I am an NLP Researcher in the IMS group of the University of Stuttgart, working on Argument Mining, Bias, Meaning Representations, Cognitive Modeling, and NLP tools and methodology development. I am currently working with the E-DELIB Project.

News!

• Our paper entitled "Self-reported demographics and discourse dynamics in a persuasive online forum" will appear at LREC 2024. Work with Agnieszka Falenska and Gabriella Lapesa.
• Our survey paper entitled "Argument Quality Assessment in the Age of Instruction-tuned Large Language Models" will appear at COLING 2024. Joint work with Henning Wachsmuth, Gabriella Lapesa, Elena Cabrio, Anne Lauscher, Joonsuk Park, Serena Villata and Timon Ziegenbein.
• Our paper entitled "Moderation in the Wild: Investigating User-Driven Moderation in Online Discussions" will appear at EACL 2024. Work with Neele Falk, Iman Jundi and Gabriella Lapesa.
• COLING 2024 Tutorial: Mining, Assessing, and Improving Arguments in NLP and the Social Sciences. Torino, Italy. May 20-25, 2024.

Publications

Journal Articles

• E.M. Vecchi, M. Marelli, R. Zamparelli and M. Baroni. 2017. Spicy adjectives and nominal donkeys: Capturing semantic deviance using compositionality in distributional spaces. Cognitive Science 41(1): 102-136. [pdf][datasets]
• A. Herbelot and E.M. Vecchi. 2016. Many speakers, many worlds: Interannotator variations in the quantification of feature norms. Linguistic Issues in Language Technology 13(2):37-57. [pdf]

