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Preface to the CLiC-it 2024 Proceedings
Felice Dell’Orletta1 , Alessandro Lenci2 , Simonetta Montemagni1 and Rachele Sprugnoli3
1
CNR-Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli”, Pisa
2
University of Pisa
3
University of Parma
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Italian Con- ference and for publication in the proceedings, resulting
ference on Computational Linguistics. To celebrate this in an acceptance rate of 85.7% (with respect to the rate
important achievement for the whole Italian community, of 87.21% for CLiC-it 2023).
CLiC-it 2024 is held in Pisa, like for its first edition in Out of the 114 accepted proposals, 32 were included
2014, from 4th to 6th December 2024. in the program as oral presentations (divided into 6 oral
Concerning the scientific organization of the confer- sessions) and the remaining 82 were assigned to one of
ence, two types of submissions were possible: regular the three poster sessions dedicated to the regular papers.
papers, describing substantial, original, completed, and As usual, the criterion for assigning a proposal to an oral
unpublished work, and short research communications or a poster session was based on the contents and not on
of outstanding papers accepted in both 2023 and 2024 by the quality of the proposal. An additional poster session
major publication venues, such as the major international was organized for the 19 research communications that
Computational Linguistics conferences (workshops ex- are not published in the proceedings.
cluded) or international journals. These latter contribu- An important novelty of this edition is the organization
tions are not published in the conference proceedings but of the special event CALAMITA (Challenge the Abilities
are aimed to promote the dissemination of high-quality of LAnguage Models in ITAlian) which took place on
research within the Italian community. the afternoon of December 6th. The aim of CALAMITA,
Like in the previous edition, the conference was not or- that collected 20 tasks, is the collaborative creation of a
ganized into separate tracks. Submissions were assigned dynamic benchmark to evaluate Large Language Models
to area chairs (thirteen program committee members) supporting the Italian language.
according to a set of topics chosen by the authors at sub- In addition to the technical program, this year the
mission time. This way we were able to achieve a better conference hosted an interview with Oliviero Stock (Fon-
balance of papers for each area chair, while respecting dazione Bruno Kessler, Trento) and Nicoletta Calzolari
their research interests. Paper assignment to reviewers (CNR-ILC, Pisa) on the past, present, and future of com-
was also managed globally, with a single pool of 140 putational linguistics in Italy, in relation to the wider
reviewers, to better monitor the whole process. international landscape. In addition, we were honored to
We have received a record number of submissions for have as invited speakers two internationally recognized
regular papers: 133 compared to 86 in 2023 (+47). This researchers:
result demonstrates the vitality and growth of the Italian
Computational Linguistics community. In addition we • Giosuè Baggio (Norwegian University of Science
received 19 submissions for short research communica- and Technology, Trondheim), with a keynote enti-
tions. tled “Meaning and grammar in a parallel architec-
During the reviewing process, each regular paper sub- ture for language processing”: This talk introduces
mission was reviewed by three independent reviewers a novel cognitive and computational architecture
in single-blind fashion. At the end of the process, 114 for human language processing. The architecture
proposals were accepted for presentation at the con- features parallel streams for meaning and gram-
mar, drawing from a shared mental lexicon and
CLiC-it 2024: 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, contributing concurrently to incremental updates
Dec 04 - Dec 06, 2024, Pisa, Italy
of a discourse model. Intermediate representations
$ felice.dellorletta@ilc.cnr.it (F. Dell’Orletta);
alessandro.lenci@unipi.it (A. Lenci); simonetta.montemagni@cnr.it are generated independently within each stream, re-
(S. Montemagni); rachele.sprugnoli@unipr.it (R. Sprugnoli) sulting in a range of possible interactions between
https://www.ilc.cnr.it/people/felice-dellorletta-2/ meaning and grammar — from dominance and
(F. Dell’Orletta); https://people.unipi.it/alessandro_lenci/ (A. Lenci); redundancy to competition and conflict. Linguis-
https://www.ilc.cnr.it/people/simonetta-montemagni-2/
tic phenomena illustrating these different interac-
(S. Montemagni);
https://personale.unipr.it/it/ugovdocenti/person/236480 tions and present experimental results corroborat-
(R. Sprugnoli) ing the architecture’s processing consequences are
© 2024 Copyright for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). presented. Then a computational model that aligns
with experimental results and that demonstrates and Talia4 (Silver), aequa-tech5 , Almawave6 and ELRA7
the importance of intermediate representations is (Bronze), Translated8 (Iron), and Meta9 that supported
described. Some considerations on how the theory the trip of Dieuwke Hupkes.
reconciles two key principles in linguistics — com- Finally, we want to thank very much the Associazione
positionality and context — and the traditions that Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale (AILC), all the
build on them conclude the talk.. members of the Association Board who supported and
• Dieuwke Hupkes (Meta AI Research, Paris, guided us in organizing the conference.
