Publications
Publications
2026
Rinaldi, M., Varvara, R., Patti, V. (2026). Testimole-Conversational: A 30-Billion-Word Italian Discussion Board Corpus (1996–2024) for Language Modeling and Sociolinguistic Research. In Proceedings of the 12th Workshop Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora 12, LREC 2026, ELRA.
Varvara, R., Huyghe, R. (2026). The linguistic factors of semantic transparency: evidence from verb-to-noun derivation in French. Journal of Linguistics. ISSN: 0022-2267. doi: 10.1017/S0022226725000209
Malvina Nissim, Danilo Croce, Viviana Patti, Pierpaolo Basile, Giuseppe Attanasio, Elio Musacchio, Matteo Rinaldi, Federico Borazio, Maria Francis, Jacopo Gili, Daniel Scalena, Begoña Altuna, Ekhi Azurmendi, Valerio Basile, Luisa Bentivogli, Arianna Bisazza, Marianna 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 Potertì, 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, “Challenging the Abilities of Large Language Models in Italian: a Community Initiative”, IJCoL [Online], 12-1 | 2026, Online since 01 June 2026, connection on 08 August 2026. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/ijcol/1813
2025
Huyghe, R., Varvara, R. (2025). Semantic granularity in derivation. Linguistics Vanguard. ISSN: 2199-174X. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2024-0186
Rinaldi, M., Varvara, R., Gregori, L., Ravelli, A.A. (2025). Evaluating Models, Prompting Strategies, and Task Formats: a Case Study on the MACID Challenge. In Proceeding of Clic-it 2025 (Italian Conference of Computational Linguistics).
Moneglia, M., Varvara, R. (2025). L’Aspetto verbale e la sua variazione nei verbi d’azione italiani: dati dall’ontologia IMAGACT. In Atti del XVI Congresso SILFI.
2024
Varvara, R., Salvadori, J., Huyghe, R. (2024). Lexical ambiguity in contextualized word embeddings. : A case study of nominalizations. Lingue e Linguaggio. DOI: 10.1418/112743
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Raveli, A.A., Varvara, R., Gregori, L. (2024). MACID - Multimodal ACtion IDentification: A CALAMITA Challenge. In Proceedings of the Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024).
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Salvadori, J., Varvara, R., Huyghe, R. (2024). Measuring affix rivalry as a gradient relationship. In Bagasheva, A., Nagano, A., Renner, V. (Eds) Competition in Word-Formation. John Benjamins.
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Moneglia, M., Varvara, R. (2024). Aspect Variability and the Annotation of Aspect in the IMAGACT Ontology of Action. Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations.
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2023
Montefinese, M., Gregori, L., Ravelli, A.A., Varvara, R., Radicioni, D.P. (2023). CONcreTEXT Norms: Concreteness Ratings for Italian and English Words in Context. Plos One 18. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293031
Huyghe, R., Varvara, R. (2023). Affix rivalry: Theoretical and methodological challenges. Introduction to the special issue “Quantitative approaches to affix rivalry”. Word Structure 16.1
2022
Varvara, R. (2022). Marmitta. In: (a cura di): Biffi M., Paoli M., La crusca alla radio. Tradizione toscana in 100 parole. p. 95-96, FIRENZE: Accademia della Crusca, ISBN: 978-88-3388-008-2
Varvara, R. (2022). Midolla. In: (a cura di): Biffi M., Paoli M., La crusca alla radio. Tradizione toscana in 100 parole. p. 30-31, FIRENZE: Accademia della Crusca, ISBN: 978-88-3388-008-2
Varvara, R.(2022). Pattona. In: (a cura di): Biffi M., Paoli M., La crusca alla radio. Tradizione toscana in 100 parole. p. 32-33, FIRENZE:Accademia della Crusca, ISBN: 978-88-3388-008-2
Patti, V., Basile, V., Bolioli, A., Bosca, A., Bosco, C., Fell, M. E Varvara, R. (2022). Italian EVALITA Benchmark Linguistic Resources, NLP Services and Tools. In: Rehm, G. (eds) European Language Grid. Cognitive Technologies. Springer, Cham. ISBN: 978-3-031-17257-1 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17258-8_19
Varvara, R., Salvadori, J., Huyghe, R. (2022). Annotating complex words to investigate the semantics of derivational processes. In Bunt, H. (Ed.) Proceedings of the 18th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation. ISBN: 979-10-95546-81-8
Basile, V., Bosco, C., Fell, M., Patti, V., Varvara, R. (2022). Italian NLP for Everyone: Resources and Models from EVALITA to the European Language Grid. In Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022). ISBN: 979-10-95546-72-6
2021
Basile, P., Caputo, A., Caselli, T., Cassotti, P., Varvara, R. (2021). The Corpora They Are a-Changing: a Case Study in Italian Newspapers. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2021 (LChange’21). Association for Computational Linguistics. ISBN: 978-1-954085-60-2
Varvara, R., Lapesa, G., Padò, S. (2021). “Grounding semantic transparency in context: A distributional semantic study on German event nominalizations”. Morphology 31, 409-446. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-021-09382-w
