CLiC-it 2025
Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 123 papers submitted for peer-review to this conference. Out of these, 109 papers were accepted for this volume, 109 as regular papers and 0 as short papers.

Main Conference, long papers

• Contemporary Voices in Ancient Tongue: Integrating Papal Encyclicals into the LiLa KB
  Aurora Alagni , Federica Iurescia , Eleonora Litta
• Ellipsis in Enhanced Dependencies: A Case Study on Latin
  Lisa Sophie Albertelli , Lorenzo Augello , Giulia Calvi , Annachiara Clementelli , Federica Iurescia , Claudia Corbetta
• Low- vs High-level Lemmatization for Historical Languages. a Case Study on Italian
  Chiara Alzetta , Simonetta Montemagni
• PeRAG: Multi-Modal Perspective-Oriented Verbalization with RAG for Inclusive Decision Making
  Muhammad Saad Amin , Horacio Jesús Jarquín-Vásquez , Franco Sansonetti , Simona Lo Giudice , Valerio Basile , Viviana Patti
• Beyond Raw Text: Knowledge-Augmented Italian Relation Extraction with Large Language Models
  Gianmaria Balducci , Elisabetta Fersini , Messina Enza
• When Figures Speak with Irony: Investigating the Role of Rhetorical Figures in Irony Generation with LLMs
  Pier Felice Balestrucci , Michael Oliverio , Soda Marem Lo , Luca Anselma , Valerio Basile , Alessandro Mazzei , Viviana Patti
• BLiMP-IT: Harnessing Automatic Minimal Pair Generation for Italian Language Model Evaluation
  Matilde Barbini , Maria Letizia Piccini Bianchessi , Veronica Bressan , Achille Fusco , Sofia Neri , Sarah Rossi , Tommaso Sgrizzi , Cristiano Chesi
• Do LLMs Authentically Represent Affective Experiences of People with Disabilities on Social Media?
  Marco Bombieri , Simone Paolo Ponzetto , Marco Rospocher
• LLMs Struggle on Explicit Causality in Italian
  Alessandro Bondielli , Martina Miliani , Luca Paglione , Serena Auriemma , Lucia C. Passaro , Alessandro Lenci
• Sparse Autoencoders Find Partially Interpretable Features in Italian Small Language Models
  Alessandro Bondielli , Lucia C. Passaro , Alessandro Lenci
• A Novel Real-World Dataset of Italian Clinical Notes for NLP-based Decision Support in Low Back Pain Treatment
  Agnese Bonfigli , Ruben Piperno , Luca Bacco , Felice Dell'Orletta , Dominique Brunato , Filippo Crispino , Giuseppe Francesco Papalia , Fabrizio Russo , Gianluca Vadalà , Rocco Papalia , Mario Merone , Leandro Pecchia
• MakeItSample: A Python Library for Generating Typological Language Samples Based on the Diversity Value Metric
  Luca Brigada Villa
• The OuLiBench Benchmark: Formal Constraints as a Lens into LLM Linguistic Competence
  Silvio Calderaro , Alessio Miaschi , Felice Dell'Orletta
• BES4RAG: A Framework for Embedding Model Selection in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
  Lorenzo Canale , Stefano Scotta , Alberto Messina , Laura Farinetti
• BAMBI Goes to School: Evaluating Italian BabyLMs with Invalsi-ITA
  Luca Capone , Alice Suozzi , Gianluca Lebani , Alessandro Lenci
• Arbuli Sunnu: A Sicilian-Italian Parallel Treebank
  Caterina Maria Cappello , Sabrina D'Alì , Mario Guglielmetti , Elisa Di Nuovo , Cristina Bosco
• A BERT-Based Approach for Part-of-Speech Tagging in the Low-Resource Context of Sardinian
  Salvatore Mario Carta , Filippo Concas , Gianni Fenu , Alessandro Giuliani , Marco Manolo Manca , Mirko Marras , Piergiorgio Mura , Simone Pisano
• A Hypothesis-Driven Framework for Detecting Lexical Semantic Change
  Pierluigi Cassotti , Nina Tahmasebi
• Balancing Translation Quality and Environmental Impact: Comparing Large and Small Language Models
  Antonio Castaldo , Petra Giommarelli , Johanna Monti
• On the Impact of Hate Speech Synthetic Data on Model Fairness
  Camilla Casula , Sara Tonelli
• Classifying Gas Pipe Damage Descriptions in Low-Diversity Corpora
  Luca Catalano , Federico D'Asaro , Michele Pantaleo , Minal Jamshed , Prima Acharjee , Nicola Giulietti , Eugenio Fossat , Giuseppe Rizzo
• Knowledge-Grounded Detection of Factual Hallucinations in Large Language Models
