2024
(with E. Isolani) "Comparing models on the cartography of complementizer deletion: a quantitative and computational approach", Going Romance 2024, Braga, 4-6.12.2024.
(with C. Jiang, P. Merlo and V. Nastase) "Exploring Italian Sentence Embeddings Properties through Multitasking", Poster, Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics - Clic-It 2024, Pisa (Italy), 4-6.12.2024.
(with C. Jiang, P. Merlo and V. Nastase) "Exploring syntactic information in sentence embeddings throughmultilingual subject-verb agreement", Poster, Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics - Clic-It 2024, Pisa (Italy), 4-6.12.2024.
(with C. Jiang, P. Merlo and V. Nastase), BLM-It —Blackbird Language Matrices for Italian: A CALAMITA Challenge, Poster, Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics - Clic-It 2024, Pisa (Italy), 4-6.12.2024.
"Simulation-based data to compare syntactic models", China University of Mining and Technology, 1.11.2024 (invited talk)
(with A. Massaro) Large Language Models and regional varieties of standard: the case of Italian, AI-ROM-II, Technische Universität Dresden, 2-3.9.2024
"Exploring Large Language Models to Compare Theories in Generative Grammar", Linguistics seminar, Università per Stranieri di Perugia, 30.05.2024. (invited talk)
"Syntactic Theory, Large Language Models and Real-World applications", China University of Mining and Technology, 17.05.2024 (invited talk)
(with F-A. Ursini) "The Semantics of generic terms in toponyms: Formal Semantics meets multi-source Big Data", Proceedings of GeoExT 2024: Second International Workshop on Geographic Information Extraction from Texts at ECIR Glasgow, Scotland, 24.3.2024
2023
(with V.Nastase, C.Jiang and P. Merlo) BLM-s/lE: A structured dataset of English spray-load verb alternations for testing generalization in LLMs, EMNLP 2023, Singapore.
(with P. Merlo, V. Nastase and C.Jiang) Building structured synthetic datasets: The case of Blackbird Language Matrices (BLMs), Ninth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (Clic-It 2023), Venice.
(with F.A. Ursini) Paths towards a Model of Place Names, Colloquium URPP Language and Space in Fall 2023, University of Zurich, 23.11.2023.
(with P. Merlo) Costruire automaticamente dati sintetici su larga scala per comprendere l’apprendimento dell’ alternanza verbale causativa in italiano, Il verbo in italiano. Morfologia, sintassi e testualità, University of Lausanne, 13-14.11.2023
(with F.A. Ursini), A Compact Cartography of City Names in Italian, The 5th International Workshop on Syntactic Cartography Beijing, China, 29-30.10.2023.
(with A. Massaro), ChatGPT and Cartography: prompting the Left Periphery of Italian and Italian, The 5th International Workshop on Syntactic Cartography Beijing, China, 29-30.10.2023.
(with Vincenzo Di Caro) How language dominance affects indefiniteness strategies in the syntax of Sicilian, 17th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax-Morphology Meeting (CIDSM 17), 12.09.2023, University of Zurich.
(with Francesco-Alessio Ursini) Geographical Maps Meet Place Names Where Languages Meet Dialects: The Case Of Italian, Xth Congress of the International Society for Dialectology and Geolinguistics 4-8.9.2023, Bucharest, Romania.
(with Francesco-Alessio Ursini), A semantic model for generic terms and place nouns, Spatial Data Science Symposium 2023, online, September 5th.
Syntactic strategies for null and pronominal subjects: a quantitative study, Qualico, University of Lausanne, 28-30.06.2023
(with Vincenzo di Caro) A preliminary quantitative study on indefiniteness marking in the dialect of Delia, 1.06.2023, Cambridge Linguistics Society, University of Cambridge
(with Vincenzo Di Caro), "Uno studio quantitativo sulle strategie di marcatura dell’indefinitezza nel dialetto deliano", Seminari di Ca’Foscari, Venice, Italy, 23.05.2023
(with Caterina Bonan), "Health-Related Content in Transformer-Based Language Models: Exploring Bias in Domain General vs. Domain Specific Training Sets", Medical Informatics Europe 2023, 22-25.05.2023, Gothenburg, Sweden.
(with Francesco Ursini), "Extracting Toponyms from OpenStreetMap: A cross-linguistic perspective", GeoExT ECIR’23 Workshop, Dublin, Ireland, 2.04.2023
(with Paola Merlo) Intervention effects in relative clauses: a study in Quantitative Computational Syntax, Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, 18-20.02.2023, University of Florence.
2022
(with Francesco-Alessio Ursini, Serena Crocchi), "From health to wellness and back to health? Diachronic trends on Italian thermal towns: a quantitative study", IX CIOSE 22 —Colóquio Internacional "Olhares sobre o Envelhecimento" CDA (Centro de Desenvolvimento Académico) da Universidade da Madeira, 29-30.11.2022.
Testing the generalisation ability of cartographic models in accounting V2: a quantitative study on grammatical clauses, WS 9: Multifactorial approaches to word order change, 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Bucharest/“Iorgu Iordan –Al. Rosetti”Institute of Linguistics, 24.08.2022
(with Si Fuzhen) Quantifying Optionality of Chinese Possessive Marker 的 de and some theoretical Insights/ 汉语领属标记“的”可选性的量化分析及理论思考, Isoctal, University of Leeds, 20-21.06.2022
Quantifying the cartography and locality of ModP in large-scale and small-sized datasets, AAFMI Goettingen, 19.05.2022
Some notes on the syntax of negation in Etruscan, IUSS Pavia L&S Seminars, 28.03.2022.
