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

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (1)

Data Management Plan

Publications

Conference proceedings (11)

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

Development of Linguistic-Mediated Abstraction: Insights from Word Ladders Task

Author(s): Villani, Caterina; Loia, Adele; Bolognesi, Marianna Marcella
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, vol 47, iss 0, 2025

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

Wordnet and Word Ladders: Climbing the abstraction taxonomy with LLMs

Author(s): Giovanni Puccetti, Andrea Esuli, Marianna Bolognesi
Published in: Proceedings of the 13th Global Wordnet Conference, 2025, ISSN 0736-587X
Publisher: Global Wordnet Association
DOI: 10.18653/V1/2025.GWC-1.7

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

How Humans and LLMs Organize Conceptual Knowledge: Exploring Subordinate Categories in Italian

Author(s): Pedrotti A.; Rambelli G.; Villani C.; Bolognesi M.
Published in: Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2025
Publisher: ACL

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 (12)

Beyond concreteness: why word specificity is the missing piece in theories on embodied language comprehension

Author(s): Marianna Bolognesi
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/FPSYG.2025.1718655

Aligning generalization between humans and machines

Author(s): Filip Ilievski, Barbara Hammer, Frank van Harmelen, Benjamin Paassen, Sascha Saralajew, Ute Schmid, Michael Biehl, Marianna Bolognesi, Xin Luna Dong, Kiril Gashteovski, Pascal Hitzler, Giuseppe Marra, Pasquale Minervini, Martin Mundt, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Alessandro Oltramari, Gabriella Pasi, Zeynep G. Saribatur, Luciano Serafini, John Shawe-Taylor, Vered Shwartz, Gabriella Skitalinskaya, Clemens Stachl, Gido M. van de Ven, Thomas Villmann
Published in: Nature Machine Intelligence, Issue 7, 2025, ISSN 2522-5839
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S42256-025-01109-4

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

IconicITA: Iconicity ratings of the Italian affective lexicon

Author(s): Andrea Gregor de Varda, Tommaso Lamarra, Andrea Amelio Ravelli, Chiara Saponaro, Beatrice Giustolisi, Marianna Bolognesi
Published in: PLOS One, Issue 20, 2025, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0337947

Red and blue language: Word choices in the Trump and Harris 2024 presidential debate

Author(s): Philipp Wicke, Marianna M. Bolognesi
Published in: PLOS One, Issue 20, 2025, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0324715

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

Specificity effect in concrete/abstract semantic categorization task

Author(s): Tommaso Lamarra; Caterina Villani; Marianna M. Bolognesi
Published in: Cognitive Processing, 2025, ISSN 1612-4790
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/S10339-025-01286-5

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