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@dh-fbk.bsky.social @land-fbk.bsky.social @mobs-fbk.bsky.social

Interactional analysis and qualitative evaluation further demonstrate that LLMs are suitable for synthesizing large-scale, diverse Written MPC datasets, which can be potentially used to fine-tune smaller models for tasks like next speaker or addressee prediction.

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We found that some LLMs (i.e., Llama3.1, Qwen2.5) can generate well-structured multi-party conversations that conform to constraints.

Comparing generation strategies, Turn-by-Turn adheres more closely to constraints and also produces greater linguistic variability.

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We also propose a novel evaluation framework combining quantitative and qualitative metrics.

Such metrics measure how well generated MPCs adhere to content and structural constraints and whether they capture the complexity of real-world multi-party interactions.

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In this paper, we propose synthetic MPC generation testing four different LLMs guided by explicit constraints.

We explore two strategies:
1 - One-Long (OL): generate the entire conversation in one step
2 - Turn-by-Turn (TT): generate sequentially, one turn at a time

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By constraining LLMs, we can generate MPCs that: 1) exhibit diverse interaction structures and 2) capture rich speaker–addressee relationships, including multi-addressee turns

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One way to address the lack of structural diversity in social media–derived MPCs is to synthesize multi-party conversations.

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For current LLMs, multi-party conversations (MPCs) potentially represent a clear distributional shift, since they are mostly tested and optimized for two-party (human–assistant) interactions.

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Social media platforms typically enforce a one-to-one reply structure, ignoring implicit addressees and oversimplifying interaction dynamics.
In natural conversations, turns are often directed to multiple participants, generating much richer structures.

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🎶One more “song”?

Come see our poster next week at #AAAI2026 on our paper:

📣 “Don’t Stop the Multi-Party! On Generating Synthetic Written Multi-Party Conversations with Constraints”

With @marcoguerini.bsky.social Bruno Lepri @gglavas.bsky.social @satonelli.bsky.social
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arxiv.org/abs/2502.13592

Many thanks to @milanlp.bsky.social folks for the opportunity to present some of my works 🥳

⚠️ Online Seminar - April 9th ⚠️

Today, @maxluca.bsky.social and I will give two talks about our latest works at @ellisalicante.org
and you can follow it online: ellisalicante.org/fbk-mobs-wor...

Thanks, @adigulati.bsky.social and @nuriaoliver.com for setting this up!

Congrats to @daniel-russo.bsky.social for the Best Student Paper Award at #CLiCit2024! Congrats also to the co-authors Oscar Araque and @marcoguerini.bsky.social! 🥳

Give a look at @dh-fbk.bsky.social posters at
#CLiC-it2024: Multi-label classification using EuroVoc thesaurus, machine translation for Ladin and Language Varieties of Italy! @ziorufus.bsky.social @jo-valer.bsky.social @alanramponi.bsky.social Proceedings at clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/wp-content/u...

To click it, or not to click it: that is the question.

Our #CLiC-it2024 contribution is finally out: "To Click It or Not to Click It: An Italian Dataset for Neutralising Clickbait Headlines" authored by @daniel-russo.bsky.social, Oscar Araque, and Marco Guerini.

clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/wp-content/u...

Today we will present three of our recent works at #CLiCit2024 with @helenabon.bsky.social, @docchipinti8.bsky.social, @daniel-russo.bsky.social.
Don't miss the poster session today at 10 👀

Hey, if you're in Pisa and interested to connect with other people at #CLiCit2024 check out this starter pack. Raise a hand 👋 and I will add you to this list!

Hello Bluesky! We would like to kick off this account with the DH @ FBK starter pack, which you can use to follow the members of our research unit 🌟
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