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Publications (13)

cs.CL2022

Entity Disambiguation with Entity Definitions

Luigi Procopio, Simone Conia, Edoardo Barba +1

Local models have recently attained astounding performances in Entity Disambiguation (ED), with generative and extractive formulations being the most promising research directions.…

cs.CL2026

ReTraceQA: Evaluating Reasoning Traces of Small Language Models in Commonsense Question Answering

Francesco Maria Molfese, Luca Moroni, Ciro Porcaro +2

While Small Language Models (SLMs) have demonstrated promising performance on an increasingly wide array of commonsense reasoning benchmarks, current evaluation practices rely almo…

cs.CL2025

Do Large Language Models Have an English Accent? Evaluating and Improving the Naturalness of Multilingual LLMs

Yanzhu Guo, Simone Conia, Zelin Zhou +3

Current Large Language Models (LLMs) are predominantly designed with English as the primary language, and even the few that are multilingual tend to exhibit strong English-centric…

cs.CL2023

Exploring Non-Verbal Predicates in Semantic Role Labeling: Challenges and Opportunities

Riccardo Orlando, Simone Conia, Roberto Navigli

Although we have witnessed impressive progress in Semantic Role Labeling (SRL), most of the research in the area is carried out assuming that the majority of predicates are verbs.…

cs.CL2024

ZEBRA: Zero-Shot Example-Based Retrieval Augmentation for Commonsense Question Answering

Francesco Maria Molfese, Simone Conia, Riccardo Orlando +1

Current Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong reasoning capabilities in commonsense question answering benchmarks, but the process underlying their success remains largely…

cs.CL2025

Right Answer, Wrong Score: Uncovering the Inconsistencies of LLM Evaluation in Multiple-Choice Question Answering

Francesco Maria Molfese, Luca Moroni, Luca Gioffré +3

One of the most widely used tasks for evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) is Multiple-Choice Question Answering (MCQA). While open-ended question answering tasks are more chall…