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Large Language Models
Hate Speech Detection with Argumentative Reasoning
Use argumentative reasoning to make the implicit content of hate speech explicit.
Mar 2, 2026
Rationalization via LLMs
Evaluate whether large language models can perform selective rationalization through prompting.
Mar 2, 2026
Text Classification with Guidelines Only
Train text classifiers from annotation guidelines alone, without class labels.
Mar 2, 2026
Transformers and LLMs for the Detection and Classification of Unfair Clauses
Detect and classify unfair clauses in Terms of Service and Privacy Policies.
Mar 2, 2026
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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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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Generation and Evaluation of English Grammar Multiple-Choice Cloze Exercises
A fine-tuned Llama 3 writes English grammar multiple-choice exercises without predefined constraints, and a rule-based check of their structure agrees with a human expert.
Nicolò Donati
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Matteo Periani
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Paolo Di Natale
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Giuseppe Savino
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Paolo Torroni
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TWOLAR: A TWO-Step LLM-Augmented Distillation Method for Passage Reranking
TWOLAR distills the passage ranking skill of ChatGPT into a Flan-T5 reranker, which matches far larger LLM rerankers on standard search benchmarks.
Davide Baldelli
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Junfeng Jiang
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Akiko Aizawa
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Paolo Torroni
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