Publications

55. Giuseppe Samo (2019) A Criterial Approach to the Cartography of V2. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company (link to the publisher: Link )

55. Giuseppe Samo & Rich Parker, Exploring AI-driven decisions in disaster simulation for Emergency Medical Teams, Proceedings of ICIMHT.

54. Giuseppe Samo & Xu Chen (to appear) ”When Cartography meets Transformers: a study on Syntactic Locality and the functional lexicon in Chinese wh-questions”, in Cartographic representations at the interfaces, ed. Si Fuzhen, Luigi Rizzi, Oxford University Press. (Link to an extended abstract can be found here: LINK 

53. Giuseppe Samo (to appear) ”A computational cartographic study on the merge nature of Topics in stages of French”, Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique.

52. Giuseppe Samo (to appear) ”Adverbs and non-arguments in the left periphery: a computational cartographic study”. In Adverbs and particles at the form-meaning interface, ed. Marco Coniglio, Kalle Müller, and Markus Steinbach, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

51. Paola Merlo & Giuseppe Samo (to appear) ”Generative Computational Modeling”, in The Cambridge Handbook of Minimalism and Its Interdisciplinary Applications, ed. by Evelina Leivada and Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Cambridge University Press. (preprint available at: LINK )

50. Francesco-Alessio Ursini & Giuseppe Samo (to appear) ”Extracting Toponyms from OpenStreetMap and Other Gazetteers: Comparing representational accuracy in multilingual contexts”, Nature - Humanities and Social Science Communications.

49. Giuseppe Samo & Francesco-Alessio Ursini (2024) ”Large language models, frame semantics and geodialectal data”, in N. Saramandu, M.Nevaci, I. Floarea, I-M. Farca¸s, A. Bojoga, F. R. Constantin, A. Loizo, M. Manta, M. Morcov, O. Niculescu (eds), Proceedings of the Xth Congress 1 of the International Society for Dialectology and Geolinguistics, Edizioni dell’Orso Alessandria, 585-598. (Link to the full publication: LINK )

48. Giuseppe Samo & Francesco-Alessio Ursini (2024). ”Dictionnaire et atlas: propriétés lexicales et sémantiques des urbanonymes en français”, Onoma 59, 277– 303. DOI: 10.34158/ONOMA.59/2024/14 (link to the publication: LINK).

47. Giuseppe Samo & Elena Isolani (2024) ”Comparing Models on the Optionality of Complementizer Omission A Quantitative Computational Study on German and Italo-Romance”, Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale, 58(58), 287-308 (Link to the publication:  LINK )

46. Giuseppe Samo (2024) ”Costruire automaticamente dati sintetici con modelli linguistici di grandi dimensioni per comprendere l’apprendimento dell’alternanza verbale causativa in italiano”, In Il verbo in Italiano: Morfologia, sintassi, semantica e testualità, ed. Letizia Lala and Enrico Castro, Florence: Franco Cesati Editore, 227-240. (Link to the book:  LINK )

45. Vivi Nastase, Giuseppe Samo, Chunyang Jiang & Paola Merlo (2024) ”Exploring Italian Sentence Embeddings Properties through Multi-tasking”, Proceedings of the Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (Clic-It 2024), 1 - 10. (Preprint ArXiv link: LINK )

44. Vivi Nastase, Giuseppe Samo, Chunyang Jiang & Paola Merlo (2024) ”Exploring syntactic information in sentence embeddings through multilingual subject-verb agreement”, Proceedings of the Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (Clic-It 2024), 1 - 13. (Preprint ArXiv link: LINK )

43. Chunyang Jiang, Giuseppe Samo, Vivi Nastase & Paola Merlo (2024), BLM-It — Blackbird Language Matrices for Italian: A CALAMITA Challenge, CALAMITA - Proceedings of the Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (Clic-It 2024), 1 - 9. (link to the paper: LINK ) 

42. Giuseppe Samo & Francesco-Alessio Ursini (2024) ”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 2024, March 24, Glasgow, Scotland, 1-12. (link to the paper: LINK )

