Stefano Menini

Researcher

    Short bio

    After my bachelor's degree in Philosophy at the University of Verona, I moved towards a more computational approach to texts and I got a master's degree in Philosophy and Language at the University of Trento that, beside philosophy, gave me a background in Natural Language Processing and Logics. My master's thesis work was about modeling the meaning of determiners by using a distributional  semantic approach and it was carried out under the supervision of Marco Baroni. In September 2018  I obtained my Ph.D. in Information Technologies at the ICT Doctoral School of the University of Trento with a thesis on the classification of topic based agreement and disagreement in the political domain under the supervision of Sara Tonelli.

    In 2021 I worked at CELCT, a company that operated in the field of the evaluation of language and communication technologies, where I worked on corpora creation and annotation tasks for NLP.

    My areas of research cover the automatic detection of cyberbullying (CREEP Project), hatespeech (HATEMETER project) and language simplification (SIMPATICO project).

    Publications

    1. Lai, Mirko; Menini, Stefano; Polignano, Marco; Russo, Valentina; Sprugnoli, Rachele; Venturi, Giulia,
      Proceedings of the Eighth Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop (EVALITA 2023),
      2023
    2. Menini, Stefano; Paccosi, Teresa; Tekiroglu, Serra Sinem; Tonelli, Sara,
      Proceedings of the 7th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature,
      Association for Computational Linguistics,
      2023
      , pp. 135-
      140
    3. van Erp, Marieke; Tullett, William; Christlein, Vincent; Ehrhart, Thibault; Hürriyetoğlu, Ali; Leemans, Inger; Lisena, Pasquale; Menini, Stefano; Schwabe, Daniel; Tonelli, Sara; Troncy, Raphaël; Zinnen, Mathias,
      in «THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW»,
      vol. 128,
      n. 1,
      2023
      , pp. 335-
      369
    4. Akdemir, Kiymet; Hürriyetoğlu, Ali; Troncy, Raphaël; Paccosi, Teresa; Menini, Stefano; Zinnen, Mathias; Christlein, Vincent,
      Multimodal and Multilingual Understanding of Smells using VilBERT and mUNITER,
      Proceedings of MediaEval 2022 CEUR Workshop,
      2022
    5. Hürriyetoğlu, Ali; Paccosi, Teresa; Menini, Stefano; Zinnen, Mathias; Lisena, Pasquale; Akdemir, Kiymet; Troncy, Raphaël; van Erp, Marieke,
      Proceedings of MediaEval 2022 CEUR Workshop,
      2022
    6. Menini, Stefano; Paccosi, Teresa; Tonelli, Sara; Van Erp, Marieke; Leemans, Inger; Lisena, Pasquale; Troncy, Raphael; Tullett, William; Hürriyetoğlu, Ali; Dijkstra, Ger; Gordijn, Femke; Jürgens, Elias; Koopman, Josephine; Ouwerkerk, Aron; Steen, Sanne; Novalija, Inna; Brank, Janez; Mladenic, Dunja; Zidar, Anja,
      Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change,
      2022
      , pp. 1-
      10
    7. Menini, Stefano; Paccosi, Teresa; Tekiroglu, Serra Sinem; Tonelli, Sara,
      Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference,
      European Language Resources Association,
      2022
      , pp. 4030-
      4039
    8. Palmero Aprosio, Alessio; Menini, Stefano; Tonelli, Sara,
      BERToldo, the Historical BERT for Italian,
      Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages,
      2022
    9. Tonelli, Sara; Menini, Stefano,
      Proceedings of the 5th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature,
      2021
      , pp. 11-
      20
    10. Menini, Stefano; Palmero Aprosio, Alessio; Tonelli, Sara,
      2021
    11. Leonardelli, Elisa; Menini, Stefano; Palmero Aprosio, Alessio; Guerini, Marco; Tonelli, Sara,
      Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing,
      2021
      , pp. 10528-
      10539
    12. Casula, Camilla; Palmero Aprosio, Alessio; Menini, Stefano; Tonelli, Sara,
      Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2020),
      International Committee for Computational Linguistics,
      2020
      , pp. 1539-
      1545
    13. Tonelli, S.; Sprugnoli, R.; Palmero, Aprosio; Moretti, Giovanni; Menini, Stefano,
      Come cambia la scrittura a scuola. Rapporto di ricerca,
      IPRASE,
      2020
      , pp. 113-
      130
    14. Palmero Aprosio, Alessio; Menini, Stefano; Tonelli, Sara,
      UMAP '20: Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization,
      2020
      , pp. 192-
      200
    15. Corazza, Michele; Menini, Stefano; Cabrio, Elena; Tonelli, Sara; Villata, Serena,
      A Multilingual Evaluation for Online Hate Speech Detection,
      in «ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INTERNET TECHNOLOGY»,
      vol. 20,
      n. 2,
      2020
      , pp. 1-
      22
    16. Vittorini, Pierpaolo; Menini, Stefano; Tonelli, Sara,
      in «INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION»,
      2020
    17. Leonardelli, Elisa; Menini, Stefano; Tonelli, Sara,
      DH-FBK@ HaSpeeDe2: Italian Hate Speech Detection via Self-Training and Oversampling.,
      EVALITA 2020: Overview of the 7th Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Sspeech Tools for Italian,
      2020
    18. Corazza, Michele; Menini, Stefano; Cabrio, Elena; Tonelli, Sara; Villata, Serena,
      Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Findings,
