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The 9th edition of the Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI 2026) is over! 26 submissions, 14 accepted papers 2 invited talks: - Marco Turchi (Zoom) - Lorenzo De Mattei (Aptus.AI) 1 thought-provoking panel: “Is There Life After LLMs?”

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

📣La terza newsletter AILC del 2026 è online!📣 www.ai-lc.it?mailpoet_rou...

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🥳 Congratulations to the winners of the AILC awards: CLiC-it Best Student Paper and the “Emanuele Pianta” Award for the best Master's Thesis! t.co/fMirXkn59w t.co/0IUclZlUTe 🥳

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#CLiCit2026 has sadly come to an end 🥲 We are already counting down the days to the next one. See you at #CLiCit2027 in Pavia!

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Alessio Miaschi @alessiomiaschi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Today at CLiC-it, Cristiano Ciaccio and Asya Zanollo presented our paper “Reading Between the Clues: A Fine-Grained Analysis of Italian Crossword Solving Systems” (with @gsarti.com, Dell’Orletta F. and @malvinanissim.bsky.social)! 🔥 @ailc-nlp.bsky.social #NLProc

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🎙️Our second invited talk: Prof. Ryan Cotterell (ETH Zürich) "Surprisal Theory is Tautological (without Rational Grounding)"

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🗣️ Raffaele Di Maso presenting: "A Logical/Bayesian Backbone for Explainable Argumentation Dynamics in Conversational AI" Authors: Raffaele Di Maso, Emilia Tanda, Domenico Morra, Maria Di Maro and Antonio Origlia

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🗣️ Sara Candussio presenting: “Don’t Say It!”: Constraints, Compliance, and Communication when Language Models Play Taboo Authors: Sara Candussio, Francesca Padovani, Daniel Scalena and Malvina Nissim

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🗣️ Malvina Nissim presenting: "Do We Speak the Same Language? Language, Language Models, and What We’re Talking About" Author: Malvina Nissim

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🗣️ Nicola Cirillo presenting: "In Short? Straight Paths over Painted Mazes: Humans and LLMs Prefer Simple (Extractive or Abstractive) Summaries to Metaphor-based ones" Authors: Nicola Cirillo, Marzia Postorino, Antonio Schiano, Francesca Turco, Stefano Zoia and Antonio Lieto

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🗣️ Giorgio Sciamanna presenting: "Identifying the Factors Underlying Differential Object Marking with Language Models: analysis and comparison of Self-Paced Reading data and Transformer-based Surprisal scores" Authors: Giorgio Sciamanna

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Day 3 oral session (chair: Alessio Aprosio). Michele Contalbo presenting: "When Do Discourse Markers Help? A Multilingual Study of Discourse-Marker Auxiliary Training for NLP" ~Guilherme Augusto Rocha de Figueiredo, Michele Luca Contalbo, Matteo Paganelli, Francesco Guerra

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The rain tried to crash our #CLiCit2026 social dinner, but spirits (and the fun) stayed high anyway 🌧️☂️ What an amazing evening! 🍽️

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#CLiCit2026 Day 2 isn’t over yet! Tonight we meet for the Social Dinner at Terrazze Cassaro, 8:30pm. Head into B&B Hotels, hop on the elevator, and meet us on the rooftop! Remember to bring your badge 🪪

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The AILC annual meeting is about to start 🚀 If you want to follow the meeting remotely, you'll find the link on the following webpage: clic2026.unipa.it/news/

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🗣️ Ingnazio Sorrentino presenting: "IPA as a Unified Representation for Multilingual ASR" Authors: Ignazio Sorrentino, Marco Matassoni, Roberto Gretter, Daniele Falavigna and Alessio Brutti

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🗣️ Tiziano Gaddo presenting: "Pretty Pictures, Shallow Parsing: The Impact of Syntactic Structure on Diffusion Models" Authors: Chiara Ceka, Tiziano Gaddo, Marco La Marra and Roberto Zamparelli

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🗣️ Arianna Muti presenting: "Soundtrack 2 My Mood: A RAG-Based LLM System for Emotionally Relatable Music Recommendations" Authors: Filippo De Min, Debora Nozza and Arianna Muti

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🗣️ Michela Deodati presenting: "Lost in Transcription: Investigating the Role of Audio Information for Video-based Visual Statement Verification" ~Michela Deodati, Mohd Kaif, Davide Testa, Giovanni Bonetta, Alessandro Lenci, Oswald Lanz, Raffaella Bernardi and Bernardo Magnini

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

📣 The third oral session of Day 2 has started, chaired by Alessandro Mazzei.

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Let's begin the second poster session of #CLiCit2026 Day 2 📚

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🗣️ Thomas Bertolani presenting: "Diffusion Language Models: An Experimental Analysis" Authors: Thomas Bertolani, Davide Bucciarelli, Leonardo Zini, Marcella Cornia and Lorenzo Baraldi

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🗣️ Samuel Frontull presenting: "How Far Can an Agentic Framework Close the Gap between LLMs and Specialised MT for Low-Resource Languages?" Authors: Jean Maillard, Samuel Frontull, Christopher R. Haberland, Ruth Videsott and Stefano Lusito

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🗣️ Benedetta Muscato presenting: "DA-Self-AMPLIFY: Improving In-Context Learning with Post-hoc Explanations for Subjective NLP" Authors: Benedetta Muscato, Gizem Gezici and Fosca Giannotti

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🗣️ Gabriele Maraia presenting: "Mitigating Register- and Authority-Driven Sycophancy via Cross-Lingual Activation Steering" Authors: Gabriele Maraia, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto and Leonardo Ranaldi

