Publications

Peer-reviewed publications

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

Salvadori, J., Varvara, R., Huyghe, R. (2024, in press). Measuring affix rivalry as a gradient relationship. In Bagasheva, A., Nagano, A., Renner, V. (Eds) Competition in Word-Formation. John Benjamins. 

Moneglia, M., Varvara, R. (2024, in press). Aspect Variability and the Annotation of Aspect in the IMAGACT Ontology of Action. Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations.

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. 