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Parallel Trees: a novel resource with aligned dependencyand constituency syntactic representations Open

Chiara Alzetta, Alessio Miaschi, Felice Dell’Orletta⋄, Giulia Venturi⋄, Simonetta Montemagni⋄ · 2025

The paper introduces Parallel Trees, a novel multilingual treebank collection that includes 20 treebanks for 10 languages. The distinguishing property of this resource is that the sentences of each language are annotated using two syntacti…

From clicks to care: Exploring the digital strategies of Italian health authorities in communicating ‘General Practitioner Selection’ service Open

Alessandro Vinci, Luca Pirrotta, Giulia Venturi⋄, Milena Vainieri · 2025

The prioritization of digitalization is crucial to the agendas of nations worldwide. While substantial funds have been allocated to foster it, there remains a scarcity of tools dedicated to systematically monitoring the performance of the …

AI Applied to Intelligence and Security: Technologies and EC-Funded Initiatives Open

Domenico Frascà, Alessandro Zanasi, Maria Ustenko, Paola Fratantoni, Giulia Venturi⋄ · 2024

This chapter reports on the artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and EC-funded initiatives and research projects focused on the application of AI to the security and intelligence fields. Nowadays, the AI technology is transversal to a…

Parlamint-it: an 18-karat UD treebank of Italian parliamentary speeches Open

Chiara Alzetta, Simonetta Montemagni⋄, Marta Sartor, Giulia Venturi⋄ · 2024

The paper presents ParlaMint-It, a new treebank of Italian parliamentary debates, linguistically annotated based on the Universal Dependencies (UD) framework. The resource comprises 20,460 tokens and represents a hybrid language variety th…

Linguistic Knowledge Can Enhance Encoder-Decoder Models (If You Let It) Open

Alessio Miaschi, Felice Dell’Orletta⋄, Giulia Venturi⋄ · 2024

In this paper, we explore the impact of augmenting pre-trained Encoder-Decoder models, specifically T5, with linguistic knowledge for the prediction of a target task. In particular, we investigate whether fine-tuning a T5 model on an inter…

Technologies for IMINT and SIGINT Open

Domenico Frascà, Giulia Venturi⋄, Maria Ustenko, Alessandro Zanasi · 2023

PRE-PRINT VERSION\n \nThis work reports up-to-date information about the latest technological developments in Imagery Intelligence (IMINT) and Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) within the Eur…

The therapeutic relationship in community mental health services: a systematic review of the literature Open

Mattia Marchi, Giulia Venturi⋄, Chiara Visentini, Margherita Pinelli, Stefan Priebe , et al. · 2023

Tell me how you write and I'll tell you what you read: a study on the writing style of book reviews Open

Chiara Alzetta, Felice Dell’Orletta⋄, Alessio Miaschi, Elena Prat, Giulia Venturi⋄ · 2023

Purpose The authors’ goal is to investigate variations in the writing style of book reviews published on different social reading platforms and referring to books of different genres, which enables acquiring insights into communication str…

Testing the Effectiveness of the Diagnostic Probing Paradigm on Italian Treebanks Open

Alessio Miaschi, Chiara Alzetta, Dominique Brunato⋄, Felice Dell’Orletta⋄, Giulia Venturi⋄ · 2023

The outstanding performance recently reached by neural language models (NLMs) across many natural language processing (NLP) tasks has steered the debate towards understanding whether NLMs implicitly learn linguistic competence. Probes, i.e…

ADHD Follow-Up in Adulthood among Subjects Treated for the Disorder in a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service from 1995 to 2015 Open

Rosaria Di Lorenzo, Jessica Balducci, Anna Cutino, Emanuela Latella, Giulia Venturi⋄ , et al. · 2023

Background and Objectives: ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity and can persist in adulthood. The aim of this study is to deepen knowledge about adult ADHD follow-up. Materials an…

On Robustness and Sensitivity of a Neural Language Model: A Case Study on Italian L1 Learner Errors Open

Miaschi Alessio, Alzetta Chiara, Brunato Dominique, Felice Dell’Orletta⋄, Giulia Venturi⋄ · 2022

The outstanding performance recently reached by Neural Language Models (NLMs) across many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks has fostered the debate towards understanding whether NLMs implicitly learn linguistic competence. Probes, i.…

Probing BERT on Syntactic Representation Paradigms: Dependency vs Constituency Trees Open

Chiara Alzetta, Alessio Miaschi, Felice Dell’Orletta⋄, Giulia Venturi⋄, Simonetta Montemagni⋄ · 2022

On the quest for interpreting deep Neural Language Models (NLMs), linguistically annotated probing sets are essential tools for investigating models' linguistic abilities. Such a line of research is currently dominated by dependency-based …

Higher readability of institutional websites drives the correct fruition of the abortion pathway: A cross-sectional study Open

Amerigo Ferrari, Luca Pirrotta, Manila Bonciani, Giulia Venturi⋄, Milena Vainieri · 2022

Background In Italy, abortion services are public: therefore, health Institutions should provide clear and easily readable web-based information. We aimed to 1) assess variation in abortion services utilisation; 2) analyse the readability …

Why is this language complex? Cherry-pick the optimal set of features in multilingual treebanks Open

Dominique Brunato⋄, Giulia Venturi⋄ · 2022

This paper investigates linguistic complexity across natural languages from a corpus-based perspective and relies on the assumptions of linguistic profiling as a methodological framework. We focus in particular on the domain of syntactic c…

COVID-19 vaccinations: An overview of the Italian national health system's online communication from a citizen perspective Open

Luca Pirrotta, Elisa Guidotti, C. Tramontani, E. Bignardelli, Giulia Venturi⋄ , et al. · 2022

Probing Linguistic Knowledge in Italian Neural Language Models across Language Varieties Open