      2020
      , pp. 943-
      949
    19. Menini, Stefano; Palmero Aprosio, Alessio; Tonelli, Sara,
      Proceedings of the Seventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics,CLiC-it 2020, Bologna, Italy, March 1-3, 2021,
      CEUR-WS.org,
      vol. 2769,
      2020
    20. Palmero Aprosio, Alessio; Menini, Stefano; Tonelli, Sara,
      Proceedings of the Seventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics,CLiC-it 2020, Bologna, Italy, March 1-3, 2021,
      CEUR-WS.org,
      vol. 2769,
      2020
    21. Brambilla, Silvia; Palmero Aprosio, Alessio; Menini, Stefano,
      Proceedings of the Sixth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC 2019),
      vol. 2481,
      2019
    22. De Gasperis, Giovanni; Menini, Stefano; Tonelli, Sara; Vittorini, Pierpaolo,
      Proceedings of the International Conference on Web-Based Learning,
      vol. 11841,
      2019
      , pp. 190-
      200
    23. Menini, Stefano; Tonelli, Sara; De Gasperis, Giovanni; Vittorini, Pierpaolo,
      Proceedings of the Sixth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2019),
      vol. 2481,
      2019
    24. Nanni, Federico; Menini, Stefano; Tonelli, Sara; Paolo Ponzetto, Simone,
      Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL),
      2019
    25. Menini, Stefano; Moretti, Giovanni; Corazza, Michele; Cabrio, Elena; Tonelli, Sara; Villata., Serena,
      Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Abusive Language Online,
      2019
      , pp. 105-
      111
    26. Corazza, Michele; Menini, Stefano; Cabrio, Elena; Tonelli, Sara; Villata, Serena,
      Proceedings of the Sixth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics,
      vol. 2481,
      2019
    27. Sprugnoli, Rachele; Menini, Stefano; Tonelli, Sara; Oncini, Filippo; Piras, Enrico Maria,
      Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Abusive Language Online (ALW2),
      Association for Computational Linguistics,
      2018
      , pp. 51-
      59
    28. Palmero Aprosio, Alessio; Menini, Stefano; Tonelli, Sara; Ducceschi, Luca; Herzog, Leonardo,
      Proceedings of the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2018),
      2018
    29. Menini, S.; Cabrio, E.; Tonelli, S.; Villata, S.,
      Proceedings of the 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18),
      2018
    30. Corazza, Michele; Menini, Stefano; Arslan, Pinar; Sprugnoli, Rachele; Cabrio, Elena; Tonelli, Sara; Villata, Serena,
      Proceedings of the GermEval 2018 Workshop,
      2018
      , pp. 80-
      84
    31. Corazza, Michele; Menini, Stefano; Arslan, Pinar; Sprugnoli, Rachele; Cabrio, Elena; Tonelli, Sara; Villata, Serena,
      Proceedings of the Sixth Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop (EVALITA 2018) co-located with the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2018),
      2018
    32. Menini, Stefano; Nanni, Federico; Simone Paolo Ponzetto, ; Tonelli, Sara,
      Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing,
      Association for Computational Linguistics,
      2017
      , pp. 2928-
      2934
    33. Stefano, Menini; Rachele, Sprugnoli; Giovanni, Moretti; Enrico, Bignotti; Sara, Tonelli; Bruno, Lepri,
      Proceedings of the Software Demonstrations of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics,
      Association for Computational Linguistics,
      2017
      , pp. 77-
      80
    34. Menini, Stefano; Sprugnoli, Rachele; Uva, Antonio,
      Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016),
      European Language Resources Association (ELRA),
      2016
      , pp. 3502-
      3509
    35. Sprugnoli, Rachele; Moretti, Giovanni; Tonelli, Sara; Menini, Stefano,
      in «ITALIAN JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS»,
      2016
      , pp. 89-
      100
    36. Menini, Stefano; Tonelli, Sara,
      Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers,
      2016
      , pp. 2461-
      2470
    37. Moretti, Giovanni; Sprugnoli, Rachele; Menini, Stefano; Tonelli, Sara,
      in «KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS»,
      vol. 111,
      2016
      , pp. 100-
      112
    38. Bentivogli, Luisa; Bernardi, Raffaella; Marelli, Marco; Menini, Stefano; Baroni, Marco; Zamparelli, Roberto,
      in «LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION»,
      vol. 50,
      n. 1,
      2016
      , pp. 95-
      124
    39. Marelli M.; Menini S.; Baroni M.; Bentivogli L.; Bernardi R.; Zamparelli R.,
      A SICK cure for the evaluation of compositional distributional semantic models,
      Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14),
      2014
    40. Marelli M.; Bentivogli L.; Baroni M.; Bernardi R.; Menini S.; Zamparelli R.,
      SemEval-2014 Task 1: Evaluation of compositional distributional semantic models on full sentences through semantic relatedness and textual entailment,
      Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2014),
      2014
    41. Moretti, Giovanni; Tonelli, Sara; Menini, Stefano; Sprugnoli, Rachele,
      Proceedings of the First Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CLiC-it 2014 & the Fourth International Workshop EVALITA 2014,
      Pisa University Press srl,
      vol. 1,
      2014
      , pp. 270-
      274