Alessandro Lenci

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According to our database1, Alessandro Lenci authored at least 141 papers between 1998 and 2024.

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2024
Prompting Encoder Models for Zero-Shot Classification: A Cross-Domain Study in Italian.
CoRR, 2024

Comparing Plausibility Estimates in Base and Instruction-Tuned Large Language Models.
CoRR, 2024

Comparing Static and Contextual Distributional Semantic Models on Intrinsic Tasks: An Evaluation on Mandarin Chinese Datasets.
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2024

2023
Event Knowledge in Large Language Models: The Gap Between the Impossible and the Unlikely.
Cogn. Sci., November, 2023

Agentività e telicità in GilBERTo: implicazioni cognitive.
CoRR, 2023

Understanding Natural Language Understanding Systems. A Critical Analysis.
CoRR, 2023

Are Language Models Sensitive to Semantic Attraction? A Study on Surprisal.
Proceedings of the The 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, 2023

Are Frequent Phrases Directly Retrieved like Idioms? An Investigation with Self-Paced Reading and Language Models.
Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Multiword Expressions, 2023

BureauBERTo: adapting UmBERTo to the Italian bureaucratic language.
Proceedings of the Italia Intelligenza Artificiale, 2023

MULTI-Fake-DetectiVE at EVALITA 2023: Overview of the MULTImodal Fake News Detection and VErification Task.
Proceedings of the Eighth Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop (EVALITA 2023), 2023

Simplifying Administrative Texts for Italian L2 Readers with Controllable Transformers Models: A Data-driven Approach.
Proceedings of the 9th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, Venice, Italy, November 30, 2023

Assessing Language and Vision-Language Models on Event Plausibility.
Proceedings of the 9th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, Venice, Italy, November 30, 2023

Challenging Specialized Transformers on Zero-shot Classification.
Proceedings of the 9th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, Venice, Italy, November 30, 2023

We Understand Elliptical Sentences, and Language Models should Too: A New Dataset for Studying Ellipsis and its Interaction with Thematic Fit.
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023

2022
A comparative evaluation and analysis of three generations of Distributional Semantic Models.
Lang. Resour. Evaluation, 2022

In-context annotation of topic-oriented datasets of fake news: A case study on the notre-dame fire event.
Inf. Sci., 2022

Editorial: Perspectives for natural language processing between AI, linguistics and cognitive science.
Frontiers Artif. Intell., 2022

Neural Readability Pairwise Ranking for Sentences in Italian Administrative Language.
Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2022

Word Order Matters When You Increase Masking.
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022

Does BERT Recognize an Agent? Modeling Dowty's Proto-Roles with Contextual Embeddings.
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2022

Subject Verb Agreement Error Patterns in Meaningless Sentences: Humans vs. BERT.
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2022

Compositionality as an Analogical Process: Introducing ANNE.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon, 2022

MATE, a Meta Layer Between Natural Language and Database.
Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI 2022) co-located with 21th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2022), 2022

Understanding Italian Administrative Texts: A Reader-Oriented Study for Readability Assessment and Text Simplification.
Proceedings of 1st Workshop on AI for Public Administration co-located with 21st International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2022), Udine, Italy, November 28, 2022

Evaluating Pre-Trained Transformers on Italian Administrative Texts.
Proceedings of 1st Workshop on AI for Public Administration co-located with 21st International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2022), Udine, Italy, November 28, 2022

Probing for the Usage of Grammatical Number.
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2022

Does BERT really agree ? Fine-grained Analysis of Lexical Dependence on a Syntactic Task.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022, 2022

2021
Not all arguments are processed equally: a distributional model of argument complexity.
Lang. Resour. Evaluation, 2021

A comprehensive comparative evaluation and analysis of Distributional Semantic Models.
CoRR, 2021

Decoding Word Embeddings with Brain-Based Semantic Features.
Comput. Linguistics, 2021

Did the Cat Drink the Coffee? Challenging Transformers with Generalized Event Knowledge.
Proceedings of *SEM 2021: The Tenth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, 2021

FANCY: A Diagnostic Data-Set for NLI Models.
Proceedings of the Eighth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2021

