Alessandro Lenci
5 papers in the PaperMetrix corpus
Papers by this author
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Lexical Variability and Compositionality: Investigating Idiomaticity with Distributional Semantic Models
2016
In this work we carried out an idiom type identification task on a set of 90 Italian V-NP and V-PP constructions comprising both idioms and non-idioms. Lexical variants were generated from these expressions by replacing …
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PISA: A measure of Preference In Selection of Arguments to model verb argument recoverability
2020 · CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa)
Our paper offers a computational model ofthe semantic recoverability of verb arguments,tested in particular on direct objects and In-struments. Our fully distributional model isintended to improve on older taxonomy-basedmodels, which require a lexicon in addition …
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Did the Cat Drink the Coffee? Challenging Transformers with Generalized Event Knowledge
2021
Paolo Pedinotti, Giulia Rambelli, Emmanuele Chersoni, Enrico Santus, Alessandro Lenci, Philippe Blache. Proceedings of *SEM 2021: The Tenth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics. 2021.
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ExpliCa: Evaluating Explicit Causal Reasoning in Large Language Models
2025
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in tasks requiring interpretive and inferential accuracy.In this paper, we introduce ExpliCa, a new dataset for evaluating LLMs in explicit causal reasoning.ExpliCa uniquely integrates both causal and temporal …
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Distributional Models of Word Meaning
2017 · Annual Review of Linguistics
Distributional semantics is a usage-based model of meaning, based on the assumption that the statistical distribution of linguistic items in context plays a key role in characterizing their semantic behavior. Distributional models build semantic representations …