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Mario Mezzanzanica

8 accepted papers

2025

ITALIC: An Italian Culture-Aware Natural Language Benchmark

NAACL 2025long

We present ITALIC, a large-scale benchmark dataset of 10,000 multiple-choice questions designed to evaluate the natural language understanding of the Italian language and culture. ITALIC spans 12 domains, exploiting public tests to score domain experts in real-world scenarios. We detail our data col…

2025

RE-FIN: Retrieval-based Enrichment for Financial data

COLING 2025industry

Enriching sentences with knowledge from qualitative sources benefits various NLP tasks and enhances the use of labeled data in model training. This is crucial for Financial Sentiment Analysis (FSA), where texts are often brief and contain implied information. We introduce RE-FIN (Retrieval-based Enr…

2025

Towards the Terminator Economy: Assessing Job Exposure to AI Through LLMs

IJCAI 2025

AI and related technologies are reshaping jobs and tasks, either by automating or augmenting human skills in the workplace. Many researchers have been working on estimating if and to what extent jobs and tasks are exposed to the risk of being automatized by AI-related technologies. Our work tackles

2022

Contrastive Explanations of Text Classifiers as a Service

NAACL 2022system demonstrations

The recent growth of black-box machine-learning methods in data analysis has increased the demand for explanation methods and tools to understand their behaviour and assist human-ML model cooperation. In this paper, we demonstrate ContrXT, a novel approach that uses natural language explanations to…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2022

The Good, the Bad, and the Explainer: A Tool for Contrastive Explanations of Text Classifiers

IJCAI 2022poster

In the last few years, we have been witnessing the increasing deployment of machine learning-based systems, which act as black boxes whose behaviour is hidden to end-users. As a side-effect, this contributes to increasing the need for explainable methods and tools to support the coordination between…

Cited by 8SourcePDFScholar
2021

A Human-AI Teaming Approach for Incremental Taxonomy Learning from Text

IJCAI 2021poster

Taxonomies provide a structured representation of semantic relations between lexical terms, acting as the backbone of many applications. The research proposed herein addresses the topic of taxonomy enrichment using an ”human-in-the-loop” semi-supervised approach. I will be investigating possible way…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2021

Skills2Graph: Processing million Job Ads to face the Job Skill Mismatch Problem

IJCAI 2021poster

In this paper, we present Skills2Graph, a tool that, starting from a set of users’ professional skills, identifies the most suitable jobs as they emerge from a large corpus of 2.5M+ Online Job Vacancies (OJVs) posted in three different countries (the United Kingdom, France, and Germany). To this aim…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar