Alessandro Lenci

All-in-one: Understanding and Generation in Multimodal Reasoning with the MAIA Benchmark EMNLP 2025 CLASS-IT: Conversational and Lecture-Aligned Small-Scale Instruction Tuning for BabyLMs EMNLP 2025 Compositionality and Event Retrieval in Complement Coercion: A Study of Language Models in a Low-resource Setting CoNLL 2025 ExpliCa: Evaluating Explicit Causal Reasoning in Large Language Models ACL 2025 Comparing Static and Contextual Distributional Semantic Models on Intrinsic Tasks: An Evaluation on Mandarin Chinese Datasets COLING 2024 ConcreteGPT: A Baby GPT-2 Based on Lexical Concreteness and Curriculum Learning CoNLL 2024 Deep Learning Meets Egyptology: a Hieroglyphic Transformer for Translating Ancient Egyptian ACL 2024 Log Probabilities Are a Reliable Estimate of Semantic Plausibility in Base and Instruction-Tuned Language Models EMNLP 2024 Representing Abstract Concepts with Images: An Investigation with Large Language Models COLING 2024 Are Frequent Phrases Directly Retrieved like Idioms? An Investigation with Self-Paced Reading and Language Models EACL 2023 Are Language Models Sensitive to Semantic Attraction? A Study on Surprisal ACL 2023 We Understand Elliptical Sentences, and Language Models should Too: A New Dataset for Studying Ellipsis and its Interaction with Thematic Fit ACL 2023 Compositionality as an Analogical Process: Introducing ANNE AACL 2022 Does BERT really agree ? Fine-grained Analysis of Lexical Dependence on a Syntactic Task ACL 2022 Does BERT Recognize an Agent? Modeling Dowty’s Proto-Roles with Contextual Embeddings COLING 2022 Neural Readability Pairwise Ranking for Sentences in Italian Administrative Language AACL 2022 Pragmatic and Logical Inferences in NLI Systems: The Case of Conjunction Buttressing NAACL 2022 Probing for the Usage of Grammatical Number ACL 2022 Subject Verb Agreement Error Patterns in Meaningless Sentences: Humans vs. BERT COLING 2022 Word Order Matters When You Increase Masking EMNLP 2022 A howling success or a working sea? Testing what BERT knows about metaphors EMNLP 2021 Did the Cat Drink the Coffee? Challenging Transformers with Generalized Event Knowledge ACL 2021 PIHKers at CMCL 2021 Shared Task: Cosine Similarity and Surprisal to Predict Human Reading Patterns. NAACL 2021 Comparing Probabilistic, Distributional and Transformer-Based Models on Logical Metonymy Interpretation AACL 2020 Don’t Invite BERT to Drink a Bottle: Modeling the Interpretation of Metonymies Using BERT and Distributional Representations COLING 2020 PISA: A measure of Preference In Selection of Arguments to model verb argument recoverability COLING 2020 Distributional Semantics Meets Construction Grammar. towards a Unified Usage-Based Model of Grammar and Meaning ACL 2019 Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics NAACL 2019 Proceedings of the Eight Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning and Processing ACL 2018 SemEval-2018 Task 10: Capturing Discriminative Attributes SemEval 2018 Measuring Thematic Fit with Distributional Feature Overlap EMNLP 2017 Representing Verbs with Rich Contexts: an Evaluation on Verb Similarity EMNLP 2016 The Effects of Data Size and Frequency Range on Distributional Semantic Models EMNLP 2016 Chasing Hypernyms in Vector Spaces with Entropy EACL 2014 Identifying hypernyms in distributional semantic spaces SemEval 2012