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. 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
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. 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
5. 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
6. 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
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. 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. 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
10. 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»,
    vol. 31,
    n. 2,
    2021
    , pp. 159-
    185
11. 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
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. Menini, Stefano; Palmero Aprosio, Alessio; Tonelli, Sara,
    Abuse is Contextual, What about NLP? The Role of Context in Abusive Language Annotation and Detection,
    2021
14. 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
15. 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,
    CEUR-WS.org,
    vol. 2769,
    2020
16. 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,
    CEUR-WS.org,
    vol. 2769,
    2020
17. Leonardelli, Elisa; Menini, Stefano; Tonelli, Sara,
    DH-FBK@ HaSpeeDe2: Italian Hate Speech Detection via Self-Training and Oversampling.,
    Proceedings of the Seventh Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop (EVALITA 2020),
    vol. 2765,
    2020
18. 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
19. 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
20. 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
21. 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