@casulalm.bsky.social will present Job Unfair: An Investigation of Gender and Occupational Bias in Free-Form Text Completions by LLMs at the poster session on Wed Nov. 5th, 11:00-12:30 in Hall C

We'll be at EMNLP in Suzhou 🇨🇳 next week to present 3 main conf papers:
- Job Unfair: An Investigation of Gender and Occupational Bias in Free-Form Text Completions by LLMs
- Multilingual vs Crosslingual Retrieval of Fact-Checked Claims: A Tale of Two Approaches (preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2505.22118)

Next week we will be presenting our recent research at the LT highlights @ FBK day 2025! If you're interested, join us (and remember to register on Eventbrite!) lt-highlights.fbk.eu

✨ Shared task alert! ✨

We are organizing FadeIT, the first shared task on fallacy detection accounting for genuine disagreement. FadeIT is part of EVALITA, whose workshop will be held in beautiful Bari, Italy in February 2026.

Learn more from our website!
🌐 sites.google.com/fbk.eu/fadei...

Since it resonated with the audience, I’ll recap my main argument against AGI here. ‘General intelligence’ is like phlogiston, or the aether. It’s an outmoded scientific concept that does not refer to anything real. Any explanatory work it did can be done better by a richer scientific frame. 1/3

We are on our way to Casteddu for #clicit2025 with a guest from @fbk-mt.bsky.social @ailc-nlp.bsky.social

Q. Who aligns the aligners?
A. alignmentalignment.ai

Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

OpenAI is discovering what every social media company has also discovered: content moderation is hard and AI content moderation is also hard.

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Have you ever seen a book made entirely of silk? One item getting a lot of reading room attention recently is this "Livre de Prières." This book was manufactured with the Jacquard process, which relied on perforated punch cards to operate a loom, and is considered a precursor to early programming.

Wishing everybody happy holidays before a well-deserved break! Greetings from our traditional Christmas lunch 🎄🧑‍🎄 #NLP #Digitalhumanities

A life update I haven't shared online yet: I successfully defended my PhD thesis! Here is photographic proof (it did take me >2 tries to properly get the 🎓 cap on)

A link to my thesis, "Rise and Pitfalls of Synthetic Data for Abusive Language Detection", for the brave:
iris.unitn.it/handle/11572...

And here are today's oral presentations from @dh-fbk.bsky.social: NLP to extract gustatory language by Teresa Paccosi (now at @knaw-nl.bsky.social) and multiple models and datasets to classify documents with the EuroVoc thesaurus by Lorenzo Bocchi, @casulalm.bsky.social and @ziorufus.bsky.social

Give a look at @dh-fbk.bsky.social posters at
#CLiC-it2024: Multi-label classification using EuroVoc thesaurus, machine translation for Ladin and Language Varieties of Italy! @ziorufus.bsky.social @jo-valer.bsky.social @alanramponi.bsky.social Proceedings at clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/wp-content/u...

Hello Bluesky! We would like to kick off this account with the DH @ FBK starter pack, which you can use to follow the members of our research unit 🌟
go.bsky.app/5feLo44