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🗣️ Alessandro Bondielli presenting: "Sparse Autoencoder Latents Are Locally Aligned with Their Explanations" Authors: Francesco Tozzi and Alessandro Bondielli

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The second oral session of the day has started, chaired by Marco Polignano. 🗣️ Luca Dini presenting: "From Weights to Representations: How Pre-Training Data Order Shapes Language Models" Authors: Luca Dini, Lucia Domenichelli, Dominique Brunato and Felice Dell’Orletta

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🎙️Our first invited talk: Prof. Gemma Boleda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra / ICREA). "LLMs as a synthesis between symbolic and distributed approaches to language"

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's time for the first #CLiCit2026 poster session 👥🖼️ #NLProc

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🗣️ Tiziano Labruna presenting: "eCREAM-MedCorpus: A Large-Scale Corpus of Clinical Notes for Italian" Authors: Tiziano Labruna, Guido Bertolini, Pietro Ferrazzi and Bernardo Magnini

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🗣️ Roberta Leotta presenting: "CorefUD Goes Latin: Enriching a Large Multilingual Coreference Resource with a Classical Language" Authors: Roberta Leotta, Marco Passarotti, Martin Popel and Zdeněk Žabokrtský

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🗣️ Pierluigi Cassotti presenting: "Generating Synthetic Data for Lexical Semantic Change Detection Over Multiple Time Periods" Authors: Davide Saponara, Nina Tahmasebi and Pierluigi Cassotti

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🗣️ Agnese Lombardi presenting: "The Linguistic History of (In)Fertility: A Diachronic and Cross-Genre Corpus Study" Authors: Agnese Lombardi and Valentina Bambini

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🗣️ Varun Ghat Ravikumar presenting: "A Factorial Study of Synthetic Data Generation for Low-Resource Machine Translation using Grammar Books" Authors: Varun Ghat Ravikumar, Sina Ahmadi, Lena Jäger and Rico Sennrich

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Day 2 starts with an oral session chaired by Dominique Brunato. Opening, "Toward Ancient Greek Word Formation: a Digital Resource for Derivational Morphology". ~ Beatrice Marchesi, Silvia Zampetta, Virginia Mastellari, Luca Brigada Villa, Silvia Luraghi and Chiara Zanchi

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🤖 Up next: our panel "Raccontare l'AI generativa: il ruolo della comunità scientifica". 🗣️ Roberto Basili, Alessandro Lenci, and Malvina Nissim join the conversation, moderated by Danilo Croce. #CLiCit2026 #NLProc

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The second #CLiCit2026 oral session, chaired by Arianna Muti, ends with Selenia Anastasi presenting: 🗣️ "Intercepting and Traversing a Telegramsphere: Construction and Analysis of the Italian Anti-Vaccine Telegram Corpus" Authors: Selenia Anastasi, Federico Pilati and Anita Lavorgna

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🗣️ Samuele D’Avenia and Marta Marchiori Manerba presenting: "Before the Storm: Estimating Offensive Speech Risk from Italian News on YouTube" Authors: Samuele D’Avenia, Eliana Di Palma, Lia Draetta, Soda Marem Lo and Marta Marchiori Manerba

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🗣️ Giulio Corradi and Marta Marchiori Manerba presenting: "Advocacy Radar: Monitoring Advocacy for Digital Rights" Authors: Giulio Corradi and Marta Marchiori Manerba

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The second oral session starts with Davide Testa presenting: 🗣️ "What is my Age (and Gender) again? Profiling AI Systems Through the Lens of Gender Stereotype Detection" ~ Davide Testa, Gloria Comandini, Manuela Speranza, Sofia Brenna, Stefania Cavagnoli and Bernardo Magnini

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🗣️ Laura Occhipinti presenting: "Beyond Concreteness: the Role of Semantic Specificity in Predicting Lexical Complexity in Italian" Authors: Laura Occhipinti and Marianna Marcella Bolognesi

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🗣️ Giovanni Puccetti presenting: "Brownie IS-A cake, but sugar is not: Can encoders annotate and clean children’s (mis)built semantic hierarchies?" Authors: Giovanni Puccetti, Adele Loia, Andrea Esuli and Marianna Bolognesi

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🗣️ Gabriele Errico presenting: "Can LLMs Match Folk Wisdom? A Contextual Evaluation of Proverb Selection in Romance Dialects of Italy" Authors: Gabriele Errico, Alan Ramponi, Sara Tonelli and Elisabetta Jezek

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🗣️ Andrea Pedrotti presenting: "CoSITA: a Benchmark for Temporally Grounded State-Transition Understanding" Authors: Andrea Pedrotti and Andrea Esuli

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🧵The first oral session is about to start, chaired by Irene Siragusa (@iresiragusa.bsky.social) Stay tuned for updates throughout the session #CLiCit2026

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

CLiC-it 2026 has officially kicked off! 🎉 The opening session is underway in the stunning halls of Palazzo dei Normanni. Stay tuned for what's next! #CLiCit2026 #NLProc

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

📣 #CLiCit2026 officially begins, starting with this morning’s tutorial session! 🗣️ Marco Guerini and Daniel Russo will walk us through “Counterspeech Against Hate and Misinformation: An NLP Perspective.” #NLProc #unipa #counterspeech

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s the final countdown! #CLiCit2026 is about to start ⏳✨ 📚 The pre-proceedings are now available: clic2026.unipa.it/pre-proceedi... 🗞️ Follow all conference updates and announcements here: clic2026.unipa.it/news

clic2026.unipa.it

Pre-proceedings – CLiC-it 2026

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