CLiC-it 2023
Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 86 papers submitted for peer-review to this conference. Out of these, 75 papers were accepted for this volume, 54 as regular papers and 21 as short papers.

Welcome Keynote

• When the Lab of CompLing Was Started at the University of Venice - Preface to the Proceedings of the First Workshop Held in 1982 (short paper)
  Rodolfo Delmonte

Long papers

• Legal Summarization: to Each Court its Own Model
  Flavia Achena , David Preti , Davide Venditti , Leonardo Ranaldi , Cristina Giannone , Fabio Massimo Zanzotto , Andrea Favalli , Raniero Romagnoli
• CorpusCompass: A Tool for Data Extraction and Dataset Generation in Corpus Linguistics
  Muhadj Adnan , Nicolo' Brandizzi
• Harnessing 'Il Manifesto' Newspaper Archive for Knowledge Base Creation: Techniques and Findings in the 'MeMa' Project
  Robert J. Alexander , Matteo Bartocci , Oriana Persico , Guido Vetere
• Unmasking the Wordsmith: Revealing Author Identity through Reader Reviews
  Chiara Alzetta , Felice Dell'Orletta , Chiara Fazzone , Alessio Miaschi , Giulia Venturi
• Integrated Gradients as Proxy of Disagreement in Hateful Content
  Alessandro Astorino , Giulia Rizzi , Elisabetta Fersini
• Challenging Specialized Transformers on Zero-shot Classification
  Serena Auriemma , Mauro Madeddu , Martina Miliani , Alessandro Bondielli , Alessandro Lenci , Lucia Passaro
• Bias Mitigation in Misogynous Meme Recognition: A Preliminary Study
  Gianmaria Balducci , Giulia Rizzi , Elisabetta Fersini
• Building a Spoken Dialogue System for Supporting Blind People in Accessing Mathematical Expressions
  Pier Felice Balestrucci , Luca Anselma , Cristian Bernareggi , Alessandro Mazzei
• Contrastive Language–Image Pre-training for the Italian Language
  Federico Bianchi , Giuseppe Attanasio , Raphael Pisoni , Silvia Terragni , Gabriele Sarti , Dario Balestri
• Modelling and Publishing the "Lexicon der indogermanischen Verben" as Linked Open Data
  Valeria Irene Boano , Francesco Mambrini , Marco Passarotti , Riccardo Ginevra
• How Green is Sentiment Analysis? Environmental Topics in Corpora at the University of Turin
  Cristina Bosco , Muhammad Okky Ibrohim , Valerio Basile , Indra Budi
• "Ti blocco perché sei un trollazzo". Lexical Innovation in Contemporary Italian in a Large Twitter Corpus
  Paolo Brasolin , Greta Hayley Franzini , Stefania Spina
• Testing ChatGPT for Stability and Reasoning: A Case Study Using Italian Medical Specialty Tests
  Silvia Casola , Tiziano Labruna , Alberto Lavelli , Bernardo Magnini
• Assessing Language and Vision-Language Models on Event Plausibility
  Maria Cassese , Alessandro Bondielli , Alessandro Lenci
• GPT-based Language Models meet Emojitaliano: A Preliminary Assessment Test between Automation and Creativity
  Francesca Chiusaroli , Tiberio Uricchio , Johanna Monti , Maria Laura Pierucci , Federico Sangati
• Linking Stance and Stereotypes About Migrants in Italian Fake News
  Alessandra Teresa Cignarella , Simona Frenda , Tom Bourgeade , Cristina Bosco , Francesca D'Errico
• Interpretation of Generalization in Masked Language Models: An Investigation Straddling Quantifiers and Generics
  Claudia Collacciani , Giulia Rambelli
• Highway to Hell. Towards a Universal Dependencies Treebank for Dante Alighieri’s Comedy
  Claudia Corbetta , Marco Passarotti , Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini , Giovanni Moretti
• Towards an Italian Corpus for Implicit Object Completion
  Agnese Daffara , Elisabetta Jezek
• Linking the Corpus CLaSSES to the LiLa Knowledge Base of Interoperable Linguistic Resources for Latin
  Irene De Felice , Lucia Tamponi , Federica Iurescia , Marco Passarotti
• Processing Effort During Reading Texts in Young Adults: Text Simplification, Readability Assessment and Preliminary Eye-tracking Data
  Maria De Martino
• An Experiment in Error Analysis of Real-time Speech Machine Translation Using the Example of the European Parliament’s Innovation Partnership
  Elisa Di Nuovo
• A Cognitive Linguistics Analysis of Phrasal Verbs Representation in Distributional Semantics
  Melissa Donati , Carlo Strapparava
• How To Build Competitive Multi-gender Speech Translation Models For Controlling Speaker Gender Translation
  Marco Gaido , Dennis Fucci , Matteo Negri , Luisa Bentivogli
• Hate Speech Detection in an Italian Incel Forum Using Bilingual Data for Pre-Training and Fine-Tuning
  Paolo Gajo , Silvia Bernardini , Adriano Ferraresi , Alberto Barrón-Cedeño
• Linking the Dictionary of Medieval Latin in the Czech Lands to the LiLa Knowledge Base