41. Francesco-Alessio Ursini & Giuseppe Samo (2024), ”Italian Places in Japanese Manga: a study on topophilia in graphic narratives”, Journal of Literary Semantics, 53(1):39-65. (link to the paper: LINK )

40. Giuseppe Samo & Paola Merlo (2024) ”Distributed computational models of intervention effects: a study on cleft structures in French”, in It-Clefts: Empirical and Theoretical Surveys and Advances, ed. by Adam Ledgeway and Caterina Bonan, De Gruyter, 157-180. (link to the chapter: LINK )

39. Simone Sulpizio, Fritz Günther, Linda Badan, Benjamin Basclain, Marc Brysbaert, Yuen Lai Chan, Laura Anna Ciaccio, Carolin Dudschig, Jon Andoni Duñabeitia, Fabio Fasoli, Ludovic Ferrand, Dušica Filipović Đurević, Ernesto Guerra, Geoff Hollis, Remo Job, Khanitin Jornkokgoud, Hasibe Kahraman, Naledi Kgolo-Lotshwao, Sachiko Kinoshita, Julija Kos, Leslie Lee, Nala H. Lee, Ian Grant Mackenzie, Milica Manojlović, Christina Manouilidou, Mirko Martinic, Maria del Carmen Méndez, Ksenija Mišić, Natinee Na Chiangmai, Alexandre Nikolaev, Marina Oganyan, Patrice Rusconi, Giuseppe Samo, Chi-shing Tse, Chris Westbury, Peera Wongupparaj, Melvin J. Yap & Marco Marelli (2024) ”Taboo language across the globe: A multi-lab study”, Behavior Research Methods 56, 3794–3813. (link to the paper: LINK )

38. Giuseppe Samo (2023) ”Testing Cartographic Proposals on Locality Effects in V2: a quantitative study”, Journal of Historical Syntax 7 (24), 1-32. (link to the paper: LINK )

37. Angelapia Massaro & Giuseppe Samo (2023), ”Prompting Metalinguistic Awareness in Large Language Models: ChatGPT and Bias Effects on the Grammar of Italian and Italian Varieties”, Verbum 14. (link to the paper: LINK )

36. Francesco-Alessio Ursini & Giuseppe Samo (2023) ”A Semantic Model for Generic Terms and Place Nouns”, Spatial Data Science Symposium 2023 Proceedings, UC Santa Barbara. (link to the paper: LINK )

35. Giuseppe Samo & Caterina Bonan (2023) ”Health-related content in Transformer-based language models Exploring bias in domain general vs. domain specific training sets", Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 302, 743-744. doi: 10.3233/SHTI230252. (link to the paper: LINK )

34. Francesco-Alessio Ursini & Giuseppe Samo. 2023. Extracting toponyms from OpenStreetMap: A cross-linguistic perspective. In Hu, Xuke, Yianji Hu, Jens Kerstens & Kirstin Stock (eds.), Proceedings of GeoExt2023 (=lecture Notes in Computer Science 4321), 110–120. Berlin: Springer.  (link to the paper: LINK )

33. Francesco-Alessio Ursini & Giuseppe Samo (2023) ”The Purple Thread: The reception of Prince as a fictional character in graphic narratives”, Studies in Comics 13 (1-2), 87 - 113. (link to the paper: LINK )

32. Giuseppe Samo & Francesco-Alessio Ursini (2023), ”Geographical Maps meet Place Names where Languages meet Dialects: The Case of Italian”, Forum Italicum, 57(3), 1019-1040 (link to the paper: LINK )

31. Francesco-Alessio Ursini & Giuseppe Samo (2023), ”Cyberpunk, steampunk and all that punk: Genre names and their uses across communities”, Linguistic Vanguard (9) 3, 317-327. (link to the paper: LINK) 

30. Giuseppe Samo, Vivi Nastase, Chunyang Jiang & Paola Merlo (2023), ”BLM-s/lE: A structured dataset of English spray-load verb alternations for testing generalization in LLMs”, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, Singapore, Association for Computational Linguistics, 12276–12287. (link to the paper: LINK )

29. Paola Merlo, Giuseppe Samo, Vivi Nastase & Chunyang Jiang (2023) ”Building structured synthetic datasets: The case of Blackbird Language Matrices (BLMs)”, proceedings of the Proceedings of the Ninth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (Clic-It 2023 ), 1-11. (link to the paper: LINK )

28. Paola Merlo, Chunyang Jiang, Giuseppe Samo & Vivi Nastase (2023) ”Blackbird Language Matrices Tasks for Generalization”, in Proceedings of the 1st GenBench Workshop on (Benchmarking) Generalisation in NLP, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics, 163–172. (link to the ACL page: LINK )

27. Qin Xie, Francesco-Alessio Ursini & Giuseppe Samo (2023) ”Urbanonyms in Macao”, Names: A Journal of Onomastics 71(1):29-43. (link to the paper: LINK )

26. Giuseppe Samo, Francesco-Alessio Ursini & Serena Crocchi (2023), ”From health to wellness and back to health? Diachronic trends on Italian thermal towns: a quantitative study”, in IX Col´oquio Internacional Olhares sobre o Envelhecimento (IXCIOSE) 28–29 de novembro de 2022, Trabalhos Selecionados, ed. Aline Bazenga, Celina Martins & Minh Ha Lo-Cicero (Organizadoras), 194-205 (paper on Researchgate: LINK )

25. Giuseppe Samo (2022) ”Moved to ModP or base-generated in FrameP? A Quantitative Cartographic Study”, Revue Roumaine de Linguistique LXVII (4), 345–361. (link to the paper: LINK)

24. Niels Boogers Linda Badan, Giuseppe Samo & Gaetano Fiorin (2022) ”The linear structure of narrative figures in the Saint Francis Cycle: A linguistic analysis” Social Semiotics, 1-34. DOI: 10.1080/10350330.2022.2080544. (link to the paper: LINK )

23. Francesco-Alessio Ursini & Giuseppe Samo (2022) ”The Interpretation of Urbanonyms in Dis course Reconciling theoretical accounts with experimental results”, Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 58(2), 263-288. (link to the paper: LINK )

22. Paola Merlo & Giuseppe Samo (2022) ”Exploring T3 Languages with quantitative computational syntax”, Theoretical Linguistics, n. 48. (LINK )

21. Giuseppe Samo (2022) ”Criterial V2: ModP as a locus of microvariation in Swiss Romansh varieties”, Probus (34), 143-170. (link to the paper: LINK )

20. Francesco-Alessio Ursini & Giuseppe Samo (2022) ”Names for urban places and conceptual tax onomies: the view from Italian”, Spatial Cognition & Computation. DOI: 10.1080/13875868.2021.1954186 (link to the paper: LINK )

19. Luigi Rizzi & Giuseppe Samo (2022) ”Introduction: On the role of Romance in cartographic studies”, Probus (34), 1-8. (link to the paper: LINK )

18. Giuseppe Samo & Fuzhen Si (2022) ”Optionality of 的 DE in Chinese Possessive Structures: A Quantitative Study”. Quaderni Di Linguistica E Studi Orientali, 2022, 37-53. (link to the paper: LINK , automatic download)

17. Giuseppe Samo, Caterina Bonan & Fuzhen Si (2022) ”Health-related content in transformer-based deep neural network language models: exploring cross-linguistic syntactic bias”, Studies in health technology and informatics vol. 295 (2022): 221-225. (link to the paper: LINK )

16. Giuseppe Samo, Yu Zhao, Maria Teresa Guasti, Heini Utunen, Oliver Stucke & Gaya Gamhewage (2022) ”Could linguistic complexity be automatically evaluated? A multilingual study on WHO’s Emergency Learning Platform” Informatics and Technology in Clinical Care and Public Health. J. Mantas et al. (Eds.), 196 - 199. (link to the paper: LINK )

