Giuseppe Attanasio
@gattanasio.cc
Postdoc at @sardine-lab-it.bsky.social working on fair and safe language technologies. | gattanasio.cc | he/him | http://questovirgolettatoesiste.com
A field seeking artificial intelligence... and writing research findings on a broken web app, commenting on tiny columns on the side, with bubbles/conversations that disappear if you scroll away, barely visible or locatable, and an unusable edit tracker... and paying for that.
October 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A field seeking artificial intelligence... and writing research findings on a broken web app, commenting on tiny columns on the side, with bubbles/conversations that disappear if you scroll away, barely visible or locatable, and an unusable edit tracker... and paying for that.
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#MemoryModay #NLProc 'Benchmarking Post-Hoc Interpretability Approaches for Transformer-based Misogyny Detection' - Attanasio et al. Explores reliability of interpretability in hate speech detection.
Benchmarking Post-Hoc Interpretability Approaches for Transformer-based Misogyny Detection
Giuseppe Attanasio, Debora Nozza, Eliana Pastor, Dirk Hovy. Proceedings of NLP Power! The First Workshop on Efficient Benchmarking in NLP. 2022.
aclanthology.org
October 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
#MemoryModay #NLProc 'Benchmarking Post-Hoc Interpretability Approaches for Transformer-based Misogyny Detection' - Attanasio et al. Explores reliability of interpretability in hate speech detection.
There's too little political debate in my BSky feed.
I really really really really hope the Flotilla will succeed in its goals. I wish I would be able to do more for the cause 🍉
I really really really really hope the Flotilla will succeed in its goals. I wish I would be able to do more for the cause 🍉
September 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM
There's too little political debate in my BSky feed.
I really really really really hope the Flotilla will succeed in its goals. I wish I would be able to do more for the cause 🍉
I really really really really hope the Flotilla will succeed in its goals. I wish I would be able to do more for the cause 🍉
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Uniting 44 nations, the Global Sumud Flotilla sails to support Gaza and challenge injustice.
Let’s make our voices heard.
#GlobalSolidarity #GlobalSumudFlotilla #StandWithGaza#SailToGaza #BreakTheSiege #GlobalMovementToGaza
Let’s make our voices heard.
#GlobalSolidarity #GlobalSumudFlotilla #StandWithGaza#SailToGaza #BreakTheSiege #GlobalMovementToGaza
August 31, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Uniting 44 nations, the Global Sumud Flotilla sails to support Gaza and challenge injustice.
Let’s make our voices heard.
#GlobalSolidarity #GlobalSumudFlotilla #StandWithGaza#SailToGaza #BreakTheSiege #GlobalMovementToGaza
Let’s make our voices heard.
#GlobalSolidarity #GlobalSumudFlotilla #StandWithGaza#SailToGaza #BreakTheSiege #GlobalMovementToGaza
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🔴 LIVE NOW: The first keynote of the Gender Bias in NLP workshop!
@a-lauscher.bsky.social is telling A Fairy Tale of Gender in Language Technology.
#ACL2025 #GeBNLP #NLP
@a-lauscher.bsky.social is telling A Fairy Tale of Gender in Language Technology.
#ACL2025 #GeBNLP #NLP
August 1, 2025 at 7:20 AM
🔴 LIVE NOW: The first keynote of the Gender Bias in NLP workshop!
@a-lauscher.bsky.social is telling A Fairy Tale of Gender in Language Technology.
#ACL2025 #GeBNLP #NLP
@a-lauscher.bsky.social is telling A Fairy Tale of Gender in Language Technology.
#ACL2025 #GeBNLP #NLP
👀 Interested in gender bias in NLP and MT evaluation?
I strongly encourage you to check out our poster presentations held by @manoszar.bsky.social!
👉🏻 Poster Session 3, today (July 29) from 16:00–17:30
OR at the Gender Bias Workshop, Friday (Aug 1) during Poster Session 2, 14:00–14:45.
#acl2025
I strongly encourage you to check out our poster presentations held by @manoszar.bsky.social!
👉🏻 Poster Session 3, today (July 29) from 16:00–17:30
OR at the Gender Bias Workshop, Friday (Aug 1) during Poster Session 2, 14:00–14:45.
#acl2025
July 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
👀 Interested in gender bias in NLP and MT evaluation?
