Publications

Publications

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They want to pretend not to understand: The Limits of Current LLMs in Interpreting Implicit Content of Political Discourse

Upcoming publication at ACL 2025 Findings
Walter Paci, Alessandro Panunzi, Sandro Pezzelle

A study on the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to interpret implicit content in real-life political discourse that reveals significant limitations in their pragmatic understanding.

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“It’s a further exercise in futility”: implicit content detection and classification in Italian political discourse. A pilot study.

(Forthcoming) AI-Linguistica. Linguistic Studies on AI-Generated Texts and Discourses
Walter Paci

A study on Large Language Models' (LLMs) ability to process implicit meaning in political discourse evaluates nine multilingual models on two binary tasks: implicit content detection and classification. LLMs are prompted with 7 different prompting techniques.

Valutazione di tecniche di prompt engineering per la semplificazione dell'italiano burocratico e professionale

(Forth) proceedings of the Amministrazione attiva: semplicità e chiarezza per la comunicazione amministrativa conference.
Claudia Gigliotti and Walter Paci

An expert evaluation study on the automatic text simplification capabilities of ChatGPT on Italian beaureaucratic texts.

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Exploiting ChatGPT to simplify Italian bureaucratic and professional texts

(2024) AI-Linguistica. Linguistic Studies on AI-Generated Texts and Discourses
Walter Paci, Lorenzo Gregori, Giovanni Acerboni, Alessandro Panunzi and Maria Roberta Perugini

A study on using ChatGPT to simplify complex administrative and legal Italian texts evaluates the model’s effectiveness in rephrasing long sentences and nominal clusters using zero-shot, few-shot, and Chain-of-Thought prompting.

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Word classes and corpus linguistics

(2023) Manual of Romance Word Classes, De Gruyter
Lorenzo Gregori, Walter Paci, Massimo Moneglia

A study on the role of Part-of-Speech (PoS) tagsets in Romance languages examines their usefulness in disambiguating word occurrences and analyzing language use.