Our paper “Crossword Space: Latent Manifold Learning for Italian Crosswords and beyond” won the CLiC-it 2025 Best Student Paper Award! 🥳🥳

📚 You can check the paper at the following link: clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/u...

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🚨 Exciting news from #EVALITA2026 (@ailc-nlp.bsky.social)!
I'm co-organizing Cruciverb-IT, the first shared task on crossword solving 🧩✍️ together with Ciaccio C., @gsarti.com, Dell'Orletta F. and @malvinanissim.bsky.social!
If you love cracking crosswords (or cracking models that do), join us! 🎉

Had a really great time in Varna! 🇧🇬 many thanks to the organizers of the LM4DH workshop (@ranlp.bsky.social) for inviting me! 🥳 #NLProc

Today at the @aclmeeting.bsky.social main poster session, we presented: “Evaluating Lexical Proficiency in Neural Language Models” (Ciaccio C., Miaschi A. and Dell’Orletta F.)

🗒️ Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...

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Yesterday at the @aclmeeting.bsky.social Findings poster session, we presented our work “Beyond the Spelling Miracle: Investigating Substring Awareness in Character-Blind Language Models” (with Ciaccio C., Sartor M., and Dell’Orletta F.)

Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.finding...

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✅ Larger models develop more robust substring awareness.
✅ Morphemes are recognized better than meaningless substrings.
✅ Awareness emerges early for suffixes and roots, later for non-morphemic units
✅ Productivity, word frequency and tokenization shape this ability.
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🚀 On Monday 28th, we will present our #ACL2025NLP (@aclmeeting.bsky.social) Findings Paper "Beyond the Spelling Miracle: Investigating Substring Awareness in Character-Blind Language Models" (with Ciaccio C., Sartor M. and Dell'Orletta F.)

🔗 aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
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🧠 Our findings show that Transformer-based models can handle lexical composition and meaning inference to some extent—effectively producing and interpreting plausible lexical innovations, though with a notable drop in performance vs. standard lexical items.
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📣 Next week I’ll be at @aclmeeting.bsky.social with three papers: one at the main conference and two in the Findings!

At the main conference, I’ll present:
“Evaluating Lexical Proficiency in Neural Language Models” (with Ciaccio C. and Dell’Orletta F.)
🔗 aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...
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Had a great time in Barcelona! 🇪🇸 Thanks so much for the invitation and for the excellent organization of the NLP4RE workshop (REFSQ 2025)! 🥳

Presenting our work “Controllable Text Generation To Evaluate Linguistic Abilities of Italian LLMs” during the CLiC-it 2024 poster session! 🔥 #NLProc

CLiC-it starts tomorrow! 🔥 I'll be there presenting our work "Controllable Text Generation To Evaluate Linguistic Abilities of Italian LLMs" (with Ciaccio C. and Dell'Orletta F.) on December 6! 🥳 #NLProc

Link to the paper: clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/wp-content/u...