France), with a keynote entitled “Generalisation
in LLMs – and beyond”: “Good generalisation” is Pisa, December 2024
often mentioned as a desirable property for NLP
models. For LLMs, in the light of the sheer train-
ing corpora, among other things, it becomes more
Conference Chairs
and more challenging to understand if our models • Felice Dell’Orletta, CNR-Institute for Computa-
generalise, and how important that still is. In this tional Linguistics "A. Zampolli"
presentation, I briefly discuss generalisation in NLP • Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa
on a higher level, and then move on to discussing it
• Simonetta Montemagni, CNR-Institute for
specifically for LLMs. What types of generalisation
Computational Linguistics "A. Zampolli"
are still important, how would we evaluate it, and
• Rachele Sprugnoli, University of Parma
is it possible to evaluate it independently from the
training corpus? I will – hopefully – answer some
of your questions, but also raise a lot more!. CALAMITA Chairs
In the first morning of the Conference, Bernardo • Pierpaolo Basile, University of Bari Aldo Moro
Magnini and Giovanni Bonetta (FBK, Trento) gave a tu- • Danilo Croce, University of Rome, Tor Vergata
torial entitled "You Are what You Eat: Processing Data • Malvina Nissim, University of Groningen
for Training and Evaluating LLMs".
• Viviana Patti, University of Turin
This year we received 9 candidate theses for the
“Emanuele Pianta Award for the Best Master The-
sis”. This special prize for the best Master Thesis (Laurea CALAMITA Data and Evaluation
Magistrale) in Computational Linguistics, submitted at
an Italian University, commemorates the late lamented Team
Emmanuele Pianta and is endorsed by AILC. The can-
• Giuseppe Attanasio, Instituto de Telecomuni-
didate theses have been evaluated by a jury composed
cações, Lisbon
by Gianluca Lebani (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice),
• Federico Borazio, University of Rome, Tor Ver-
Rachele Sprugnoli (University of Parma) and Sara Tonelli
gata
(Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento). The winner was
awarded during the closing session of the conference by • Maria Francis, University of Groningen & Uni-
the members of the jury. versity of Trento
We thank all the people and institutions involved • Jacopo Gili, University of Turin
in the organization of the conference, all area chairs, • Elio Musacchio, University of Bari Aldo Moro
reviewers, and all participants, who contributed to the • Matteo Rinaldi, University of Turin
success of the event. Chairs and reviewers are named in • Daniel Scalena, University of Groningen & Uni-
the following pages. We are grateful to the CNR-Institute versity of Milan Bicocca
for Computational Linguistics "A. Zampolli" that made
CLiC-it 2024 possible by hosting the event and supporting
us greatly in the processes of local organization, and to Local Organization Committee
the University of Pisa1 that endorsed our event.
