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Let's this #ACL2025 begin! Now speaking the general chair @robertonavigli.bsky.social @aclmeeting.bsky.social

🌟 Had a great time presenting our poster at #ACL2025!
It was a great experience sharing our work with researchers interested in conceptual categories, #abstraction and #generalization, thanks for the insightful discussions and feedback!
wt @andreapdr.bsky.social @mariannabolog.bsky.social
#NLProc

About last night at #ACL2025 social dinner! @mariannabolog.bsky.social showed its walzer abilities on the dance floor💃 Always grateful to be part of this community 🙏

Analogy-angle II just started in room 1.34 at #ACL2025. If you're interest in analogy, pass by! #NLProc @aclmeeting.bsky.social Filip Ilievski @piasommerauer.bsky.social @mariannabolog.bsky.social Ute Schmid

First session is ending, and it is amazing the different approaches, theories, topics proposed by the authors. Have a quick cup of ☕️ and join us for our keynote speaker @KatiaShutova talking about metaphors, politics & humor. #analogy #ACL2025 @piasommerauer.bsky.social @mariannabolog.bsky.social

Now @melaniemitchell.bsky.social talking about analogy making in humans and AI ! Room 1.34 #ACL2025 @aclmeeting.bsky.social

Getting ready for #COGSCI2025 in San Francisco!
📆 July 31st, 02:37pm
I’ll present a longitudinal study (w/@mariannabolog.bsky.social & @adeleloia.bsky.social) on how school-aged children build taxonomies using the #WordLadders task developed by @abstractionerc.bsky.social
Catch up with us there!

@caterinavillani.bsky.social presenting our collaboration between @abstractionerc.bsky.social and PRIN 2022 Wemb at #Cogsci2025 in San Francisco: "Development of Linguistic- Mediated Abstraction: Insights from Word Ladders Task".

Well done! 💫

Verena Rieser @aclmeeting.bsky.social 2025 in Vienna, keynote on day 2.
We need human/AI alignment, but whats the gold standard we aim at? Which humans? Moreover, human demographic data can be misleading and ambiguous (check example in the picture :-))

Day 2 of @aclmeeting.bsky.social starts with the keynote talk of @verenarieser.bsky.social . @abstractionerc.bsky.social representation is in row 5! @mariannabolog.bsky.social
#NLProc #ACL2025

"Most papers are like 'look what i can have LLMs do' but it is LLM popcorn. It remains unclear why they do what they do. We need a LLM theory". Eduard Hovy's thought provoking talk at panel on Generalizations here at @aclmeeting.bsky.social is compelling (and long overdue!) 👏👏👏

@aclmeeting.bsky.social #acl2025 conference theme this year is GENERALIZATIONS in NLP models.
Can models generalize, when the content of their concepts differs from that of humans?
Check poster sess. 2: "How Humans and LLMs Organize Conceptual Knowledge: Exploring Subordinate Categories in Italian"

So far so good. Just made it to @aclmeeting.bsky.social 2025 in Vienna

6000 participants yo @aclmeeting.bsky.social #ACL2025 in Vienna.
Kicking off now. @abstractionerc.bsky.social is here! With a paper and a workshop. Follow us!

i know what i'm ordering in tonight! 🍝 #thefloor #pasta #quizshow #gameshow TikTok video by FOXTV

Lexical expertise & word specificity 🍝🧠
Ever wonder how language shapes thought? 🤔
If you know dozens of pasta names (spaghetti, fusilli, trofie, paccheri..)
does “pasta” start to feel like a broad, possibly more abstract category?
Follow @abstractionerc.bsky.social

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@mariannabolog.bsky.social at @unibz.bsky.social is going to present Abstraction_ERC outputs this afternoon, as invited keynote speaker of the workshop ABSTRACTION: Language - Science - Engineering

Kicking off the ABSTRACTION- LANGUAGE- SCIENCE - ENGINEERING
Welcome greetings by chair Oliver Kutz @unibz.bsky.social
First talk by Michael Gruninger: Mathematical Theories as Abstractions for Ontology Learning
in the afternoon it will be my turn presenting @abstractionerc.bsky.social

11 Jul 2025 09:30 - 11 Jul 2025 19:00 / Abstraction: Language - Science - Engineering Abstraction is a key ingredient of human and machine intelligence, and foundational to modern science. But what is involved in teaching a machine to fly, be creative or reason like a human?

Preparing my invited keynote talk for this fantastic interdisciplinary in presence event at UniBZ Bozen, Italy. The program is fantastic and soon will be online :-)
Abstraction: Language - Science - Engineering / Free University of Bozen-Bolzano share.google/lu18oZ3Mpm3J...

✈️ My almost 3 years at @abstractionerc.bsky.social in a nutshell! I have to thank @mariannabolog.bsky.social for her incredible support and guide, as her mentorship has made a significant impact on my professional AND personal growth.. and ofc thanks for making me travel around the globe!

📣 Excited to be in Birmingham for the @medallinguist.bsky.social Summer School in Computational Modelling!
👩‍🎓 I’ll present a poster "Generalizing by Analogy: The Key to Linguistic Creativity", as part of my work in the @abstractionerc.bsky.social project. Looking forward to insightful discussions!

Nice poster to discuss fascinating topics! Here is a preview of my poster at the @medallinguist.bsky.social summer school in Computational Modeling (University of Birmingham). Interested in the same topics? Get in touch! @abstractionerc.bsky.social

Our amazing postdoc @grambelli.bsky.social, at the MEDAL Summer School in Birmingham!
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Brava Giulia – your work keeps inspiring us! 💥🦾💻🧠✨

#Computational #Linguistics #PostdocLife #MEDAL2025 #WomenInSTEM #AbstractionProject

Scientific dissemination at its highest standards :-)

"Summer in Bologna", featuring THE FAN as main protagonist.
From the Abstraction group that's all for today 😅

Very proud and lucky to work with such a young, brilliant, and enthusiastic researcher. Well done @adeleloia.bsky.social
👏 👏 Next step: we'll bring this work to #CogSci2025🧠✨

@adeleloia.bsky.social presenting our joint collaboration between @abstractionerc.bsky.social and PRIN 2022 WEMB at the Phd CLUB international conference in Bologna today:
THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE-MEDIATED ABSTRACTION IN SCHOOL CHILDREN

Excited to share our new paper in PLOS ONE! We analyzed the language used by Trump and Harris in the 2024 debate, looking at framing, emotion, lexical concreteness and specificity and pronouns. Fascinating patterns in how each candidate shaped their message.
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Informal moment with @abstractionerc.bsky.social two new postdocs: Laura Occhipinti on the left and Paola Vernillo on the right, both with white shirts. Welcome!

Have a peaceful weekend

@abstractionerc.bsky.social is (also) in Amsterdam today, at the "Analogy and Abstraction in AI symposium"
Sharing ideas and scientific insight with a selected group of experts @melaniemitchell.bsky.social @wzuidema.bsky.social and many others, hosted at Institute for Advanced Studies IAS.