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# CLiC-it 2023
Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics

### Proceedings of the 9th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics

### Venice, Italy, November 30 - December 2, 2023.

Edited by

### Federico Boschetti * **
Gianluca E. Lebani *
Bernardo Magnini ***
Nicole Novielli ****

* Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy
** CNR-Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli”, Pisa, Italy
*** Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
**** University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy

## Table of Contents

- Preface
  Summary: There were 86 papers submitted for peer-review to this conference. Out of these, 75 papers were accepted for this volume, 54 as regular papers and 21 as short papers.

### Welcome Keynote

- When the Lab of CompLing Was Started at the University of Venice - Preface to the Proceedings of the First Workshop Held in 1982 (short paper)
  Rodolfo Delmonte

### Long papers

- Legal Summarization: to Each Court its Own Model
  Flavia Achena, David Preti, Davide Venditti, Leonardo Ranaldi, Cristina Giannone, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Andrea Favalli, Raniero Romagnoli
- CorpusCompass: A Tool for Data Extraction and Dataset Generation in Corpus Linguistics
  Muhadj Adnan, Nicolo' Brandizzi
- Harnessing 'Il Manifesto' Newspaper Archive for Knowledge Base Creation: Techniques and Findings in the 'MeMa' Project
  Robert J. Alexander, Matteo Bartocci, Oriana Persico, Guido Vetere
- Unmasking the Wordsmith: Revealing Author Identity through Reader Reviews
  Chiara Alzetta, Felice Dell'Orletta, Chiara Fazzone, Alessio Miaschi, Giulia Venturi
- Integrated Gradients as Proxy of Disagreement in Hateful Content
  Alessandro Astorino, Giulia Rizzi, Elisabetta Fersini
- Challenging Specialized Transformers on Zero-shot Classification
  Serena Auriemma, Mauro Madeddu, Martina Miliani, Alessandro Bondielli, Alessandro Lenci, Lucia Passaro
- Bias Mitigation in Misogynous Meme Recognition: A Preliminary Study
  Gianmaria Balducci, Giulia Rizzi, Elisabetta Fersini
- Building a Spoken Dialogue System for Supporting Blind People in Accessing Mathematical Expressions
  Pier Felice Balestrucci, Luca Anselma, Cristian Bernareggi, Alessandro Mazzei
- Contrastive Language–Image Pre-training for the Italian Language
  Federico Bianchi, Giuseppe Attanasio, Raphael Pisoni, Silvia Terragni, Gabriele Sarti, Dario Balestri
- Modelling and Publishing the "Lexicon der indogermanischen Verben" as Linked Open Data
  Valeria Irene Boano, Francesco Mambrini, Marco Passarotti, Riccardo Ginevra
- How Green is Sentiment Analysis? Environmental Topics in Corpora at the University of Turin
  Cristina Bosco, Muhammad Okky Ibrohim, Valerio Basile, Indra Budi
- "Ti blocco perché sei un trollazzo". Lexical Innovation in Contemporary Italian in a Large Twitter Corpus
  Paolo Brasolin, Greta Hayley Franzini, Stefania Spina
- Testing ChatGPT for Stability and Reasoning: A Case Study Using Italian Medical Specialty Tests
  Silvia Casola, Tiziano Labruna, Alberto Lavelli, Bernardo Magnini
- Assessing Language and Vision-Language Models on Event Plausibility
  Maria Cassese, Alessandro Bondielli, Alessandro Lenci
- GPT-based Language Models meet Emojitaliano: A Preliminary Assessment Test between Automation and Creativity
  Francesca Chiusaroli, Tiberio Uricchio, Johanna Monti, Maria Laura Pierucci, Federico Sangati
- Linking Stance and Stereotypes About Migrants in Italian Fake News
  Alessandra Teresa Cignarella, Simona Frenda, Tom Bourgeade, Cristina Bosco, Francesca D'Errico
- Interpretation of Generalization in Masked Language Models: An Investigation Straddling Quantifiers and Generics
  Claudia Collacciani, Giulia Rambelli
- Highway to Hell. Towards a Universal Dependencies Treebank for Dante Alighieri’s Comedy
  Claudia Corbetta, Marco Passarotti, Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini, Giovanni Moretti
- Towards an Italian Corpus for Implicit Object Completion
  Agnese Daffara, Elisabetta Jezek
- Linking the Corpus CLaSSES to the LiLa Knowledge Base of Interoperable Linguistic Resources for Latin
  Irene De Felice, Lucia Tamponi, Federica Iurescia, Marco Passarotti
- Processing Effort During Reading Texts in Young Adults: Text Simplification, Readability Assessment and Preliminary Eye-tracking Data
  Maria De Martino
- An Experiment in Error Analysis of Real-time Speech Machine Translation Using the Example of the European Parliament’s Innovation Partnership
  Elisa Di Nuovo
- A Cognitive Linguistics Analysis of Phrasal Verbs Representation in Distributional Semantics
  Melissa Donati, Carlo Strapparava
- How To Build Competitive Multi-gender Speech Translation Models For Controlling Speaker Gender Translation