  Cristian Ceccarelli , Alessandro Raganato , Marco Viviani
• Benchmarking Historical Phase Recognition from Text and Events
  Fabio Celli , Marco Rovera
• Ontology-Guided Domain Entity Recognition in Environmental Texts: Evaluating Syntax-Driven and LLM Approaches Using BabelNet and GEMET
  Elisa Chierchiello , Patricia Chiril , Adriana Pagano
• Crossword Space: Latent Manifold Learning for Italian Crosswords and beyond
  Cristiano Ciaccio , Gabriele Sarti , Alessio Miaschi , Felice Dell'Orletta
• Veras Audire Et Reddere Voces: A Corpus of Prosodically-Correct Latin Poetic Audio from Large-Language-Model TTS
  Michele Ciletti
• A Tough Hoe to Row: Instruction Fine-Tuning LLaMA 3.2 for Multilingual Idiom Processing
  Debora Ciminari , Alberto Barrón-Cedeño
• Semantic Priming in GPT: Investigating LLMs through a Cognitive Psychology Lens
  Filippo Colombi , Carlo Strapparava
• Verso La Valutazione Automatizzata Dell'italiano L2: ETET Tra LLM E Tecnologie Vocali
  Anna Vignoli , Claudia Roberta Combei , Francesco Zappulla
• What Is Better for Syntactic Parsing? A Comparison between Supervised and Unsupervised Models on Dante and Cavalcanti
  Claudia Corbetta , Anna Erminia Colombi , Giovanni Moretti , Marco Passarotti
• Segmenting Italian Sentences for Easy Reading
  Marta Cozzini , Horacio Saggion
• Unveiling Stereotypes: Combining Knowledge Graphs and LLMs for Implied Stereotype Generation
  Marco Cuccarini , Lia Draetta , Beatrice Fiumanò , Stefano Bistarelli , Rossana Damiano , Valentina Presutti
• Detecting Semantic Reuse in Ancient Greek Literature: A Computational Approach
  Caterina D'Angelo , Andrea Taddei , Alessandro Lenci
• WorthIt: Check-worthiness Estimation of Italian Social Media Posts
  Agnese Daffara , Alan Ramponi , Sara Tonelli
• Diffusion-Aided RAG: Elevating Dense-Retrieval Chatbots via Graph-Based Diffusion Reranking
  Sai Teja Dampanaboina , Sai Nishchal Gamini , Karishma Kunwar , Marco Polignano , Marco Levantesi , Giovanni Semeraro , Ernesto William De Luca
• When Less Is More? Diagnosing ASR Predictions in Sardinian via Layer-Wise Decoding
  Domenico De Cristofaro , Alessandro Vietti , Marianne Pouplier , Aleese Block
• Meta-evaluation of Automatic Machine Translation Metrics between Italian and a Minor Language Variety of German
  Paolo Di Natale , Elena Chiocchetti , Egon Waldemar Stemle
• Linking Emotions: Affective and Lexical Resources for Italian in Linked Open Data
  Eliana Di Palma , Valerio Basile , Agnese Vardanega , Giuliano Gabrieli , Marco Vassallo
• Dissonant Ballerinas and Crafty Carrots: A Comparative Multi-modal Analysis of Italian Brain Rot
  Anca Dinu , Andra-Maria Florescu , Marius Micluța-Câmpeanu , Ștefana Arina Tăbușcă , Claudiu Creangă , Andreiana Mihail
• The Role of Eye-Tracking Data in Encoder-Based Models: An In-depth Linguistic Analysis
  Lucia Domenichelli , Luca Dini , Dominique Brunato , Felice Dell'Orletta
• Seeing Cause and Time: A Visually Grounded Evaluation of Multimodal Models
  Salvatore Ergoli , Alessandro Bondielli , Alessandro Lenci
• Mapping Meaning in Latin with Large Language Models: A Multi-Task Evaluation of Preverbed Motion Verbs and Spatial Relation Detection in LLMs
  Andrea Farina , Andrea Ballatore , Barbara McGillivray
• MAMITA: Benchmarking Misogyny in Italian Memes
  Elisabetta Fersini , Francesca Gasparini , Giulia Rizzi , Aurora Saibene
• LEARN: On the Feasibility of Learner Error AutoRegressive Neural Annotation
  Paolo Gajo , Daniele Polizzi , Adriano Ferraresi , Alberto Barrón-Cedeño
• The Meaning of Beatus: Disambiguating Latin with Contemporary AI Models
  Eleonora Ghizzota , Pierpaolo Basile , Lucia Siciliani , Giovanni Semeraro
• LLMike: Exploring Large Language Models' Abilities in Wheel of Fortune Riddles
  Ejdis Gjinika , Nicola Arici , Andrea Loreggia , Luca Putelli , Ivan Serina , Alfonso Emilio Gerevini
• Bidirectional Emotional Influence in Human-LLM Interaction: Empirical Analysis and Methodological Framework
