final event

Please, register to the event via the form at within this webpage.

VENUE February 11: Aula Prodi, piazza S. Giovanni in Monte 2 (BO), piano terra.

VENUE February 12: Aula 4 del Palazzo Hercolani, Strada Maggiore 45 (BO), piano terra

Please note that the event will be held in Italian.

Wednesday, February 11

Time	Event
14:30 – 15:00	Opening : Marianna Bolognesi and Fabrizio Sebastiani Structuring AI: WEMB e l'architettura del significato
15:00 – 16:30	WEMB Paper Session (1)
	Giulia Rambelli: How humans and LLMs organize conceptual knowledge: Exploring subordinate categories in Italian. [link]
	Giovanni Puccetti: Wordnet and Word Ladders: Climbing the abstraction taxonomy with LLMs. [link]
	Gianluca Sperduti: Misspellings in Natural Language Processing: A survey. [link]
	Gianluca Sperduti: Typoglycemia under the Hood: Investigating Language Models' Understanding of Scrambled Words. [link]
	Adele Loia and Gianluca Sperduti: Evaluating misspelling patterns in gamified data: A sociodemographic analysis for linguistic research
16:30 – 17:00	Coffee Break
17:00 – 18:00	Panel Discussion : Valentina Presutti, Fabio Tamburini, Francesco Bianchini, Monica Palmirani, and Diego Frassinelli Dalle rappresentazioni vettoriali all’IA generativa: convergenza funzionale o cognitiva?

Thursday, February 12

Time	Event
09:00 – 11:00	WEMB Paper Session (2)
	Andrea Pedrotti: Stress-testing Machine Generated Text Detection: Shifting Language Models Writing Style to Fool Detectors [link]
	Adele Loia: Brownie IS-A cake, but sugar is not: Can encoders annotate and clean children’s (mis)built semantic hierarchies?
	Giovanni Puccetti: The Invalsi Benchmarks: measuring the Linguistic and Mathematical understanding of Large Language Models in Italian. [link]
	Giovanni Puccetti: Optimizing LLMs for Italian: Reducing Token Fertility and Enhancing Efficiency Through Vocabulary Adaptation. [link]
	Gianluca Sperduti: PSET: A Phonetics-Semantics Evaluation Testbed. [link]
	Giovanni Puccetti: ABRICOT - ABstRactness and Inclusiveness in COntexT: A CALAMITA Challenge. [link]
11:00 – 11:45	Coffee Break
11:45 – 12:45	Final WEMB Discussion : Marianna Bolognesi and Fabrizio Sebastiani