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Cristiano Ciaccio

3 accepted papers

2025

Beyond the Spelling Miracle: Investigating Substring Awareness in Character-Blind Language Models

ACL 2025finding

Correctly identifying characters and substrings of words should be a basic but essential ability of any Language Model that aims to proficiently understand and produce language. Despite so, the majority of Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) are “character-blind” and struggle in spelling tasks, altho…

2025

Evaluating Lexical Proficiency in Neural Language Models

ACL 2025long

We present a novel evaluation framework designed to assess the lexical proficiency and linguistic creativity of Transformer-based Language Models (LMs). We validate the framework by analyzing the performance of a set of LMs of different sizes, in both mono- and multilingual configuration, across tas…

2025

Stress-testing Machine Generated Text Detection: Shifting Language Models Writing Style to Fool Detectors

ACL 2025finding

Recent advancements in Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled the creation of highly realistic synthetic content, raising concerns about the potential for malicious use, such as misinformation and manipulation. Moreover, detecting Machine-Generated Text (MGT) remains challenging…