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Publications of Paola Merlo sorted by journal and type
Communications Biology
| Speech prosody enhances the neural processing of syntax, , , , and , in: Communications Biology, 7(748), 2024 |
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Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics
| Challenging the Abilities of Large Language Models in Italian: a Community Initiative, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and , in: Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics, 12(1), 2026 |
Neurobiology of Language
| Surprisal From Language Models Can Predict ERPs in Processing Predicate-Argument Structures Only if Enriched by an Agent Preference Principle, , , , , and , in: Neurobiology of Language, 5(1):167--200, 2024 |
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Royal Society Open Science
| Beyond bigrams: call sequencing in the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) vocal system, , , , , and , in: Royal Society Open Science, 11(11), 2024 |
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation (SLiDE) (2026)
| Comparing Natural and Synthetic Structured Data: A Study of the Passive Verb Alternation in French and Italian, and , in: Proceedings of the Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation (SLiDE), 2026 |
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Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026) (2026)
| Datasets for Verb Alternations across Languages: BLM Templates and Data Augmentation Strategies, and , in: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), 2026 |
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Proceedings of the Second Workshop Natural Language Processing for Turkic Languages (SIGTURK 2026) (2026)
| Modelling the Morphology of Verbal Paradigms: A Case Study in the Tokenization of Turkish and Hebrew, and , in: Proceedings of the Second Workshop Natural Language Processing for Turkic Languages (SIGTURK 2026), 2026 |
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arXiv cs.CL.2511.10441 (2025)
| Analogical Structure, Minimal Contextual Cues and Contrastive Distractors: Input Design for Sample-Efficient Linguistic Rule Induction, and , in: arXiv cs.CL.2511.10441, 2025 |
CLiC-it 2025: Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, September 24 — 26, 2025, Cagliari, Italy (2025)
| Multilingual vs. monolingual transformer models in encoding linguistic structure and lexical abstraction, , , and , in: CLiC-it 2025: Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, September 24 ? 26, 2025, Cagliari, Italy, 2025 |
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arXiv (2025)
| Testing the assumptions about the geometry of sentence embedding spaces: the cosine measure need not apply, and , in: arXiv, 2025 |
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Proceedings of the 7th BlackboxNLP Workshop: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP (2024)
| Are there identifiable structural parts in the sentence embedding whole?, and , in: Proceedings of the 7th BlackboxNLP Workshop: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, 2024 |
Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (2024)
| BLM-It - Blackbird Language Matrices for Italian: A CALAMITA Challenge, , , and , in: Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2024 |
Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (2024)
| Exploring Italian sentence embeddings properties through multi-tasking, , , and , in: Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2024 |
| Exploring syntactic information in sentence embeddings through multilingual subject-verb agreement, , , and , in: Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2024 |
Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (2024)
| Tracking linguistic information in transformer-based sentence embeddings through targeted sparsification, and , in: Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP, 2024 |
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Proceedings of the 1st GenBench Workshop on (Benchmarking) Generalisation in NLP (2023)
| Blackbird Language Matrices Tasks for Generalization, , , and , in: Proceedings of the 1st GenBench Workshop on (Benchmarking) Generalisation in NLP, ACL, 2023 |
Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2023)
| BLM-AgrF: A New French Benchmark to Investigate Generalization of Agreement in Neural Networks., , , , and , in: Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023 |
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023 (2023)
| BLM-s/lE: A structured dataset of English spray-load verb alternations for testing generalization in LLMs., , , and , in: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 2023 |
Proceedings of the 9th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (2023)
| Building Structured Synthetic Datasets: The Case of Blackbird Language Matrices (BLMs), , , and , in: Proceedings of the 9th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2023 |
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (2021)
| Multi-Adversarial Learning for Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings, , and , 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 |
Proc. 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2019)
| Weakly-Supervised Concept-based Adversarial Learning for Cross-lingual Word Embeddings, , and , in: Proc. 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2019 |