5 papers
Transcription and Recognition of Italian Parliamentary Speeches Using Vision-Language Models
Luigi Curini, Alfio Ferrara, Giovanni Pagano +1
Parliamentary proceedings represent a rich yet challenging resource for computational analysis, particularly when preserved only as scanned historical documents. Existing efforts t…
Quid est VERITAS? A Modular Framework for Archival Document Analysis
Leonardo Bassanini, Ludovico Biancardi, Alfio Ferrara +3
The digitisation of historical documents has traditionally been conceived as a process limited to character-level transcription, producing flat text that lacks the structural and s…
What's Taboo for You? - An Empirical Evaluation of LLMs Behavior Toward Sensitive Content
Alfio Ferrara, Sergio Picascia, Laura Pinnavaia +3
Proprietary Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown tendencies toward politeness, formality, and implicit content moderation. While previous research has primarily focused on expli…
The Cow of Rembrandt - Analyzing Artistic Prompt Interpretation in Text-to-Image Models
Alfio Ferrara, Sergio Picascia, Elisabetta Rocchetti
Text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in generating artistic content by learning from billions of images, including popular artworks. However, th…
LiMe: a Latin Corpus of Late Medieval Criminal Sentences
Alessandra Bassani, Beatrice Del Bo, Alfio Ferrara +3
The Latin language has received attention from the computational linguistics research community, which has built, over the years, several valuable resources, ranging from detailed…