Alessio Miaschi, Gabriele Sarti, Dominique Brunato⋄, Felice Dell’Orletta⋄, Giulia Venturi⋄ · 2022

In this paper, we present an in-depth investigation of the linguistic knowledge encoded by the transformer models currently available for the Italian language. In particular, we investigate how the complexity of two different architectures…

Linguistically-Based Comparison of Different Approaches to Building Corpora for Text Simplification: A Case Study on Italian Open

Dominique Brunato⋄, Felice Dell’Orletta⋄, Giulia Venturi⋄ · 2022

In this paper, we present an overview of existing parallel corpora for Automatic Text Simplification (ATS) in different languages focusing on the approach adopted for their construction. We make the main distinction between manual and (sem…

The ParlaMint corpora of parliamentary proceedings Open

Tomaž Erjavec, Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Petya Osenova, Nikola Ljubešić, Kiril Simov , et al. · 2022

This paper presents the ParlaMint corpora containing transcriptions of the sessions of the 17 European national parliaments with half a billion words. The corpora are uniformly encoded, contain rich meta-data about 11 thousand speakers, an…

Probing Tasks Under Pressure Open

Alessio Miaschi, Chiara Alzetta, Dominique Brunato⋄, Felice Dell’Orletta⋄, Giulia Venturi⋄ · 2022

Probing tasks are frequently used to evaluate whether the representations of Neural Language Models (NLMs) encode linguistic information. However, it is still questioned if probing classification tasks really enable such investigation or t…

SemEval-2022 Task 3: PreTENS-Evaluating Neural Networks on Presuppositional Semantic Knowledge Open

Roberto Zamparelli, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Dominique Brunato⋄, Cristiano Chesi, Felice Dell’Orletta⋄ , et al. · 2022

We report the results of the SemEval 2022 Task 3, PreTENS, on evaluation the acceptability of simple sentences containing constructions whose two arguments are presupposed to be or not to be in an ordered taxonomic relation. The task featu…

L'associazione tra fumo di tabacco e crisi economiche in Italia. Open

Giorgio Mattei, E Leone, Giulia Venturi⋄, Luca Pingani, Sílvia Ferrari , et al. · 2021

men in almost all age groups and women aged 25-34 and 65 years or more represent vulnerable groups in which smoking behaviour may increase in times of economic hardship. Therefore, specific policies should be implemented to prevent this oc…

Linguistically annotated multilingual comparable corpora of parliamentary debates ParlaMint.ana 2.0 Open

Tomaž Erjavec, Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Petya Osenova, Nikola Ljubešić, Kiril Simov , et al. · 2021

ParlaMint is a multilingual set of comparable corpora containing parliamentary debates mostly starting in 2015 and extending to mid-2020, with each corpus being about 20 million words in size. The sessions in the corpora are marked as belo…

Group clinical supervision in adult mental health settings Open

G Martina, Maria Moscara, Giorgio Mattei, Jessica Balducci, Andrea Sacchetti , et al. · 2021

INTRODUCTION: Supervision in mental health services (MHSs) has a long tradition. Aim of this review was to analyze papers focused on group clinical supervision in adult psychiatric services.EVIDENCE ACQUISITION: A systematic review of the …

Empathy and perceived burden in caregivers of patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders Open

Rosaria Di Lorenzo, Anna Girone, Nunzio Panzera, Gianluca Fiore, Margherita Pinelli , et al. · 2021

Background Caregivers of patients load different kinds of burdens, including emotional distress. Aims of this study were to evaluate both burden and empathy of caregivers who assist patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Methods W…

Hypokalemia in Patients with COVID-19 Open

Gaetano Alfano, Annachiara Ferrari, Francesco Fontana, Rossella Perrone, Giacomo Mori , et al. · 2021

Work policies and mental health: social welfare integration As a tool to foster pathways to recovery Open

Giulia Venturi⋄, Giorgio Mattei, Barbara Pistoresi, Ângela Dalla Nora, Tindara Addabbo , et al. · 2021

Work and mental health have always been in a complex and dynamic relationship. The working activity can act, depending on its characteristics, as a possible risk or protective factor against the onset of mental illness. At the same time, l…

What Makes My Model Perplexed? A Linguistic Investigation on Neural Language Models Perplexity Open

Alessio Miaschi, Dominique Brunato⋄, Felice Dell’Orletta⋄, Giulia Venturi⋄ · 2021

This paper presents an investigation aimed at studying how the linguistic structure of a sentence affects the perplexity of two of the most popular Neural Language Models (NLMs), BERT and GPT-2. We first compare the sentence-level likeliho…

ParlaMint: comparable corpora of European parliamentary data Open

Tomaž Erjavec, Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Petya Osenova, Petya Osenova, Andrej Pančur , et al. · 2021

This paper outlines the ParlaMint project from the perspective of its goals, tasks, participants, results and applications potential. The project produced language corpora from the sessions of the national parliaments of 17 countries, almo…

Linguistically-driven Selection of Difficult-to-Parse Dependency Structures Open

Chiara Alzetta, Felice Dell’Orletta⋄, Simonetta Montemagni⋄, Giulia Venturi⋄ · 2020

The paper illustrates a novel methodology meeting a twofold goal, namely quantifying the reliability of automatically generated dependency relations without using gold data on the one hand, and identifying which are the linguistic construc…

Empathy and burden in caregivers of patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders Open

Rosaria Di Lorenzo, Anna Girone, Nunzio Panzera, Gianluca Fiore, Margherita Pinelli , et al. · 2020

Background The caregiver of patients loads different kind of burdens, including emotional distress. Aims of this study were to evaluate the burden and empathy of caregivers of patients with schizophrenic spectrum disorders and to evaluate …

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