  Marco Gaido, Dennis Fucci, Matteo Negri, Luisa Bentivogli
- Hate Speech Detection in an Italian Incel Forum Using Bilingual Data for Pre-Training and Fine-Tuning
  Paolo Gajo, Silvia Bernardini, Adriano Ferraresi, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño
- Linking the Dictionary of Medieval Latin in the Czech Lands to the LiLa Knowledge Base
  Federica Gamba, Marco C. Passarotti, Paolo Ruffolo
- Check-IT!: A Corpus of Expert Fact-checked Claims for Italian
  Jacopo Gili, Lucia Passaro, Tommaso Caselli
- End-to-end Dependency Parsing via Auto-regressive Large Language Model
  Claudiu Daniel Hromei, Danilo Croce, Roberto Basili
- DisaggregHate It Corpus: A Disaggregated Italian Dataset of Hate Speech
  Marco Madeddu Simona Frenda Mirko Lai Viviana Patti Valerio Basile
- Automatic Detection of Parkinson's Disease with Connected Speech Acoustic Features: Towards a Linguistically Interpretable Approach
  Marta Maffia, Loredana Schettino, Vincenzo Norman Vitale
- Introducing Deep Learning with Data Augmentation and Corpus Construction for LIS
  Manuela Marchisio, Alessandro Mazzei, Dario Sammaruga
- XL-WA: a Gold Evaluation Benchmark for Word Alignment in 14 Language Pairs
  Federico Martelli, Andrei Stefan Bejgu, Cesare Campagnano, Jaka Čibej, Rute Costa, Apolonija Gantar, Jelena Kallas, Svetla Peneva Koeva, Kristina Koppel, Simon Krek, Margit Langemets, Veronika Lipp, Sanni Nimb, Sussi Olsen, Bolette Sanford Pedersen, Valeria Quochi, Ana Salgado, László Simon, Carole Tiberius, Rafael-J Ureña-Ruiz, Roberto Navigli
- Is Change the Only Constant? An Inquiry into Diachronic Semantic Shifts in Italian and Spanish
  Matteo Melis, Anastasiia Salova, Roberto Zamparelli
- Building Structured Synthetic Datasets: The Case of Blackbird Language Matrices (BLMs)
  Paola Merlo, Giuseppe Samo, Vivi Nastase, Chunyang Jiang
- Simplifying Administrative Texts for Italian L2 Readers with Controllable Transformers Models: A Data-driven Approach
  Martina Miliani, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Alessandro Lenci
- Multi-task Learning for German Text Readability Assessment
  Salar Mohtaj, Vera Schmitt, Razieh Khamsehashari, Sebastian Möller
- Is It Really That Simple? Prompting Large Language Models for Automatic Text Simplification in Italian
  Debora Nozza, Giuseppe Attanasio
- Unraveling Text Coherence from the Human Perspective: a Novel Dataset for Italian
  Federica Papa, Luca Dini, Dominique Brunato, Felice Dell'Orletta
- Lost in Labels: An Ongoing Quest to Optimize Text-to-Text Label Selection for Classification
  Michele Papucci, Alessio Miaschi, Felice Dell'Orletta
- Are All Languages Equal? Curriculum Learning over Different Languages
  Giulia Pucci, Leonardo Ranaldi, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
- Prompting LLMs in Italian Language for Text-to-SQL Translation
  Federico Ranaldi, Elena Sofia Ruzzetti, Leonardo Ranaldi, Davide Venditti, Cristina Giannone, Andrea Favalli, Raniero Romagnoli, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
- Beyond Obscuration and Visibility: Thoughts on the Different Strategies of Gender-Fair Language in Italian
  Martina Rosola, Simona Frenda, Alessandra Teresa Cignarella, Matteo Pellegrini, Andrea Marra, Mara Floris
- Blaze-IT: A Lightweight BERT Model for the Italian Language
  Francesco Russo, Michele Filannino
- Camoscio: An Italian Instruction-tuned LLaMA
  Andrea Santilli, Emanuele Rodolà
- Automatic Generation of Common Procurement Vocabulary Codes
  Lucia Siciliani, Emanuele Tanzi, Pierpaolo Basile, Pasquale Lops
- Inters8: A Corpus to Study Misogyny and Intersectionality on Twitter
  Ivan Spada, Mirko Lai, Viviana Patti
- Let's Keep an Eye on Russian: Testing Sensitivity to the Change in the Grammatical Number in Somatic Idioms with ruBERT
  Elena Spaziani, Eliana Di Palma
- “That branch of the Lake of Como...”: Developing a New Resource for the Analysis of I Promessi Sposi and its Historical Translations
  Rachele Sprugnoli, Marco Sartor
- Qualitative Analysis of Persuasive Emotion Triggering in Online Content
  Olga Uryupina
- When You Doubt, Abstain: A Study of Automated Fact-Checking in Italian under Domain Shift
  Giovanni Valer, Alan Ramponi, Sara Tonelli
- On Incrementing Interpretability of Machine Learning Models from the Foundations: A Study on Syllabic Speech Units
  Vincenzo Norman Vitale, Loredana Schettino, Francesco Cutugno
- Drug Name Recognition in the Cryptomarket Forum of Silk Road 2
  Romane Werner, Thomas François, Sonja Bitzer
- Italian Crossword Generator: Enhancing Education through Interactive Word Puzzles
  Kamyar Zeinalipour, Tommaso Iaquinta, Asya Zanollo, Giovanni Angelini, Leonardo Rigutini, Marco Maggini, Marco Gori
- Die Rätselrevolution: Automated German Crossword Solving
  Andrea Zugarini, Thomas Röthenbacher, Kai Klede, Marco Ernandes, Bjoern M. Eskofier, Dario Zanca

