AbstractionERC
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
ABSTRACTION is a 5-year project funded by the European Research Council #ERCStG, led by @mariannabolog.bsky.social, at the University of Bologna, Italy.
https://site.unibo.it/abstraction/en
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https://site.unibo.it/abstraction/en
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New theoretical paper: “Beyond concreteness: why word specificity is the missing piece in theories on embodied language comprehension”
shorturl.at/6Rv3Y
Included in the special issue
"Rethinking the Embodiment of Language: Challenges and Future Horizons", led by V. Cuccio, V. Gallese & Y. Shtyrov.
shorturl.at/6Rv3Y
Included in the special issue
"Rethinking the Embodiment of Language: Challenges and Future Horizons", led by V. Cuccio, V. Gallese & Y. Shtyrov.
Frontiers | Beyond concreteness: why word specificity is the missing piece in theories on embodied language comprehension
The concreteness effect has long been associated with embodied theories of language, which propose that concrete words are easier to process than abstract on...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
New theoretical paper: “Beyond concreteness: why word specificity is the missing piece in theories on embodied language comprehension”
shorturl.at/6Rv3Y
Included in the special issue
"Rethinking the Embodiment of Language: Challenges and Future Horizons", led by V. Cuccio, V. Gallese & Y. Shtyrov.
shorturl.at/6Rv3Y
Included in the special issue
"Rethinking the Embodiment of Language: Challenges and Future Horizons", led by V. Cuccio, V. Gallese & Y. Shtyrov.
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📣 Abstraction seminars are back!
🗓️ 12 December, 10:30 (CET)
🎙️Prof.ssa Kristina S. Despot
🎓Metaphor literalization strategy: From concrete to abstract and back to concrete again
📍 Bologna
💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/B4H7R)
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
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🗓️ 12 December, 10:30 (CET)
🎙️Prof.ssa Kristina S. Despot
🎓Metaphor literalization strategy: From concrete to abstract and back to concrete again
📍 Bologna
💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/B4H7R)
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
✨@abstractionerc.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
📣 Abstraction seminars are back!
🗓️ 12 December, 10:30 (CET)
🎙️Prof.ssa Kristina S. Despot
🎓Metaphor literalization strategy: From concrete to abstract and back to concrete again
📍 Bologna
💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/B4H7R)
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
✨@abstractionerc.bsky.social
🗓️ 12 December, 10:30 (CET)
🎙️Prof.ssa Kristina S. Despot
🎓Metaphor literalization strategy: From concrete to abstract and back to concrete again
📍 Bologna
💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/B4H7R)
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
✨@abstractionerc.bsky.social
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🌐 Il seminario della collega Valentina Cuccio è ora online!
È disponibile sul sito di Abstraction al link: site.unibo.it/abstraction/...
Se vi siete persi l’incontro o volete riascoltarlo con calma, potete trovarlo lì. Buona visione! 🎧✨
È disponibile sul sito di Abstraction al link: site.unibo.it/abstraction/...
Se vi siete persi l’incontro o volete riascoltarlo con calma, potete trovarlo lì. Buona visione! 🎧✨
SEMINARI REGISTRATI
Qui si trovano le registrazioni ed i materiali relativi ai seminari tenuti nell'ambito del progetto ABSTRACTION da invited speakers e collaboratori.
site.unibo.it
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🌐 Il seminario della collega Valentina Cuccio è ora online!
È disponibile sul sito di Abstraction al link: site.unibo.it/abstraction/...
Se vi siete persi l’incontro o volete riascoltarlo con calma, potete trovarlo lì. Buona visione! 🎧✨
È disponibile sul sito di Abstraction al link: site.unibo.it/abstraction/...
Se vi siete persi l’incontro o volete riascoltarlo con calma, potete trovarlo lì. Buona visione! 🎧✨
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E oggi ho condiviso con il centro interdipartimentale Alma AI e un gruppo di colleghe e colleghi giuristi capitanati da Monica Palmirani i risultati a grandi linee del gruppo @abstractionerc.bsky.social su studi che coinvolgono l'uso di LLMs. Questa settimana è decisamente densa :-)
November 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
E oggi ho condiviso con il centro interdipartimentale Alma AI e un gruppo di colleghe e colleghi giuristi capitanati da Monica Palmirani i risultati a grandi linee del gruppo @abstractionerc.bsky.social su studi che coinvolgono l'uso di LLMs. Questa settimana è decisamente densa :-)
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Seeing this slide after completing my postdoc at @abstractionerc.bsky.social makes me emotional. Great talk of @mariannabolog.bsky.social at the workshop "Large and Small Language Models: stato dell’arte fra limiti e prospettive" at Unibo. Many works about abstraction and LLM are on the horizon! :)
November 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Seeing this slide after completing my postdoc at @abstractionerc.bsky.social makes me emotional. Great talk of @mariannabolog.bsky.social at the workshop "Large and Small Language Models: stato dell’arte fra limiti e prospettive" at Unibo. Many works about abstraction and LLM are on the horizon! :)
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Dopo il seminario di Valentina Cuccio con una delegazionedi Abstraction, nel magnifico chiostro del dipartimento di storia, San Giovanni in Monte, Bologna.
