ItaliaNLP Lab

The ItaliaNLP Lab @ Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” (ILC) - CNR

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We show that models fine-tuned on IMPaCTS outperform instruction-tuned zero-shot LLMs on controlled sentence simplification tasks, becoming proficient in both simplifying texts and in adhering at the specified target readability level.

Paper: https://t.co/YjECuw90X6

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We’re excited to share our second paper presented at #LREC2026 in Palma: “Controllable Sentence Simplification in Italian: Fine-Tuning Large Language Models on Automatically Generated Resources” by @mpapucci_, Giulia Venturi and Felice Dell'Orletta

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In this work, we introduce IMPaCTS: a new multi-level sentence simplification dataset for Italian, automatically generated to support controllable text simplification research.

😊 Dataset on HF: https://t.co/j83FJoar1R

🔧 Dataset on GitHub: https://t.co/sRaKQk5hF6

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In this work we present UGLD, a decoding method that nudges LLMs toward or against a predefined vocabulary at inference time. No fine-tuning needed and without loss of fluency.

📄 Paper: https://t.co/aJisq2rKTK
🔧 GitHub: https://t.co/xjTVJZQB9i
🐍 Install UGLD: pip install ugld

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🚀 Excited to share our latest work at READIxTSAR workshop at #LREC2026

"Lexical Conditioning of Model's Distribution through Uncertainty-gated Soft-Mixing of Probabilities" by @mpapucci_ Giulia Venturi and Felice Dell'Orletta.

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[4/4] 🧑‍💻 Code & experiments:
https://t.co/Y9vcNEzjbQ

Happy to discuss, feedback welcome! 🙌

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[1/4] How does the order of pretraining data impact Neural Language Models?

We study this in our 🎉new paper🎉:
"On the impact of pretraining data ordering in transformer encoder- and decoder-only language models"

Published in Knowledge-Based Systems
🔗https://t.co/nWrQsLtue3

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[3/4] We examine effects on:
• Perplexity dynamics
• Linguistic probing
• Downstream tasks performance
• Embedding geometry

Data ordering shapes both learning dynamics and representations.

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It’s panel time! 🔥 With Danilo Croce, Felice Dell’Orletta, Elisabetta Fersini and Viviana Patti! @EVALITAcampaign @AILC_NLP #NLProc

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And now it’s the turn of Cristiano Ciaccio, presenting the Cruciverb-IT Shared Task (with @gsarti_, @AlessioMiaschi, Dell’Orletta F. and @MalvinaNissim)! 🔥 @EVALITAcampaign @AILC_NLP #NLProc

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EVALITA 2026 has officially kicked off! 🔥

@AlessioMiaschi is opening this year’s edition — stay tuned for an exciting program ahead! @EVALITAcampaign @AILC_NLP #NLProc

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Big day! Our PhD student @lucadini_ is defining his thesis! 🔥 #NLProc

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Cristiano Ciaccio won the CLiC-it Best Student Paper Award for the work “Crossword Space: Latent Manifold Learning for Italian Crosswords and beyond” (with @gsarti_, @AlessioMiaschi and Felice Dell’Orletta)!! 🔥🔥🔥

@AILC_NLP #NLProc

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Last but not least, Agnese Bonfigli presenting “A Novel Real-World Dataset of Italian Clinical Notes for NLP-based Decision Support in Low Back Pain Treatment”! 🥳

Link to the paper: https://t.co/obw3kqUtU5

#NLProc

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Afternoon session with Ruben Piperno presenting “Doctor, Is That You? Evaluating Large Language Models on Italy’s Medical School Entrance Exams” (with Bonfigli A., Dell’Orletta F., Pecchia L., Merone M. and @LBacco1)! 🔥

Link to the paper: https://t.co/Rpa06FRFn8

#NLProc

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And now Silvio Calderaro presenting “The OuLiBench Benchmark: Formal Constraints as a Lens into LLM Linguistic Competence” (with @AlessioMiaschi and Felice Dell’Orletta)! 📖

Link to the paper: https://t.co/y75Mv0ElGn

#NLProc

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First talk of the morning with @mpapucci_ presenting “Generating and Evaluating Multi-Level Text Simplification: A Case Study on Italian” (with Giulia Venturi and Felice Dell’Orletta)! 🔥

Link to the paper: https://t.co/E9xJ5Oig57

#NLProc

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Last but not least (for today), @lucadini_ presenting “The Role of Eye-Tracking Data in Encoder-Based Models: An In-depth Linguistic Analysis” (with @workerplacemint, Dominique Brunato and Felice Dell’Orletta)! 👁️

Link to the paper: https://t.co/DwnmQqPrUN

#NLProc

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🧩 And now some crossword solving with Cristiano Ciaccio presenting “Crossword Space: Latent Manifold Learning for Italian Crosswords and beyond” (with @gsarti_, @AlessioMiaschi and Felice Dell’Orletta)!

Link to the paper: https://t.co/46rP2tcBQm

#NLProc