Raffaella Bernardi

Teaching Small Language Models to Learn Logic through Meta-Learning EACL 2026 The Price of Thought: A Multilingual Analysis of Reasoning, Performance, and Cost of Negotiation in Large Language Models EACL 2026 All-in-one: Understanding and Generation in Multimodal Reasoning with the MAIA Benchmark EMNLP 2025 Argumentative Analysis of Legal Rulings: A Structured Framework Using Bobbitt’s Typology ACL 2025 LLMs instead of Human Judges? A Large Scale Empirical Study across 20 NLP Evaluation Tasks ACL 2025 Playpen: An Environment for Exploring Learning From Dialogue Game Feedback EMNLP 2025 The Validation Gap: A Mechanistic Analysis of How Language Models Compute Arithmetic but Fail to Validate It EMNLP 2025 Triangulating LLM Progress through Benchmarks, Games, and Cognitive Tests EMNLP 2025 A Systematic Analysis of Large Language Models as Soft Reasoners: The Case of Syllogistic Inferences EMNLP 2024 Learning to Ask Informative Questions: Enhancing LLMs with Preference Optimization and Expected Information Gain EMNLP 2024 ACT-Thor: A Controlled Benchmark for Embodied Action Understanding in Simulated Environments COLING 2022 “I’ve Seen Things You People Wouldn’t Believe”: Hallucinating Entities in GuessWhat?! ACL 2021 Looking for Confirmations: An Effective and Human-Like Visual Dialogue Strategy EMNLP 2021 The Interplay of Task Success and Dialogue Quality: An in-depth Evaluation in Task-Oriented Visual Dialogues EACL 2021 Visually Grounded Follow-up Questions: a Dataset of Spatial Questions Which Require Dialogue History ACL 2021 Be Different to Be Better! A Benchmark to Leverage the Complementarity of Language and Vision EMNLP 2020 Effective questions in referential visual dialogue ACL 2020 On the role of effective and referring questions in GuessWhat?! ACL 2020 They Are Not All Alike: Answering Different Spatial Questions Requires Different Grounding Strategies EMNLP 2020 Beyond task success: A closer look at jointly learning to see, ask, and GuessWhat NAACL 2019 Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Shortcomings in Vision and Language NAACL 2019 Psycholinguistics Meets Continual Learning: Measuring Catastrophic Forgetting in Visual Question Answering ACL 2019 Quantifiers in a Multimodal World: Hallucinating Vision with Language and Sound NAACL 2019 Ask No More: Deciding when to guess in referential visual dialogue COLING 2018 Comparatives, Quantifiers, Proportions: a Multi-Task Model for the Learning of Quantities from Vision NAACL 2018 Grounded Textual Entailment COLING 2018 Some of Them Can be Guessed! Exploring the Effect of Linguistic Context in Predicting Quantifiers ACL 2018 Automatic Description Generation from Images: A Survey of Models, Datasets, and Evaluation Measures (Extended Abstract) IJCAI 2017 Be Precise or Fuzzy: Learning the Meaning of Cardinals and Quantifiers from Vision EACL 2017 FOIL it! Find One mismatch between Image and Language caption ACL 2017 The LAMBADA dataset: Word prediction requiring a broad discourse context ACL 2016 SemEval-2014 Task 1: Evaluation of Compositional Distributional Semantic Models on Full Sentences through Semantic Relatedness and Textual Entailment SemEval 2014 A relatedness benchmark to test the role of determiners in compositional distributional semantics ACL 2013 Exploiting Language Models for Visual Recognition EMNLP 2013 Entailment above the word level in distributional semantics EACL 2012 Query classification using topic models and support vector machine ACL 2012 Exploring Topic Continuation Follow-up Questions using Machine Learning NAACL 2009