📣 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!

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!

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

Apparently I searched multiple times for our consensus paper using this string: "what do we mean when we say Reilly" 😅 @reilly-coglab.com

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

📣 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-...

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.

Arrived back home in Bologna and found a nice poscard by @adeleloia.bsky.social and @caterinavillani.bsky.social from San Francisco (#cogsci-2025) 🥰 Apparenly Lombard street' iconic stairs evoked #wordladders and language-mediated abstraction :-)

So, on the airplane i startes to watch "The White Lotus" (HBO) and the first minutes the resort manager explains to a trainee how to behave with the guests: "you don't wanna be too specific as a... as a presence, as an identity. You wanna be more generic." Abstraction terminology all the way down 🤪

Kudos to you Giulia!

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

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

✈️ 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 🍷

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!

Hard to watch a major newspaper still fumbling the Ukrainian President’s name: Zalensky.y, Zelenskyy, Zelenskky… Pick one and stick to it. So embarrassing, @theguardian.com.

@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"

"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!) 👏👏👏

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 :-))

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!

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

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

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

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 🙏

@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! 💫

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

🌟 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

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!

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

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...

Just opened Bluesky after a while. Crickets 🪰🪲🤐 Meanwhile on LinkedIn: 127 updates, 3 promotions, 2 thinkpieces. 😳 Is that seriously becoming the place to be for social academics?

@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

Coffee break with a view :-) @unibz.bsky.social

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

Una buona notizia tra mille brutte notizie che popolano i giornali quotidiani. Il cervello si rigenera anche in tarda età. Scoperto come nascono i nuovi neuroni - la Repubblica share.google/d1u02W32x55B...

ABSTRACTRON meets ABSTRACTION 🤖🤖🤖✨️✨️✨️ JULY 11th in BOLZANO 🤖🤖🤖✨️✨️✨️ ABSTRACTRON share.google/xmrOnDxZBjYN... ABSTRACTION share.google/yKpWznUfcaQv...

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...

I'd like to thank the canteloupe for keeping its seeds together, unlike the watermelon.

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

✈️ 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!

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

@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

Quick lunch break during the 2nd PhD CLUB international conference, excellently organised by Bologna phd students in linguistics sites.google.com/view/phd-clu...

Proud PhD supervisor today. @tomlamarra.bsky.social and some other phd students hosting the annual PhD CLUB conference in Bologna (CLUB stands for Circolo Linguistico Università di Bologna). Check out the rich program. Bravo Tom! sites.google.com/view/phd-clu...