Associate professor in Computer Science at the University of Bari. My interests: Natural Language Processing, Semantics, retrocomputing, music, books.
Joined October 2010
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18 Mar 2025
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 arxiv.org/abs/2503.09313
#AI #LVLM
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13 Mar 2025
🚀 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: arxiv.org/abs/2503.08662
#AI #NLP #LLMs #WSD
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Pierpaolo Basile retweeted
we are grateful to @SapienzaNLP for the new evaluation suite for 🇮🇹 LLM
ITA-Bench
iris.uniroma1.it/bitstream/1…
SWAP’s
LLaMAntino-ANITA-8B-Inst-DPO-ITA
ranks 1st ⤵️
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The Proceedings of #CLiCit2024 are now available on the ACL Anthology! @CLiC_it_conf
You can find them at the following link:
aclanthology.org/volumes/202…
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30 Jan 2025
🚀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
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24 Dec 2024
We've got something🎁 for you: #CLiCit2024 proceedings are out on CEUR! Check them out here: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3878/
Wishing everyone joyful and peaceful Christmas holidays!🎄 @AILC_NLP #NLProc
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12 Dec 2024
quasi immediatamente. Più di 40 dei 1.000 dipendenti di Apple divengono milionari istantaneamente grazie alle stock options in loro possesso.
#retrocomputing #retroinformatica #retrocomputer
12 Dec 2024
12 dicembre 1980
#accaddeoggi
E' il giorno dell'Offerta Pubblica Iniziale di Apple Computer.
Tutto termina in pochi minuti. Inizialmente stimato ad un prezzo di vendita di 14 dollari per azione, il titolo apre a 22 dollari e tutti i 4,6 milioni di azioni vengono venduti ⬇️
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8 Dec 2024
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
apuliaretrocomputing.it/word….
Per ulteriori informazioni manda un messaggio whatsapp allo 0808807143 ⬇️
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Pierpaolo Basile retweeted
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
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8 Nov 2024
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
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5 Nov 2024
Registrations to #clicit2024 are open now💪! Early Registration until November 20th: clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/registra…
@AILC_NLP #NLProc
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4 Sep 2024
⏰ Reminder: Emanuele Pianta Award for Best Master Thesis, submission deadline September, 15th!
18 Apr 2024
#clicit24 is conferring the Emanuele Pianta Award for the best Master Thesis in Computational Linguistics submitted at an Italian University:
clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/emanuele…
Submission deadline: September 15th, 2024
#NLProc @AILC_NLP
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1 Aug 2024
And finally, here is our fourth #clicit2024 chair! @RSprugnoli (personale.unipr.it/it/ugovdo…) is a professor and researcher at @unipr @labIUCD
@AILC_NLP #NLProc
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9 Jul 2024
⚠️⚠️⚠️DEADLINE EXTENSION⚠️⚠️⚠️
- 22/07/2024: EXTENDED paper submission deadline: regular papers and research communications (11:59 pm CEST)
#clicit2024 @AILC_NLP #NLProc
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25 Jun 2024
The closing of the "Lectures on Computational Linguistics" held in woderful Bari on 19-21 June, see you at #clicit2024!! @AILC_NLP #NLProc
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The evening lecture is over and now it's time for a tour of the Old Town in #Bari and a traditional dinner! #LecturesAILC2024
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20 Jun 2024
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
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Third and last day of #LecturesAILC2024 with the tutorial “Cognitive evaluations of large language models: the do’s and the don’ts” by @neuranna
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