  Manuel Gozzi , Francesca Fallucchi
• A Multilingual Investigation of Anthropocentrism in GPT-4O
  Francesca Grasso , Stefano Locci
• Surprisal and Crossword Clues Difficulty: Evaluating Linguistic Processing between LLMs and Humans
  Tommaso Iaquinta , Asya Zanollo , Achille Fusco , Kamyar Zeinalipour , Cristiano Chesi
• AI-Driven Resume Analysis and Enhancement Using Semantic Modeling and Large Language Feedback Loops
  Achal Jagadeesh , Chinmayi Ravi Shankar , Sahithya Narayanaswamy Patel , Marco Levantesi , Giovanni Semeraro , Ernesto William De Luca
• DIETA: A Decoder-only Transformer-based Model for Italian-English Machine TrAnslation
  Pranav Kasela , Marco Braga , Alessandro Ghiotto , Andrea Pilzer , Marco Viviani , Alessandro Raganato
• Positional Bias in Binary Question Answering: How Uncertainty Shapes Model Preferences
  Tiziano Labruna , Simone Gallo , Giovanni Da San Martino
• Is It Still a Village? Tracing Grammaticalization with Word Embeddings
  Joseph E. Larson , Patrícia Amaral
• MedBench-IT: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models on Italian Medical Entrance Examinations
  Ruggero Marino Lazzaroni , Alessandro Angioi , Michelangelo Puliga , Davide Sanna , Roberto Marras
• MuLTa-Telegram: A Fine-Grained Italian and Polish Dataset for Hate Speech and Target Detection
  Elisa Leonardelli , Camilla Casula , Sebastiano Vecellio Salto , Joanna Ewa Bąk , Elisa Muratore , Anna Kołos , Thomas Louf , Sara Tonelli
• Linking CompL-it to the LiITA Knowledge Base
  Eleonora Litta , Marco Passarotti , Giovanni Moretti , Paolo Brasolin , Francesco Mambrini , Valerio Basile , Andrea Di Fabio , Eliana Di Palma , Emiliano Giovannetti , Simone Marchi , Andrea Bellandi , Flavia Sciolette
• Subjectivity in Stereotypes against Migrants in Italian: An Experimental Annotation Procedure
  Soda Marem Lo , Marco Antonio Stranisci , Alessandra Teresa Cignarella , Simona Frenda , Valerio Basile , Elisabetta Jezek , Viviana Patti
• Doing Things with Words: Rethinking Theory of Mind Simulation in Large Language Models
  Agnese Lombardi , Alessandro Lenci
• BeaverTails-IT: Towards a Safety Benchmark for Evaluating Italian Large Language Models
  Giuseppe Magazzù , Alberto Sormani , Giulia Rizzi , Francesca Pulerà , Daniel Scalena , Stefano Cariddi , Edoardo Michielon , Marco Pasqualini , Claudio Stamile , Elisabetta Fersini
• A Leaderboard for Benchmarking LLMs on Italian
  Bernardo Magnini , Marco Madeddu , Michele Resta , Roberto Zanoli , Martin Cimmino , Paolo Albano , Viviana Patti
• Towards the Semi-Automated Population of the Ancient Greek WordNet
  Beatrice Marchesi , Annachiara Clementelli , Andrea Maurizio Mammarella , Silvia Zampetta , Erica Biagetti , Luca Brigada Villa , Virginia Mastellari , Riccardo Ginevra , Claudia Roberta Combei , Chiara Zanchi
• Evaluating Large Language Models on Wikipedia Graph Navigation: Insights from the WikiGame
  Daniele Margiotta , Danilo Croce , Roberto Basili
• Linguistic Markers of Population Replacement Conspiracy Theories in YouTube Immigration Discourse
  Erik Bran Marino , Davide Bassi , Renata Vieira
• Exploring the Adaptability of Large Speech Models to Non-Verbal Vocalization Task
  Juan José Márquez Villacís , Federico D'Asaro , Giuseppe Rizzo , Andrea Bottino
• Strategic Conversations: LLMs Argumentation and User Perception in Movie Recommendation Dialogues
  Valeria Mauro , Martina Di Bratto , Valentina Russo , Azzurra Mancini , Marco Grazioso
• Uni-Mate: A Retrieval-Augmented Generation System to Provide High School Students with Accurate Academic Guidance
  Samuele Mazzei , Lorenzo Zambotto , Gabriele Tealdo , Alberto Macagno , Alessio Palmero Aprosio
• Language Models and the Magic of Metaphor: A Comparative Evaluation with Human Judgments
  Simone Mazzoli , Alice Suozzi , Gianluca Lebani
• Easy to Complete, Hard to Choose: Investigating LLM Performance on the ProverbIT Benchmark
  Enrico Mensa , Lorenzo Zane , Calogero Jerik Scozzaro , Matteo Delsanto , Tommaso Milani , Daniele P. Radicioni
