4University of Bari “Aldo Moro” The ninth edition of the Italian Conference on Compumonitoring the whole process, including good per paper tational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2023) was held from 30th sity of Venice, in the beautiful venue of the Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino. After the edition of 2020, which was organized in fully virtual mode due to the health emergency related to Covid-19, and CLiC-it we are back to a fully in-presence conference. Overall, almost 210 participants registered to the conference, con- the program of CLiC-it 2023 as oral presentations and ifrming that the community is eager to meet in person and to enjoy both the scientific and social events together with the colleagues.
https://collab.di.uniba.it/nicole/ (N. Novielli) this? In this talk, I’ll discuss the role of LLMs (such as ChatGPT, GPT-4 and open alternatives) for research in cultural analytics, both raising issues about the use of closed models for scholarly in- for the realization of this event: Talia5 (Platinum), Alquiry and charting the opportunity that such mod- mawave6 and Aptus.AI7 (Gold), aecqua.tech and trnslated els present. The rise of large pre-trained language 8 (Bronze) and the Department of Linguistics and Commodels has the potential to radically transform the parative Cultural Studies of the Ca’ Foscari University of space of cultural analytics by both reducing the Venice 9. need for large-scale training data for new tasks and Finally, we want to thank very much the Associazione lowering the technical barrier to entry, but need Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale (AILC), all the care in establishing the reliability of results. members of the Association Board and, in particular, the • Vera Demberg (Saarland University), with a President Simonetta Montemagni and Elisabetta Fersini, keynote entitled “Pragmatic processing in hu- who never let us alone in the sea of doubts and problems mans and language models”: Pragmatic process- that organizing such an ever-changing event implies. ing concerns inferences that go beyond the literal meaning of a text or utterance. In my talk, I will go Venice, December 2023 through diferent types of pragmatic inferences, including scalar implicatures, atypicality inferences Conference Chairs and other tasks requiring theory of mind reasoning; for each of these, I will discuss recent work from our lab and others, regarding the ability of large language models, and of humans, to handle these phenomena. • Federico Boschetti, CNR-Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli” / Ca’ Foscari
University of Venice • Gianluca E. Lebani, Ca’ Foscari University of
Venice • Bernardo Magnini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler • Nicole Novielli, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”
On the last morning of the Conference, Danilo Croce and Claudiu Daniel Hromei (University of Rome, Tor Vergata) gave a tutorial on the state-of-the-art Large Language Models and how to instruction-tuned in a sustainable way.
This year we received 7 candidate theses for the “Emanuele Pianta Award for the Best Master Thesis”. This special prize for the best Master Thesis (Laurea Magistrale) in Computational Linguistics, submitted at an Italian University, is endorsed by AILC. The candidate theses have been evaluated by a jury composed by Pierpaolo Basile (University of Bari “Aldo Moro”), Gianluca E. Lebani (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) and Viviana Patti (University of Turin). The winner was awarded during the closing session of the conference by the members of the jury.
We thank all the people and institutions involved in the organization of the conference, all area chairs, reviewers, and all participants, who contributed to the success of the event. All area chairs and reviewers are named in the following pages. We are grateful to the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities1, that made CLiC-it 2023 possible by hosting the event and supporting us greatly in the processes of local organization, and to the organizations that endorsed our event: the Italian Association of Digital Humanities 2, the European Centre for Living Technology hosted by Ca’ Foscari3 and the Future Artificial Intelligence Research Foundation 4.
We would like to thank our supporters, who generously provided funds and services that are crucial
• Franz Fisher, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice • Cristina Procentese, Ca’ Foscari University of
Venice • Matteo Radaelli, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Luca Molinari, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice / University of Warsaw • Andrea Zaninello, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
• Eleonora Ghizzota, University of Bari “Aldo
Moro” • Tiziano Labruna, Fondazione Bruno Kessler • Sofia Brenna , Fondazione Bruno Kessler
6https://www.almawave.com/it/ 7https://www.aptus.ai/ 8https://translated.com/ 9https://www.unive.it/dslcc Area Chairs • Alice Suozzi, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice