2024

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Presentation

Presented Ironic Content Generation at EMNLP 2024

I presented our research on generating ironic replies with large language models and comparing model outputs with human-written irony through automatic and human evaluation. View paper
Mentoring

First Co-supervised Thesis Completed

My first Bachelor’s thesis student completed and defended a project on translating user input into controlled natural language for a chatbot specialised in finite-state automata.
Presentation

Poster Presentation at iNLG 2024

I presented the Split-Generate-Aggregate pipeline developed for the GEM’24 Data-to-Text task during the GenChal session of the International Natural Language Generation Conference. Conference
Research visit

Started Visiting Research at Charles University

I began a six-month research period at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics in Prague, supervised by Ondřej Dušek and focused on personalised language generation. UFAL
Training

Lectures on Computational Linguistics 2024

I attended the AILC and AIxIA summer school, with lectures on the cognitive evaluation of LLMs, lexical semantic change, digital humanities and prompting. Programme
Presentation

LREC-COLING Corpus and Poster Presentation

I presented a task-oriented user-agent corpus collected with sighted and visually impaired participants for the accessible exploration of finite-state automata. View paper
Service

Volunteer at LREC-COLING 2024

I supported the organisation of LREC-COLING in Turin as a conference volunteer, contributing to the delivery of one of the main international events in computational linguistics. Conference
Talk

Lecture on LLMs and Prompting for Education

I delivered a lecture at Laboratorio Polin introducing large language models and practical prompting strategies for educational contexts.