final event
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
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 |
Panel Discussion Speakers
Valentina Presutti
UniBo
Fabio Tamburini
UniBo
Francesco Bianchini
UniBo
Monica Palmirani
UniBo
Diego Frassinelli
LMU Munich
Organizers
Marianna Bolognesi
UniBo
Fabrizio Sebastiani
CNR-ISTI
Gianluca Sperduti
CNR-ISTI
Andrea Pedrotti
CNR-ISTI
Giovanni Puccetti
CNR-ISTI
Giulia Rambelli
UniBo