2020
Patti, V., Basile, V., Bosco, C., Varvara, R., Fell, M., Bolioli, A., Bosca, A. (2020). EVALITA4ELG: Italian Benchmark Linguistic resources, NLP Services and Tools for the ELG platform. Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/ijcol.754
Basile, P., Caputo, A., Caselli, T., Cassotti, P., Varvara, R. (2020). DIACR-ITA @ EVALITA2020: Overview of the EVALITA 2020 Diachronic Lexical Semantics (DIACR-Ita) Task. In Proceedings of the 7th evaluation campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech tools for Italian (EVALITA 2020). Accademia University Press, Torino. ISBN: 9791280136275
Gregori, L., Montefinese, M., Radicioni, D., Ravelli, A.A., Varvara, R. (2020). CONCRETEXT @ EVALITA2020: the Concreteness in Context Task. In Proceedings of the 7th evaluation campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech tools for Italian (EVALITA 2020). Accademia University Press, Torino. ISBN: 9791280136275
Basile, P., Caputo, A., Caselli, T., Cassotti, P., Varvara, R. (2020). A Diachronic Italian Corpus based on “L’Unità”. Proceedings of the Seventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLIC-IT 2020). Accademia University Press, Torino. ISBN: 979-12-80136-28-2
Varvara R. (2020). Constraints on nominalizations: investigating the productivity domain of Italian -mento and -zione. Zeitschrift für Wortbildung / Journal of Word Formation, special issue Nominalization. Issue 2/2020. ISSN: 2367-3877
Moneglia, M., Varvara, R. (2020). The Annotation of Thematic Structure and Alternations face to the Semantic Variation of Action Verbs. Current Trends in the IMAGACT Ontology. In Proceedings of the 16th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA-16), Workshop at LREC 2020. Tilburg University, Tilburg. ISBN: 978-90-74029-39-1
2019
Ravelli, A.A., Gregori, L., Varvara, R.(2019). “Comparing Ref-Vectors and word embeddings in a verb semantic similarity task ”. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence, Rende, Italia. CEUR proceedings, AI*IA series. ISSN: 1613-0073
Varvara, R. (2019) “Vi vogliamo dissuadere o persuadere?”. In Italiano digitale, IX, 2019/2, Accademia della crusca, Firenze. ISSN: 2532-9006
Gregori, L., Varvara, R., Ravelli, A.A.(2019). “Action Type induction from multilingual lexical features”. In Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 63, pp.85-92. ISSN: 1135-5948.
Moneglia, M., Panunzi, A., Varvara, R. (2019). “Defining Action Types: on the roles of Thematic Structures and Argument Alternations”. In Proceedings of the Sixth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, a cura di R. Bernardi, R. Navigli, G. Semeraro. CEUR Proceedings. ISSN: 1613-0073
Varvara, R., Zamparelli, R. (2019). “Competition between event-denoting deverbal nouns and nominal infinitives in Italian”. Capitolo di libro in Competition in Inflection and Word Formation, a cura di F. Rainer, F. Gardani, H.C. Luschützky, W.U. Dressler. Springer, Springer series “Studies in Morphology”. ISBN: 978-3-030-02549-6
Varvara, R. (2019). “Misurare la produttività morfologica: i nomi d’azione nell’italiano del ventunesimo secolo”. In: B. Moretti, A. Kunz, S. Natale, E. Krakenberger, Le tendenze dell’italiano contemporaneo rivisitate. Atti del LII Congresso Internazionale di Studi della Società di Linguistica Italiana (Berna, 6-8 settembre 2018). p. 187-201, Officinaventuno, Milano. ISBN: 978-88-97657-33-0
2018
Varvara, R. (2018) “Per rispondere, abbiamo risposto”. In Italiano digitale, VII, 2018-4, pp. 11-14, Accademia della crusca, Firenze. ISSN: 2532-9006
Varvara, R. (2018). “Sul genere grammaticale di euro”. In Italiano digitale, IV, 2018-1, pp. 43-47, Accademia della crusca, Firenze. ISSN: 2532-9006
2017 and before
Varvara, R. (2017). “È opinabile l’uso dell’aggettivo opinionabile?”. In Italiano digitale, III, 2017-3, pp.55-58, Accademia della crusca, Firenze. ISSN: 2532-9006
Varvara, R. (2017). Verbs as nouns: empirical investigations on event-denoting nominalizations. PhD Thesis, Università degli Studi di Trento. Available at: http://eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it/2538/
Jezek, E., Varvara, R. (2015). “Instrument subjects without Instrumet Role”. In Proceedings of 11th Joint ACL-ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, Queen Mary College of London, April 14, 2015. Tilburg University, Tilburg. ISBN/EAN: 978-90-74029-00-1
Varvara, R., Jezek, E. (2014). “Semantic role annotation of instrument subjects”. In Proceeding of the First Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CliC-it 2014, 9-10 December 2014, Roberto Basili, Alessandro Lenci, Bernardo Magnini (eds.) Pisa University Press, Pisa. ISBN/EAN: 978-886741-472-7.
Jezek, E., L. Vieu, F. M. Zanzotto, G. Vetere, A. Oltramari, A. Gangemi, R. Varvara (2014). "Enriching Senso Comune with Semantic Role Sets". In Harry Bunt (eds) Proceedings of the Tenth Joint ACL-ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, Reykjavik, Iceland (May 26, 2014), 88-94.