• Mamma Mia! Where's My Name? De-Identifying Italian Clinical Notes with Large Language Models
  Michele Miranda , Sébastien Bratières , Stefano Patarnello , Livia Lilli
• Sustainable Italian LLM Evaluation: Community Perspectives and Methodological Guidelines
  Luca Moroni , Gianmarco Pappacoda , Edoardo Barba , Simone Conia , Andrea Galassi , Bernardo Magnini , Roberto Navigli , Paolo Torroni , Roberto Zanoli
• What We Learned from Continually Training Minerva: A Case Study on Italian
  Luca Moroni , Tommaso Bonomo , Luca Gioffré , Lu Xu , Domenico Fedele , Leonardo Colosi , Andrei Stefan Bejgu , Alessandro Scirè , Roberto Navigli
• Automatic GRI-SDG Annotation and LLM-Based Filtering for Sustainability Reports
  Seyed Alireza Mousavian Anaraki , Danilo Croce , Roberto Basili
• Benchmarking Large Language Models for Target-Based Financial Sentiment Analysis
  Iftikhar Muhammad , Marco Rospocher , Timotej Knez , Slavko Žitnik
• Is Multimodality Still Required for Multimodal Machine Translation? A Case Study on English and Italian
  Elio Musacchio , Lucia Siciliani , Pierpaolo Basile , Giovanni Semeraro
• Extending Italian Large Language Models for Vision-language Tasks
  Elio Musacchio , Lucia Siciliani , Pierpaolo Basile , Asia Beatrice Uboldi , Giovanni Germani , Giovanni Semeraro
• Probing Feminist Representations: A Study of Bias in LLMs and Word Embeddings
  Arianna Muti , Elisa Bassignana , Emanuele Moscato , Debora Nozza
• Multilingual vs. Monolingual Transformer Models in Encoding Linguistic Structure and Lexical Abstraction
  Vivi Nastase , Giuseppe Samo , Chunyang Jiang , Paola Merlo
• Direct and Indirect Interpretations of Speech Acts: Evidence from Human Judgments and Large Language Models
  Massimiliano Orsini , Dominique Brunato
• Narrative Conflicts: A Tri-Modal Computational Analysis of Antagonism in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
  Aylin Özkan , İrem Ertaş , Mehmet Can Yavuz , Lucia Cascone
• FAMA: The First Large-Scale Open-Science Speech Foundation Model for English and Italian
  Sara Papi , Marco Gaido , Luisa Bentivogli , Alessio Brutti , Mauro Cettolo , Roberto Gretter , Marco Matassoni , Mohamed Nabih Ali Mohamed Nawar , Matteo Negri
• Generating and Evaluating Multi-Level Text Simplification: A Case Study on Italian
  Michele Papucci , Giulia Venturi , Felice Dell'Orletta
• Analyzing Femicide Reactions in YouTube Comments: A Comparative Study of Giulia Cecchettin and Carol Maltesi
  Sveva Silvia Pasini , Marco Madeddu , Chiara Ferrando , Chiara Zanchi , Viviana Patti
• Gender-Neutral Rewriting in Italian: Models, Approaches, and Trade-offs
  Andrea Piergentili , Beatrice Savoldi , Matteo Negri , Luisa Bentivogli
• Doctor, Is That You? Evaluating Large Language Models on Italy's Medical School Entrance Exams
  Ruben Piperno , Agnese Bonfigli , Felice Dell'Orletta , Leandro Pecchia , Mario Merone , Luca Bacco
• A Modular LLM-based Dialog System for Accessible Exploration of Finite State Automata
  Stefano Vittorio Porta , Pier Felice Balestrucci , Michael Oliverio , Luca Anselma , Alessandro Mazzei
• Leveraging LLMs to Build a Semi-synthetic Dataset for Legal Information Retrieval: A Case Study on the Italian Civil Code and GPT4-O
  Mattia Proietti , Lucia C. Passaro , Alessandro Lenci
• No Longer Left Behind: Self-training Reasoning Models in Italian
  Federico Ranaldi , Leonardo Ranaldi
• Evaluating Models, Prompting Strategies, and Task Formats: A Case Study on the MACID Challenge
  Matteo Rinaldi , Rossella Varvara , Lorenzo Gregori , Andrea Amelio Ravelli
• Gender Violence in Numbers: Prompting Italian LLMs to Characterize Crimes against Women
  Giulia Rizzi , Daniel Scalena , Elisabetta Fersini
• Uncovering Unsafety Traits in Italian Language Models
  Giulia Rizzi , Giuseppe Magazzù , Alberto Sormani , Francesca Pulerà , Daniel Scalena , Elisabetta Fersini
• Can LLMs Help Recollect and Elaborate on Our Personal Experiences?