I strongly encourage you to check out our poster presentations held by @manoszar.bsky.social!
👉🏻 Poster Session 3, today (July 29) from 16:00–17:30
OR at the Gender Bias Workshop, Friday (Aug 1) during Poster Session 2, 14:00–14:45.
#acl2025
I strongly encourage you to check out our poster presentations held by @manoszar.bsky.social!
👉🏻 Poster Session 3, today (July 29) from 16:00–17:30
OR at the Gender Bias Workshop, Friday (Aug 1) during Poster Session 2, 14:00–14:45.
#acl2025
As neural metrics are a pillar for #MT, being extensively used for evaluation but also improving translation, we'd want them to be fair.
🚨 Our #ACL2025 paper shows they consistently, unduly favor masculine-inflected translations, or gendered forms, over neutral ones.
arxiv.org/pdf/2410.10995
🚨 Our #ACL2025 paper shows they consistently, unduly favor masculine-inflected translations, or gendered forms, over neutral ones.
arxiv.org/pdf/2410.10995
July 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
As neural metrics are a pillar for #MT, being extensively used for evaluation but also improving translation, we'd want them to be fair.
🚨 Our #ACL2025 paper shows they consistently, unduly favor masculine-inflected translations, or gendered forms, over neutral ones.
arxiv.org/pdf/2410.10995
🚨 Our #ACL2025 paper shows they consistently, unduly favor masculine-inflected translations, or gendered forms, over neutral ones.
arxiv.org/pdf/2410.10995
Just wanted to mention that besides me rattling on about speech, social biases, and NLP in the coziest of environments, that TV starred in a blazing karaoke night just a few hours earlier 🎙️
Thanks again for the invitation @milanlp.bsky.social :)
Thanks again for the invitation @milanlp.bsky.social :)
Last week we held our 1st MilaNLP retreat by beautiful Lago Maggiore! ⛰️🌊
We shared research ideas, stories (academic & beyond), and amazing food. It was a great time to connect outside of the usual lab working days, and most importantly, strengthen our bonds as a team. #ResearchLife #NLProc
We shared research ideas, stories (academic & beyond), and amazing food. It was a great time to connect outside of the usual lab working days, and most importantly, strengthen our bonds as a team. #ResearchLife #NLProc
July 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Just wanted to mention that besides me rattling on about speech, social biases, and NLP in the coziest of environments, that TV starred in a blazing karaoke night just a few hours earlier 🎙️
Thanks again for the invitation @milanlp.bsky.social :)
Thanks again for the invitation @milanlp.bsky.social :)
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After all these years of publishing, still surprised by how much the luck of drawing meaningfully engaged reviewers and an AC, matters in peer review
July 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
After all these years of publishing, still surprised by how much the luck of drawing meaningfully engaged reviewers and an AC, matters in peer review
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Good morning @mtsummit2025.bsky.social ! 🌞 We're ready to kick off #GITT2025 in a few minutes. We'll be live skywriting (is that the tweeting equivalent of 'tweeting'? It is now) using our hashtag. Looking forward! 🤩
June 23, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Good morning @mtsummit2025.bsky.social ! 🌞 We're ready to kick off #GITT2025 in a few minutes. We'll be live skywriting (is that the tweeting equivalent of 'tweeting'? It is now) using our hashtag. Looking forward! 🤩
(totally unbiased opinion): Cool paper!
#MemoryMonday #NLProc 'Interpretability Informs Gender Bias Mitigation in Machine Translation'- Attanasio et al. (2023). Their new research tackles gender bias in machine translations using a simple, few-shot learning method for fairness.
A Tale of Pronouns: Interpretability Informs Gender Bias Mitigation for Fairer Instruction-Tuned Machine Translation
Giuseppe Attanasio, Flor Miriam Plaza del Arco, Debora Nozza, Anne Lauscher. Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2023.
aclanthology.org
June 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
(totally unbiased opinion): Cool paper!
Stiamo facendo questa cosa... Una mano è sempre ben accetta :) 🙏
Stiamo vivendo una rivoluzione tecnologica, ma quanto conosciamo realmente l'uso dell'IA nella nostra quotidianità? Aiuta a scoprirlo compilando questo breve questionario (10 min): bit.ly/sondaggio_ai...
