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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

@caterinavillani.bsky.social presenting a collaborative project in which we explore the content of conceptual categories at different levels of granularity, by humans and #LLMs ESLP2026.SCIENCESCONF.ORG #ABSTRACTION #ESLP

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🇧🇷 ABSTRACTION goes to Rio! 🧠🌎 @lauraocchipinti.bsky.social is presenting our research at #CogSci2026, exploring how word concreteness and specificity (two dimensions of Abstraction) differently shape children’s perceptions of clarity and informativeness in written texts. ☀️ #CognitiveScience

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

@mariannabolog.bsky.social PI of Abstraction_ERC presents Abstraction scientific results putting them in relation with forms of embodiment. A theory of embodiment must take in account the grounding of concrete/abstract as well as general/specific concepts.

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Forms of embodiment. Valentina Cuccio opens the conference at Messina University. 18-20 May 2026. @mariannabolog.bsky.social and Paola Vernillo representating Abstraction_ERC

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Word Ladders is a free mobile app developed by @Abstraction_ERC to collect linguistic data site.unibo.it/abstraction/en Join more than 3400 players to help us study the role of language in Abstraction. Download: Android 👉 shorturl.at/kqAOS Apple 👉 shorturl.at/buIS2

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Dinner time, to keep the discussion going with our invited speakers Prof Filippo Domaneschi and Dott. Veronica Repetti

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Verena Rieser @aclmeeting.bsky.social 2025 in Vienna, keynote on day 2. We need human/AI alignment, but whats the gold standard we aim at? Which humans? Moreover, human demographic data can be misleading and ambiguous (check example in the picture :-))

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

"Most papers are like 'look what i can have LLMs do' but it is LLM popcorn. It remains unclear why they do what they do. We need a LLM theory". Eduard Hovy's thought provoking talk at panel on Generalizations here at @aclmeeting.bsky.social is compelling (and long overdue!) 👏👏👏

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

@aclmeeting.bsky.social #acl2025 conference theme this year is GENERALIZATIONS in NLP models. Can models generalize, when the content of their concepts differs from that of humans? Check poster sess. 2: "How Humans and LLMs Organize Conceptual Knowledge: Exploring Subordinate Categories in Italian"

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

@mariannabolog.bsky.social at @unibz.bsky.social is going to present Abstraction_ERC outputs this afternoon, as invited keynote speaker of the workshop ABSTRACTION: Language - Science - Engineering

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Our amazing postdoc @grambelli.bsky.social, at the MEDAL Summer School in Birmingham! medal.ut.ee/event/medal-... Brava Giulia – your work keeps inspiring us! 💥🦾💻🧠✨ #Computational #Linguistics #PostdocLife #MEDAL2025 #WomenInSTEM #AbstractionProject

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"Summer in Bologna", featuring THE FAN as main protagonist. From the Abstraction group that's all for today 😅

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

We just played analogical word ladders here :-)

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Interjections as the abstract elements in language par excellence. The scaffolding of natural languages @dingemansemark.bsky.social

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

So we have this forest room for coffee breaks, which is an amazing immersive experience

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

@catemauri.bsky.social now giving a talk about cooperation in meaning making and abstraction mechanisms for alignment

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Ideophones in conversation, in a thought provoking talk by @bodowinter.bsky.social

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Starting from Monday march 31st a temporary exhibition hosted by the Dep. Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Bologna will showcase the scientific findings achieved by the Abstraction research group. See you in Via Cartoleria 5, 40100 Bologna, Italy.

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

📢 ABSTRACTION presents: A workshop with brilliant speakers who will discuss language, conversations, and social interaction! 🗓️ April 3rd | 9-18 (Rome time) 📍 In person: Bologna, IT 💻 From remote: shorturl.at/oEM7S 🔴 Limited in-person seats–Register by March 21st (see the flyer) Don’t miss it!

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The new official social account of the Abstraction project is now linked in the Abstraction websites. And yes, it is @bsky.app and not X anymore. The scientific sky is bluer here 💪 Public website: www.abstractionproject.eu Academic website: site.unibo.it/abstraction/it

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Foto di gruppo! @FestScienza Scale di Parole, @TalentGardenit A Genova, Giardini Baltimora @ComunediGenova

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Ready for a 3 days of public engagement with the Abstraction group (www.abstractionproject.eu) At Festival della Scienza in Genova, Italy 🇮🇹 www.festivalscienza.eu Check out our activity: www.festivalscienza.it/programma-20…

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Abstraction. The process of filtering out details to retain only essential features that are useful to be applied in new contexts

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

🤓Have you ever wondered whether word concreteness and specificity differ, in relation to political parties and specific candidates? 📺👥🗣️🗣️ Check this out: Word choices in the Trump & Harris 2024 #PresidentialElection2024 debate from September 10th 🇺🇸 dir.lat/eFmukT

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

A good crowd of in presence as well as from remote participants for Kristina Kobrock's seminar at Abstraction today: a presentation of 3 studies on linguistic strategies for abstraction. kristinakobrock.github.io

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Kristina Kobrock giving a talk on linguistic strategies for abstraction, a topic at the very core of the Abstraction_ERC project.

