📣 November's Abstraction seminar is all set too! 🗓️ 19 November, 11:30 - 12.30 (CEST) 📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/xW7mF ) 🎆 Join us, details in the figure! 👉 Save the date & spread the word! ✨ @abstractionerc.bsky.social

I knew I hired well for @abstractionerc.bsky.social from day 1. But seeing @tomlamarra.bsky.social presenting this morning his phd progress in front of faculty and this evening to the city, taking part to phd storytelling (part of EU Researchers' night) was a clear confirmation. Brilliant, Tom!

“What do I mean by simulating through language?” 🤔 At #GenerAzioni, @tomlamarra.bsky.social satisfied our curiosity in one of the most beautiful places in the city. Science is better when shared 💡 Thank you UniBo, and well done Tom! 👏 @abstractionerc.bsky.social

✈️ Heading to Düsseldorf for the 2nd #CxGsNLP Workshop at #IWCS2025! I’ll present a non-archival paper from #ACL2024 + some follow-ups on how LLMs interpret existing and novel compounds. Excited for the discussions and meeting the vibrant community! On a mission for @abstractionerc.bsky.social

Glad to be at #XPrag2025 at the #UniversityOfCambridge! Day 1 was packed with fascinating talks and exciting discussions!

This was a project conducted with @andreaaravelli, @mariannabolog.bsky.social, and @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social

Excited to share that @abstractionerc.bsky.social has even reached #CambridgeUniversity and #TrinityCollege! Yesterday, at the #XPrag2025 conference, I presented how speakers maximize the informativeness of their descriptions in naturalistic conversations. Thanks for the insightful discussions!

📣The chapter "𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀" w/@mariannabolog.bsky.social is now online & forthcoming in the #ElsevierEncyclopedia of Language & Linguistics 🔍 Theoretical overview, quantification tools, and behavioral evidence on specificity. 👉 Read: urly.it/31c4nm @abstractionerc.bsky.social

📣 Abstraction seminars are back! 🗓️ 17 October, 10:00 (CEST) 📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/RjrOU) 🎆 Join us for another seminar, details in the figure! 👉 Save the date & spread the word! ✨ @abstractionerc.bsky.social

Prof Kristina Despot from the Institute of Croatian Language visiting the @abstractionerc.bsky.social group to establish collaborations on th use of figurative language and abstraction mechanims, and to brainstorm a fantastic ERC proposal :-)

Excited to share that I contributed to an article just published in #Nature. My role was on the cognitive side, as part of a collaboration evolved from a fantastic #Dagstuhl seminar. Collective works like these are crucial windows into where our communities are going! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

📣 Abstraction seminars are back! 🗓️ 16 October, 15:00 (CEST) 📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/0fw5a) 🎆 Join us for a thought-provoking seminar, details in the figure! 👉 Save the date & spread the word! ✨ @abstractionerc.bsky.social

Thrilled to see our research featured on PsyPost 🚀 Trump vs. Harris, 2024 debate: sharp contrasts and surprising overlaps 👉 www.psypost.org/study-finds-...

Excited to be at #ESCOP for the first time! 🗣️ Presenting a joint project with @abstractionerc.bsky.social, @mariannabolog.bsky.social and @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social on naturalistic interactions. Key finding: Speakers use more specific and informative language as a communicative strategy

No better way to finish my post-doc than with a new publication on #specificityeffect in semantic processing! I’ll really miss the @abstractionerc.bsky.social team, but exciting projects are still underway. Thrilled and optimistic about what’s next! 💫

New Paper Alert 🚨🆕 "Specificity Effect in Concrete/Abstract Semantic Categorization Tasks" doi.org/10.1007/s103... We observed faster response times for specific words compared to general words in a semantic decision task, regardless of their level of concreteness.

Just gave my talk “How Analogy Drives Language Comprehension: The Case of Novel Compounds Interpretation” 🤔🥑🤖 Explored how L1, L2 speakers & LLMs interpret brand-new compounds- L2+LLMs leaning on compositionality, L1 speakers often rely on analogy. Presented at the #Analogy workshop, #SLE2025 ✨

Abstractions all the way down. This is an amazing study! Congrats to @tommasoc80.bsky.social @grambelli.bsky.social and @piasommerauer.bsky.social

Great accomplishment for your visiting period at #gronlp funded by @abstractionerc.bsky.social ! Congrats @grambelli.bsky.social ! Well deserved :-)

✈️ Off to Bordeaux for #SLE2025! On Friday I’ll present “How Analogy Drives Language Comprehension: The Case of Novel Compounds Interpretation” (a study on humans and LLMs) at the workshop Towards a better understanding of #analogy. Excited for talks, discussions & some Bordeaux-buzz 🍷

Road to Bordeaux ✈️🇫🇷 for #SLE2025! Where I am going to present IconicITA!! An @abstractionerc.bsky.social @unibo and @unimib joint project on iconicity ratings ☑️ for the Italian language across L1 and L2 speakers!

It's me again! Road to Bordeaux 🇫🇷✈️ for #SLE2025 to take part in the "lexical ambiguity in the mind" workshop! 🏏🦇 Tomorrow, I'll be presenting @abstractionerc.bsky.social results on referential ambiguity in abstraction and generality! @mariannabolog.bsky.social @caterinavillani.bsky.social

Last year, when I came to Denver for our summer holiday, I asked @TatteredCover bookshop at Stanley Marketplace if I could put up a flyer for the @abstractionerc.bsky.social app Word Ladders. Today I saw it’s still there on the door! 💜 Feeling happy, grateful, and proud!

