Publications
Highlights 12 papers
All publications
2026
- Let Guidelines Guide You: A Prescriptive Guideline-Centered Data Annotation Methodology
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)
Data annotationInterpretabilityLLMs - The Alignment Bottleneck in Decomposition-Based Claim Verification
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
Fact-checkingLLM reasoning - A Multi-Agent LLM Pipeline for Legal Argument Mining
ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng)
LegalArgument miningLLMs - Automatic extraction and collection of legal principles from CJEU decisions on Fiscal State Aid
Artificial Intelligence and Law
LegalKnowledge extraction - AlmaSDG: A Dataset of Scientific Articles' Contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Scientific Data
SustainabilityData annotation - Retrieval-Augmented Generation to Support Railways Engineering Tasks: A Case Study
Preprint preprint
IndustryInformation retrievalLLMs - Leveraging Whisper Embeddings for Audio-based Lyrics Matching
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Information retrievalSpeechMultimodalReproducibility - PFB at EVALITA 2026: Overview of the Prometeia Financial Benchmark
Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian (EVALITA)
BenchmarkLLMs
2025
- TextAlchemy: an NLP tool to accelerate and semi-automate data extraction, validated in the nutritional field
Preprint preprint
BiomedicalInformation retrievalLLMs - Do Large Language Models understand how to be judges?
Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME)
LLMsBenchmarkIndustry - TRI-DEP: A Trimodal Comparative Study for Depression Detection Using Speech, Text, and EEG
Preprint
BiomedicalMultimodalSpeechBenchmark - Sustainable Italian LLM Evaluation: Community Perspectives and Methodological Guidelines
Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it)
LLMsBenchmark - Assessing the Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs in the context of Evidence-based Claim Verification
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL (Findings of ACL)
LLM reasoningFact-checkingBenchmark - Interlocking-free Selective Rationalization Through Genetic-based Learning
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Interpretability - Overview of MM-ArgFallacy2025 on Multimodal Argumentative Fallacy Detection and Classification in Political Debates
Workshop on Argument Mining (ArgMining)
Argument miningMultimodalSpeechBenchmark - Investigating Large Language Models for Text-to-SPARQL Generation
Workshop on Knowledge-Augmented Methods for Natural Language Processing (KnowledgeNLP)
LLMsInformation retrieval - Untangling Hate Speech Definitions: A Semantic Componential Analysis Across Cultures and Domains
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL (Findings of NAACL)
Hate speechBenchmarkLLMs - Automated Extraction of Judicial Interpretative Formulas in EU Case Law on VAT
International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX)
LegalKnowledge extractionLLMs - Detecting Vague Clauses in Italian Privacy Policies Using Transformers, LLMs, and Cross-Lingual Techniques
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)
Honorable Mention in the Best Paper Award Consideration
PrivacyLegalLLMs - Dynamic Demonstrations Selection for Few-Shot Legal Argument Mining
Argument Mining and Empirical Legal Research Workshop (AMELR)
Argument miningLegalLLMs - Improving the Teaching of Artificial Intelligence Through Project-Based Learning on a Board Game
Intelligenza Artificiale
Education - Investigating the effectiveness of explainability methods in Parkinson’s detection from speech
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW)
InterpretabilitySpeechBiomedical - Is It Worth Using LLMs for Unfair Clause Detection in Terms of Service?
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL)
"Peter Jackson" Award for Best Innovative Application Paper
LegalLLMs - LMAC-TD: Producing Time Domain Explanations for Audio Classifiers
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
InterpretabilitySpeech - Overview of the CLEF-2025 CheckThat! Lab: Subjectivity, fact-checking, claim normalization, and retrieval
Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF)
Fact-checkingInformation retrievalBenchmark - Promoting the Responsible Development of Speech Datasets for Mental Health and Neurological Disorders Research
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
SpeechBiomedicalEthics
2024
- AMELIA - Argument Mining Evaluation on Legal documents in ItAlian: A CALAMITA Challenge
Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it)
Argument miningLegalBenchmarkLLMs - Generation and Evaluation of English Grammar Multiple-Choice Cloze Exercises
Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it)
LLMsEducationIndustry - Language is Scary when Over-Analyzed: Unpacking Implied Misogynistic Reasoning with Argumentation Theory-Driven Prompts
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
Hate speechLLM reasoningArgument mining - A Grice-ful Examination of Offensive Language: Using NLP Methods to Assess the Co-operative Principle
Workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME)
Hate speechDialogue - MAMKit: A Comprehensive Multimodal Argument Mining Toolkit
Workshop on Argument Mining (ArgMining)
Argument miningMultimodalToolkitSpeech - A Corpus for Sentence-Level Subjectivity Detection on English News Articles
Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING)
SubjectivityFact-checkingBenchmark - PejorativITy: Disambiguating Pejorative Epithets to Improve Misogyny Detection in Italian Tweets
Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING)
Hate speechBenchmarkLLMs - Combining Transformers with Natural Language Explanations
arXiv preprint
InterpretabilityLegalArgument mining - Unfair clause detection in terms of service across multiple languages
Artificial Intelligence and Law
Legal - Multimodal Fallacy Classification in Political Debates
Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)
Argument miningMultimodalSpeechBenchmark - A Chatbot for Asylum-Seeking Migrants in Europe
International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI)
DialogueLegalPrivacyPrototype - Disruptive situation detection on public transport through speech emotion recognition
Intelligent Systems with Applications (ISWA)
SpeechSentiment and emotion - Overview of the CLEF-2024 CheckThat! Lab Task 2 on Subjectivity in News Articles
Working Notes of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF)
SubjectivityFact-checkingBenchmark - Overview of the CLEF-2024 CheckThat! lab: check-worthiness, subjectivity, persuasion, roles, authorities, and adversarial robustness
Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF)
