Walter Paci
About Me
I am currently a PhD candidate in Philology, Italian Literature and Linguistics at the University of Florence. I am working at the Lablita (Laboratorio di linguistica italiana), led by Alessandro Panunzi.
Research Interests
- Computational pragmatics and semantics: how Large Language Models (LLMs) detect and use pragmatic features such as irony and implicit content, and how they retrieve relevant lexical and contextual information.
- Automatic generation and simplification of technical language: tools and models designed to improve the clarity and accessibility of professional, bureaucratic, and legal texts.
- Cognition and philosophy of semantics: theoretical and empirical investigations into how speakers acquire, represent, and adapt meaning in context, and how this relates to cognitive and philosophical models of language use.
Current Projects:
- Mainly writing my phD Thesis! :)
News
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June 2025
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Excited to be visiting the
MaiNLP lab in Munich
for the next
two months to work on automatic evaluation of implicit content explanations!
- Gratefull to be once again part of the organizing commitee of FLUI for its 2nd edition!
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Excited to be visiting the
MaiNLP lab in Munich
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May 2025
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Thrilled to be visiting the
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)
as a guest PhD
student of Prof.
Manuel Alcántara Plá
for the whole month of May. I will be also giving a lecture on how LLMs deal with some NLU tasks at the
Lenguaje e Inteligencia artificial Master!
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Proud to share that the paper Alessandro Panunzi,
Sandro Pezzelle and I wrote has been
accepted at the ACL 2025 Findings. You'll find me in Vienna
presenting our poster, come say hi!
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Thrilled to be visiting the
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)
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January 2025
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Exciting news! Valentina Saccone and I had our ongoing work on irony accepted at
HuMaLa. See you in Granada next June!
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Exciting news! Valentina Saccone and I had our ongoing work on irony accepted at
HuMaLa. See you in Granada next June!
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February 2025
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Valentina Saccone and I are going to present at the
Conversazioni del GSCP workshop a premilinary study on (Human and) LLMs capabilities of understanding and explaining irony in political discourse. Waiting you in Florence!
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Valentina Saccone and I are going to present at the
Conversazioni del GSCP workshop a premilinary study on (Human and) LLMs capabilities of understanding and explaining irony in political discourse. Waiting you in Florence!
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October 2024
- Really proud of the 🏅 4th place 🏅 the AI-Logos team has achieved at UniFI: Impresa Campus. Thanks to Daniele Fusillo , Claudia Gigliotti and Ilaria Manfredi for this wonderful experience together!
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September 2024
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Honored to be working fot the next 3 months with Prof.
Sandro Pezzelle and the
Dialogue Modelling Group (DMG) at the
Institute of Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) in Amsterdam. 🚲
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Honored to be working fot the next 3 months with Prof.
Sandro Pezzelle and the
Dialogue Modelling Group (DMG) at the
Institute of Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) in Amsterdam. 🚲
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June 2024
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Proud to be part of the organizing committee and chairs of the 1st
Filologia, Linguistica, Umanistica digitale e Italianistica (FLUI) phD conference of the University of Florence. See you at the next edition!
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Proud to be part of the organizing committee and chairs of the 1st
Filologia, Linguistica, Umanistica digitale e Italianistica (FLUI) phD conference of the University of Florence. See you at the next edition!
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May 2024
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Thrilled to announce that my work LLMs implicit content understanding in Italian Political discourse has been accepted at
AI-ROM II edition. Can't wait to see the Elba at night!
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Thrilled to announce that my work LLMs implicit content understanding in Italian Political discourse has been accepted at
AI-ROM II edition. Can't wait to see the Elba at night!
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April 2024
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It was great to give a talk on Prompt Engineering and LLMs and connect with Master's student of Digital Humanities at the
University of Pisa! Thanks to Prof.
Mirko Tavosanis for inviting me!
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It was great to give a talk on Prompt Engineering and LLMs and connect with Master's student of Digital Humanities at the
University of Pisa! Thanks to Prof.
Mirko Tavosanis for inviting me!
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February 2024
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Great news! Claudia Gigliotti and I have been invited to present our work at
Amministrazione attiva: semplicità e chiarezza per la comunicazione amministrativa! We will talk about the complexities of deploying and evaluating LLMs to automatically simplify hypertechnical texts in the legal and administrative domain. See you at
UniMol.
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Great news! Claudia Gigliotti and I have been invited to present our work at
Amministrazione attiva: semplicità e chiarezza per la comunicazione amministrativa! We will talk about the complexities of deploying and evaluating LLMs to automatically simplify hypertechnical texts in the legal and administrative domain. See you at
UniMol.
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January 2024
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I am exhited to announce that my ongoing work on investigating LLMs ability to detect and classify implicit content has been accepted at the 3rd edition of
UnImplicit! See you at
EACL2024in Malta.
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I am exhited to announce that my ongoing work on investigating LLMs ability to detect and classify implicit content has been accepted at the 3rd edition of
UnImplicit! See you at
EACL2024in Malta.
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December 2023
- It was great to participate at the Ninth edition of CliC-it. So many intresting papers to be inspired by!
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July 2023
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Attending the
European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) has been fantastic. A great way to boost my phD research!
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Attending the
European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) has been fantastic. A great way to boost my phD research!
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June 2023
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Proud to be chair at the
Linguistica e Umanistica Digitale phD conference in Florence. See you in front of the Duomo! ⛪
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Proud to be chair at the
Linguistica e Umanistica Digitale phD conference in Florence.
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May 2023
- The Lectures on Computational Linguistics have been a great experience. Thanks to all the speakers!
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Thrilled to announce that my work on automatic text simplification of bureaucratic texts through ChatGPT has been accepted at the
Automated texts In the ROMance languages (AI-ROM). Can't wait to be in Dresden!
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December 2022
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Happy to share my great experience during the conference of the
Conference of the Italian Assosiciation for Artificial Intelligence at the
Univeristy of Udine.
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Happy to share my great experience during the conference of the
Conference of the Italian Assosiciation for Artificial Intelligence at the
Univeristy of Udine.
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November 2022
- Starting my phD course in Philology, Italian Literature and Linguistics, Digital Humanities Curriculum at the University of Florence.
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May 2022
- Graduated 🎓 with honors in Logic, Philosofy and History of Science at University of Florence. ✌️