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Dopo il seminario di Valentina Cuccio con una delegazionedi Abstraction, nel magnifico chiostro del dipartimento di storia, San Giovanni in Monte, Bologna.
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Prof. Valentina Cuccio kicks off her seminar asking whether there are any cross-cutting, neglected dimensions that can explain the concreteness effect. She elaborates on the modality of acquisition of concepts
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November 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Prof. Valentina Cuccio kicks off her seminar asking whether there are any cross-cutting, neglected dimensions that can explain the concreteness effect. She elaborates on the modality of acquisition of concepts
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
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Tavola rotonda all' ISTI-DAY, un'opportunità per discutere dei rischi, responsabilità e opportunità legate all'uso di GenAI per la ricerca.
November 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Tavola rotonda all' ISTI-DAY, un'opportunità per discutere dei rischi, responsabilità e opportunità legate all'uso di GenAI per la ricerca.
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Tomorrow I’m ready to hop on a train to Pisa right after my class, to take part in the round table at CNR ISTI, with top-notch computer scientists, to talk about the use and abuse of AI in research. I’ll be contributing the perspective of the humanities. Stay tuned!
www.isti.cnr.it/it/ricerca/i...
www.isti.cnr.it/it/ricerca/i...
November 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Tomorrow I’m ready to hop on a train to Pisa right after my class, to take part in the round table at CNR ISTI, with top-notch computer scientists, to talk about the use and abuse of AI in research. I’ll be contributing the perspective of the humanities. Stay tuned!
www.isti.cnr.it/it/ricerca/i...
www.isti.cnr.it/it/ricerca/i...
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Per chi fosse interessato a leggere cosa fa il gruppo ABSTRACTION @erc.europa.eu , ecco il flipbook interattivo con gli studi condotti fino ad oggi (in lingua italiana).
heyzine.com/flip-book/61...
Il flipbook accompagna un video introduttivo, che trovate qui:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIqc...
heyzine.com/flip-book/61...
Il flipbook accompagna un video introduttivo, che trovate qui:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIqc...
Alla scoperta dell'astrazione linguistica - final | PDF to Flipbook
Created with the Heyzine flipbook maker
heyzine.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Per chi fosse interessato a leggere cosa fa il gruppo ABSTRACTION @erc.europa.eu , ecco il flipbook interattivo con gli studi condotti fino ad oggi (in lingua italiana).
heyzine.com/flip-book/61...
Il flipbook accompagna un video introduttivo, che trovate qui:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIqc...
heyzine.com/flip-book/61...
Il flipbook accompagna un video introduttivo, che trovate qui:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIqc...
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Today I officially took up my new position as Full Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bologna @unibo.it 🎉
Funny to think it all began when I was a kid, convinced everyone thought in Italian (of course!) and the others just had to translate into whatever language they spoke 😅.
Funny to think it all began when I was a kid, convinced everyone thought in Italian (of course!) and the others just had to translate into whatever language they spoke 😅.
November 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Today I officially took up my new position as Full Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bologna @unibo.it 🎉
Funny to think it all began when I was a kid, convinced everyone thought in Italian (of course!) and the others just had to translate into whatever language they spoke 😅.
Funny to think it all began when I was a kid, convinced everyone thought in Italian (of course!) and the others just had to translate into whatever language they spoke 😅.
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Time flies! 🚀 @grambelli.bsky.social just wrapped up her 3-year postdoc with Abstraction_ERC and is already off exploring new research frontiers. Grateful that some projects still keep us collaborating: once an Abstractioner, always an Abstractioner! ☕✨Thanks for the amazing mug!!!
October 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Time flies! 🚀 @grambelli.bsky.social just wrapped up her 3-year postdoc with Abstraction_ERC and is already off exploring new research frontiers. Grateful that some projects still keep us collaborating: once an Abstractioner, always an Abstractioner! ☕✨Thanks for the amazing mug!!!
