9 papers
Do Language Models Know Their Slang? Queer Slang Understanding in User-Generated Content
Arianna Denitto, Beatrice Savoldi
Despite its cultural relevance and diffusion, queer slang remains underrepresented in Natural Language Processing research. Towards addressing this gap, we introduce Slang-Q, a man…
RedVox: Safety and Fairness Gaps in Speech Models Across Languages
Beatrice Savoldi, Sara Papi, Wafa Aissa +2
Speech-capable models are increasingly deployed in real-world applications across languages. Yet their safety and fairness beyond English settings and under naturalistic conditions…
Generative AI Practices, Literacy, and Divides: An Empirical Analysis in the Italian Context
Beatrice Savoldi, Giuseppe Attanasio, Olga Gorodetskaya +10
The rise of generative AI (GenAI) chatbots accessible via conversational interfaces is transforming digital interactions and holds economic promise. However, these tools might deep…
MCIF: Multimodal Crosslingual Instruction-Following Benchmark from Scientific Talks
Sara Papi, Maike Züfle, Maike Züfle +6
Recent advances in large language models have laid the foundation for multimodal LLMs (MLLMs), which unify text, speech, and vision within a single framework. As these models are r…
Practising responsibility: Ethics in NLP as a hands-on course
Malvina Nissim, Viviana Patti, Beatrice Savoldi
As Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems become more pervasive, integrating ethical considerations into NLP education has become essential. However, this presents inherent chal…
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…