Agentività e telicità in GilBERTo: implicazioni cognitive (Agentivity and Telicity in GilBERTo: Cognitive Implications).
Proceedings of the Eighth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2021

GQA-it: Italian Question Answering on Image Scene Graphs.
Proceedings of the Eighth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2021

A howling success or a working sea? Testing what BERT knows about metaphors.
Proceedings of the Fourth BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, 2021

PIHKers at CMCL 2021 Shared Task: Cosine Similarity and Surprisal to Predict Human Reading Patterns.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, 2021

2020
Eliciting semantic properties: methods and applications.
Cogn. Process., 2020

PISA: A measure of Preference In Selection of Arguments to model verb argument recoverability.
Proceedings of the Ninth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, 2020

Representing Verbs with Visual Argument Vectors.
Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2020

FRAQUE: a FRAme-based QUEstion-answering system for the Public Administration domain.
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Language Technologies for Government and Public Administration, 2020

Are Word Embeddings Really a Bad Fit for the Estimation of Thematic Fit?
Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2020

"Voices of the Great War": A Richly Annotated Corpus of Italian Texts on the First World War.
Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2020

Comparing Probabilistic, Distributional and Transformer-Based Models on Logical Metonymy Interpretation.
Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2020

CAPISCO @ CONcreTEXT 2020: (Un)supervised Systems to Contextualize Concreteness with Norming Data.
Proceedings of the Seventh Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop (EVALITA 2020), 2020

Don't Invite BERT to Drink a Bottle: Modeling the Interpretation of Metonymies Using BERT and Distributional Representations.
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2020

Becoming JILDA.
Proceedings of the Seventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2020

UNIPI-NLE at CheckThat! 2020: Approaching Fact Checking from a Sentence Similarity Perspective Through the Lens of Transformers.
Proceedings of the Working Notes of CLEF 2020, 2020

Less is MORE: a MultimOdal system for tag REfinement.
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI 2020) co-located with the 19th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2020), 2020

2019
A structured distributional model of sentence meaning and processing.
Nat. Lang. Eng., 2019

Multimodal Event Knowledge in Online Sentence Comprehension: the Influence of Visual Context on Anticipatory Eye Movements.
Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Text Frame Detector: Slot Filling Based On Domain Knowledge Bases.
Proceedings of the Sixth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2019

2018
The Emotions of Abstract Words: A Distributional Semantic Analysis.
Top. Cogn. Sci., 2018

SemEval-2018 Task 10: Capturing Discriminative Attributes.
Proceedings of The 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2018

MEDEA: Merging Event knowledge and Distributional vEctor Addition.
Proceedings of the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2018), 2018

Italian in the Trenches: Linguistic Annotation and Analysis of Texts of the Great War.
Proceedings of the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2018), 2018

Modelling Italian Construction Flexibility with Distributional Semantics: Are Constructions Enough?
Proceedings of the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2018), 2018

CoreNLP-it: A UD Pipeline for Italian based on Stanford CoreNLP.
Proceedings of the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2018), 2018

2017
Logical Metonymy in a Distributional Model of Sentence Comprehension.
Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, 2017

Is Structure Necessary for Modeling Argument Expectations in Distributional Semantics?
Proceedings of the IWCS 2017 - 12th International Conference on Computational Semantics - Long papers, Montpellier, France, September 19, 2017

Measuring Thematic Fit with Distributional Feature Overlap.
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2017

UDLex: Towards Cross-language Subcategorization Lexicons.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics, 2017

PARAD-it: Eliciting Italian Paradigmatic Relations with Crowdsourcing.
Proceedings of the Fourth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2017), 2017

INFORMed PA: A NER for the Italian Public Administration Domain.
Proceedings of the Fourth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2017), 2017

AHyDA: Automatic Hypernym Detection with Feature Augmentation.
Proceedings of the Fourth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2017), 2017

Emo2Val: Inferring Valence Scores from fine-grained Emotion Values.
Proceedings of the Fourth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2017), 2017

Deep-learning the Ropes: Modeling Idiomaticity with Neural Networks.
Proceedings of the Fourth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2017), 2017

Modelling the Meaning of Argument Constructions with Distributional Semantics.
Proceedings of the 2017 AAAI Spring Symposia, 2017

