Pierpaolo Basile

Associate professor in Computer Science at the University of Bari. My interests: Natural Language Processing, Semantics, retrocomputing, music, books.

[AILC_NLP @AILC_NLP]

📢 #clicit2025 paper submission deadline extension: 16/06/2025!

[Pierpaolo Basile @basilepp]

We release XVLM2VEC, a Self-Knowledge Distillation method to enhance multilingual embeddings in English-trained LVLMs—boosting French, German, Italian & Spanish!
Models, data, benchmarks and code are available. See the paper https://t.co/cj5q8zxL7E
#AI #LVLM

[Pierpaolo Basile @basilepp]

🚀 New research on Word Sense Disambiguation & LLMs!

We extend the XL-WSD benchmark & test LLMs on two subtasks: definition generation & sense selection.
We fine-tuned a mid-size model achieving SOTA performance.
📄 Read more: https://t.co/NqSns96JsP

#AI #NLP #LLMs #WSD

[SWAP research group “Antonio Bello” @SWAP_research]

we are grateful to @SapienzaNLP for the new evaluation suite for 🇮🇹 LLM

ITA-Bench
https://t.co/JrYiMAWAxz

SWAP’s
LLaMAntino-ANITA-8B-Inst-DPO-ITA
ranks 1st ⤵️

[AILC_NLP @AILC_NLP]

The Proceedings of #CLiCit2024 are now available on the ACL Anthology! @CLiC_it_conf
You can find them at the following link:
https://t.co/QXnIOW3eJX

[Chiara Di Bonaventura @c_dibonaventura]

🚀2025 is off to a great start! I just got back from @coling2025 , where I presented my work on effective learning strategies for #LLMs in #HateSpeech research, from #detection to #explanation. 🧵1/6

[CLiC-it Conference @CLiC_it_conf]

We've got something🎁 for you: #CLiCit2024 proceedings are out on CEUR! Check them out here: https://t.co/0eL8qPAlJU
Wishing everyone joyful and peaceful Christmas holidays!🎄 @AILC_NLP #NLProc

[Apulia Retrocomputing - OdV @ApuliaRetro]

quasi immediatamente. Più di 40 dei 1.000 dipendenti di Apple divengono milionari istantaneamente grazie alle stock options in loro possesso.

#retrocomputing #retroinformatica #retrocomputer

[Apulia Retrocomputing - OdV @ApuliaRetro]

Ciao!
È aperta la Campagna di Tesseramento di Apulia Retrocomputing per l’anno 2025.💳

Se vuoi divenire parte integrante della squadra segui le istruzioni presenti su
https://t.co/VwGXFC7gD0.

Per ulteriori informazioni manda un messaggio whatsapp allo 0808807143 ⬇️

[RacheleSprugnoli - @[email protected] @RSprugnoli]

Pictures with friends at #clicit2024 social dinner! @CLiC_it_conf @AILC_NLP @RobertaCombei @lucia__busso @federic50291658 @Giova_Moretti @basilepp @p_cassotti @siciliani_lu @MalvinaNissim @vivi_patti

[CLiC-it Conference @CLiC_it_conf]

Mark the date: Wednesday, December 4th
Time: 9:30 am

🍕 Opening of #clicit2024 with the #tutorial "You Are what You Eat: Processing Data for Training and Evaluating LLMs" held by @giocobon and @BernardoMagnini from @FBK_research.

@AILC_NLP #NLProc

[CLiC-it Conference @CLiC_it_conf]

Registrations to #clicit2024 are open now💪! Early Registration until November 20th: https://t.co/aTk2XbiXU1
@AILC_NLP #NLProc

[AILC_NLP @AILC_NLP]

Bid per Lectures on Computational Linguistics 2025: deadline 30/09/2024 #NLProc

[CLiC-it Conference @CLiC_it_conf]

⏰ Reminder: Emanuele Pianta Award for Best Master Thesis, submission deadline September, 15th!

[CLiC-it Conference @CLiC_it_conf]

And finally, here is our fourth #clicit2024 chair! @RSprugnoli (https://t.co/PmwUMugeW2) is a professor and researcher at @unipr @labIUCD
@AILC_NLP #NLProc

[CLiC-it Conference @CLiC_it_conf]

⚠️⚠️⚠️DEADLINE EXTENSION⚠️⚠️⚠️

- 22/07/2024: EXTENDED paper submission deadline: regular papers and research communications (11:59 pm CEST)

#clicit2024 @AILC_NLP #NLProc

[CLiC-it Conference @CLiC_it_conf]

The closing of the "Lectures on Computational Linguistics" held in woderful Bari on 19-21 June, see you at #clicit2024!! @AILC_NLP #NLProc

[AILC_NLP @AILC_NLP]

The evening lecture is over and now it's time for a tour of the Old Town in #Bari and a traditional dinner! #LecturesAILC2024

[Maristella Gatto @GattoMaristella]

It was a great pleasure for me to deliver the welcome address and the evening lecture on "Computational Linguistics and Digital Humanities" at the 2024 Lectures in Computational Linguistics, Departments of Research and Innnovation in the Humanities and Computer Science @unibait

[AILC_NLP @AILC_NLP]

Third and last day of #LecturesAILC2024 with the tutorial “Cognitive evaluations of large language models: the do’s and the don’ts” by @neuranna