Stefano Menini

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).

1. Munari, Federico; Leonardelli, Elisa; Menini, Stefano; Morais Righi, Herica; Sobrero, Maurizio; Tonelli, Sara; Toschi, Laura,
   Public research funding and science-based innovation: An analysis of ERC research grants, publications and patents,
   in «RESEARCH EVALUATION»,
   2024
2. Lai, Mirko; Menini, Stefano; Polignano, Marco; Russo, Valentina; Sprugnoli, Rachele; Venturi, Giulia,
   EVALITA 2023: Overview of the 8th Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian,
   Proceedings of the Eighth Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop (EVALITA 2023),
   2023
3. Menini, Stefano; Paccosi, Teresa; Tekiroglu, Serra Sinem; Tonelli, Sara,
   Scent Mining: Extracting Olfactory Events, Smell Sources and Qualities,
   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
4. 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,
   More than the Name of the Rose: How to Make Computers Read, See, and Organize Smells,
   in «THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW»,
   vol. 128,
   n. 1,
   2023
   , pp. 335-
   369
5. 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
6. Hürriyetoğlu, Ali; Paccosi, Teresa; Menini, Stefano; Zinnen, Mathias; Lisena, Pasquale; Akdemir, Kiymet; Troncy, Raphaël; van Erp, Marieke,
   MUSTI-Multimodal Understanding of Smells in Texts and Images at MediaEval 2022,
   Proceedings of MediaEval 2022 CEUR Workshop,
   2022
7. 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,
   A Multilingual Benchmark to Capture Olfactory Situations over Time,
   Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change,
   2022
   , pp. 1-
   10
8. Menini, Stefano; Paccosi, Teresa; Tekiroglu, Serra Sinem; Tonelli, Sara,
   Building a Multilingual Taxonomy of Olfactory Terms with Timestamps,
   Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference,
   European Language Resources Association,
   2022
   , pp. 4030-
   4039
9. 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
10. Tonelli, Sara; Menini, Stefano,
    FrameNet-like Annotation of Olfactory Information in Texts,
    Proceedings of the 5th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature,
    2021
    , pp. 11-
    20
11. Menini, Stefano; Palmero Aprosio, Alessio; Tonelli, Sara,
    Abuse is Contextual, What about NLP? The Role of Context in Abusive Language Annotation and Detection,
    2021
12. Leonardelli, Elisa; Menini, Stefano; Palmero Aprosio, Alessio; Guerini, Marco; Tonelli, Sara,
    Agreeing to Disagree: Annotating Offensive Language Datasets with Annotators’ Disagreement,
    Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing,
    2021
    , pp. 10528-
    10539
13. Casula, Camilla; Palmero Aprosio, Alessio; Menini, Stefano; Tonelli, Sara,
    FBK-DH at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Using Multi-channel BERT for Multilingual Offensive Language Detection,
    Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2020),
    International Committee for Computational Linguistics,
    2020
    , pp. 1539-
    1545
14. Tonelli, S.; Sprugnoli, R.; Palmero, Aprosio; Moretti, Giovanni; Menini, Stefano,
    Gli strumenti informatici. Sviluppo e risultati,
    Come cambia la scrittura a scuola. Rapporto di ricerca,
    IPRASE,
    2020
    , pp. 113-
    130
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. Palmero Aprosio, Alessio; Menini, Stefano; Tonelli, Sara,
    Adaptive Complex Word Identification through False Friend Detection,
    UMAP '20: Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization,
    2020
    , pp. 192-
    200
17. Vittorini, Pierpaolo; Menini, Stefano; Tonelli, Sara,
    An AI-Based System for Formative and Summative Assessment in Data Science Courses,
    in «INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION»,
    2020
18. 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
19. Corazza, Michele; Menini, Stefano; Cabrio, Elena; Tonelli, Sara; Villata, Serena,
    Hybrid Emoji-Based Masked Language Models for Zero-Shot Abusive Language Detection,
    Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Findings,
    2020
    , pp. 943-
    949
20. Menini, Stefano; Palmero Aprosio, Alessio; Tonelli, Sara,
    A Multimodal Dataset of Images and Text to Study Abusive Language,
    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. Palmero Aprosio, Alessio; Menini, Stefano; Tonelli, Sara,
    The CREENDER Tool for Creating Multimodal Datasets of Images and Comments,
    Proceedings of the Seventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics,CLiC-it 2020, Bologna, Italy, March 1-3, 2021,
    CEUR-WS.org,
    vol. 2769,
    2020
22. Brambilla, Silvia; Palmero Aprosio, Alessio; Menini, Stefano,
    BullyFrame: Cyberbullying Meets FrameNet,
    Proceedings of the Sixth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC 2019),
    vol. 2481,
    2019
23. De Gasperis, Giovanni; Menini, Stefano; Tonelli, Sara; Vittorini, Pierpaolo,