Conference and Workshop Publications

• I. Jundi, N. Falk, E.M. Vecchi, and G. Lapesa. 2023. Node placement in argument maps: Modeling unidirectional relations in high & low-resource scenarios. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Toronto, Canada. [pdf]
• G. Lapesa, E.M. Vecchi, S. Villata, H. Wachsmuth. 2023. Mining, Assessing, and Improving Arguments in NLP and the Social Sciences. In Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Tutorial Abstracts. Dubrovnik, Croatia. [pdf]
• C. Shen & E.M. Vecchi. 2023. Exploring Chain-of-Thought Instruction Tuning for Generative Claim Frame Extraction and Claim Relation Tagging. In the NIST Text Analysis Conference Claim Relation Understanding and Extraction (CRUX) Workshop. Rockville, MD, USA.
• E.M. Vecchi, N. Falk, I. Jundi, and G. Lapesa. 2021. Towards argument mining for social good: A survey. In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers) . Bangkok, Thailand. [pdf]
• N. Falk, I. Jundi, E.M. Vecchi, and G. Lapesa. 2021. Predicting Moderation of Deliberative Arguments: Is Argument Quality the Key? In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Argument Mining. Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. [pdf]
• L. Rimell and E.M. Vecchi. 2016. SLEDDED: A Proposed Dataset of Event Descriptions for Evaluating Phrase Representations. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACL Workshop on Evaluating Vector Space Representations for NLP (RepEval 2016). Berlin, Germany. [pdf]
• A. Herbelot and E.M. Vecchi. 2015. Building a shared world: Mapping distributional to model-theoretic semantic spaces. In Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Lisbon, Portugal. *Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award* [pdf]
• L. Fǎgǎrǎşan, E.M. Vecchi and S. Clark. 2015. From distributional semantics to feature norms: grounding semantic models in human perceptual data. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2015). London, UK. [pdf]
• E.M. Vecchi, R. Zamparelli and M. Baroni. 2013. Studying the recursive behaviour of adjectival modification with compositional distributional semantics. In Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp. 141-151). Seattle, WA. [pdf]
• A. Lazaridou, E.M. Vecchi and M. Baroni. 2013. Fish transporters and miracle homes: How compositional distributional semantics can help NP parsing. In Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp. 1908-1913). Seattle, WA. [pdf][datasets]
• E.M. Vecchi, R. Zamparelli, and M. Baroni. 2013. Compositionnaliteé en sémantique distributionnelle et ordonnancement des adjectifs. In Actes de MIXEUR 2013: Méthodes mixtes pour l'analyse syntaxique et sémantique du français, pages 99-102, Les Sables d'Olonne, France. [pdf]
• G. Boleda, E.M. Vecchi, M. Cornudella and L. McNally. 2012. First-order vs. higher-order modification in distributional semantics. In Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp. 1223-1233). Jeju Island, Korea. [pdf][datasets]
• E.M. Vecchi, M. Baroni and R. Zamparelli. 2011. (Linear) maps of the impossible: Capturing semantic anomalies in distributional space. In Proceedings of the ACL DISCo (Distributional Semantics and Compositionality) Workshop (pp. 1-9). Portland, Oregon. [pdf][datasets]
• F. Dell'Orletta, S. Montemagni, E.M. Vecchi, G. Venturi. 2011. Tecnologie linguistico-computazionali per il monitoraggio delle competenze linguistiche di apprendenti l'italiano come L2. In IT.L2 - Congresso "IT.L2: italiano lingua seconda nell'universita, nella scuola e sul territorio. Esperienze didattiche e ricerche" (Universita del Piemonte Orientale "Amedeo Avogadro", Facolta' di Letere e Filosofia - Vercelli. 12-13 Ottobre 2011.
• A. Lenci, S. Montemagni, E.M. Vecchi, G. Venturi. 2011. Enriching the ISST-TANL Corpus with Semantic Frames. EVALITA 2011.
• G. Attardi, S. Dei Rossi, F. Dell'Orletta, E.M. Vecchi. 2009. The Tanl Named Entity Recognizer at Evalita 2009. In Proceedings of the 2nd Special Issue on Evaluation of NLP and Speech Tools for Italian (EVALITA 2009). Reggio Emilia, Italy. December 2009. [pdf][bib]
• G. Attardi, A. Fuschetto, F. Tamberi, M. Simi, E.M. Vecchi. 2009. Experiments in tagger combination: arbitrating, guessing, correcting, suggesting. In Proceedings of the 2nd Special Issue on Evaluation of NLP and Speech Tools for Italian (EVALITA 2009). Reggio Emilia, Italy. December 2009. [pdf] [bib]
• G. Venturi, A. Lenci, S. Montemagni, E.M. Vecchi, M.T. Sagri, D. Tiscornia, T. Agnoloni. 2009. Towards a FrameNet Resource for the Legal Domain. In the 3rd Workshop on Legal Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Techniques joint with 2nd Workshop on Semantic Processing of Legal Text. (LOAIT 2009). Barcelona, Spain. 8 June 2009. [pdf] [bib]
• K. Miller, M. Arehart, C. Ball, J. Polk, A. Rubenstein, K. Samuel, E. Schroeder, E.M. Vecchi, C. Wolf. 2008. An Infrastructure, Tools and Methodology for Evaluation of Multicultural Name Matching Systems. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08). Marrakech, Morocco. 28-30 May 2008. [pdf] [bib]

Posters

• L. Rimell and E.M. Vecchi. 2015. A Corpus of Lexically and Syntactically Diverse Paraphrases for Evaluating Compositional Distributional Models. IWCS 2015 Advances in Distributional Semantics Workshop. London, United Kingdom. [pdf]
• L. Fǎgǎrǎşan, E.M. Vecchi and S. Clark. 2014. From distributional semantics to feature norms: Grounding semantic models in human perceptual data. NIPS Learning Semantics Workshop 2014. Montreal, Canada. [pdf]
• E.M. Vecchi. Distributional semantic phrases vs. semantic distributional nonsense: Adjective Modification in Compositional Distributional Semantics. PhD Thesis, Center of Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Italy, December 2013. [pdf][bib]

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