Measuring Media Bias via Masked Language Modeling

Quick Guide to Fluency Disorders

Semantic Information Pursuit

Extracting valences from a dependency treebank for populating the verb lexicon of a Portuguese HPSG grammar

Integrating Question Answering and Text-to-SQL in Portuguese

The language system in the human brain

Improving Machine Translation of Arabic Dialects through Multi-Task Learning

Knowledge-based neural pre-training for Intelligent Document Management

Hyperbolic Embedding for Finding Syntax in BERT

Easy Semantification of Bioassays

ArabCeleb: Speaker Recognition in Arabic

Construções de Estrutura Argumental com Argumento Preposicionado: uma modelagem linguístico-computacional na FrameNet Brasil

Modelagem de Construções Interrogativas QU- no Constructicon da FrameNet Brasil

Using NLP to Model Product Market Boundaries, Market Structure, and Innovation

Language, Brains & Interpretability

Contrastive Explanations of NLP Models

Virtual Poster and Dataset Paper Session & Virtual Sponsor Night

poster

Poster Presentations/Exhibits

Keynote

keynote

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Poster Session 1


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Poster Session 2

**Chair: Matteo Palmonari** 

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**Dr. Fedorenko** is a cognitive neuroscientist who studies the human language system. She received her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in 2002, and her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007. She was then awarded a K99R00 career development award from the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. In 2014, she joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and in 2019 she returned to MIT where she is currently the Frederick A. (1971) and Carole J. Middleton Career Development Associate Professor of Neuroscience in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. Dr. Fedorenko uses fMRI, intracranial recordings and stimulation, EEG/ERPs, MEG, as well as computational modeling, to study adults and children, including those with developmental and acquired brain disorders.


**The language system in the human brain**

The goal of my research program is to understand the representations and computations that enable us to share complex thoughts with one another via language, and their neural implementation. A decade ago, I developed a robust new approach to the study of language in the brain based on identifying language-responsive cortex functionally in individual participants. Originally developed for fMRI, we have since extended this approach to other modalities, like intracranial recordings. Using this functional-localization approach, I identified and characterized a set of frontal and temporal brain areas that i) support language comprehension and production (spoken and written); ii) are robustly separable from the lower-level perceptual (e.g., speech processing) and motor (e.g., articulation) brain areas; iii) are spatially and functionally similar across diverse languages (>40 languages from 11 language families); and iv) form a functionally integrated system with substantial redundancy across different components. In this talk, I will highlight a few discoveries from the last decade and argue that the primary goal of language is efficient information transfer rather than enabling complex thought, as has been argued in one prominent philosophical and linguistic tradition (e.g., Wittgenstein, 1921; Berwick & Chomsky, 2016). I will use two kinds of evidence to make this argument. */First/*, I will examine the relationship between language and other aspects of cognition, including social cognitive abilities and complex thought/reasoning. I will show that the language brain regions are highly selective for language over diverse non-linguistic processes while also showing a deep and intriguing link with a system that supports social cognition. And /*second*/, I will examine different properties of language and argue that language both has a) properties that make it well-suited for communication, and b) properties that make it not suitable for complex thought. Both of these lines of evidence support the communicative function of language, and suggest that the idea that language evolved to allow for more complexity in thought is unlikely.

Invited Talk: Evelina Fedorenko: The language system in the human brain

invited talk

**Chair: Fabio Stella** 

14.00-14.20: Ahmed Badar, Arnav Varma, Adrian Staniec, Mahmoud Gamal, Omar Magdy, Haris Iqbal, Elahe Arani and Bahram Zonooz: Highlighting the Importance of Reducing Research Bias and Carbon Emissions in CNNs (Ahmed Badar) 
14.20-14.40: Vitor Horta and Alessandra Mileo: Generating textual explanations for CNNs using knowledge graph (Vitor Horta) 
14.40-15.00: Sayo M. Makinwa, Biagio La Rosa and Roberto Capobianco: Detection Accuracy for Evaluating Compositional Explanations of Units (Sayo M. Makinwa) 
11.40-12.00: Feras Batarseh, Dominick Perini, Qasim Wani and Laura Freeman: Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Technology Policy Making Using Attribution Networks (Feras A. Batarseh) 
15.20-15.40: Youness Moukafih, Nada Sbihi, Mounir Ghogho and Kamel Smaili: Improving Machine Translation of Arabic Dialects through Multi-Task Learning (Youness Moukafih)

