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Leveraging Whisper Embeddings for Audio-based Lyrics Matching
WEALY matches songs by their lyrics straight from the audio, using Whisper speech embeddings, and offers a reproducible baseline across three public datasets.
Eleonora Mancini
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Joan Serrà
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Paolo Torroni
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Yuki Mitsufuji
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Do Large Language Models understand how to be judges?
Twenty-four language models score Italian news summaries against an editorial rubric, and most of them rate the summaries higher than a human expert does.
Nicolò Donati
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Paolo Torroni
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Giuseppe Savino
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Sustainable Italian LLM Evaluation: Community Perspectives and Methodological Guidelines
A community roadmap for evaluating Italian LLMs: what to test, how to test it, where to find data, and how to keep benchmarking sustainable.
Luca Moroni
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Gianmarco Pappacoda
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Edoardo Barba
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Simone Conia
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Andrea Galassi
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Bernardo Magnini
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Roberto Navigli
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Paolo Torroni
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Roberto Zanoli
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Assessing the Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs in the context of Evidence-based Claim Verification
RECV, a benchmark of real-world claims labeled by reasoning type, shows that LLMs verify claims by deduction well but fail when abduction is needed.
John Dougrez-Lewis
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Mahmud Elahi Akhter
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Federico Ruggeri
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Sebastian Löbbers
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Yulan He
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Maria Liakata
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Interlocking-free Selective Rationalization Through Genetic-based Learning
GenSPP trains the generator and predictor of a self-explaining text classifier separately with genetic search, removing interlocking and producing more accurate highlights.
Federico Ruggeri
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Gaetano Signorelli
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Overview of MM-ArgFallacy2025 on Multimodal Argumentative Fallacy Detection and Classification in Political Debates
MM-ArgFallacy2025 benchmarks fallacy detection and classification in U.S. presidential debates from text, audio, or both, and finds that text-based systems still score highest.
Eleonora Mancini
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Federico Ruggeri
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Serena Villata
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Paolo Torroni
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Untangling Hate Speech Definitions: A Semantic Componential Analysis Across Cultures and Domains
HateDefCon breaks 493 hate speech definitions from five domains into semantic components and shows LLM hate speech detection changes with the definition in the prompt.
Katerina Korre
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Arianna Muti
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Federico Ruggeri
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Alberto Barrón-Cedeño
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Automated Extraction of Judicial Interpretative Formulas in EU Case Law on VAT
A pipeline trains small classifiers on LLM-labelled EU tax rulings to find the Court’s interpretative paragraphs, matching the LLM on expert-labelled test data.
Giulia Grundler
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Piera Santin
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Alessia Fidelangeli
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Rachele Mignone
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Federico Galli
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Andrea Galassi
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Giuseppe Contissa
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Luigi Di Caro
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Paolo Torroni
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Detecting Vague Clauses in Italian Privacy Policies Using Transformers, LLMs, and Cross-Lingual Techniques
A new corpus of 30 Italian privacy policies shows that BERT models beat LLMs at flagging vague data clauses and that resources transfer across languages.
Giulia Grundler
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Mariaceleste Musicco
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Andrea Galassi
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Francesca Lagioia
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Rūta Liepiņa
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Giorgio Resta
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Sara Roccu
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Giovanni Sartor
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Paolo Torroni
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Dynamic Demonstrations Selection for Few-Shot Legal Argument Mining
Choosing few-shot examples per query by similarity lets LLMs mine legal arguments in EU court rulings as well as or better than expert-chosen examples.
Francesco Alfieri
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Giulia Grundler
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Francesca Galloni
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Rūta Liepiņa
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Francesca Lagioia
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Andrea Galassi
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Paolo Torroni
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