• Chiara Alzetta, CNR-Institute for Computa-
We would like to thank our supporters, who gener-
tional Linguistics "A. Zampolli"
ously provided funds and services that are crucial for
the realization of this event: Aptus.AI2 , CLARIN-IT3 • Serena Auriemma, University of Pisa
4
https://talia.cloud/
5
https://aequa-tech.com/
6
https://www.almawave.com/it/
1 7
https://www.unipi.it/ https://www.elra.info/
2 8
https://www.aptus.ai/ https://translated.com/
3 9
https://www.clarin-it.it/ https://www.meta.com/
• Alessandro Bondielli, University of Pisa Reviewers
• Luca Dini, CNR-Institute for Computational Lin-
guistics "A. Zampolli" Chiara Alzetta, Oscar Araque, Serena Auriemma, Pier
• Chiara Fazzone, CNR-Institute for Computa- Balestrucci, Matilde Barbini, Valerio Basile, Pierpaolo
tional Linguistics "A. Zampolli" Basile, Elisa Bassignana, Mauro Bennici, Davide Bernardi,
• Martina Miliani, University of Pisa Monica Berti, Leonardo Bertolazzi, Siddharth Bhargava,
Andrea Bolioli, Helena Bonaldi, Alessandro Bondielli,
Federico Boschetti, Cristina Bosco, Luca Brigada Villa,
Proceedings Chairs Davide Buscaldi, Lucia Busso, Luca Capone, Franco Al-
berto Cardillo, Tommaso Caselli, Silvia Casola, Pier-
• Danilo Croce, University of Rome “Tor Vergata” luigi Cassotti, Camilla Casula, Flavio Massimiliano Cec-
• Andrea Zaninello, Fondazione Bruno Kessler chini, Mauro Cettolo, Francesca Chiusaroli, Alessandra
Teresa Cignarella, Lorenzo Cima, Fabio Ciotti, Davide
Colla, Serena Coschignano, Danilo Croce, Francesco
Webmasters Cutugno, Lorenzo De Mattei, Marco DeGemmis, An-
gelo Mario Del Grosso, Pietro Dell’Oglio, Rodolfo Del-
• Alessio Miaschi, CNR-Institute for Computa-
monte, Andrea Di Babio, Maria Pia di Buono, Maria
tional Linguistics "A. Zampolli"
Di Maro, Elisa Di Nuovo, Luca Dini, Luca Ducceschi,
• Marta Sartor, CNR-Institute for Computational
Andrea Esuli, Alfio Ferrara, Marcello Ferro, Elisabetta
Linguistics "A. Zampolli"
Fersini, Greta Franzini, Simona Frenda, Francesca Fron-
tini, Dennis Fucci, Achille Fusco, Gloria Gagliardi, Sara
Publicity Chair Gemelli, Pierpaolo Goffredo, Francesca Grasso, Lorenzo
Gregori, Michael Hanna, Delia Irazu Hernandez Farias,
• Sofia Brenna, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Claudiu Hromei, Elisabetta Jezek, Fahad Khan, Joachim
Kokkelmans, Tiziano Labruna, Katarina Laken, Alberto
Lavelli, Eleonora Litta, Soda Marem Lo, Agnese Lom-
Booklet bardi, Bernardo Magnini, Simone Magnolini, Francesco
Mambrini, Raffaele Manna, Marta Marchiori Manerba,
• Chiara Alzetta, CNR-Institute for Computa-
Claudia Marzi, Enrico Mensa, Alessio Miaschi, Martina
tional Linguistics "A. Zampolli"
Miliani, Gosse Minnema, Monica Monachini, Johanna
Monti, Benedetta Muscato, Vivi Nastase, Roberto Nav-
Registration System Management igli, Renáta Németh, Sofia Neri, Nicole Novielli, Antonio
Origlia, Teresa Paccosi, Alessio Palmero Aprosio, En-
• Sara Barcena, freelance designer dang Pamungkas, Ludovica Pannitto, Marco Passarotti,
Viviana Patti, Matteo Pellegrini, Nicolò Penzo, Fed-
erico Pianzola, Maria Letizia Piccini Bianchessi, Andrea
Area Chairs Piergentili, Vito Pirrelli, Roberto Pirrone, Flor Miriam
Plaza-del-Arco, Massimo Poesio, Mattia Proietti, Vale-
• Dominique Brunato, CNR-Institute for Compu-
ria Quochi, Giulia Rambelli, Giuseppe Rizzo, Matteo Ro-
tational Linguistics "A. Zampolli"
manello, Marco Rovera, Chiara Rubagotti, Irene Russo,
• Cristiano Chesi, IUSS Pavia
Daniel Russo, Manuela Sanguinetti, Gabriele Sarti, Beat-
• Roberta Claudia Combei, University of Pavia rice Savoldi, Giovanni Semeraro, Lucia Siciliani, Claudia
• Diego Frassinelli, Ludwig-Maximilians- Soria, Manuela Speranza, Giulia Speranza, Marco An-
Universität München tonio Stranisci, Carlo Strapparava, Alice Suozzi, Fabio
• Gianluca Lebani, Ca’ Foscari University of Tamburini, Benedetta Tessa, Sara Tonelli, Olga Uryupina,
Venice Rossella Varvara, Giulia Venturi, Guido Vetere, Alessan-
• Alessandro Mazzei, University of Torino dro Vietti, Serena Villata, Vincenzo Norman Vitale, An-
• Johanna Monti, Orientale University of Naples drea Zaninello, Roberto Zanoli.
• Malvina Nissim, University of Groningen
• Debora Nozza, Bocconi University
• Lucia Passaro, University of Pisa
• Marco Polignano, University of Bari
• Roberto Zamparelli, University of Trento
• Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome
“Tor Vergata”