Fabio Marson

Join us for our next seminar featuring Prof. Giovanni Cassani (Tilburg Uni). We will explore how humans and LLMs interpret novel words in context.

🗓️ Today, Jan 19, 2:00 PM CET 📍 Bicocca (U6 - Sala Lauree) 🌐 Join online: meet.google.com/suf-ybti-oop

Italian blasphemy and German ingenuity: how swear words differ around the world Once swearwords were dismissed as a sign of low intelligence, now researchers argue the ‘power’ of taboo words has been overlooked

A fascinating read in @theguardian.com on the psycholinguistics of swearing!

Did you know Germans averaged 53 taboo words, while Brits e Spaniards listed only 16?
Great to see the work of our colleague Simone Sulpizio & Jon Andoni Duñabeitia highlighted! 👏

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Great week at #ESLP2025 in Aix-en-Provence! Huge congrats to our colleagues for their excellent talks on computational models, sound symbolism, and multimodal cognition. Proud of the team and the stimulating discussions!

Abhilasha Kumar, Beyond Arbitrariness: How a Word's Shape Influences Learning and Memory YouTube video by Mbs Vector Space Lab

For those who couldn't attend, the recording of Abhilasha Kumar's seminar on exploring form-meaning interactions in novel word learning and memory search is now available on our YouTube channel!!

Watch the full presentation here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJTs...

Great presentation by @fabiomarson.bsky.social last Saturday at #AMLAP2025! He shared his latest research using EEG to study how we integrate novel semantic representations, “linguistic chimeras”, from context.

Congratulations on a fascinating talk!

Conceptual Combination in Large Language Models: Uncovering Implicit Relational Interpretations in Compound Words With Contextualized Word Embeddings Large language models (LLMs) have been proposed as candidate models of human semantics, and as such, they must be able to account for conceptual combination. This work explores the ability of two LLM...

1/n Happy to share a new paper with Calogero Zarbo & Marco Marelli! How well do LLMs represent the implicit meaning of familiar and novel compounds? How do they compare with simpler distributional semantics models (DSMs; i.e., word embeddings)?
doi.org/10.1111/cogs...

📢 Upcoming Seminar

Words are weird? On the role of lexical ambiguity in language
🗣 Gemma Boleda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Why is language so ambiguous? Discover how ambiguity balances cognitive simplicity and communicative complexity through large-scale studies.
📍 UniMiB, Room U6-01C, Milan

Covariate? I personally use a totally uninformative and vague "Fixed effect" in lmer approach when dealing with such individual differences variables 😬

The time has come! Semantics gang rise up!

So... Like twitter but funnier. No wonder a lot of researchers like it!

Long time no see you! I just landed on bluesky, how's life here? 😄