Let's this #ACL2025 begin! Now speaking the general chair @robertonavigli.bsky.social @aclmeeting.bsky.social

🌟 Had a great time presenting our poster at #ACL2025! It was a great experience sharing our work with researchers interested in conceptual categories, #abstraction and #generalization, thanks for the insightful discussions and feedback! wt @andreapdr.bsky.social @mariannabolog.bsky.social #NLProc

About last night at #ACL2025 social dinner! @mariannabolog.bsky.social showed its walzer abilities on the dance floor💃 Always grateful to be part of this community 🙏

Analogy-angle II just started in room 1.34 at #ACL2025. If you're interest in analogy, pass by! #NLProc @aclmeeting.bsky.social Filip Ilievski @piasommerauer.bsky.social @mariannabolog.bsky.social Ute Schmid

First session is ending, and it is amazing the different approaches, theories, topics proposed by the authors. Have a quick cup of ☕️ and join us for our keynote speaker @KatiaShutova talking about metaphors, politics & humor. #analogy #ACL2025 @piasommerauer.bsky.social @mariannabolog.bsky.social

Now @melaniemitchell.bsky.social talking about analogy making in humans and AI ! Room 1.34 #ACL2025 @aclmeeting.bsky.social

Getting ready for #COGSCI2025 in San Francisco! 📆 July 31st, 02:37pm I’ll present a longitudinal study (w/@mariannabolog.bsky.social & @adeleloia.bsky.social) on how school-aged children build taxonomies using the #WordLadders task developed by @abstractionerc.bsky.social Catch up with us there!

@caterinavillani.bsky.social presenting our collaboration between @abstractionerc.bsky.social and PRIN 2022 Wemb at #Cogsci2025 in San Francisco: "Development of Linguistic- Mediated Abstraction: Insights from Word Ladders Task". Well done! 💫

Verena Rieser @aclmeeting.bsky.social 2025 in Vienna, keynote on day 2. We need human/AI alignment, but whats the gold standard we aim at? Which humans? Moreover, human demographic data can be misleading and ambiguous (check example in the picture :-))

Day 2 of @aclmeeting.bsky.social starts with the keynote talk of @verenarieser.bsky.social . @abstractionerc.bsky.social representation is in row 5! @mariannabolog.bsky.social #NLProc #ACL2025

"Most papers are like 'look what i can have LLMs do' but it is LLM popcorn. It remains unclear why they do what they do. We need a LLM theory". Eduard Hovy's thought provoking talk at panel on Generalizations here at @aclmeeting.bsky.social is compelling (and long overdue!) 👏👏👏

@aclmeeting.bsky.social #acl2025 conference theme this year is GENERALIZATIONS in NLP models. Can models generalize, when the content of their concepts differs from that of humans? Check poster sess. 2: "How Humans and LLMs Organize Conceptual Knowledge: Exploring Subordinate Categories in Italian"

So far so good. Just made it to @aclmeeting.bsky.social 2025 in Vienna

6000 participants yo @aclmeeting.bsky.social #ACL2025 in Vienna. Kicking off now. @abstractionerc.bsky.social is here! With a paper and a workshop. Follow us!

Lexical expertise & word specificity 🍝🧠 Ever wonder how language shapes thought? 🤔 If you know dozens of pasta names (spaghetti, fusilli, trofie, paccheri..) does “pasta” start to feel like a broad, possibly more abstract category? Follow @abstractionerc.bsky.social www.tiktok.com/@foxtv/video...

@mariannabolog.bsky.social at @unibz.bsky.social is going to present Abstraction_ERC outputs this afternoon, as invited keynote speaker of the workshop ABSTRACTION: Language - Science - Engineering

Kicking off the ABSTRACTION- LANGUAGE- SCIENCE - ENGINEERING Welcome greetings by chair Oliver Kutz @unibz.bsky.social First talk by Michael Gruninger: Mathematical Theories as Abstractions for Ontology Learning in the afternoon it will be my turn presenting @abstractionerc.bsky.social

Preparing my invited keynote talk for this fantastic interdisciplinary in presence event at UniBZ Bozen, Italy. The program is fantastic and soon will be online :-) Abstraction: Language - Science - Engineering / Free University of Bozen-Bolzano share.google/lu18oZ3Mpm3J...

✈️ My almost 3 years at @abstractionerc.bsky.social in a nutshell! I have to thank @mariannabolog.bsky.social for her incredible support and guide, as her mentorship has made a significant impact on my professional AND personal growth.. and ofc thanks for making me travel around the globe!

📣 Excited to be in Birmingham for the @medallinguist.bsky.social Summer School in Computational Modelling! 👩‍🎓 I’ll present a poster "Generalizing by Analogy: The Key to Linguistic Creativity", as part of my work in the @abstractionerc.bsky.social project. Looking forward to insightful discussions!

Nice poster to discuss fascinating topics! Here is a preview of my poster at the @medallinguist.bsky.social summer school in Computational Modeling (University of Birmingham). Interested in the same topics? Get in touch! @abstractionerc.bsky.social

Our amazing postdoc @grambelli.bsky.social, at the MEDAL Summer School in Birmingham! medal.ut.ee/event/medal-... Brava Giulia – your work keeps inspiring us! 💥🦾💻🧠✨ #Computational #Linguistics #PostdocLife #MEDAL2025 #WomenInSTEM #AbstractionProject

Scientific dissemination at its highest standards :-)

"Summer in Bologna", featuring THE FAN as main protagonist. From the Abstraction group that's all for today 😅

Very proud and lucky to work with such a young, brilliant, and enthusiastic researcher. Well done @adeleloia.bsky.social 👏 👏 Next step: we'll bring this work to #CogSci2025🧠✨

@adeleloia.bsky.social presenting our joint collaboration between @abstractionerc.bsky.social and PRIN 2022 WEMB at the Phd CLUB international conference in Bologna today: THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE-MEDIATED ABSTRACTION IN SCHOOL CHILDREN