  Federica Gamba , Marco C. Passarotti , Paolo Ruffolo
• Check-IT!: A Corpus of Expert Fact-checked Claims for Italian
  Jacopo Gili , Lucia Passaro , Tommaso Caselli
• End-to-end Dependency Parsing via Auto-regressive Large Language Model
  Claudiu Daniel Hromei , Danilo Croce , Roberto Basili
• DisaggregHate It Corpus: A Disaggregated Italian Dataset of Hate Speech
  Marco Madeddu Simona Frenda Mirko Lai Viviana Patti Valerio Basile
• Automatic Detection of Parkinson's Disease with Connected Speech Acoustic Features: Towards a Linguistically Interpretable Approach
  Marta Maffia , Loredana Schettino , Vincenzo Norman Vitale
• Introducing Deep Learning with Data Augmentation and Corpus Construction for LIS
  Manuela Marchisio , Alessandro Mazzei , Dario Sammaruga
• XL-WA: a Gold Evaluation Benchmark for Word Alignment in 14 Language Pairs
  Federico Martelli , Andrei Stefan Bejgu , Cesare Campagnano , Jaka Čibej , Rute Costa , Apolonija Gantar , Jelena Kallas , Svetla Peneva Koeva , Kristina Koppel , Simon Krek , Margit Langemets , Veronika Lipp , Sanni Nimb , Sussi Olsen , Bolette Sanford Pedersen , Valeria Quochi , Ana Salgado , László Simon , Carole Tiberius , Rafael-J Ureña-Ruiz , Roberto Navigli
• Is Change the Only Constant? An Inquiry into Diachronic Semantic Shifts in Italian and Spanish
  Matteo Melis , Anastasiia Salova , Roberto Zamparelli
• Building Structured Synthetic Datasets: The Case of Blackbird Language Matrices (BLMs)
  Paola Merlo , Giuseppe Samo , Vivi Nastase , Chunyang Jiang
• Simplifying Administrative Texts for Italian L2 Readers with Controllable Transformers Models: A Data-driven Approach
  Martina Miliani , Fernando Alva-Manchego , Alessandro Lenci
• Multi-task Learning for German Text Readability Assessment
  Salar Mohtaj , Vera Schmitt , Razieh Khamsehashari , Sebastian Möller
• Is It Really That Simple? Prompting Large Language Models for Automatic Text Simplification in Italian
  Debora Nozza , Giuseppe Attanasio
• Unraveling Text Coherence from the Human Perspective: a Novel Dataset for Italian
  Federica Papa , Luca Dini , Dominique Brunato , Felice Dell'Orletta
• Lost in Labels: An Ongoing Quest to Optimize Text-to-Text Label Selection for Classification
  Michele Papucci , Alessio Miaschi , Felice Dell'Orletta
• Are All Languages Equal? Curriculum Learning over Different Languages
  Giulia Pucci , Leonardo Ranaldi , Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
• Prompting LLMs in Italian Language for Text-to-SQL Translation
  Federico Ranaldi , Elena Sofia Ruzzetti , Leonardo Ranaldi , Davide Venditti , Cristina Giannone , Andrea Favalli , Raniero Romagnoli , Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
• Beyond Obscuration and Visibility: Thoughts on the Different Strategies of Gender-Fair Language in Italian
  Martina Rosola , Simona Frenda , Alessandra Teresa Cignarella , Matteo Pellegrini , Andrea Marra , Mara Floris
• Blaze-IT: A Lightweight BERT Model for the Italian Language
  Francesco Russo , Michele Filannino
• Camoscio: An Italian Instruction-tuned LLaMA
  Andrea Santilli , Emanuele Rodolà
• Automatic Generation of Common Procurement Vocabulary Codes
  Lucia Siciliani , Emanuele Tanzi , Pierpaolo Basile , Pasquale Lops
• Inters8: A Corpus to Study Misogyny and Intersectionality on Twitter
  Ivan Spada , Mirko Lai , Viviana Patti
• Let's Keep an Eye on Russian: Testing Sensitivity to the Change in the Grammatical Number in Somatic Idioms with ruBERT
  Elena Spaziani , Eliana Di Palma
• “That branch of the Lake of Como...”: Developing a New Resource for the Analysis of I Promessi Sposi and its Historical Translations
  Rachele Sprugnoli , Marco Sartor
• Qualitative Analysis of Persuasive Emotion Triggering in Online Content
  Olga Uryupina
• When You Doubt, Abstain: A Study of Automated Fact-Checking in Italian under Domain Shift
  Giovanni Valer , Alan Ramponi , Sara Tonelli
• On Incrementing Interpretability of Machine Learning Models from the Foundations: A Study on Syllabic Speech Units
  Vincenzo Norman Vitale , Loredana Schettino , Francesco Cutugno
• Drug Name Recognition in the Cryptomarket Forum of Silk Road 2
  Romane Werner , Thomas François , Sonja Bitzer
• Italian Crossword Generator: Enhancing Education through Interactive Word Puzzles
  Kamyar Zeinalipour , Tommaso Iaquinta , Asya Zanollo , Giovanni Angelini , Leonardo Rigutini , Marco Maggini , Marco Gori
• Die Rätselrevolution: Automated German Crossword Solving
  Andrea Zugarini , Thomas Röthenbacher , Kai Klede , Marco Ernandes , Bjoern M. Eskofier , Dario Zanca