2016
How concepts are encoded in the human brain: A modality independent, category-based cortical organization of semantic knowledge.
NeuroImage, 2016

Testing APSyn against Vector Cosine on Similarity Estimation.
Proceedings of the 30th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 2016

Lexical Variability and Compositionality: Investigating Idiomaticity with Distributional Semantic Models.
Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Multiword Expressions, 2016

What a Nerd! Beating Students and Vector Cosine in the ESL and TOEFL Datasets.
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC 2016, 2016

Nine Features in a Random Forest to Learn Taxonomical Semantic Relations.
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC 2016, 2016

LexFr: Adapting the LexIt Framework to Build a Corpus-based French Subcategorization Lexicon.
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC 2016, 2016

Evaluating Context Selection Strategies to Build Emotive Vector Space Models.
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC 2016, 2016

Italian VerbNet: A Construction-based Approach to Italian Verb Classification.
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC 2016, 2016

The Effects of Data Size and Frequency Range on Distributional Semantic Models.
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2016

Representing Verbs with Rich Contexts: an Evaluation on Verb Similarity.
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2016

The CogALex-V Shared Task on the Corpus-Based Identification of Semantic Relations.
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon, 2016

Antonymy and Canonicity: Experimental and Distributional Evidence.
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon, 2016

"Beware the Jabberwock, dear reader!" Testing the distributional reality of construction semantics.
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon, 2016

Determining the Compositionality of Noun-Adjective Pairs with Lexical Variants and Distributional Semantics.
Proceedings of Third Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2016) & Fifth Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop (EVALITA 2016), 2016

Panta Rei: Tracking Semantic Change with Distributional Semantics in Ancient Greek.
Proceedings of Third Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2016) & Fifth Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop (EVALITA 2016), 2016

Exploiting Emotive Features for the Sentiment Polarity Classification of tweets.
Proceedings of Third Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2016) & Fifth Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop (EVALITA 2016), 2016

FB-NEWS15: A Topic-Annotated Facebook Corpus for Emotion Detection and Sentiment Analysis.
Proceedings of Third Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2016) & Fifth Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop (EVALITA 2016), 2016

Towards a Distributional Model of Semantic Complexity.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity, 2016

ROOT13: Spotting Hypernyms, Co-Hyponyms and Randoms.
Proceedings of the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016

Unsupervised Measure of Word Similarity: How to Outperform Co-Occurrence and Vector Cosine in VSMs.
Proceedings of the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016

2015
Préface.
Trait. Autom. des Langues, 2015

Same same but different: type and typicality in a distributional model of complement coercion.
Proceedings of the NetWordS Final Conference on Word Knowledge and Word Usage: Representations and Processes in the Mental Lexicon, Pisa, Italy, March 30, 2015

Mapping the constructicon with SYMPAThy. Italian word combinations between fixedness and productivity.
Proceedings of the NetWordS Final Conference on Word Knowledge and Word Usage: Representations and Processes in the Mental Lexicon, Pisa, Italy, March 30, 2015

EVALution 1.0: an Evolving Semantic Dataset for Training and Evaluation of Distributional Semantic Models.
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics: Resources and Applications, 2015

2014
Predication Drives Verb Cortical Signatures.
J. Cogn. Neurosci., 2014

Logical Metonymy Resolution in a Words-as-Cues Framework: Evidence From Self-Paced Reading and Probe Recognition.
Cogn. Sci., 2014

Taking Antonymy Mask off in Vector Space.
Proceedings of the 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 2014

Crowdsourcing for the identification of event nominals: an experiment.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2014

Choosing which to use? A study of distributional models for nominal lexical semantic classification.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2014

Bootstrapping an Italian VerbNet: data-driven analysis of verb alternations.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2014

Chasing Hypernyms in Vector Spaces with Entropy.
Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014

Type and Thematic Fit in Logical Metonymy.
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

The PAISÀ Corpus of Italian Web Texts.
Proceedings of the 9th Web as Corpus Workshop, 2014

2013
Computational Models of Language Meaning in Context (Dagstuhl Seminar 13462).
Dagstuhl Reports, 2013

Fitting, Not Clashing! A Distributional Semantic Model of Logical Metonymy.
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Semantics, 2013

