Research

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Publications

Padovani F., Nissim M. (2026). Puzzled By ChatGPT? No more! A Jigsaw Puzzle to Promote AI Literacy and Awareness, Pre-print .

Candussio S., Padovani F., Scalena D., Nissim M. (2026). " Don't Say It!": Constraints, Compliance, and Communication when Language Models Play Taboo, CLiC-IT 2026 .

Padovani F., Jumelet J., Matusevych Y., Bisazza A. (2026). Is Child-Directed Language Optimized for Word Learning? A Computational Study of Verb Meaning Acquisition, CogSci 2026 .

Padovani F., Yang X., Bunzeck B., Jumelet J., Matusevych Y., Schneider N., Bisazza A. (2026). CAIT: A Syntactic Parsing Toolkit for Child–Adult InTeractions, CONLL 2026 .

Padovani F., Bunzeck B., Ali M., Momen O., Bisazza A., Buschmeier H., Zarrieß S. (2025). Dialogue Is Not Enough to Make a Communicative BabyLM (But Neither Is Developmentally Inspired Reinforcement Learning), BabyLM Challenge 2025 .

Jumelet J., et al., (2025). BabyBabelLM: A Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data, EACL 2026 Main Conference .

Padovani F., Jumelet J., Matusevych Y., Bisazza A. (2025). Child-Directed Language Does Not Consistently Boost Syntax Learning in Language Models, EMNLP 2025 Main Conference .

Başar E., Padovani F., Jumelet J., Bisazza A. (2025). TurBLiMP: A Turkish Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs, EMNLP 2025 Main Conference .

Padovani F., Marchesi C., Pasqua E., Galletti M., Nardi D. (2024). Automatic Text Simplification with LLMs: A Comparative Study in Italian for Children with Language Disorders, NLP4CALL .

Galletti, M. , Pasqua E., Bianchi F., Calanca M., Padovani F., Nardi D., Tomaiuoli D. (2023). A Reading Comprehension Interface for Students with Learning Disorders, ArXiv:2406.11977.

AuBuchon, A.M., et al. (2022). Lexical access speed and the development of phonological recoding during immediate serial recall, Journal of Cognition and Development.

M. Elliott, Emily., et al. (2021). Multilab Direct Replication of Flavell, Beach, and Chinsky (1966): Spontaneous Verbal Rehearsal in a Memory Task as a Function of Age, Association for Psychological Science.

Available Posters

Padovani, F., Jumelet J., Matusevych Y., Bisazza A. (2025). Child-Directed Language Does Not Consistently Boost Syntax Learning in Language Models Poster presentation at EMNLP 2025, Suzhou, China

Padovani, F., Bunzeck, B. et al., (2025). Dialogue Is Not Enough to Make a Communicative BabyLM (But Neither Is Developmentally Inspired Reinforcement Learning) Poster presentation at BabyLM Workshop - EMNLP 2025, Suzhou, China

Padovani, F., Nardi D., Galletti M. (2023). Automatic Text Simplification for Italian Poor Readers and Comprehenders. Poster presentation at the Lectures on Computational Linguistics, 2023, Pisa, Italy

Padovani, F., Jumelet J., Matusevych Y., Bisazza A. (2025). What is the real benefit of using Child Directed Language for Language Modeling? Poster presentation at the HumanCLAIM Workshop in Göttingen (Germany)