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Pre-seminar coffee with Kristina Kobrock at Abstraction

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

📢 ABSTRACTION presents: 🗓️1 October at 14.30-15.30 (Rome time) 🗣️ PhD student Kristina Kobrock dir.lat/kU25Tm 📍From remote: dir.lat/jNBOfU Recording will be available here after the event: dir.lat/6AAVQk #XPRAGit2024...

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

How does word specificity affect our interactions? are we more uncertain, more curious, more willing to keep talking when a dialogue features very specific or very general words? At #XPRAGit2024. Abstraction in collab. with @ClaudiaMazzuca @annaborghi8

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

A delegation of Abstraction_ERC composed by PI @MariannaBolog, @CaterinaVillan8 @LamarraTommaso and WEMB-funded (PRIN2022) @AdeleLoia is arriving to #Venezia to attend and disseminate scientific outputs at #XPRAGit2024 Experimental Pragmatics...

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

All invited seminars organised by Abstraction project til now are online on the project (academic) website: site.unibo.it/abstraction/it/eventi Abstraction has also a website targeted to the non-academic audience, here: www.abstractionproject.eu

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

📢ABSTRACTION presents: 🗓️1 October at 14.30-15.30 (Rome time) 🗣️ PhD student Kristina Kobrock kristinakobrock.github.io 📍In presence: Bologna, Italy (see image) 📍From remote: shorturl.at/DsYad Recording will be available here after the event:...

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

Exploring Spatial Intuitions and Analogical Reasoning in Large Language Models A seminar organized by Abstraction at @Unibo Do LLMs select the same schemas (directed arrow) as humans, when asked to represent the meaning of motion verbs?

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Aperitivo at Cantinella del Sole, with invoted speaker Tony Veale (Abstraction advisory board) and nice jazz music in the background. Taking about LLMs ability to perform abstractions and create analogies.

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Making ironic analogies with LLMs. A seminar with Tony Veale at Abstraction @Unibo. In this example Einstein is an individual treated as a category of people (abstraction mechanisms!)

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Lunch with Abstraction_ERC after Tony Veale's talk here in Bologna

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Humour as power dynamics. We use humor to reverse power dynamics. Are We ready to have these dynamics reversed when the other participant is a machine? Are We ready to have AI make fun of us?!

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

📢ABSTRACTION presents: 🗓️16 September at 10.00-11.30 (Rome time) 🗣️ Prof. Tony Veale (UCD, IE) 📍In presence: Bologna, Italy (see image) 📍From remote: dir.lat/aEHilU Recording will be available here after the event: dir.lat/qAgnGu

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

📢ABSTRACTION presents: 🗓️19 September at 10.00-11.30 (Rome time) 🗣️ Prof. Tony Veale (UCD, IE) 📍In presence: Bologna, Italy (see image) 📍From remote: shorturl.at/qDgwm Recording will be available here after the event: site.unibo.it/abstraction/it/eventi

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 04/08/2024

Abstraction PI @MariannaBolog has co-organized workshop ANALOGY-ANGLE @IJCAIconf, with Filip Ilievski, @PiaSommerauer, Ute Schmid and Dafna Shahaf. Shout out to Filip & Pia to make it happen and to all speakers, including our very own @g_rambelli 🥳 analogy-angle.github.io

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 02/08/2024

It's official! Abstraction will be at "Festival della Scienza" in Genova, on October 30-31. We will organize activities to share project results & engage with local and international communities in linguistic challenges, using...

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 01/08/2024

Word Ladders is a free mobile app developed by EU-funded proj @Abstraction_ERC to collect linguistic data. Join more than 3200 players & help us study the role of language in Abstraction mechanisms! Download now: Android 👉 shorturl.at/kqAOS Apple 👉 shorturl.at/buIS2

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 25/07/2024

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

📢ABSTRACTION presents: 🗓️16 September at 10.00-11.30 (Rome time) 🗣️ Prof. Tony Veale (UCD, IE) 📍In presence: Bologna, Italy (see image) 📍From remote: dir.lat/bEazkI Recording will be available here after the event: dir.lat/C1gjsl

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 08/07/2024

Can we harness the potential of these artificial rhetorical agents to defend and promote democracy? We should work in this direction. Mitch Reyes at Abstraction, a seminar promoted by @AiUnibo

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

Abstraction group summer picnic at Giardini Margherita, Bologna. With @CaterinaVillan8 @claudia_collac @g_rambelli @LamarraTommaso @MariannaBolog and Andrea Ravelli

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