Boosting Lexical Resources for the Semantic Web: Generative Lexicon and Lexicon Interoperability.
Proceedings of the Advances in Generative Lexicon Theory, 2013

2012
Identifying hypernyms in distributional semantic spaces.
Proceedings of the First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, 2012

Enriching the ISST-TANL Corpus with Semantic Frames.
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2012

LexIt: A Computational Resource on Italian Argument Structure.
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2012

Inferring Covert Events in Logical Metonymies: a Probe Recognition Experiment.
Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012

Concepts in context: Evidence from a feature-norming study.
Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012

2011
EvalIta 2011: The <i>Frame Labeling</i> <i>over Italian Texts</i> Task.
Proceedings of the Evaluation of Natural Language and Speech Tools for Italian, 2011

How we BLESSed distributional semantic evaluation.
Proceedings of the GEMS 2011 Workshop on GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics, 2011

Composing and Updating Verb Argument Expectations: A Distributional Semantic Model.
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, 2011

2010
Distributional Memory: A General Framework for Corpus-Based Semantics.
Comput. Linguistics, 2010

BabyExp: Constructing a Huge Multimodal Resource to Acquire Commonsense Knowledge Like Children Do.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2010

Building an Italian FrameNet through Semi-automatic Corpus Analysis.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2010

Comparing the Influence of Different Treebank Annotations on Dependency Parsing.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2010

A Resource and Tool for Super-sense Tagging of Italian Texts.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2010

2009
Ontology learning from Italian legal texts.
Proceedings of the Law, Ontologies and the Semantic Web, 2009

2008
Computational Models for Event Type Classification in Context.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2008

Unsupervised Acquisition of Verb Subcategorization Frames from Shallow-Parsed Corpora.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2008

2007
NLP-based Ontology Learning from Legal Texts. A Case Study.
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Legal Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Techniques June 4th, 2007

2006
Searching treebanks for functional constraints: cross-lingual experiments in grammatical relation assignment.
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2006

Creation and Use of Lexicons and Ontologies for NL Interfaces to Databases.
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2006

2004
Lexical Resources for Content-Based Information Processing.
Intelligenza Artificiale, 2004

Automatic Classification and Analysis of Provisions in Italian Legal Texts: A Case Study.
Proceedings of the On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2004: OTM 2004 Workshops: OTM Confederated International Workshops and Posters, 2004

Towards a Language Infrastructure for the Semantic Web.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2004

ENABLER Thematic Network of National Projects: Technical, Strategic and Political Issues of LRs.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2004

Content Interoperability of Lexical Resources: Open Issues and "MILE" Perspectives.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2004

Semantic Mark-up of Italian Legal Texts Through NLP-based Techniques.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2004

Hybrid Constraints for Robust Parsing: First Experiments and Evaluation.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2004

2003
RDF Instantiation of ISLE/MILE Lexical Entries.
Proceedings of the ACL 2003 Workshop on Linguistic Annotation: Getting the Model Right, 2003

2002
Multilingual Summarization by Integrating Linguistic Resources in the MLIS-MUSI Project.
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2002

Towards Best Practice for Multiword Expressions in Computational Lexicons.
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2002

The Lexicon-Grammar Balance in Robust Parsing of Italian.
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2002

From Resources to Applications. Designing the Multilingual ISLE Lexical Entry.
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2002

Towards a Standard for a Multilingual Lexical Entry: The EAGLES/ISLE Initiative.
Proceedings of the Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, 2002

Broadening the Scope of the EAGLES/ISLE Lexical Standardization Initiative.
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Asian Language Resources and International Standardization, 2002

2001
The ISLE in the ocean. Transatlantic standards for multilingual lexicons (with an eye to machine translation).
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VIII, 2001

2000
Multilingual Linguistic Resources: From Monolingual Lexicons to Bilingual Interrelated Lexicons.
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2000

Where Opposites Meet. A Syntactic Meta-scheme for Corpus Annotation and Parsing Evaluation.
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2000

SIMPLE: A General Framework for the Development of Multilingual Lexicons.
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2000

1998
The Structure of Predication.
Synth., 1998


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