Fact-checkingBenchmark - The CLEF-2024 CheckThat! Lab: Check-Worthiness, Subjectivity, Persuasion, Roles, Authorities, and Adversarial Robustness
European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR)
Fact-checkingBenchmarkMultimodal - TWOLAR: A TWO-Step LLM-Augmented Distillation Method for Passage Reranking
European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR)
Information retrievalModel compressionLLMs
2023
- LEXTREME: A Multi-Lingual and Multi-Task Benchmark for the Legal Domain
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP (Findings of EMNLP)
LegalBenchmark - A Dataset of Argumentative Dialogues on Scientific Papers
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Argument miningDialogueBenchmark - Argumentation Structure Prediction in CJEU Decisions on Fiscal State Aid
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL)
Argument miningLegal - Inception Models for Fashion Image Captioning: An Extensive Study on Multiple Datasets
Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF)
MultimodalBenchmark - Multi-Task Attentive Residual Networks for Argument Mining
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP)
Argument mining - On the Definition of Prescriptive Annotation Guidelines for Language-Agnostic Subjectivity Detection
Workshop on Narrative Extraction From Texts (Text2Story)
SubjectivityData annotationFact-checking - Overview of the CLEF-2023 CheckThat! Lab on Checkworthiness, Subjectivity, Political Bias, Factuality, and Authority of News Articles and Their Source
Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF)
Fact-checkingBenchmarkMultimodal - Overview of the CLEF-2023 CheckThat! Lab: Task 2 on Subjectivity Detection
Working Notes of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF)
SubjectivityFact-checkingBenchmark - TeamUnibo at SemEval-2023 Task 6: A transformer based approach to Rhetorical Roles prediction and NER in Legal Texts
International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)
LegalKnowledge extraction - The CLEF-2023 CheckThat! Lab: Checkworthiness, Subjectivity, Political Bias, Factuality, and Authority
European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR)
Fact-checkingBenchmark
2022
- A Sentiment and Emotion Annotated Dataset for Bitcoin Price Forecasting Based on Reddit Posts
Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP)
Sentiment and emotionBenchmark - Combining WordNet and Word Embeddings in Data Augmentation for Legal Texts
Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop (NLLP)
Legal - Fast Vocabulary Transfer for Language Model Compression
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track (EMNLP Industry Track)
Model compressionIndustry - A privacy-preserving dialogue system based on argumentation
Intelligent Systems with Applications (ISWA)
PrivacyDialogueEthicsPrototype - AMICA: An Argumentative Search Engine for COVID-19 Literature
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Demo Track (IJCAI Demo Track)
Argument miningInformation retrievalBiomedicalPrototype - Argument mining as rapid screening tool of COVID-19 literature quality: Preliminary evidence
Frontiers in Public Health
Argument miningBiomedical - Detecting and explaining unfairness in consumer contracts through memory networks
Artificial Intelligence and Law
LegalInterpretability - Detecting Arguments in CJEU Decisions on Fiscal State Aid
Workshop on Argument Mining (ArgMining)
Argument miningLegal - Hybrid Offline/Online Optimization for Energy Management via Reinforcement Learning
International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research (CPAIOR)
Sustainability - Multimodal Argument Mining: A Case Study in Political Debates
Workshop on Argument Mining (ArgMining)
Argument miningMultimodalSpeech - Predicting Outcomes of Italian VAT Decisions
International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX)
LegalBenchmark
2021
- Tree-Constrained Graph Neural Networks For Argument Mining
arXiv preprint
Argument miningInterpretability - An Argumentative Dialogue System for COVID-19 Vaccine Information
International Conference on Logic and Argumentation (CLAR)
DialoguePrototype - Attention in Natural Language Processing
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
Interpretability - Investigating logic tensor networks for neural-symbolic argument mining
International Workshop on Statistical Relational AI (StarAI)
Argument mining - SubjectivITA: An Italian Corpus for Subjectivity Detection in Newspapers
Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF)
SubjectivityFact-checkingBenchmark
2020
- Cross-lingual Annotation Projection in Legal Texts
International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)
LegalBenchmark - Explaining Potentially Unfair Clauses to the Consumer with the CLAUDETTE tool
Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop (NLLP)
LegalInterpretabilityPrototype - Neural-Symbolic Argumentation Mining: An Argument in Favor of Deep Learning and Reasoning
Frontiers in Big Data
Argument mining - The force awakens: Artificial intelligence for consumer law
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
LegalPrivacy
2019
- Consumer protection requires artificial intelligence
Nature Machine Intelligence
Legal - CLAUDETTE: an automated detector of potentially unfair clauses in online terms of service
Artificial Intelligence and Law
LegalPrototype - Deep Learning for Detecting and Explaining Unfairness in Consumer Contracts
International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX)
LegalInterpretability
2018
- Towards Consumer-Empowering Artificial Intelligence
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
LegalFairnessPrivacyEthics - Argument Mining on Clinical Trials
International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA)
Argument miningBiomedical - Automated Processing of Privacy Policies Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation
International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX)
PrivacyLegal
2016
- Argument Mining from Speech: Detecting Claims in Political Debates
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Argument miningSpeechMultimodal - Argumentation Mining: State of the Art and Emerging Trends
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
Argument mining - Constraint Detection in Natural Language Problem Descriptions
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
Knowledge extraction - MARGOT: A web server for argumentation mining
Expert Systems with Applications (ESWA)
Argument mining
2015
- Argument Mining: A Machine Learning Perspective
International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation (TAFA)
Argument mining - Context-Independent Claim Detection for Argument Mining
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
Argument mining