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I primi 2 seminari autunnali di @abstractionerc.bsky.social sono online!🥳
share.google/gGvHTdAA9O07...
👉Filippo Domaneschi
🎤Titolo: Concretely offensive: the processing f reclaimed slurs.
👉Veronica Repetti,
🎤Titolo: Concrete or abstract possession? Animacy, alienability, and syntactic structure.
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👉Filippo Domaneschi
🎤Titolo: Concretely offensive: the processing f reclaimed slurs.
👉Veronica Repetti,
🎤Titolo: Concrete or abstract possession? Animacy, alienability, and syntactic structure.
a gazelle is looking at a bowl of popcorn ..
ALT: a gazelle is looking at a bowl of popcorn ..
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October 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I primi 2 seminari autunnali di @abstractionerc.bsky.social sono online!🥳
share.google/gGvHTdAA9O07...
👉Filippo Domaneschi
🎤Titolo: Concretely offensive: the processing f reclaimed slurs.
👉Veronica Repetti,
🎤Titolo: Concrete or abstract possession? Animacy, alienability, and syntactic structure.
share.google/gGvHTdAA9O07...
👉Filippo Domaneschi
🎤Titolo: Concretely offensive: the processing f reclaimed slurs.
👉Veronica Repetti,
🎤Titolo: Concrete or abstract possession? Animacy, alienability, and syntactic structure.
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Invited keynote at Rende, University of Calabria, went great!
On the role of context and abstraction mechanisms in the construction and interpretation of multimodal metaphors
On the role of context and abstraction mechanisms in the construction and interpretation of multimodal metaphors
October 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Invited keynote at Rende, University of Calabria, went great!
On the role of context and abstraction mechanisms in the construction and interpretation of multimodal metaphors
On the role of context and abstraction mechanisms in the construction and interpretation of multimodal metaphors
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Excited to kick off day 1 of the CIRM International Annual Conference on Metaphor and Multimodality at the University of Calabria in Rende: such a beautiful campus nestled in the hills. Enjoyed a lovely morning walk to get here! My invited keynote is scheduled for tomorrow morning.
October 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Excited to kick off day 1 of the CIRM International Annual Conference on Metaphor and Multimodality at the University of Calabria in Rende: such a beautiful campus nestled in the hills. Enjoyed a lovely morning walk to get here! My invited keynote is scheduled for tomorrow morning.
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Another academic year at @abstractionerc.bsky.social starts with the seminar of prof. Filippo Domaneschi with his talk "Concretely offensive: the processing of reclaimed slurs". Recordings of the talk will be posted here:
site.unibo.it/abstraction/...
site.unibo.it/abstraction/...
October 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Another academic year at @abstractionerc.bsky.social starts with the seminar of prof. Filippo Domaneschi with his talk "Concretely offensive: the processing of reclaimed slurs". Recordings of the talk will be posted here:
site.unibo.it/abstraction/...
site.unibo.it/abstraction/...
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Veronica Repetti explaining variation in animacy, alienability and syntactic structure of concrete and abstract possession, this morning for the second @abstractionerc.bsky.social seminar.
All seminars are recorded and posted on site.unibo.it/abstraction/...
All seminars are recorded and posted on site.unibo.it/abstraction/...
October 17, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Veronica Repetti explaining variation in animacy, alienability and syntactic structure of concrete and abstract possession, this morning for the second @abstractionerc.bsky.social seminar.
All seminars are recorded and posted on site.unibo.it/abstraction/...
All seminars are recorded and posted on site.unibo.it/abstraction/...
Dinner time, to keep the discussion going with our invited speakers Prof Filippo Domaneschi and Dott. Veronica Repetti
October 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Dinner time, to keep the discussion going with our invited speakers Prof Filippo Domaneschi and Dott. Veronica Repetti
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Filippo Domaneschi, director of the Lab of Language and Cognition presenting at @abstractionerc.bsky.social on the reclamation of slurs, discussing pragmatic and psycholinguistic aspects in relation to abstraction mechanisms
October 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Filippo Domaneschi, director of the Lab of Language and Cognition presenting at @abstractionerc.bsky.social on the reclamation of slurs, discussing pragmatic and psycholinguistic aspects in relation to abstraction mechanisms
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📣 November's Abstraction seminar is all set too!
