Language, Speech and Interaction
Our main areas of interest are speech, vision and language processing, machine learning and interaction.
The purpose of our research is to investigate how humans process speech, language and vision, and to design mathematical models for automatic processing that can be used with communicating machines.
Our studies rely on computational models from batch or on-line examples and provide predictive models for data classification, automatic sequence labelling and structure inference.
Another research area the group is involved in is human-centered communication systems. We investigate models of interactions in any ICT scenario, such as speech-to-speech, speech-to-web and multimodal interactions. Our focus is both on the computational aspect of the interaction models as well as on the usability of user interfaces.
Finally, we also devote our attention to collaborative systems and web architecture. We are active in the design of software architecture for advanced web and multimedia collaborative systems.
Publications
13 publications for 3 currently enrolled students
TrenTeam at Multilingual Counterspeech Generation: Multilingual Passage Re-Ranking Approaches for Knowledge-Driven Counterspeech Generation Against Hate
Russo, D.
in Proceedings - International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING, 317 Sidney Baker Street S., Suite 400-134, Kerrville, TX 78028, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025, p. 77-91. - ISBN: 9798891762077. Proceedings of: 1st Workshop on Multilingual Counterspeech Generation, MCG 2025 with Shared Task on Multilingual Counterspeech Generation, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2025
CIVET: Systematic Evaluation of Understanding in VLMs
Rizzoli, Massimo; Alghisi, Simone; Khomyn, Olha; Roccabruna, Gabriel; Mousavi, Seyed Mahed; Riccardi, Giuseppe
in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, 209 N. Eighth Street, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, 18360: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025, p. 4462-4480. - ISBN: 979-8-89176-335-7. Proceedings of: 30th Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2025, Suzhou, China, 4th November-9th November 2025. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.findings-emnlp.239
Face the Facts! Evaluating RAG-based Pipelines for Professional Fact-Checking
Russo, Daniel; Menini, Stefano; Staiano, Jacopo; Guerini, Marco
in Proceedings of the 18th International Natural Language Generation Conference, Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025, p. 846-865. - ISBN: 979-8-89176-321-0. Proceedings of: INLG 2025, Hanoi, Vietnam, 29th October - 2nd November 2025. - Publication URL
The Unheard Alternative: Contrastive Explanations for Speech-to-Text Models
Conti, Lina; Fucci, Dennis; Gaido, Marco; Negri, Matteo; Wisniewski, Guillaume; Bentivogli, Luisa
in Proceedings of the 8th BlackboxNLP Workshop: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, Suzhou: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025, p. 398-414. - ISBN: 979-8-89176-346-3. Proceedings of: BlackboxNLP Workshop: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, Suzhou, 9th November 2025. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.blackboxnlp-1.23
First-AID: the first Annotation Interface for grounded Dialogues
Menini, Stefano; Russo, Daniel; Palmero Aprosio, Alessio; Guerini, Marco
in Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations), Vienna, Austria: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025, p. 563-571. - (PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE - ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS. MEETING). - ISBN: 979-8-89176-253-4. Proceedings of: 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2025, Vienna, Austria, July 27–August 1st, 2025. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.acl-demo.54
Are LLMs Robust for Spoken Dialogues?
Mousavi, Seyed Mahed; Roccabruna, Gabriel; Alghisi, Simone; Rizzoli, Massimo; Ravanelli, Mirco; Riccardi, Giuseppe
in Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology, sapporo, Japan: 14th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology, 2024. Proceedings of: IWSDS2024, JAPAN, 04/03/2024
Should We Fine-Tune or RAG? Evaluating Different Techniques to Adapt LLMs for Dialogue
Alghisi, Simone; Rizzoli, Massimo; Roccabruna, Gabriel; Mousavi, Seyed Mahed; Riccardi, Giuseppe
in Proceedings of the 17th International Natural Language Generation Conference, Association for Computational Linguistics: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2024, p. 180-197. - ISBN: 9798891761223. Proceedings of: 17th International Natural Language Generation Conference, INLG 2024, Tokyo, Japan, 23/09/2024 - 27/09/2024. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.18653/v1/2024.inlg-main.15
Will LLMs Replace the Encoder-Only Models in Temporal Relation Classification?
Roccabruna, Gabriel; Rizzoli, Massimo; Riccardi, Giuseppe
in Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Miami, Florida, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024, p. 20402-20415. - ISBN: 9798891761643. Proceedings of: 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2024, Miami, Florida, USA, 12th November - 16th November 2024. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.1136
To Click it or not to Click it: An Italian Dataset for Neutralising Clickbait Headlines
Russo, Daniel; Araque, Oscar; Guerini, Marco
in CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Pisa, Italy: CEUR-WS, 2024. - (CEUR WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS). Proceedings of: 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, CLiC-it 2024, Pisa, Italy, Dec 04-06, 2024. - Publication URL
Benchmarking the Generation of Fact Checking Explanations
Russo, Daniel; Tekiroğlu, Serra Sinem; Guerini, Marco
in TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, v. 11, (2023), p. 1250-1264. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1162/tacl_a_00601
PoliticIT at EVALITA 2023: Overview of the Political Ideology Detection in Italian Texts Task
Russo, D.; Jimenez-Zafra, S. M.; Garcia-Diaz, J. A.; Caselli, T.; Guerini, M.; Alfonso Urena-Lopez, L.; Valencia-Garcia, R.
in CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Aachen: CEUR-WS, 2023. - (CEUR WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS). Proceedings of: 8th Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop, EVALITA 2023, Parma, Italy, 7–8 September 2023. - Publication URL
Countering Misinformation via Emotional Response Generation
Russo, Daniel; Kaszefski-Yaschuk, Shane; Staiano, Jacopo; Guerini, Marco
in The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Proceedings of the Conference, Stroudsburg PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023, p. 11476-11492. - ISBN: 979-8-89176-060-8. Proceedings of: EMNLP 2023, Singapore, 6th-10th December 2023. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.703
Using Artificial French Data to Understand the Emergence of Gender Bias in Transformer Language Models
Conti, Lina; Wisniewski, Guillaume
in EMNLP 2023 - 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings, Singapore: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023, p. 10362-10371. - ISBN: 9798891760608. Proceedings of: 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2023, Singapore, 2023. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.641