### Short papers

- Towards a Multilingual System for Vaccine Hesitancy Using a Data Mixture Approach
  Oscar Araque, María Felipa Ledesma Corniel, Kyriaki Kalimeri
- TAll: A New Shiny App of Text Analysis for All
  Massimo Aria, Corrado Cuccurullo, Luca D'Aniello, Michelangelo Misuraca, Maria Spano
- On the Impact of Language Adaptation for Large Language Models: A Case Study for the Italian Language Using Only Open Resources
  Pierpaolo Basile, Pierluigi Cassotti, Marco Polignano, Lucia Siciliani, Giovanni Semeraro
- Annotating Homeric Emotions by a Domain-Specific Language
  Federico Boschetti, Laura Chilla, Maria Konstantinidou, John Pavlopoulos
- How Good is NLLB for Low-resource Languages? A Study on the Genoese Language
  Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso
- Debunker Assistant: A Support for Detecting Online Misinformation
  Arthur Thomas Edward Capozzi Lupi, Alessandra Teresa Cignarella, Simona Frenda, Mirko Lai, Marco Antonio Stranisci, Alessandra Urbinati
- Towards a Multi-Level Annotation Format for the Interoperability of Automatic Term Extraction Corpora
  Nicola Cirillo, Daniela Vellutino
- The PBSDS: A Dataset for the Detection of Pseudoprofound Bullshit
  Evan D. DeFrancesco, Carlo Strapparava
- A Post-Modern Approach to Automatic Metaphor Identification
  Dario Del Fante, Federico Manzella, Guido Sciavicco, Eduard Ionel Stan
- Building a Corpus on Eating Disorders from TikTok: Challenges and Opportunities
  Melissa Donati, Ludovica Polidori, Paola Vernillo, Gloria Gagliardi
- A Preliminary Release of the Italian Parliamentary Corpus
  Valentino Frasnelli, Alessio Palmero Aprosio
- Extracting an Expectation-based Lexicon for UD Treebanks
  Matteo Gay, Cristiano Chesi
- An Analysis of Visually Grounded Instructions in Embodied AI Tasks
  Marco Grazioso, Alessandro Suglia
- Exploring Sentiments in Summarization: SentiTextRank, an Emotional Variant of TextRank
  Md. Murad Hossain, Luca Anselma, Alessandro Mazzei
- An Italian Verb Lexicon for Sentiment Inference
  Manfred Klenner, Dylan Massey, Susanna Tron
- The Inherence of Telicity: Unveiling Temporal Reasoning in Video Question Answering
  Olga Loginova, Raffaella Bernardi
- Identification of Multiword Expressions: Comparing the Performance of a Conditional Random Fields Model on Corpora of Written and Spoken Italian
  Ilaria Manfredi, Lorenzo Gregori
- Teasing LLMs Adapted to Italian
  Leonardo Ranaldi, Giulia Pucci, Elena Sofia Ruzzetti, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, André Freitas
- Investigating Gender Bias in Large Language Models for the Italian Language
  Elena Sofia Ruzzetti, Dario Onorati, Leonardo Ranaldi, Davide Venditti, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
- Towards a New Computational Lexicon for Italian: Building the Morphological Layer by Harmonizing and Merging Existing Resources
  Flavia Sciolette, Simone Marchi, Emiliano Giovannetti
- Textual Entailment with Natural Language Explanations: The Italian e-RTE-3 Dataset
  Andrea Zaninello, Sofia Brenna, Bernardo Magnini

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