“Emanuele Pianta” Award for the Best Master’s Thesis
Committee: Danilo Croce, Eleonora Litta, Manuela Sanguinetti
Winner:
Greta Gorzoni: “Layer Su Layer”: Identifying and Disambiguating the Italian NPN Construction through BERT’s Contextual Embeddings
Mention of Honor:
Arianna Paola Di Pascale: Metafore, politica e violenza domestica. Analisi del discorso parlamentare italiano attraverso la creazione di una nuova risorsa linguistica annotata
Best Student Paper Award
Committee: Francesco Cutugno, Malvina Nissim, and Roberto Zamparelli
Outstanding contribution to Italian NLP resources:
Luca Gioffré, Marina Iuliana Aur, Francesco Ortame, Luca Moroni, Alberte Fernández-Castro, Elena Marafatto and Roberto Navigli; Dromedario-3: Localizing Tülu 3 Dataset to Italian
Matteo Rinaldi, Marco Madeddu, Calogero Jerik Scozzaro, Matteo Delsanto, Daniele P. Radicioni and Viviana Patti; AlBERTurin: A Fully Open Family of Italian Encoder Models with Modern Architectures
Honorable mention:
Giorgio Sciamanna; Identifying the Factors Underlying Differential Object Marking with Language Models: analysis and comparison of Self-Paced Reading data and Transformer-based Surprisal scores
Best Student paper:
Luca Dini, Lucia Domenichelli, Dominique Brunato and Felice Dell’Orletta; From Weights to Representations: How Pre-Training Data Order Shapes Language Models