Language, Speech and Interaction

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

Gender Neutralization for an Inclusive Machine Translation: from Theoretical Foundations to Open Challenges
Piergentili, Andrea; Fucci, Dennis; Savoldi, Beatrice; Bentivogli, Luisa; Negri, Matteo in Proceedings of the first Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies, Tampere: ACL anthology, 2023. Proceedings of: GITT, Tampere, 15/06/2023. - Publication URL

Self-building Neural Networks
Ferigo, Andrea; Iacca, Giovanni in GECCO '23 Companion: Proceedings of the Companion Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, New York: ACM, 2023, p. 643-646. - ISBN: 979-8-4007-0120-7. Proceedings of: GECCO '23, Lisbon, 15th-19th July. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1145/3583133.3590531
[other topics: Machine Learning and Intelligent Optimization

A Population-Based Approach for Multi-Agent Interpretable Reinforcement Learning
Crespi, Marco; Ferigo, Andrea; Custode, Leonardo Lucio; Iacca, Giovanni in APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING, v. 2023, 147, (2023), p. 11075801-11075812. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2023.110758
[other topics: Machine Learning and Intelligent Optimization

Interactive Neural Painting
Peruzzo, E. lia; Menapace, Willi; Goel, Vidit; Arrigoni, Federica; Tang, Hao; Xu, Xingqian; Chopikyan, Arman; Orlov, Nikita; Hu, Yuxiao; Shi, Humphrey; Sebe, Nicu; Ricci, Elisa in COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE UNDERSTANDING, v. 235, (2023), p. 10377801-10377810. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2023.103778
[other topics: Machine Learning and Intelligent Optimization

Understanding Emotion Valence is a Joint Deep Learning Task
Roccabruna, Gabriel; Mousavi, Seyed Mahed; Riccardi, Giuseppe in Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis, Toronto, Canada: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023, p. 85-95. - ISBN: 978-1-959429-87-6. Proceedings of: ACL, Toronto, Canada, 9th-14th July 2023. - Publication URL

Let's Give a Voice to Conversational Agents in Virtual Reality
Yin, Michele; Roccabruna, Gabriel; Azad, Abhinav; Riccardi, Giuseppe in Proc. INTERSPEECH 2023, Dublin, Ireland: International Speech Communication Association ISCA, 2023, p. 5247-5248. Proceedings of: Interspeech 2023, Dublin, Ireland, 20th August-24th August 2022. - Publication URL

What{'}s New? Identifying the Unfolding of New Events in a Narrative
Mousavi, Seyed Mahed; Tanaka, Shohei; Roccabruna, Gabriel; Yoshino, Koichiro; Nakamura, Satoshi; Riccardi, Giuseppe in Proceedings of the The 5th Workshop on Narrative Understanding, Association for Computational Linguistics: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023, p. 1-10. Proceedings of: 5th Workshop on Narrative Understanding, toronto canada, July 14, 2023. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.wnu-1.1

DH-FBK at HODI: Multi-Task Learning with Classifier Ensemble Agreement, Oversampling and Synthetic Data
Leonardelli, E.; Casula, C. in CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Parma: CEUR-WS, 2023. - (CEUR WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS). Proceedings of: 8th Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop, EVALITA 2023, ita, 2023
[other topics: Deep and Structured Machine Learning

Quality–diversity optimization of decision trees for interpretable reinforcement learning
Ferigo, Andrea; Custode, Leonardo Lucio; Iacca, Giovanni in NEURAL COMPUTING & APPLICATIONS, v. 2023, (2023). - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1007/s00521-023-09124-5
[other topics: Machine Learning and Intelligent Optimization

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

Weigh Your Own Words: Improving Hate Speech Counter Narrative Generation via Attention Regularization
Bonaldi, Helena; Attanasio, Giuseppe; Nozza, Debora; Guerini, Marco in Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on CounterSpeech for Online Abuse, 317 Sidney Baker Street S., Suite 400-134, Kerrville, TX 78028, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023. Proceedings of: 1st Workshop on CounterSpeech for Online Abuse (CS4OA), Prague, Czechia, 11th Septemper 2023. - Publication URL

Countering Misinformation via Emotional Response Generation
Russo, Daniel; Kaszefski-Yaschuk, Shane; Staiano, Jacopo; Guerini, Marco in Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 209 N. Eighth Street, Stroudsburg PA 18360, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023, p. 11476-11492. Proceedings of: The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6th-10th December 2023. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.703

Integrating Language Models into Direct Speech Translation: An Inference-Time Solution to Control Gender Inflection
Fucci, Dennis; Gaido, Marco; Papi, Sara; Cettolo, Mauro; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa in Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023. Proceedings of: EMNLP 2023, Singapore, December 2023. - DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.705
[other topics: Deep and Structured Machine Learning

