“𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗮̀ 𝗻𝗲𝗶 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗶” 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟮𝟲

𝘓𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨

Corso tenuto dalla Prof.ssa Claudia Roberta Combei (@combei.bsky.social)

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08/01, h. 15-18
09/01, h. 10-13 / 15-18
10/01, h. 10-13
12-15/01, h. 10-13 / 15-18

👨‍🏫 16/01 (esami)

📍 Collegio Ghislieri

Thanks to all the participants! #clicit2025

Turning Lessons into Action: Building an Inclusive Oncology Care for Transgender and gender-diverse People- Pavia & Milano framework Italy remains one of the lowest-ranking Western European countries in terms of rights and protections for transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) individ…

New paper out in Journal of Cancer Policy:
"Turning Lessons into Action: Building Inclusive Oncology Care for TGD People – Pavia & Milano Framework".
A multidisciplinary effort by oncologists, gynaecologists, LGBTQIA+ activists & linguists (me😀).
Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Turns out our paper on the integration of LLMs, ASR, and TTS for the L2 Italian language assessment made it into CLiC-it 2025 conference! Heading to Cagliari in September. 😊
#clicit2025 #Italian #SLA #iCALL

At #AIUCD2025 conference in Verona, presenting our work on the development and testing of "Glottolab: A Linguistic Adventure", a gamified activity to popularize #linguistics, co-authored with Cecilia Cattaneo & Chiara Zanchi. 🎮👾 @aiucd.bsky.social

Screenshot from our game

Our paper on the development and testing of "Glottolab: A Linguistic Adventure", a gamified activity to popularize #linguistics, co-authored with Cecilia Cattaneo & Chiara Zanchi, has been accepted at #AIUCD conference in Verona, Italy (June 11-13, 2025). See you there to talk games & language! 🎮👾

Gender and racial bias issues in a commercial “tone of voice” analysis system Social Feedback Speech Technologies (SFST) are programs and devices, often “AI”-powered, that claim to provide users with feedback about how their speech sounds to other humans. To date, academic rese...

I have a new article out today with the homie @pereed.bsky.social in PLOS One, “Gender and Racial Bias Issues in a Commercial ‘Tone of Voice’ Analysis System”! In short, don’t believe devices that claim to tell you how you sound to other humans!

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Evalita-LLM: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Italian We describe Evalita-LLM, a new benchmark designed to evaluate Large Language Models (LLMs) on Italian tasks. The distinguishing and innovative features of Evalita-LLM are the following: (i) all tasks ...

🚀 **Exciting News!** 🎉 Evalita-LLM is here! 🇮🇹 A new benchmark for evaluating LLMs—offering native Italian tasks, generative challenges, and fair multi-prompt evaluations. Now also available in lm-evaluation harness by @eleutherai.bsky.social !
ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2502.02289
#NLProc #LLM #Evaluation

Grazie mille! 🤗

Thank you very much! 😊

I photo I took in Rome

After years on the road, I’m grateful to start today as a tenure-track researcher in Linguistics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. As a 1st generation PhD and foreign scholar in Italy, reaching this step - especially in Rome, a city I’ve dreamed of since I was a kid - feels really good.

🚀 Fully Funded Joint PhD Opportunity – Macquarie University & University of Groningen

🔍 Detecting, Verifying, and Countering Vaccine Hesitancy with AI

📅 Deadline: 28 Feb 2025 - see flyer for more info!

@gronlp.bsky.social @unigroningen.bsky.social

Language technologist / terminologist You will be part of the Language Technology and Terminology team in the Language Services Division of the ECB’s Directorate General Communications. Our Division is responsible for providing the ECB...

Language technologist / terminologist:
"Fixed-term contract which may be converted into a permanent contract after three years subject to individual performance and organisational needs"
More details here: talent.ecb.europa.eu/careers/JobD...

The 2025 Global WordNet conference has officially started with a teach-in hosted by NNT Data: “From Language to Action. How LLMs are Modern Business Strategies”.

📍Almo Collegio Borromeo

Join us for the pre-GWC2025 event at Collegio Borromeo: "From Language to Action: How Large Language Models are Shaping Modern Business Strategies" by Angela Caiazza from
NTTDATA Italy.
Book a free seat here: www.eventbrite.it/e/biglietti-...
(in-person event)
@linguisticsinpavia.bsky.social

Super happy that our paper "The Prosody of List Constructions" (with F. Masini & R. Cicchirillo) has just been published in the edited volume "Multimodal Communication from a Construction Grammar Perspective" (by K. Nikiforidou & M. Fried). Available here: benjamins.com/catalog/cal....

#Italian

interspeech2025.org special session Queer and Trans Speech Science and Technology organizers: Robin Netzorg, Juliana Alison Francis, Nina Markl, Francisca Pessanha, Cliodhna Hughes

🌈 Building inclusive speech tech: Join the Queer & Trans Speech Science session at #Interspeech2025!

Explore voice training, ethical datasets, and bias-free models for queer & trans communities.

🔗 Details: sites.google.com/view/is2025-...

In non-grant-related news, I've packaged up some tools for working with REAPER in R. (For the uninitiated, REAPER is a very nice pitch tracking tool made by David Talkin which works particularly well for non-modal speech) github.com/rpuggaardrod...

🕒 Don’t miss the deadline to register for #GWC2025!
Secure your spot today and join us for the event!
📆 Early bird registration: November 25th to December 23rd
📆 Deadline: January 20th 2025
📄 Registration procedure: check the guidelines on our website: unipv-larl.github.io/GWC2025/regi...

We start this new account with the group picture of #clicit2024! Follow us! #NLProc #NLP

Happy to be back in Pisa for the #CLiCit2024 conference, present my work, reconnect with friends, chair and enjoy interesting talks in #nlp and #linguistics. Thanks to the organizers and AILC for being such a vibrant and welcoming community!

Schuler Assistant Professor in German Applied Linguistics at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Schuler Assistant Professor in German Applied Linguistics on jobs.ac.uk!

#jobs #linguistics #Blinguistik

⚠️ #NewIssue!

1️⃣ Discourses on the #RussiaUkraine war
2️⃣ #DigitalPolicies of the #PRC
3️⃣ More #articles & #reviews

👉 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rspe20/5...

✏️ P. Pizzoli, R. Wang, C. Zhang, Y. Lei, @zavershinskaia.bsky.social @frankmaracchione.bsky.social @giuliasciorati.bsky.social @combei.bsky.social

Happy to announce that our paper is now published in The International Spectator. Huge thanks to co-authors Frank Maracchione & Giulia Sciorati. Our collaboration exemplifies the power of interdisciplinary research, bringing together linguists, political scientists & international affairs experts.

The home page of the AItLA conference website

🗣️ Registration is officially open for the XXIV AItLA congress "School and other languages: the perspective of applied linguistics".
📆 Save the date: 21-23 February 2024 at the University of Pavia.
🌐 All info here: sites.google.com/unipv.it/xxi...

Come be my colleague! We are hiring in comp ling (open rank!) Feel free to reach out if you have any question! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/153...

Folks, we are hiring! Our department is seeking applications for an experimental linguistics position. If you have any questions regarding the department/position/university, please do not hesitate to reach out. linguistlist.org/issues/34.25...

BodoWinter and I want to create a MOOC for data communication. What are your experiences with different host platforms such as Coursera and FutureLearn? What are pros and cons? Should we rather self host?

Please share for reach

#DataViz #MOOC

What an ambitious undertaking The Routledge Handbook of Sociophonetics has been! I'm very much looking forward to this finally being in print... just look at this powerhouse of authors!

www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...