15. Giuseppe Samo & Massimiliano Canuti (2022) ”Note su infiniti flessi in chianino: un approccio cartografico”, Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale (56), 1-18. (link to the paper: LINK )

14. Giuseppe Samo & Francesco-Alessio Ursini (2022) ”Exploring dynamic on-line gazetteers to map variation in the syntax of Italian urbanonyms”, Quaderni di Lavoro ASIT 24, 407-423. (paper on Research Gate: LINK )

13. Giuseppe Samo, Francesco-Alessio Ursini & Giuliano Caracciolo, (2022) ”Quantifying formulaic syntax: a quantitative and computational study on temporal complements in Latin subject relatives extracted from the Epigraphic collection of the Catacombs in Chiusi”, Annali di Linguistica, Universit`a Orientale, Naples, Italy. (paper on Research Gate: LINK )

12. Giuseppe Samo & Giuliano Caracciolo (2022) ”Encoding inscriptions as sets of lexical features: a case study on the Epigraphic collection of the Catacombs in Chiusi”, Res Antiquae 19, 1-18.  (link to the article: LINK )

11. Giuseppe Samo & Paola Merlo (2021) ”Intervention effects in clefts: a study in quantitative computational syntax”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 6(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5742 (link to the paper: LINK )

10. Giuseppe Samo (2021) ”N-merge systems in adult and child grammars: a quantitative study on external arguments”, Quaderni Di Linguistica E Studi Orientali, 7, 103-130. https://doi.org/10.13128/qulso-2421-7220-12005 (link to the paper: LINK )

9. Yu Zhao, Giuseppe Samo, Heini Utunen, Oliver Stucke & Gaya Gamhewage (2021) ”Evaluating Complexity of Digital Learning in a Multilingual Context: A Cross-Linguistic Study on WHO’s Emergency Learning Platform”, Evaluating Complexity of Digital Learning in a Multilingual Context: A Cross-Linguistic Study on WHO’s Emergency Learning Platform 281, 516-517. doi: 10.3233/SHTI210222. (link to the paper: LINK )

8. Giuseppe Samo & Massimiliano Canuti (2021) Uncovering the Left Periphery of Etruscan: some theoretical insights, in F. Si and L. Rizzi, Current Issues in Syntactic Cartography: A crosslinguistic perspective, John Benjamins Publishing. (link to the paper: LINK )

7. Giuseppe Samo, Yu Zhao & Gaya Gamhewage (2020) "Syntactic Complexity of Learning Content in Italian for COVID-19 Frontline Responders: A Study on WHO’s Emergency Learning Platform", Verbum, 2020, vol. 11, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.15388/Verb.15 (link to the paper: LINK )

6. Giuseppe Samo & Paola Merlo (2019) Intervention effects in object relatives in English and Italian: a study in quantitative computational syntax, Proceedings of Quasy, Association for Computational Linguistics, 46 - 56. (link to the paper: LINK )

5. Giuseppe Samo (2019), Cartography and Microparametric variation: Criterial V2 in Swiss Romansh varieties, Revista Lingu´ıstica, v.15.3, 141 -160. https://dx.doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2019.v15n3a27546 (link to the paper: LINK )

4. Giuseppe Samo (2019) "Cartography and Locality in German: a quantitative study with Dependency structures", Rivista di Grammatica Generativa/Research in Generative Grammar, 5, 1-26. (link to the paper: LINK )

3. Giuseppe Samo (2018) "Towards a Criterial V2: Some Notes on Subject-initial Clauses", Generative Grammar in Geneva. 2018, vol. 11, 1 - 20. (link to the paper: LINK )

2. Giuseppe Samo (2018). A Criterial approach to the Cartography of V2, PhD dissertation, University of Geneva (link to the dissertation: LINK )

1.  Hasmik Jivanyan & Giuseppe Samo (2017) ”Parce-que in the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface”, Generative Grammar in Geneva, vol. 10, University of Geneva. doi:10.13097/1tk2-7fja (link to the paper: LINK )