Fabio Marson @fabiomarson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Our big dataset on pseudowords and nonwords processing is finally out! 🎉🥲 It's been a long adventure but definitely worthed it. Thanks to my amazing colleagues for the incredible job done! 021
Reposted by Fabio MarsonERCbravenewword @ercbravenewword.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Join us for our next seminar featuring Prof. Giovanni Cassani (Tilburg Uni). We will explore how humans and LLMs interpret novel words in context. 🗓️ Today, Jan 19, 2:00 PM CET 📍 Bicocca (U6 - Sala Lauree) 🌐 Join online: meet.google.com/suf-ybti-oop 021
Reposted by Fabio MarsonERCbravenewword @ercbravenewword.bsky.social · 23/10/2025A fascinating read in @theguardian.com on the psycholinguistics of swearing! Did you know Germans averaged 53 taboo words, while Brits e Spaniards listed only 16? Great to see the work of our colleague Simone Sulpizio & Jon Andoni Duñabeitia highlighted! 👏 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...theguardian.comItalian blasphemy and German ingenuity: how swear words differ around the worldOnce swearwords were dismissed as a sign of low intelligence, now researchers argue the ‘power’ of taboo words has been overlooked 053
Reposted by Fabio MarsonERCbravenewword @ercbravenewword.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Great week at #ESLP2025 in Aix-en-Provence! Huge congrats to our colleagues for their excellent talks on computational models, sound symbolism, and multimodal cognition. Proud of the team and the stimulating discussions! 052
Reposted by Fabio MarsonERCbravenewword @ercbravenewword.bsky.social · 12/09/2025For those who couldn't attend, the recording of Abhilasha Kumar's seminar on exploring form-meaning interactions in novel word learning and memory search is now available on our YouTube channel!! Watch the full presentation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJTs...youtube.comAbhilasha Kumar, Beyond Arbitrariness: How a Word's Shape Influences Learning and MemoryYouTube video by Mbs Vector Space Lab 041
Reposted by Fabio MarsonERCbravenewword @ercbravenewword.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Great presentation by @fabiomarson.bsky.social last Saturday at #AMLAP2025! He shared his latest research using EEG to study how we integrate novel semantic representations, “linguistic chimeras”, from context. Congratulations on a fascinating talk! 041
Reposted by Fabio MarsonMarco Ciapparelli @marcociapparelli.bsky.social · 19/03/20251/n Happy to share a new paper with Calogero Zarbo & Marco Marelli! How well do LLMs represent the implicit meaning of familiar and novel compounds? How do they compare with simpler distributional semantics models (DSMs; i.e., word embeddings)? doi.org/10.1111/cogs...doi.orgConceptual Combination in Large Language Models: Uncovering Implicit Relational Interpretations in Compound Words With Contextualized Word EmbeddingsLarge language models (LLMs) have been proposed as candidate models of human semantics, and as such, they must be able to account for conceptual combination. This work explores the ability of two LLM... 1134
Reposted by Fabio MarsonERCbravenewword @ercbravenewword.bsky.social · 03/03/2025📢 Upcoming Seminar Words are weird? On the role of lexical ambiguity in language 🗣 Gemma Boleda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Why is language so ambiguous? Discover how ambiguity balances cognitive simplicity and communicative complexity through large-scale studies. 📍 UniMiB, Room U6-01C, Milan 2136