Hi Guys or Hi Folks? Benchmarking Gender-Neutral Machine Translation with the GeNTE Corpus
Piergentili, Andrea; Savoldi, Beatrice; Fucci, Dennis; Negri, Matteo; Bentivogli, Luisa in Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023. Proceedings of: Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Singapore, 6 –10, December, 2023. - DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.873

An Investigation of the Combination of Rehearsal and Knowledge Distillation in Continual Learning for Spoken Language Understanding
Cappellazzo, Umberto; Falavigna, Daniele; Brutti, Alessio in Interspeech, Dublin: ISCA, 2023. Proceedings of: Interspeech, Dublin, 20th August-24th August

Sequence-Level Knowledge Distillation for Class-Incremental End-to-End Spoken Language Understanding
Cappellazzo, Umberto; Yang, Muqiao; Falavigna, Daniele; Brutti, Alessio in Interspeech, Dublin: ISCA, 2023. Proceedings of: Interspeech, Dublin, 20th August-24th August. - DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2023-242

PRODIGy: a PROfile-based DIalogue Generation dataset
Occhipinti, Daniela; Tekiroglu, Serra Sinem; Guerini, Marco 2023

FedEdge: Federated Learning with Docker and Kubernetes for Scalable and Efficient Edge Computing
Hassan, Mir; Leonardo, Lucio; Yildirim, Sinan; Iacca, Giovanni in 1st International Workshop on Machine Learning for Autonomic System Operation in the Device-Edge-Cloud Continuum (MLSysOps 2023), New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2023. Proceedings of: The International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN 2023), Rende, Italy, 25th September-27th September 2023
[other topics: Machine Learning and Intelligent Optimization

Quality Diversity Evolutionary Learning of Decision Trees
Ferigo, Andrea; Custode, Leonardo Lucio; Iacca, Giovanni in SAC '23: Proceedings of the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, New York: ACM, 2023. Proceedings of: SAC, Tallin, 27th March-31st March 2023. - DOI: 10.1145/3555776.3577591
[other topics: Machine Learning and Intelligent Optimization

Evaluation of Response Generation Models: Shouldn't It Be Shareable and Replicable?
Mousavi, Seyed Mahed; Roccabruna, Gabriel; Lorandi, Michela; Caldarella, Simone; Riccardi, Giuseppe in Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM), Association for Computational Linguistics: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022, p. 136-147. Proceedings of: EMNLP 22, abu dhabi, 5 december 2022. - Publication URL

Optimizing the Sensory Apparatus of Voxel-Based Soft Robots Through Evolution and Babbling
Ferigo, Andrea; Medvet, Eric; Iacca, Giovanni in SN COMPUTER SCIENCE, v. 3, n. 2 (2022), p. 10901-10917. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1007/s42979-021-00987-w
[other topics: Machine Learning and Intelligent Optimization

Evolving Hebbian Learning Rules in Voxel-based Soft Robots
Ferigo, Andrea; Iacca, Giovanni; Medvet, Eric; Pigozzi, Federico in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COGNITIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS, v. 2022, (2022), p. 1-11. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1109/TCDS.2022.3226556
[other topics: Machine Learning and Intelligent Optimization

Evolutionary Optimization of Spiking Neural P Systems for Remaining Useful Life Prediction
Custode, Leonardo Lucio; Mo, Hyunho; Ferigo, Andrea; Iacca, Giovanni in ALGORITHMS, v. 15, n. 3 (2022), p. 9801-9818. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.3390/a15030098
[other topics: Machine Learning and Intelligent Optimization

Can Emotion Carriers Explain Automatic Sentiment Prediction? A Study on Personal Narratives
Mousavi, M.; Roccabruna, G.; Tammewar, A.; Azzolin, Steve; Riccardi, G. in Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis, Dublin: ACL, 2022. Proceedings of: Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis, Dublin, 23rd - 27th May 2022. - Publication URL

Multi-source Multi-domain Sentiment Analysis with BERT-based Models
Roccabruna, G.; Azzolin, Steve; Riccardi, G. in European Language Resources Association, Parigi: European Language Resources Association, 2022, p. 581-589. - ISBN: 979-10-95546-72-6. Proceedings of: LREC, Marsiglia, 20th June - 25th June 2022. - Publication URL

On the Entanglement between Evolvability and Fitness: an Experimental Study on Voxel-based Soft Robots
Ferigo, Andrea; Soros, L. B.; Medvet, Eric; Iacca, Giovanni in Proceedings of the ALIFE 2022: The 2022 Conference on Artificial Life, Online: ASME, 2022, p. [1-10]. - (ALIFE: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ARTIFICIAL LIFE CONFERENCE). Proceedings of: ALIFE 2022, Online, 18th July-22nd July 2022. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1162/isal_a_00493
[other topics: Machine Learning and Intelligent Optimization