  Gabriel Roccabruna , Olha Khomyn , Michele Yin , Giuseppe Riccardi
• IMB: An Italian Medical Benchmark for Question Answering
  Antonio Romano , Giuseppe Riccio , Mariano Barone , Marco Postiglione , Vincenzo Moscato
• Acquisition in Babies and Machines: Comparing the Learning Trajectories of LMs in Terms of Syntactic Structures (ATTracTSS Test Set)
  Sarah Rossi , Guido Formichi , Sofia Neri , Tommaso Sgrizzi , Asya Zanollo , Veronica Bressan , Cristiano Chesi
• Context-Aware Search Space Adaptation of Hyperparameters and Architectures for AutoML in Text Classification
  Parisa Safikhani , David Broneske
• Evaluating Linguistic Speaker Profiles on Response Selection in Multi-Party Dialogue
  Maryam Sajedinia , Seyed Mahed Mousavi , Valerio Basile
• MLLMs Construction Company: Investigating Multimodal LLMs' Communicative Skills in a Collaborative Building Task
  Marika Sarzotti , Giovanni Duca , Chris Madge , Raffaella Bernardi , Massimo Poesio
• Toward Optimised Datasets to Fine-tune ASR Systems Leveraging Less but More Informative Speech
  Loredana Schettino , Vincenzo Norman Vitale , Alessandro Vietti
• Using End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognizers' Internals to Model Disfluencies in Italian Patients with Early-stage Parkinson's Disease
  Loredana Schettino , Vincenzo Norman Vitale , Marta Maffia
• Structural Sensitivity Does Not Entail Grammaticality: Assessing LLMs against the Universal Functional Hierarchy
  Tommaso Sgrizzi , Asya Zanollo , Cristiano Chesi
• Evaluation of Italian and English Small Language Models for Domain-based QA in Low-Resource Scenario
  Irene Siragusa , Roberto Pirrone
• Annotating Manzoni: Challenges in the Annotation of Lemmas, POS and Features in "I Promessi Sposi''
  Rachele Sprugnoli , Arianna Redaelli
• Ciallabacialla! Modeling and Linking a Regional Lexical Resource to Include Sicilian in the Semantic Web
  Rachele Sprugnoli , Giovanni Moretti , Domenico Giuseppe Muscianisi , Eleonora Litta
• Curated Data Does Not Mean Representative Data When Training Large Language Models: An Experiment Using Representative Data for Italian
  Fabio Tamburini
• BABILong-ITA: A New Benchmark for Testing Large Language Models Effective Context Length and a Context Extension Method
  Fabio Tamburini
• MAIA: A Benchmark for Multimodal AI Assessment
  Davide Testa , Giovanni Bonetta , Raffaella Bernardi , Alessandro Bondielli , Alessandro Lenci , Alessio Miaschi , Lucia C. Passaro , Bernardo Magnini
• Building It-tok: An Italian TikTok Corpus
  Luisa Troncone
• Protecting the Privacy in Velvet with Model Editing
  Giancarlo A. Xompero , Elena Sofia Ruzzetti , Cristina Giannone , Andrea Favalli , Raniero Romagnoli , Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
• "I Understand, but...": Towards a Comprehensive Account of the Explainee's Voice in Explanatory Dialogues
  Andrea Zaninello , Petar Bodlovic , Marcin Lewinski , Bernardo Magnini
• PharmaER.IT: An Italian Dataset for Entity Recognition in the Pharmaceutical Domain
  Andrea Zugarini , Leonardo Rigutini