🗓️ 19 November, 11:30 - 12.30 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/xW7mF )
🎆 Join us, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
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@abstractionerc.bsky.social
🗓️ 19 November, 11:30 - 12.30 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/xW7mF )
🎆 Join us, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
✨
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
📣 November's Abstraction seminar is all set too!
🗓️ 19 November, 11:30 - 12.30 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/xW7mF )
🎆 Join us, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
✨
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
🗓️ 19 November, 11:30 - 12.30 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/xW7mF )
🎆 Join us, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
✨
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
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I knew I hired well for @abstractionerc.bsky.social from day 1.
But seeing @tomlamarra.bsky.social presenting this morning his phd progress in front of faculty and this evening to the city, taking part to phd storytelling (part of EU Researchers' night) was a clear confirmation. Brilliant, Tom!
But seeing @tomlamarra.bsky.social presenting this morning his phd progress in front of faculty and this evening to the city, taking part to phd storytelling (part of EU Researchers' night) was a clear confirmation. Brilliant, Tom!
“What do I mean by simulating through language?” 🤔
At #GenerAzioni, @tomlamarra.bsky.social satisfied our curiosity in one of the most beautiful places in the city.
Science is better when shared 💡
Thank you UniBo, and well done Tom! 👏
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
At #GenerAzioni, @tomlamarra.bsky.social satisfied our curiosity in one of the most beautiful places in the city.
Science is better when shared 💡
Thank you UniBo, and well done Tom! 👏
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I knew I hired well for @abstractionerc.bsky.social from day 1.
But seeing @tomlamarra.bsky.social presenting this morning his phd progress in front of faculty and this evening to the city, taking part to phd storytelling (part of EU Researchers' night) was a clear confirmation. Brilliant, Tom!
But seeing @tomlamarra.bsky.social presenting this morning his phd progress in front of faculty and this evening to the city, taking part to phd storytelling (part of EU Researchers' night) was a clear confirmation. Brilliant, Tom!
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“What do I mean by simulating through language?” 🤔
At #GenerAzioni, @tomlamarra.bsky.social satisfied our curiosity in one of the most beautiful places in the city.
Science is better when shared 💡
Thank you UniBo, and well done Tom! 👏
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
At #GenerAzioni, @tomlamarra.bsky.social satisfied our curiosity in one of the most beautiful places in the city.
Science is better when shared 💡
Thank you UniBo, and well done Tom! 👏
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
“What do I mean by simulating through language?” 🤔
At #GenerAzioni, @tomlamarra.bsky.social satisfied our curiosity in one of the most beautiful places in the city.
Science is better when shared 💡
Thank you UniBo, and well done Tom! 👏
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
At #GenerAzioni, @tomlamarra.bsky.social satisfied our curiosity in one of the most beautiful places in the city.
Science is better when shared 💡
Thank you UniBo, and well done Tom! 👏
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
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✈️ Heading to Düsseldorf for the 2nd #CxGsNLP Workshop at #IWCS2025!
I’ll present a non-archival paper from #ACL2024 + some follow-ups on how LLMs interpret existing and novel compounds.
Excited for the discussions and meeting the vibrant community! On a mission for @abstractionerc.bsky.social
I’ll present a non-archival paper from #ACL2024 + some follow-ups on how LLMs interpret existing and novel compounds.
Excited for the discussions and meeting the vibrant community! On a mission for @abstractionerc.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
✈️ Heading to Düsseldorf for the 2nd #CxGsNLP Workshop at #IWCS2025!
I’ll present a non-archival paper from #ACL2024 + some follow-ups on how LLMs interpret existing and novel compounds.
Excited for the discussions and meeting the vibrant community! On a mission for @abstractionerc.bsky.social
I’ll present a non-archival paper from #ACL2024 + some follow-ups on how LLMs interpret existing and novel compounds.
Excited for the discussions and meeting the vibrant community! On a mission for @abstractionerc.bsky.social
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Glad to be at #XPrag2025 at the #UniversityOfCambridge!
Day 1 was packed with fascinating talks and exciting discussions!
Day 1 was packed with fascinating talks and exciting discussions!
September 18, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Glad to be at #XPrag2025 at the #UniversityOfCambridge!
Day 1 was packed with fascinating talks and exciting discussions!
Day 1 was packed with fascinating talks and exciting discussions!
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This was a project conducted with
@andreaaravelli, @mariannabolog.bsky.social, and @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social
@andreaaravelli, @mariannabolog.bsky.social, and @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
This was a project conducted with
@andreaaravelli, @mariannabolog.bsky.social, and @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social
@andreaaravelli, @mariannabolog.bsky.social, and @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social