012
- Alessandro Lenci, Gabriella Lapesa, Giulia Bonansinga (2012), “LexIt: A Computational Resource on Italian Argument Structure”, in Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’12), Istanbul, 23-25 May 2012 (ISBN: 978-2-9517408-7-7): 3712-3718.
- Alessandro Lenci, Simonetta Montemagni, Giulia Venturi, Maria Grazia Cutrullà (2012), “Enriching the ISST-TANL Corpus with Semantic Frames”, in Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’12), Istanbul, 23-25 May 2012 (ISBN: 978-2-9517408-7-7): 3719-3726.
- Linda Meini, Giovanna Marotta, Alessandro Lenci, Margherita Donati (2012), “An XML Annotation Scheme for Space in an Italian Corpus”, in Proceedings of the ISA-7 Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, LREC 2012, Istanbul, 24-28 May 2012 (ISBN: 978-2-9517408-7-7): 37-44.
- Alessandro Lenci, Giulia Benotto (2012), “Identifying hypernyms in distributional semantic spaces”, in Proceedings of *SEM 2012: The First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics – Volume 1, Montreal, 7-8 June 2012 (ISBN: 978-1-937284-21-3): 75-79.
- Diego Frassinelli, Alessandro Lenci (2012), “Concepts in context: Evidence from a feature-norming study”, in N. Miyake, D. Peebles, and R. P. Cooper (eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society (ISBN: 978-0-9768318-8-4): 1567-1571.
- Alessandra Zarcone, Sebastian Padó, Alessandro Lenci (2012), “Inferring Covert Events in Logical Metonymies: a Probe Recognition Experiment”, in N. Miyake, D. Peebles, e R. P. Cooper (eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society (ISBN: 978-0-9768318-8-4): 1215-1220.
- Alessandro Lenci (2012), “Argument alternations in Italian verbs: A computational study”. In Valentina Bambini, Irene Ricci, Pier Marco Bertinetto & Collaborators (eds.). Linguaggio e cervello – Semantica / Language and the brain – Semantics, Atti del XLII Convegno della Società di Linguistica Italiana (Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, 25-27 settembre 2008). Roma: Bulzoni. Volume 2 (ISBN: 978-88-7870-652-1) (CD ROM, II.B.1).
- Gianluca E. Lebani, Emanuele Pianta (2012), “Encoding Commonsense Lexical Knowledge into WordNet”, in C. Fellbaum, P. Vossen (eds.), Proceedings of the 6th Global WordNet Conference (GWC-2012), Matsue, Japan, 9-13 January 2012 (ISBN : 978-80-263-0244-5): 159-166. [revised version]
- Pier Marco Bertinetto, Alessandro Lenci (2012), “Habituality, pluractionality and imperfectivity“, in R. Binnick (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect, Oxford, Oxford University Press: 852-880.
2011
- Martina Johnson, Alessandro Lenci (2011), “Verbs of visual perception in Italian FrameNet“, Constructions and Frames, III/1: 9-45.
- Alessandro Lenci (2011), “Composing and Updating Verb Argument Expectations: A Distributional Semantic Model“, In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL), ACL 2011, Portland: 58-66.
- Marco Baroni, Alessandro Lenci (2011), “How we BLESSed distributional semantic evaluation“, In Proceedings of the GEMS 2011 Workshop on GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics, EMNLP 2011, Edinburgh: 1-10.
2010
- Marco Baroni, Alessandro Lenci (2010), “Distributional Memory: A general framework for corpus-based semantics”, Computational Linguistics, 36(4):673-721 (Test-of-Time Award at ACL 2020).
- Chu-Ren Huang, Nicoletta Calzolari, Aldo Gangemi, Alessandro Lenci, Alessandro Oltramari, Laurent Prevot (eds.), (2010), Ontologies and the Lexicon. A Natural Language Processing Perspective, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
- Alessandro Lenci (2010), “The Life Cycle of Knowledge”, in C.-R. Huang, et al. (eds.), Ontologies and the Lexicon. A Natural Language Processing Perspective, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 241-257.
- Giuseppe Attardi, Stefano Dei Rossi, Giulia Di Pietro, Alessandro Lenci, Simonetta Montemagni, Maria Simi (2010), “A Resource and Tool for Super-sense Tagging of Italian Texts“, in Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’10), Valletta, Malta.
- Gianluca E. Lebani, Emanuele Pianta (2010), “Human Language Technologies supporting Therapeutic Practices for Language Disorders: the Project STaRS.sys”, in Proceedings of the seventh annual meeting of the Italian Society of Cognitive Science (AISC 2010): 52-56.
- Gianluca E. Lebani, Emanuele Pianta (2010), “Exploiting Lexical Resources for Therapeutic Purposes: the Case of WordNet and STaRS.sys”, in Proceedings of the Second Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon Workshop (CogALex-II) at COLING 2010: 12-17.
- Gianluca E. Lebani, Emanuele Pianta (2010), “A Feature Type Classification for Therapeutic Purposes: a preliminary evaluation with non-expert speakers”, in Proceedings of the Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW IV) at ACL 2010: 157-161.
2009
- Alessandro Lenci, Gabriel Sandu (2009), “Logic and Linguistics in the Twentieth Century“, in Haaparanta, L. (2009). The Development of Modern Logic. Oxford, Oxford University Press: 775-847.
- Marco Baroni, Alessandro Lenci (2009), “One distributional memory, many semantic spaces“, in Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Workshop on GEMS: GEometical Models of Natural Language Semantics, Athens, Greece, 31 March 2009: 1-8.