Short papers

• Towards a Multilingual System for Vaccine Hesitancy Using a Data Mixture Approach
  Oscar Araque , María Felipa Ledesma Corniel , Kyriaki Kalimeri
• TAll: A New Shiny App of Text Analysis for All
  Massimo Aria , Corrado Cuccurullo , Luca D'Aniello , Michelangelo Misuraca , Maria Spano
• On the Impact of Language Adaptation for Large Language Models: A Case Study for the Italian Language Using Only Open Resources
  Pierpaolo Basile , Pierluigi Cassotti , Marco Polignano , Lucia Siciliani , Giovanni Semeraro
• Annotating Homeric Emotions by a Domain-Specific Language
  Federico Boschetti , Laura Chilla , Maria Konstantinidou , John Pavlopoulos
• How Good is NLLB for Low-resource Languages? A Study on the Genoese Language
  Davide Buscaldi , Paolo Rosso
• Debunker Assistant: A Support for Detecting Online Misinformation
  Arthur Thomas Edward Capozzi Lupi , Alessandra Teresa Cignarella , Simona Frenda , Mirko Lai , Marco Antonio Stranisci , Alessandra Urbinati
• Towards a Multi-Level Annotation Format for the Interoperability of Automatic Term Extraction Corpora
  Nicola Cirillo , Daniela Vellutino
• The PBSDS: A Dataset for the Detection of Pseudoprofound Bullshit
  Evan D. DeFrancesco , Carlo Strapparava
• A Post-Modern Approach to Automatic Metaphor Identification
  Dario Del Fante , Federico Manzella , Guido Sciavicco , Eduard Ionel Stan
• Building a Corpus on Eating Disorders from TikTok: Challenges and Opportunities
  Melissa Donati , Ludovica Polidori , Paola Vernillo , Gloria Gagliardi
• A Preliminary Release of the Italian Parliamentary Corpus
  Valentino Frasnelli , Alessio Palmero Aprosio
• Extracting an Expectation-based Lexicon for UD Treebanks
  Matteo Gay , Cristiano Chesi
• An Analysis of Visually Grounded Instructions in Embodied AI Tasks
  Marco Grazioso , Alessandro Suglia
• Exploring Sentiments in Summarization: SentiTextRank, an Emotional Variant of TextRank
  Md. Murad Hossain , Luca Anselma , Alessandro Mazzei
• An Italian Verb Lexicon for Sentiment Inference
  Manfred Klenner , Dylan Massey , Susanna Tron
• The Inherence of Telicity: Unveiling Temporal Reasoning in Video Question Answering
  Olga Loginova , Raffaella Bernardi
• Identification of Multiword Expressions: Comparing the Performance of a Conditional Random Fields Model on Corpora of Written and Spoken Italian
  Ilaria Manfredi , Lorenzo Gregori
• Teasing LLMs Adapted to Italian
  Leonardo Ranaldi , Giulia Pucci , Elena Sofia Ruzzetti , Fabio Massimo Zanzotto , André Freitas
• Investigating Gender Bias in Large Language Models for the Italian Language
  Elena Sofia Ruzzetti , Dario Onorati , Leonardo Ranaldi , Davide Venditti , Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
• Towards a New Computational Lexicon for Italian: Building the Morphological Layer by Harmonizing and Merging Existing Resources
  Flavia Sciolette , Simone Marchi , Emiliano Giovannetti
• Textual Entailment with Natural Language Explanations: The Italian e-RTE-3 Dataset
  Andrea Zaninello , Sofia Brenna , Bernardo Magnini