June 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Stiamo facendo questa cosa... Una mano è sempre ben accetta :) 🙏
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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🔍 Stiamo studiando come l'AI viene usata in Italia e per farlo abbiamo costruito un sondaggio!
👉 bit.ly/sondaggio_ai...
(è anonimo, richiede ~10 minuti, e se partecipi o lo fai girare ci aiuti un sacco🙏)
Ci interessa anche raggiungere persone che non si occupano e non sono esperte di AI!
👉 bit.ly/sondaggio_ai...
(è anonimo, richiede ~10 minuti, e se partecipi o lo fai girare ci aiuti un sacco🙏)
Ci interessa anche raggiungere persone che non si occupano e non sono esperte di AI!
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June 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
🔍 Stiamo studiando come l'AI viene usata in Italia e per farlo abbiamo costruito un sondaggio!
👉 bit.ly/sondaggio_ai...
(è anonimo, richiede ~10 minuti, e se partecipi o lo fai girare ci aiuti un sacco🙏)
Ci interessa anche raggiungere persone che non si occupano e non sono esperte di AI!
👉 bit.ly/sondaggio_ai...
(è anonimo, richiede ~10 minuti, e se partecipi o lo fai girare ci aiuti un sacco🙏)
Ci interessa anche raggiungere persone che non si occupano e non sono esperte di AI!
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If you're finishing your camera-ready for ACL or ICML and want to cite co-first authors more fairly, I just made a simple fix to do this! Just add $^*$ to the authors' names in your bibtex, and the citations should change :)
github.com/tpimentelms/...
github.com/tpimentelms/...
May 29, 2025 at 8:53 AM
If you're finishing your camera-ready for ACL or ICML and want to cite co-first authors more fairly, I just made a simple fix to do this! Just add $^*$ to the authors' names in your bibtex, and the citations should change :)
github.com/tpimentelms/...
github.com/tpimentelms/...
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I am in Boston because I believe in American democracy. I love our freedoms and our culture. I want to be teaching US students.
And I want to live and teach here in my home, where I grew up.
Why are we setting our home on fire?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/202...
And I want to live and teach here in my home, where I grew up.
Why are we setting our home on fire?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/202...
Trump administration orders US embassies to stop student visa interviews
Directive could severely delay visa processing and hurt universities that rely on foreign students for revenue
www.theguardian.com
May 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I am in Boston because I believe in American democracy. I love our freedoms and our culture. I want to be teaching US students.
And I want to live and teach here in my home, where I grew up.
Why are we setting our home on fire?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/202...
And I want to live and teach here in my home, where I grew up.
Why are we setting our home on fire?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/202...
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More great news! 🎉
Our paper “Echoes of Phonetics: Unveiling Relevant Acoustic Cues for ASR via Feature Attribution” has been accepted at #Interspeech2025!
If you’re interested in interpretability for speech models, stay tuned, the preprint is coming soon!
Our paper “Echoes of Phonetics: Unveiling Relevant Acoustic Cues for ASR via Feature Attribution” has been accepted at #Interspeech2025!
If you’re interested in interpretability for speech models, stay tuned, the preprint is coming soon!
May 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
More great news! 🎉
Our paper “Echoes of Phonetics: Unveiling Relevant Acoustic Cues for ASR via Feature Attribution” has been accepted at #Interspeech2025!
If you’re interested in interpretability for speech models, stay tuned, the preprint is coming soon!
Our paper “Echoes of Phonetics: Unveiling Relevant Acoustic Cues for ASR via Feature Attribution” has been accepted at #Interspeech2025!
If you’re interested in interpretability for speech models, stay tuned, the preprint is coming soon!
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Some of my newer work with many found that GenAI models (like Claude) create fake articles to justify discrimination. Fabricating articles for law isn't surprising...so why use them that way? =/
techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/a...
(Real) article on our work: www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/30/1...
techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/a...
(Real) article on our work: www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/30/1...
Anthropic’s lawyer was forced to apologize after Claude hallucinated a legal citation | TechCrunch
A lawyer representing Anthropic used Claude to generate citations in a court filing, then it hallucinated.
techcrunch.com
May 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Some of my newer work with many found that GenAI models (like Claude) create fake articles to justify discrimination. Fabricating articles for law isn't surprising...so why use them that way? =/
techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/a...
(Real) article on our work: www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/30/1...
techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/a...