    Automated Grading of Short Text Answers: Preliminary Results in a Course of Health Informatics.,
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Web-Based Learning,
    vol. 11841,
    2019
    , pp. 190-
    200
24. Menini, Stefano; Tonelli, Sara; De Gasperis, Giovanni; Vittorini, Pierpaolo,
    Automated Short Answer Grading: A Simple Solution for a Difficult Task,
    Proceedings of the Sixth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2019),
    vol. 2481,
    2019
25. Nanni, Federico; Menini, Stefano; Tonelli, Sara; Paolo Ponzetto, Simone,
    Semantifying the UK Hansard (1918-2018),
    Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL),
    2019
26. Menini, Stefano; Moretti, Giovanni; Corazza, Michele; Cabrio, Elena; Tonelli, Sara; Villata., Serena,
    A system to monitor cyberbullying based on message classification and social network analysis,
    Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Abusive Language Online,
    2019
    , pp. 105-
    111
27. Corazza, Michele; Menini, Stefano; Cabrio, Elena; Tonelli, Sara; Villata, Serena,
    Cross-Platform Evaluation for Italian Hate Speech Detection,
    Proceedings of the Sixth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics,
    vol. 2481,
    2019
28. Sprugnoli, Rachele; Menini, Stefano; Tonelli, Sara; Oncini, Filippo; Piras, Enrico Maria,
    Creating a WhatsApp Dataset to Study Pre-teen Cyberbullying,
    Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Abusive Language Online (ALW2),
    Association for Computational Linguistics,
    2018
    , pp. 51-
    59
29. Palmero Aprosio, Alessio; Menini, Stefano; Tonelli, Sara; Ducceschi, Luca; Herzog, Leonardo,
    Towards Personalised Simplification based on L2 Learners' Native Language,
    Proceedings of the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2018),
    2018
30. Menini, S.; Cabrio, E.; Tonelli, S.; Villata, S.,
    Never Retreat, Never Retract: Argumentation Analysis for Political Speeches,
    Proceedings of the 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18),
    2018
31. Corazza, Michele; Menini, Stefano; Arslan, Pinar; Sprugnoli, Rachele; Cabrio, Elena; Tonelli, Sara; Villata, Serena,
    InriaFBK at Germeval 2018: Identifying Offensive Tweets Using Recurrent Neural Networks,
    Proceedings of the GermEval 2018 Workshop,
    2018
    , pp. 80-
    84
32. Corazza, Michele; Menini, Stefano; Arslan, Pinar; Sprugnoli, Rachele; Cabrio, Elena; Tonelli, Sara; Villata, Serena,
    Comparing Different Supervised Approaches to Hate Speech Detection,
    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
33. Menini, Stefano; Nanni, Federico; Simone Paolo Ponzetto, ; Tonelli, Sara,
    Topic-Based Agreement and Disagreement in US Electoral Manifestos,
    Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing,
    Association for Computational Linguistics,
    2017
    , pp. 2928-
    2934
34. Stefano, Menini; Rachele, Sprugnoli; Giovanni, Moretti; Enrico, Bignotti; Sara, Tonelli; Bruno, Lepri,
    RAMBLE ON: Tracing Movements of Popular Historical Figures,
    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
35. Bentivogli, Luisa; Bernardi, Raffaella; Marelli, Marco; Menini, Stefano; Baroni, Marco; Zamparelli, Roberto,
    SICK through the SemEval glasses: Lessons learned from the evaluation of compositional distributional semantic models on full sentences through semantic relatedness and textual entailment,
    in «LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION»,
    vol. 50,
    n. 1,
    2016
    , pp. 95-
    124
36. Sprugnoli, Rachele; Moretti, Giovanni; Tonelli, Sara; Menini, Stefano,
    Fifty years of European history through the Lens of Computational Linguistics: the De Gasperi Project,
    in «ITALIAN JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS»,
    2016
    , pp. 89-
    100
37. Menini, Stefano; Tonelli, Sara,
    Agreement and Disagreement: Comparison of points of view in the political domain,
    Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers,
    2016
    , pp. 2461-
    2470
38. Moretti, Giovanni; Sprugnoli, Rachele; Menini, Stefano; Tonelli, Sara,
    ALCIDE: Extracting and visualising content from large document collections to support humanities studies,
    in «KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS»,
    vol. 111,
    2016
    , pp. 100-
    112
39. Menini, Stefano; Sprugnoli, Rachele; Uva, Antonio,
    "Who was Pietro Badoglio?" Towards a QA system for Italian History,
    Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016),
    European Language Resources Association (ELRA),
    2016
    , pp. 3502-
    3509
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. 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
42. Moretti, Giovanni; Tonelli, Sara; Menini, Stefano; Sprugnoli, Rachele,
    ALCIDE: An online platform for the Analysis of Language and Content In a Digital Environment,
    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