{"id":1066,"date":"2026-09-11T11:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T11:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sag.art.uniroma2.it\/NL4AI\/?page_id=1066"},"modified":"2026-10-02T14:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T14:34:11","slug":"workshop-program-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sag.art.uniroma2.it\/NL4AI\/workshop-program-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Check out the program of the AIxIA conference at this <a href=\"https:\/\/aixia2026.unipg.it\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/aixia2026.unipg.it\/\">link<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"highlight\">DAY 1:<\/span> Wednesday, October 7th, 2026<br><span style=\"display:inline-block; font-size:18px; font-weight:400; line-height:1.25; margin-top:24px; margin-bottom:32px;\">\ud83d\udccd <strong><u>Accademia di Belle Arti<\/u><\/strong><br><span style=\"display:inline-block; margin-left:27px;\"><em>Piazza San Francesco al Prato, 5, 06123 Perugia PG<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background is-layout-constrained\" style=\"background-color:#dbeaf1\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>MORNING SESSION (10:30 &#8211; 13:00)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-header-gradient-color has-text-color\"><strong>&gt;&gt; 10:30-10:40 &#8211; OPENING DAY 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Welcome to NL4AI 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-header-gradient-color has-text-color\"><strong>&gt;&gt; 10:40-11:35 &#8211; KEYNOTE SPEAKER<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Marco Turchi &#8211; <span>Head of the Machine Translation group at Zoom<\/span><\/strong><br><strong>Title<\/strong>: Beyond Models: The Impact of AI on NLP through the Lens of Machine Translation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sag.art.uniroma2.it\/NL4AI\/invited-talks-2026\/\"><strong>Invited talk&nbsp;\u2197 <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-header-gradient-color has-text-color\"><strong>>> 11:35-12:53 &#8211; ORAL SESSION 1<\/strong><br><strong>      <em>Evaluation, Bias and Clinical Applications<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11:35-11:48 &#8211; Martina Miliani and Chiara Manno<br><strong>Same Job, Different Gender: Uncovering LLM Stereotypes via Counterfactual Biographies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11:48-12:01 &#8211; Samuele D&#8217;Avenia, Timothy Meinert, Marta Marchiori Manerba, Valerio Basile and Anna Koufakou<strong><br>Does Perspective Matter? Annotation Role Alignment in Emotion Recognition<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12:01-12:14 &#8211; Salvatore Ricciardi, Simone Scaboro, Beatrice Turano, Cristina Giannone, Andrea Favalli and Raniero Romagnoli<br><strong>Who Judges the Judges? A Multilingual Validity Probe for Complementary LLM Evaluation Metrics<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12:14-12:27 &#8211; Micha\u0142 Tomasz Godziszewski, Mateusz Gali\u0144ski, Ryszard Tuora, Mateusz Czy\u017cnikiewicz, Tomasz Zi\u0119tkiewicz, Adam Kozakiewicz and Cristina Cornelio<br><strong>Election-Based Evaluation Methods for NLG-Systems<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12:27-12:40 &#8211; Irene Siragusa, Roberto Pirrone<br><strong>Evaluating Clinical Coding Alignment Across ICD-9, ICD-10, and ICD-11 with a Semantic Retrieval Approach<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12:40-12:53 &#8211; Claire Lawand, Haeeul Hwang, Jalal Al-Tamimi, Valeria Lucarini, Mahshid Hozhabr, Deok-Hee Kim-Dufor, Christophe Lemey, Julien Descl\u00e9s and Motasem Alrahabi<br><strong>The Prosody of Clinical Speech: Annotation and Computational Analysis of Psychiatric Interviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-background\" style=\"color:#a79114;background-color:#f9e8d3\"><em><strong>13:00-14:30 &#8211; Lunch Break<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>AFTERNOON SESSION (14:30-16:30)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background is-layout-constrained\" style=\"background-color:#dbeaf1\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<p class=\"has-header-gradient-color has-text-color\"><strong>>> 14:30-15:25 &#8211; KEYNOTE SPEAKER<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Lorenzo De Mattei &#8211; Co-founder and CPTO at APTUS.AI<br><\/strong>Title<\/strong>: Back to the Future: From Models Back to Systems in NLP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sag.art.uniroma2.it\/NL4AI\/invited-talks-2026\/\"><strong>Invited talk&nbsp;\u2197<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-header-gradient-color has-text-color\"><strong>>> 15:25-15:50 ORAL SESSION 2<\/strong><br>      <strong><em>Misinformation<\/em> <em>and Harmful Content<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15:25-15:37 &#8211; Endang Wahyu Pamungkas, Maryam Maryam, Rona Rizkhy Bunga Chasana, Dade Nurjanah and Ikhlasul Amal<br><strong>Static or Dynamic? Exploring Cross-Lingual Few-Shot Transfer for Indonesian Misogynistic Meme Detection<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15:37-15:50 &#8211; Alessandro Pucci, Danilo Croce and Roberto Basili<br><strong>Scale or Specialization? Evaluating Language Models for Italian Fact Verification<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-header-gradient-color has-text-color\"><strong>>> 15:50:16:30 ROUNDTABLE<em><br>      Is there Life after LLMs?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"highlight\">DAY 2:<\/span> Thursday, October 8th, 2026<br><span style=\"display:inline-block; font-size:18px; font-weight:400; line-height:1.25; margin-top:24px; margin-bottom:32px;\">\ud83d\udccd <strong><u>Accademia di Belle Arti<\/u><\/strong><br><span style=\"display:inline-block; margin-left:27px;\"><em>Piazza San Francesco al Prato, 5, 06123 Perugia PG<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-background is-layout-constrained\" style=\"background-color:#dbeaf1\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>AFTERNOON SESSION (14:30-16:15)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-header-gradient-color has-text-color\"><strong>>> 14:30-16:05 ORAL SESSION 3<\/strong><br>      <strong><em>Robustness, Reasoning and Low-Resource NLP<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14:30-14:43 &#8211; Francesco Colace, Sabrina Galano, Angelo Lorusso, Domenico Santaniello, Giusy Strollo and Annapia Tanzola<br><strong>Machine Translation of Low-Resource Historical Languages: A Comparative Study of LLMs on Old Occitan<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14:43-14:56 &#8211; Elena Opreni, Alice Pietrasanta, Davide Altieri, Giulia Rizzi and Elisabetta Fersini<br><strong>Evaluating Watermark Resilience in Italian Large Language Models Under Back-Translation Attacks <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14:56-15:09 &#8211; Stefano Scotta, Giulio Alfarano and Alberto Messina<br><strong>Comparing Generated Pseudo-Labeled News Datasets: A Retrieval-and-Verification Approach<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15:09-15:22 &#8211; Mouhamed Mbaye<br><strong>Known but Unreachable: A Diagnostic Evaluation of Wolof Entity Linking against Wikidata<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15:22-15:35 &#8211; Serena Auriemma, Martina Miliani, Alessandro Bondielli, Lucia C. Passaro and Alessandro Lenci<br><strong>Right for the Right Reasons? A Chain-of-Thought Analysis of Commonsense Causal Reasoning<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15:35-15:48 &#8211; Goshgar Ismayilov<br><strong>MAWGE: A Parametric and Synthetic Multi-Agentic Workflow Generator Library <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15:48-16:01 &#8211; Ejdis Gjinika, Luca Putelli, Ivan Serina and Alfonso Emilio Gerevini<br><strong>Exploring the Relationship between Sparse Autoencoder Activations and Sentence Complexity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-header-gradient-color has-text-color\"><strong>&gt;&gt; 16:05-16:15 Closing remarks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the program of the AIxIA conference at this link! 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