Paola Merlo - Idiap Publications

BLM-AgrF: A New French Benchmark to Investigate Generalization of Agreement in Neural Networks., Aixiu An, Chunyang Jiang, Maria A. Rodriguez, Vivi Nastase and Paola Merlo, in: Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023

Beyond bigrams: call sequencing in the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) vocal system, Alexandra B. Bosshard, Judith Burkart, Paola Merlo, Chundra Cathcart, Balthasar Bickel and Simon Towsend, in: Royal Society Open Science, 11(11), 2024

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Speech prosody enhances the neural processing of syntax, Giulio Degano, Peter Donhauser, Laura Gwilliams, Paola Merlo and Narly Golestani, in: Communications Biology, 7(748), 2024

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Surprisal From Language Models Can Predict ERPs in Processing Predicate-Argument Structures Only if Enriched by an Agent Preference Principle, Eva Huber, Sebastian Sauppe, Arrate Isasi-Isasmendi, Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Paola Merlo and Balthasar Bickel, in: Neurobiology of Language, 5(1):167--200, 2024

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Analogical Structure, Minimal Contextual Cues and Contrastive Distractors: Input Design for Sample-Efficient Linguistic Rule Induction, Chunyang Jiang and Paola Merlo, in: arXiv cs.CL.2511.10441, 2025

BLM-It - Blackbird Language Matrices for Italian: A CALAMITA Challenge, Chunyang Jiang, Giuseppe Samo, Vivi Nastase and Paola Merlo, in: Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2024

Blackbird Language Matrices Tasks for Generalization, Paola Merlo, Chunyang Jiang, Giuseppe Samo and Vivi Nastase, in: Proceedings of the 1st GenBench Workshop on (Benchmarking) Generalisation in NLP, ACL, 2023

Building Structured Synthetic Datasets: The Case of Blackbird Language Matrices (BLMs), Paola Merlo, Giuseppe Samo, Vivi Nastase and Chunyang Jiang, in: Proceedings of the 9th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2023

Exploring syntactic information in sentence embeddings through multilingual subject-verb agreement, Vivi Nastase, Chunyang Jiang, Giuseppe Samo and Paola Merlo, in: Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2024

Testing the assumptions about the geometry of sentence embedding spaces: the cosine measure need not apply, Vivi Nastase and Paola Merlo, in: arXiv, 2025

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Tracking linguistic information in transformer-based sentence embeddings through targeted sparsification, Vivi Nastase and Paola Merlo, in: Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP, 2024

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Are there identifiable structural parts in the sentence embedding whole?, Vivi Nastase and Paola Merlo, in: Proceedings of the 7th BlackboxNLP Workshop: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, 2024

Multilingual vs. monolingual transformer models in encoding linguistic structure and lexical abstraction, Vivi Nastase, Giuseppe Samo, Chunyang Jiang and Paola Merlo, in: CLiC-it 2025: Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, September 24 ? 26, 2025, Cagliari, Italy, 2025

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Exploring Italian sentence embeddings properties through multi-tasking, Vivi Nastase, Giuseppe Samo, Chunyang Jiang and Paola Merlo, in: Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2024

Challenging the Abilities of Large Language Models in Italian: a Community Initiative, Malvina Nissim, Danilo Croce, Viviana Patti, Pierpaolo Basile, Giuseppe Attanasio, Elio Musacchio, Matteo Rinaldi, Federico Borazio, Maria Francis, Jacopo Gili, Daniel Scalena, Begona Altuna, Ekhi Azurmendi, Valerio Basile, Luisa Bentivogli, Arianna Bisazza, Mariana Bolognesi, Dominique Brunato, Tommaso Caselli, Silvia Casola, Maria Cassese, Mauro Cettolo, Claudia Collacciani, Leonardo De Cosmo, Maria Pia Di Buono, Andrea Esuli, Julen Etxaniz, Chiara Ferrando, Alessia Fidelangeli, Simona Frenda, Achille Fusco, Marco Gaido, Andrea Galassi, Federico Galli, Luca Giordano, Mattia Goffetti, Itziar Gonzalez-Dios, Lorenzo Gregori, Giulia Grundler, Sandro Iannaccone, Chunyang Jiang, Moreno La Quatra, Francesca Lagioia, Soda Marem Lo, Marco Madeddu, Bernardo Magnini, Raffaele Manna, Fabio Mercorio, Paola Merlo, Arianna Muti, Vivi Nastase, Matteo Negri, Dario Onorati, Elena Palmieri, Sara Papi, Lucia Passaro, Giulia Pensa, Andrea Piergentili, Daniele Poterti, Giovanni Puccetti, Federico Ranaldi, Leonardo Ranaldi, Andrea Amelio Ravelli, Martina Rosola, Elena Sofia Ruzzetti, Giuseppe Samo, Andrea Santilli, Piera Santin, Gabriele Sarti, Giovanni Sartor, Beatrice Savoldi, Antonio Serino, Andrea Seveso, Lucia Siciliani, Paolo Torroni, Rossella Varvara, Andrea Zaninello, Asya Zanollo, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Kamyar Zeinalipour and Andrea Zugarini, in: Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics, 12(1), 2026

Modelling the Morphology of Verbal Paradigms: A Case Study in the Tokenization of Turkish and Hebrew, Giuseppe Samo and Paola Merlo, in: Proceedings of the Second Workshop Natural Language Processing for Turkic Languages (SIGTURK 2026), 2026

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Datasets for Verb Alternations across Languages: BLM Templates and Data Augmentation Strategies, Giuseppe Samo and Paola Merlo, in: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), 2026

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Comparing Natural and Synthetic Structured Data: A Study of the Passive Verb Alternation in French and Italian, Giuseppe Samo and Paola Merlo, in: Proceedings of the Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation (SLiDE), 2026

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BLM-s/lE: A structured dataset of English spray-load verb alternations for testing generalization in LLMs., Giuseppe Samo, Vivi Nastase, Chunyang Jiang and Paola Merlo, in: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 2023

Multi-Adversarial Learning for Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings, Haozhou Wang, James Henderson and Paola Merlo, in: Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Online, pages 463-472, 2021

Weakly-Supervised Concept-based Adversarial Learning for Cross-lingual Word Embeddings, Haozhou Wang, James Henderson and Paola Merlo, in: Proc. 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2019