Annotation of Valence Unfolding in Spoken Personal Narratives
Tammewar, Aniruddha Uttam; Braun, Franziska; Roccabruna, Gabriel; Bayerl, Sebastian; Riedhammer, Korbinian; Riccardi, Giuseppe in Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marsiglia, Francia: European Language Resources Association, 2022, p. 7004-7013. Proceedings of: LREC, Marsiglia, Francia, 20th-25th June 2022. - Publication URL

What can Speech and Language Tell us About the Working Alliance in Psychotherapy
Peter Bayer, Sebastian; Roccabruna, Gabriel; Chowdhury, Shammur Absar; Ciulli, Tommaso; Danieli, Morena; Riedhammer, Korbinian; Riccardi, Giuseppe in Proceedings Interspeech 2022, BAIXAS, FRANCE: International Speech Communication Association, 2022, p. 2443-2447. Proceedings of: Interspeech 2022, Incheon, Korea, 18th September-22nd September 2022. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2022-347

Efficient yet Competitive Speech Translation: FBK@IWSLT2022
Gaido, Marco; Papi, Sara; Fucci, Dennis; Fiameni, Giuseppe; Negri, Matteo; Turchi, Marco in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2022), Dublin, Ireland (in-person and online): Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2022, p. 177-189. - ISBN: 978-1-955917-41-4. Proceedings of: 19th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2022, Dublin, Ireland (in-person and online), 26-27, May 2022. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.18653/v1/2022.iwslt-1.13
[other topics: Deep and Structured Machine Learning

Using Pre-Trained Language Models for Producing Counter Narratives Against Hate Speech: a Comparative Study
Tekiroglu, Serra Sinem; Bonaldi, Helena; Fanton, Margherita; Guerini, Marco in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022, 209 N. Eighth Street, Stroudsburg PA 18360, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022, p. 3099-3114. - ISBN: 978-1-955917-25-4. Proceedings of: Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Dublin, Ireland, 22nd-27th May, 2022. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.18653/v1/2022.findings-acl.245

Human-Machine Collaboration Approaches to Build a Dialogue Dataset for Hate Speech Countering
Bonaldi, Helena; Dellantonio, Sara; Tekiroglu, Serra Sinem; Guerini, Marco in Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 209 N. Eighth Street, Stroudsburg PA 18360, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022, p. 8031-8049. Proceedings of: The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 7th-11th December 2022. - Publication URL

Human-in-the-Loop for Data Collection: a Multi-Target Counter Narrative Dataset to Fight Online Hate Speech
Fanton, Margherita; Bonaldi, Helena; Tekiroglu, Serra Sinem; Guerini, Marco in Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), 209 N. Eighth Street, Stroudsburg PA 18360, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021, p. 3226-3240. Proceedings of: Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), online, 2nd -5th August 2021. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.250

Exploiting contextualized word representations to profile haters on Twitter
Ceron, T.; Casula, C. in CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Aachen: CEUR-WS, 2021, p. 1871-1882. - (CEUR WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS). Proceedings of: 2021 Working Notes of CLEF - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, CLEF-WN 2021, Online, Bucharest, 21st Sept- 24th Sept 2021. - Publication URL
[other topics: Deep and Structured Machine Learning

Beyond Body Shape and Brain: Evolving the Sensory Apparatus of Voxel-Based Soft Robots
Ferigo, A.; Iacca, G.; Medvet, E. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Verlag: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021, p. 210-226. - (LECTURE NOTES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE). - ISBN: 978-3-030-72698-0. Proceedings of: 24th International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2021 held as Part of EvoStar 2021, online, 2021. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-72699-7_14
[other topics: Machine Learning and Intelligent Optimization

Hate speech detection with machine-translated data: The role of annotation scheme, class imbalance and undersampling
Casula, C.; Tonelli, S. in CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Bologna: CEUR-WS, 2020. - (CEUR WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS). Proceedings of: 7th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, CLiC-it 2020, Bologna, 1 March - 3 March 2021
[other topics: Deep and Structured Machine Learning

A GPU-enabled compact genetic algorithm for very large-scale optimization problems
Ferigo, A.; Iacca, G. in MATHEMATICS, v. 8, n. 5 (2020), p. 758. - DOI: 10.3390/MATH8050758
[other topics: Machine Learning and Intelligent Optimization

Multifunctional ISO standard Dialogue Act tagging in Italian
Roccabruna, G.; Cervone, A.; Riccardi, G. in Seventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, Aachen: CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2020. - (CEUR WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS). Proceedings of: Clicit, Bologna, 1-3 March 2021. - Publication URL