Technical Session #9: Machine learning and applications 2

technical paper

**Chair: Matteo Baldoni** 

11.20-11.40: Allegra De Filippo, Michele Lombardi and Michela Milano: Robust optimization models for local flexibility characterization of Virtual Power Plants (Allegra De Filippo) 
11.40-12.00: Daniele Margiotta, Danilo Croce, Marco Rotoloni, Barbara Cacciamani and Roberto Basili: Knowledge-based neural pre-training for Intelligent Document Management (Roberto Basili) 
12.00-12.20: Giovanna Castellano and Gennaro Vessio: Understanding Art with AI: Our Research Experience ( Gennaro Vessio) 
12.20-12.40: Salvatore Iiritano, Massimiliano Ruffolo, Simone Vizza, Giuseppe Benvenuto, Pasquale Piccione, Luigi Mirto, Francesco Ricca and Manuel Borroto: Hydrocontrol IT: an attempt to mitigate water losses in Italy towns (Salvatore Iiritano) 
12.40-13.00: Thomas Cecconello, Lucas Puerari and Giuseppe Vizzari: Unsupervised Data Pattern Discovery on the Cloud (Giuseppe Vizzari)

Technical Session #8: AI and applications

**Chair: Elisabetta Fersini** 

Manuel Borroto, Francesco Ricca and Bernardo Cuteri: A neural-machine-translation system resilient to out of vocabulary words for translating natural language to SPARQL (Manuel Borroto) 
Emilio Sulis, Llio Bryn Humphreys, Davide Audrito and Luigi Di Caro: Exploiting textual similarity techniques in harmonization of laws (Emilio Sulis) 
Marco Anteghini, Jennifer D'Souza, Vitor A.P. Martins Dos Santos and Sören Auer: Easy Semantification of Bioassays (Marco Anteghini) 
Melika Golestani, Seyedeh Zahra Razavi, Zeinab Borhanifard, Farnaz Tahmasebian and Hesham Faili: Pruned Graph Neural Network for Short Story (Melika Golestani) 
Temirlan Auyespek, Thomas Mach and Zhenisbek Assylbekov: Hyperbolic Embedding for Finding Syntax in BERT (Zhenisbek Assylbekov)

Technical Session #6: Natural language processing

**Chair: ** Francesca Gasparini 

9.00-9.20: Dalila Ressi, Mara Pistellato, Andrea Albarelli and Filippo Bergamasco: A Relevance-Based CNN Trimming Method for Low-Resources Embedded Vision (Mara Pistellato)
9.20-9.40: Giorgio De Magistris, Riccardo Caprari, Giulia Castro, Samuele Russo, Daniele Nardi, Luca Iocchi and Christian Napoli: Vision-based holistic scene understanding for context-aware human-robot interaction (Giorgio De Magistris)
9.40-10.00: Sergio Caputo, Giovanna Castellano, Francesco Greco, Corrado Mencar, Niccolò Petti and Gennaro Vessio: Human Detection in Drone Images Using YOLO for Search-and-Rescue Operations (Gennaro Vessio)
10.00-10.20: Veronica Juliana Schmalz: Real-time Italian Sign Language Recognition with Deep Learning (Veronica Juliana Schmalz)
10.20-10.40: Simone Bianco, Luigi Celona, Intissar Khalifa, Paolo Napoletano, Alexey Petrovsky, Flavio Piccoli, Raimondo Schettini and Ivan Shanin: ArabCeleb: Speaker Recognition in Arabic (Luigi Celona)
10.40-11.00: Intissar Khalifa, Ridha Ejbali, Paolo Napoletano, Raimondo Schettini and Mourad Zaied: Static, Dynamic and Acceleration Features for CNN-based Speech Emotion Recognition (Paolo Napoletano)

Technical Session #5: Signal processing

 **Chairs:** Magnun Rochel Madruga and	Tiago Torrent


JDP Session B



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W1: 3rd Workshop on Economics and Natural Language Processing (ECONLP)



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