(Real) article on our work: www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/30/1...
Wish I had a single @overleaf.com keyboard shortcut that would 1) append whatever I have in my clipboard to my bib file, 2) parse it, 3) extract the bibkey, and 4) paste it at my current cursor location in the editor.
May 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Wish I had a single @overleaf.com keyboard shortcut that would 1) append whatever I have in my clipboard to my bib file, 2) parse it, 3) extract the bibkey, and 4) paste it at my current cursor location in the editor.
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If you are interested in the relationship between what is happening INSIDE 🔍 of our models 🤖 and OUTSIDE 🏞️ of our models 🤖, consider submitting to our workshop at COLM. #LLM #NLProc
🚨🚨 Studying the INTERPLAY of LMs' internals and behavior?
Join our
@colmweb.org
workshop on comprehensivly evaluating LMs.
Deadline: June 23rd
CfP: shorturl.at/sBomu
Page: shorturl.at/FT3fX
We're excited to see your insights and methods!!
See you in Montréal 🇨🇦 #nlproc #interpretability
Join our
@colmweb.org
workshop on comprehensivly evaluating LMs.
Deadline: June 23rd
CfP: shorturl.at/sBomu
Page: shorturl.at/FT3fX
We're excited to see your insights and methods!!
See you in Montréal 🇨🇦 #nlproc #interpretability
May 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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BlackboxNLP is back! 💥
Happy to be part of the organizing team for this year, and super excited for our new shared task using the excellent MIB Benchmark, check it out! blackboxnlp.github.io/2025/task/
Happy to be part of the organizing team for this year, and super excited for our new shared task using the excellent MIB Benchmark, check it out! blackboxnlp.github.io/2025/task/
BlackboxNLP, the leading workshop on interpretability and analysis of language models, will be co-located with EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou this November! 📆
This edition will feature a new shared task on circuits/causal variable localization in LMs, details here: blackboxnlp.github.io/2025/task
This edition will feature a new shared task on circuits/causal variable localization in LMs, details here: blackboxnlp.github.io/2025/task
May 15, 2025 at 8:24 AM
BlackboxNLP is back! 💥
Happy to be part of the organizing team for this year, and super excited for our new shared task using the excellent MIB Benchmark, check it out! blackboxnlp.github.io/2025/task/
Happy to be part of the organizing team for this year, and super excited for our new shared task using the excellent MIB Benchmark, check it out! blackboxnlp.github.io/2025/task/
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I'm truly honoured that our paper "Causal Estimation of Memorisation Profiles" has been selected as the Paper of the Year by @cst.cam.ac.uk 🎉
I thank my amazing co-authors Clara Meister, Thomas Hofmann, @tpimentel.bsky.social, and my great advisor and co-author @andreasvlachos.bsky.social!
I thank my amazing co-authors Clara Meister, Thomas Hofmann, @tpimentel.bsky.social, and my great advisor and co-author @andreasvlachos.bsky.social!
🎉 Congratulations @pietrolesci.bsky.social, Clara Meister, Thomas Hofmann, @andreasvlachos.bsky.social & Tiago Pimentel! They won Publication of the Year at our annual Hall of Fame awards last week for their paper on 'Causal Estimation of Memorisation Profiles'. www.cst.cam.ac.uk/announcing-w...
April 30, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I'm truly honoured that our paper "Causal Estimation of Memorisation Profiles" has been selected as the Paper of the Year by @cst.cam.ac.uk 🎉
I thank my amazing co-authors Clara Meister, Thomas Hofmann, @tpimentel.bsky.social, and my great advisor and co-author @andreasvlachos.bsky.social!
I thank my amazing co-authors Clara Meister, Thomas Hofmann, @tpimentel.bsky.social, and my great advisor and co-author @andreasvlachos.bsky.social!
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Some news many years in the making: My book EMPIRE OF AI, out May 20, is ready for pre-order at empireofai.com. It tells the inside story of OpenAI as a lens for understanding the moment we’re in: the tech elite's extraordinary seizure of power and its threat to democracy. 1/
March 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Some news many years in the making: My book EMPIRE OF AI, out May 20, is ready for pre-order at empireofai.com. It tells the inside story of OpenAI as a lens for understanding the moment we’re in: the tech elite's extraordinary seizure of power and its threat to democracy. 1/
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White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.
March 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.