Marco Guerini @ ACL2025
@marcoguerini.bsky.social
Head of LanD research group at FBK - Italy | NLP for Social Good.
Wrapping up #LT2025FBK with four contributions from our group: two oral presentations by Fariba Sadeghi and Daniela Occhipinti (@docchipinti8.bsky.social), and two posters by Helena Bonaldi (@helenabon.bsky.social) and Marco Guerini (@marcoguerini.bsky.social) 🚀
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I have two fully funded PhD positions in my group. If you want to work on persona based dialogical models or using LLMs to fight online harms then consider applying!
@land-fbk.bsky.social · last yr.📢 Do you want to join our group? We opened **two** calls for a fully funded PhD. Details are in the image and at the following links. Calls: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad... PhD Details: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad... Deadline: August 22nd, 2025, hrs. 04:00 PM (CEST)
It was amazing meeting so many people this morning and chatting about how LLMs adapt not just to their given persona, but to the interlocutor’s too. I really enjoyed the poster session and loved everyone’s insights! 🚀 For more details: aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon... #ACL2025NLP
Modular Language Models: basically a MoE architecture were experts are defined a-priori and can be used “à la carte”? #ACL2025NLP
The second invited speaker is Simone Fontana (@simofons.bsky.social) from @facta.news, with a talk titled "Countering Disinformation and Hate Speech: The Role of Journalism". #ACL2025NLP
The first invited speaker is Cathy Buerger from @dangerousspeech.org, with a talk titled "Co-designing Counterspeech: Rethinking AI’s Role". #ACL2025NLP
What ethical questions arise when designing counterspeech? Gavin Abercrombie (@gavina.bsky.social) will guide us with a talk titled "Ethical considerations of counterspeech".
What challenges unite counterspeech generation for hate speech and misinformation? Marco Guerini (@marcoguerini.bsky.social) will unpack this intersection.
CSHAM continues with Helena Bonaldi (@helenabon.bsky.social) sharing insights on "NLP approaches to counterspeech against hate".
Last but not least, we present the CSHAM organisers. Daniel Russo (@daniel-russo.bsky.social), Helena Bonaldi (@helenabon.bsky.social), Yi-Ling Chung, Gavin Abercrombie (@gavina.bsky.social), Marco Guerini (@marcoguerini.bsky.social). We are excited to see you all tomorrow at 2 pm at #ACL2025NLP 👀
Delighted to introduce Cathy Buerger, our first invited speaker for the "NLP for Counterspeech against Hate and Misinformation" tutorial. Join us to hear her insightful work on "Co-designing Counterspeech: Rethinking AI's Role" #ACL2025NLP More details ⤵️ sites.google.com/view/nlp4csh...
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Simone Fontana (@simofons.bsky.social), Editorial Director at @facta.news, is our second invited speaker! His talk, "Countering Disinformation and Hate Speech: The Role of Journalism", will offer insights from a practitioner’s perspective! #ACL2025NLP Details ⤵️ sites.google.com/view/nlp4csh...
CSHAM - Program
Sunday, July 27 (UTC+1)
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[1/]💡New Paper Large reasoning models (LRMs) are strong in English — but how well do they reason in your language? Our latest work uncovers their limitation and a clear trade-off: Controlling Thinking Trace Language Comes at the Cost of Accuracy 📄Link: arxiv.org/abs/2505.22888
Congrats to all the authors and the LanD group! 💪
@land-fbk.bsky.social · last yr.🎉 We are excited to share that 3 of our papers made it into #ACL2025NLP! Massive congrats to the authors: @docchipinti8.bsky.social, @daniel-russo.bsky.social, Stefano Menini, Fariba Sadeghi, @ziorufus.bsky.social, @marcoguerini.bsky.social, @malvinanissim.bsky.social. More details coming soon! 👀
🗣️ Discover "NLP for Counterspeech against Hate and Misinformation" at #ACL2025NLP! This tutorial bridges CS, social sciences & policy, exploring among others the role of LLMs. #HateSpeech #Misinformation #NLProc #ResponsibleAI 👉 2025.aclweb.org/program/tuto...
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Do you speak Bavarian? Then please consider helping in a thesis research project👇
Verena Blaschke@verenablaschke.bsky.social · last yr.Dei Boarisch heard ned bei "Servus" und "Pfiade" auf? Dann suach ma genau Di! Wir suachan Bairischsprecher:innen, de a kurze Umfrage über KI-generierds Boarisch für a Masterarbeit beantwortn mechadn. Mid jeder Teilnahme bring ma den boarischn Dialekt a Stickal weida in de digitale Weyd!
One of the takeaways I prefer about this work is a “negative result” that bugged us for more than a month: out of the box LLMs (zero-shot) consistently beat their fine-tuned counterpart. While confused and discouraged by the results, closer inspection revealed a trivial truth…
@land-fbk.bsky.social · last yr.What happens when Harry meets Superman instead of Sally for a chat? 🧔🦸♂️ We explore how LLMs adapt their responses not just to their given persona, but also to their interlocutors’. 📣 New #ACL2025NLP (main) paper by @docchipinti8.bsky.social @marcoguerini.bsky.social @malvinanissim.bsky.social 1/🧵
This year we are organising a tutorial for all those who want to have a better understanding on how counterspeech can be used in #NLProc for fighting both Hate and Misinformation. If you are at #ACL2025NLP and interested join us!
CSHAM Tutorial (ACL2025)@csham-tutorial.bsky.social · last yr.We are happy to announce our tutorial, "NLP for Counterspeech against Hate and Misinformation". It will be held on July 27, 2025, at #ACL2025NLP in Vienna, Austria! Stay tuned for more details 👀 sites.google.com/view/nlp4csh...
To click it, or not to click it: that is the question. Our #CLiC-it2024 contribution is finally out: "To Click It or Not to Click It: An Italian Dataset for Neutralising Clickbait Headlines" authored by @daniel-russo.bsky.social, Oscar Araque, and Marco Guerini. clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/wp-content/u...
