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most citedShow Less, Instruct More: Enriching Prompts with Definitions and Guidelines for Zero-Shot NER

2 citations · 3 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.CL2026

Multi-SFT: Permissively-Licensed Multilingual Instruction-Following

Daniela Baiamonte, Kamyar Zeinalipour, Elena Fano +2

Supervised fine-tuning datasets remain overwhelmingly English-centric and commercially restricted, as their content is frequently generated by proprietary models whose terms of ser…

cs.CL2026

Multilingual Training and Evaluation Resources for Vision-Language Models

Daniela Baiamonte, Elena Fano, Matteo Gabburo +3

Vision Language Models (VLMs) achieved rapid progress in the recent years. However, despite their growth, VLMs development is heavily grounded on English, leading to two main limit…

cs.CL2025

Challenging the Abilities of Large Language Models in Italian: a Community Initiative

Malvina Nissim, Danilo Croce, Viviana Patti +78

The rapid progress of Large Language Models (LLMs) has transformed natural language processing and broadened its impact across research and society. Yet, systematic evaluation of t…

cs.CL2025

Protoknowledge Shapes Behaviour of LLMs in Downstream Tasks: Memorization and Generalization with Knowledge Graphs

Federico Ranaldi, Andrea Zugarini, Leonardo Ranaldi +1

We introduce the concept of protoknowledge to formalize and measure how sequences of tokens encoding Knowledge Graphs are internalized during pretraining and utilized at inference…

cs.CL2024

SLIMER-IT: Zero-Shot NER on Italian Language

Andrew Zamai, Leonardo Rigutini, Marco Maggini +1

Traditional approaches to Named Entity Recognition (NER) frame the task into a BIO sequence labeling problem. Although these systems often excel in the downstream task at hand, the…

cs.CV2024

Caption-Driven Explorations: Aligning Image and Text Embeddings through Human-Inspired Foveated Vision

Dario Zanca, Andrea Zugarini, Simon Dietz +4

Understanding human attention is crucial for vision science and AI. While many models exist for free-viewing, less is known about task-driven image exploration. To address this, we…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Dynamic Few-Shot Learning for Knowledge Graph Question Answering

Jacopo D'Abramo, Andrea Zugarini, Paolo Torroni

Large language models present opportunities for innovative Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs (KGQA). However, they are not inherently designed for query generation. To bridg…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Show Less, Instruct More: Enriching Prompts with Definitions and Guidelines for Zero-Shot NER

Andrew Zamai, Andrea Zugarini, Leonardo Rigutini +2

Recently, several specialized instruction-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) for Named Entity Recognition (NER) have emerged. Compared to traditional NER approaches, these models h…

cs.CL2024

Clue-Instruct: Text-Based Clue Generation for Educational Crossword Puzzles

Andrea Zugarini, Kamyar Zeinalipour, Surya Sai Kadali +3

Crossword puzzles are popular linguistic games often used as tools to engage students in learning. Educational crosswords are characterized by less cryptic and more factual clues t…

cs.AI2024

Are LLMs Good Cryptic Crossword Solvers?

Abdelrahman Sadallah, Daria Kotova, Ekaterina Kochmar

Cryptic crosswords are puzzles that rely not only on general knowledge but also on the solver's ability to manipulate language on different levels and deal with various types of wo…