2021
Avoiding Intervention effects across grammars: some quantitative results, 1st IFOLAB, Beijing Language and Culture University, 03.11.2021.
(with Yu Zhao, Maria Teresa Guasti, Heini Utunen, Oliver Stucke, Gaya Gamhewage) Could linguistic complexity be automatically evaluated? A multilingual study on WHO’s Emergency Learning Platform, 19th International Conference on Informatics, Management and Technology in Healthcare, Athens, Greece, 16 - 17.10.2021.
Quantifying criterial and meaningless movement: exploring cartographic results with large-scale datasets, Zoom na Cartografia, 15.07.2021.
Syntactic Theory and Machine Learning: predicting frequencies. China University of Mining and Technology - Beijing 中国矿业大学, 16.06.2021
Relativized Minimality and frequencies in Universal Dependencies treebanks, SyntaxLab, University of Cambridge, 15.06.2021.
Machine Learning and syntactic theory: focus on German and German varieties, 43. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (43rd Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society), Workshop "Contrastive Corpus Methodology for Language Modeling and Analysis", Freiburg am Brisgau, Germany, 26.02.2021
External arguments: preference for 2-merge or 3-merge systems? A quantitative crosslinguistic analysis in child and adult grammar corpora, IGG 46, Siena, 17-19.02.2021.
2020
Movement and Locality in the Cartography of Germanic: a quantitative study with dependency structures, DiaLing, Ghent University, 11th December 2020.
(with Yu Zhao, Gaya Gamhewage, Heini Utunen, Oliver Stucke) Evaluating complexity of digital learning in a multilingual context: a cross-linguistic study on WHO’s emergency learning platform, poster presentation, Global Digital Health Forum 2020, 7-9 December 2020.
Cartography meets Quantitative Computational Syntax, Colóquios do ForMA LaCaSa- Laboratório de Car- tografia Sintática: Pesquisa e Ensino, UniCampinas, 12.05.2020
Cartography, reorderings and locality in Germanic: a quantitative study, Séminaire de Recherche en Linguistique, University of Geneva, 11.02.2020
2019
Quantitative Cartographic Syntax, International Workshop on Syntactic Cartography 2019, Beijing Language and Culture University.
A quantitative approach to syntactic locality: a cross-linguistic analysis of object relatives, 第一届汉外语言文化对比研究国际学术研讨会 - The first international academic seminar on the contrastive study of Chinese and foreign languages and cultures, Beijing Language and Culture University, September 7-9, 2019.
(with Fuzhen Si) A Cartography of Paralinguistic Features and Non-Verbal elements: some preliminary notes on experimental designs, Workshop "Brain, Language Learning", University of Siena, September 26-28, 2019.(Poster)
(with Paola Merlo)Intervention effects in object relatives in English and Italian: a study in quantitative computa- tional syntax, Proceedings of the First Workshop on Quantitative Syntax (Quasy, SyntaxFest 2019), Association for Computational Linguistics, 46 - 56.
V2 languages do not challenge Cartography, if the analysis follows Cartographic guidelines, Oberseminar English Linguistics (Syntax-Semantics), Georg-August Universität Göttingen.
The role of morphosyntactic features and the Left Periphery: evidence from V2 languages, Unbound Seminarsin Formal Linguistics (UnboundSFL), University of Geneva.
Time/Space - Subject - V3: the predictive power of a criterial approach to V2, Team goes to IGG, Incontro di Grammatica Generativa 45, University of Padua.
V2 languages do not challenge the split-CP: the predictive power of a criterial approach, Traces of History, University of Oslo.
2018
V2 languages do not challenge Cartography: a Criterial Approach to V2, International Forum on Frontiers in Linguistics, Beijing Language and Culture University.
V2 and Cartographic guidelines, Seminari di Ricerca del CISCL, University of Siena.
2017
Criterial V2 and Embedded Clauses:some notes on German and Swiss Romansh varieties, Wordshop, University of Zurich.
Towards a Criterial V2, VariaForMea, Magglingen/Macolin
Some notes on Subjects and the Left of SwissRomansh varieties, Microworkshop in Romance, University of Geneva.
Cartography of V2: Towards a Criterial V2, SemRec UniGe 07.11.2017, University of Geneva.
Cartography of V2, 61. Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft, University of Zurich
2014-2016
The SynCart website (talk, with Karen Martini), 1st SynCart workshop, 11 - 15.07.2016, Chiusi (Italy)
The role of FinP in the Left Periphery, 9e Journées de linguistique suisse (9th Days of Swiss Linguistics), 29-30.06- 1.07. 2016, University of Geneva.
The Left Periphery of Swiss Romansh: toward a Criterial Approach to V2, Seminar, Goethe Universität Frankfurt.
Hanging Topics with Case Marking do not violate the "Bottleneck Effect" (poster), Rethinking V2 workshop, 22- 24.03.2016, University of Cambridge
Icelandic V3 adverbs do not violate the "Bottleneck Effect" (poster), IGG42, 18 - 20.02.2016, University of Lecce.
Notes on FinP as landing site for V2, Traces of History workshop, 09,10.03.2015, University of Oslo. 2014
V2 and Cartography, VariaForMea, Magglingen, 12.2014.
A cartographic approach to Verb Second, 7. Österreichische Studierendenkonferenz der Linguistik, 21, 22.11.2014, University of Salzburg.