Abstraction. Unlocking meaning from experience, through language.

Project Information

ABSTRACTION

Grant agreement ID: 101039777

DOI

10.3030/101039777

EC signature date 15 February 2022

Start date 1 June 2022

End date 31 May 2027

Funded under

• European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 392 265,00

EU contribution

€ 1 392 265,00

Coordinated by

ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA
Italy

CORDIS provides links to public deliverables and publications of HORIZON projects.

Links to deliverables and publications from FP7 projects, as well as links to some specific result types such as dataset and software, are dynamically retrieved from OpenAIRE .

Deliverables

Documents, reports (1)

Data Management Plan

Publications

Conference proceedings (8)

Interpretation of Generalization in Masked Language Models: An Investigation Straddling Quantifiers and Generics

Author(s): Collacciani, C., & Rambelli, G.
Published in: CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org), 2023, ISSN 1613-0073
Publisher: RWTH Aachen University

Abstract Sentences elicit more Uncertainty and Curiosity than Concrete Sentences

Author(s): Mazzuca, C., Villani, C., Lamarra, T., Bolognesi, M., Borghi, A.
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024, ISSN 1069-7977
Publisher: University of Merced, California

Specifying Genericity through Inclusiveness and Abstractness Continuous Scales

Author(s): Claudia Collacciani, Andrea Amelio Ravelli, Marianna Bolognesi
Published in: ACL Anthology, 2024, ISSN 0736-587X
Publisher: ELRA and ICCL

ABRICOT - ABstRactness and Inclusiveness in COntexT: A CALAMITA Challenge

Author(s): Giovanni Puccetti;Claudia Collacciani;Andrea Amelio Ravelli;Marianna Bolognesi
Published in: 2024
Publisher: CEUR WS

Contextual Variability Depends on Categorical Specificity rather than Conceptual Concreteness: A Distributional Investigation on Italian data

Author(s): Rambelli, G. & Bolognesi, M.
Published in: ACL Anthology, 2023, ISSN 0736-587X
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

The Contextual Variability of English Nouns: The Impact of Categorical Specificity beyond Conceptual Concreteness

Author(s): Giulia Rambelli, Marianna Bolognesi
Published in: ACL Anthology, 2024, ISSN 0736-587X
Publisher: ELRA and ICCL

Quantifying Generalizations: Exploring the Divide Between Human and LLMs’ Sensitivity to Quantification

Author(s): Claudia Collacciani;Giulia Rambelli;Marianna Bolognesi
Published in: ACL Anthology, 2024, ISSN 0736-587X
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/V1/2024.ACL-LONG.636

Can Large Language Models Interpret Noun-Noun Compounds? A Linguistically-Motivated Study on Lexicalized and Novel Compounds

Author(s): Giulia Rambelli, Emmanuele Chersoni, Claudia Collacciani, Marianna Bolognesi
Published in: ACL Anthology, 2024, ISSN 0736-587X
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/V1/2024.ACL-LONG.637

Other (1)

Word Ladders: A Mobile Application for Semantic Data Collection

Author(s): Bolognesi, M.M., Collacciani, C., Ferrari, A., Genovese, F., Lamarra, T., Loia, A., Rambelli, G., Ravelli, A.A., Villani, C.
Published in: arxiv, 2024, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: Cornell University
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2404.00184

Peer reviewed articles (8)

Specificity Ratings for English Data

Author(s): Ravelli, A.A., Bolognesi, M.M., Caselli, T.
Published in: Cognitive Processing, 2024, ISSN 1612-4790
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/S10339-024-01239-4

Yet another approximation of human semantic judgments using LLMs... but with quantized local models on novel data

Author(s): Andrea Amelio Ravelli, Marianna Marcella Bolognesi
Published in: Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics, Issue 10, 2024, ISSN 2499-4553
Publisher: Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics (Open Edition Journals)
DOI: 10.17454/IJCOL102.04

What we mean when we say semantic: Toward a multidisciplinary semantic glossary

Author(s): Jamie Reilly, Cory Shain, Valentina Borghesani, Philipp Kuhnke, Gabriella Vigliocco, Jonathan E. Peelle, Bradford Z. Mahon, Laurel J. Buxbaum, Asifa Majid, Marc Brysbaert, Anna M. Borghi, Simon De Deyne, Guy Dove, Liuba Papeo, Bolognesi, Marianna et al.
Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2024, ISSN 1531-5320
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.3758/S13423-024-02556-7

Specificity ratings for Italian data

Author(s): Bolognesi, Marianna Marcella; Caselli, Tommaso
Published in: Behavior Research Methods, 2022, ISSN 1554-351X
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-022-01974-6

Abstractness impacts conversational dynamics.

Author(s): Claudia Mazzuca; Caterina Villani; Tommaso Lamarra; Marianna Bolognesi; Anna M. Borghi
Published in: Cognition, 2024, ISSN 1873-7838
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.COGNITION.2025.106084

Specificity Ratings for English Data

Author(s): Ravelli, Andrea Amelio; Bolognesi, Marianna Marcella; Caselli, Tommaso
Published in: Cognitive Processing, 2024, ISSN 1612-4790
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.31219/OSF.IO/75X2E

The semantic content of concrete, abstract, specific, and generic concepts

Author(s): Villani C, Loia A, Bolognesi MM.
Published in: Language and Cognition, 2023, ISSN 1866-9859
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2023.64

The advantages of gamification for collecting linguistic data: A case study using Word Ladders

Author(s): Genovese, F., Bolognesi, M. M., Di Iorio, A., & Vitali, F.
Published in: Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies, Issue 14 (2), 2024, ISSN 1986-3497
Publisher: Bastas Publications
DOI: 10.30935/ojcmt/14443

Monographic books (1)

Data Management Plan project ABSTRACTION: Unlocking meaning from experience through language (ERC-2021-STG-101039777)

Author(s): Bolognesi, Marianna Marcella
Published in: Bolognesi, Marianna Marcella (2022) Data Management Plan project ABSTRACTION: Unlocking meaning from experience through language (ERC-2021-STG-101039777). University of Bologna, p. 21. DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsacta/7110 <http://doi.org/10.6092/unibo/amsacta/7110>., 2022, ISSN 2038-7954
Publisher: University of Bologna
DOI: 10.6092/unibo/amsacta/7110