#NLProc, We have launched the test stage of the CheckThat! 2024 lab at CLEF. The test datasets and the submission websites are ready. Please, visit the CheckThat! website to download the data/notebooks and read the instructions to submit your runs: checkthat.gitlab.io/clef2024/ Do

On the train heading to #lreccoling2024 where our group, @Aramona4 and Katerina Korre, is (co-)presenting three papers. Looking forward to meet old and new friends... if I manage to find somebody in the huge conference that I foresee to join 😏

Check out our works at LREC COLING 2024 resulting from our collaboration with Alberto Barron's group: On 22: PejorativITy: Disambiguating Pejorative Epithets to Improve Misogyny Detection in Italian Tweets On 23: A Corpus for Sentence-Level Subjectivity Detection on English News Articles

Today at 4pm, Cristina España-Bonet will present our paper "When Elote, Choclo and Mazorca are not the Same. Isomorphism-Based Perspective to the Spanish Varieties Divergences" VarDial Workshop Details, and link to the associated NAACL HLT 2025 paper at cereal-es.github.io/CEREAL/

En el primer encuentro de liderazgo científico joven, en la Relaciones Exteriores. Entretener escuchar a Ofelia Angulo Gautier Mignot y Rafael Valencia sobre los planes de innovación en ciencia en México (y con la Unión Europea)

Our own Paolo Gajo Paolo Gajo won the Premio Studio Tre 2024 per Traduttori for his MA dissertation on the analysis and detection of hate speech in inceldom! amslaurea.unibo.it/28997

I am about to present the Università di Bologna approach to persuasion techniques identification CLEF's checkthat! lab. Work led by P. Gajo and L. Giordano Paper: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3740/paper…

Thrilled to share that our paper "Language is Scary when Over-Analyzed: Unpacking Implied Misogynistic Reasoning with Argumentation Theory-Driven Prompts" has been accepted at the main track of #EMNLP2024 😁 Alberto Barron Tommaso Caselli @tommasoc80.bsky.social

While bidding for ECIR2025 reviews, I have observed an unexpected frequency of titles structured as [X], [Y], and [Z]: [Title of my cool paper] Wondering if this is a typical title structure produced by *GPTs...

Being at #EMNL2024 🌴? Come to visit our poster “Language is Scary when Over-Analyzed” (Jasmine 14:00-15:30) We frame misogyny detection as an Argumentative Reasoning task using LLMs. Curious about the results? Come and talk to us @Aramona4

Thank you all for coming to our presentation! And thanks to the amazing co-authors Tommaso Caselli @tommasoc80.bsky.social Federico Ruggeri Khalid Al-Khatib Alberto Barron If you missed it, check our paper: aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-mai…

People jumping into #BlueskySocial 🦋 like it's salvation (I got an account months ago... almost no traffic). I wonder why people think switching is enough. Which guarantees do they have that such alternative wont degrade into something they dislike and eventually hate?

#CLEF2025 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum clef2025.clef-initiative.eu 9-12 Sep 2025, Madrid, Spain 📋 Registration for participation in labs is now open: …ef2025-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it Jorge Carrillo-de-Albornoz Laura Plaza nlp.uned.es Alba García Seco de Herrera Julio Gonzalo Nicola Ferro

Excited to share that our paper "Untangling Hate Speech Definitions: A Semantic Componential Analysis Across Cultures and Domains" has been accepted in NAACL Findings 🥳 arxiv.org/pdf/2411.07417 Katerina Korre Alberto Barron

We have one 💵fully-covered 3-year 👩‍🎓PhD grant on #languagetechnologies applied to #gastronomy at University of Bologna. Get in touch or look at the official call for applications for further details (the application deadline is on⏳July 1st!): unibo.it/en/study/phd-p…