The Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI) workshop, supported by the Special Interest Group on NLP of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA) 1 and by the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics (AILC)2, aims at providing a broad overview of recent activities in the field of Human Language Technologies (HLT) in Italy. Since its first edition in 2017, the workshop has served as a platform for researchers to exchange experiences and insights on research and applications at the intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Like previous years, the current edition of the workshop was co-located within the International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2023)3, which took place on November 6-7th in Rome, Italy. The program of the meeting is available on the oficial workshop website 4. The workshop focused on various relevant topics that explore the role of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence applications, including: • NLP and AI Applications (health, legal domain, social media and journalism, etc.) • Natural Language Interfaces for Human Robot Interaction • Resources and Evaluation • Discourse and Pragmatics • Natural Language Generation • Information Extraction in AI Applications • Machine Learning for NLP • Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining • Natural Language Inference • NLP and Industrial Challenges • Semantics
The program co-chairs would like to warmly thank all the authors of the submitted papers, the two invited speakers and all the participants to this edition. Special thanks go to the Roma Tre University (Italy) for hosting the event and to the organizers of the AIxIA 2023 conference. Moreover, we acknowledge the AILC Board members for their trust and support.
This year edition featured 18 presentations of high-quality papers, which we believe provide a good balance between the diferent topics related to the workshop. The list of accepted papers (all included in this volume) are listed below:
The workshop also benefited from two keynote speakers whose talks addressed latest research themes with huge impact in AI and NLP research. The two invited talks were: • The Interplay Between Language Generation and Reasoning: Information Seeking Games, by Rafaella Bernardi (University of Trento, Italy) • Responsible AI in the Era of Large Language Models, by Christos Christodoulopoulos (Amazon, UK)
As a final remark, the program co-chairs would like to thank all the members of the Program Committee (listed below).
• Giuseppe Attanasio, Bocconi University (Italy) • Giuseppe Attardi, University of Pisa (Italy) • Pierpaolo Basile, University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy) • Valerio Basile, University of Turin (Italy) • Alessandro Bondielli, University of Pisa (Italy) • Elena Cabrio, Université Côte d’Azur, Inria, CNRS, I3S (France) • Franco Alberto Cardillo, Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli” (Italy) • Pierluigi Cassotti, University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy) • Camilla Casula, University of Trento, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy) • Danilo Croce, University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy) • Pietro Dell’Oglio, University of Florence (Italy) • Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa (Italy) • Elisa Leonardelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy) • Stefano Menini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy) • Alessio Miaschi, Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli” (Italy) • Benjamin Molinet, Université Côte d’Azur, Inria, CNRS, I3S (France) • Teresa Paccosi, University of Trento, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy) • Alessio Palmero Aprosio, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy) • Nicolò Penzo, University of Trento, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy) • Roberto Pirrone, University of Palermo (Italy) • Marco Rovera, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy) • Daniel Russo, University of Trento, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy) • Lucia Siciliani, University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy) • Rachele Sprugnoli, University of Parma (Italy) • Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy) • Mike Zhang, IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark)