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Francesca Grasso

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Published/Accepted Papers:

  • Cena, F., & Grasso, F. (2025). Exploring users’ mental models of conversational agents: a systematic review. Behaviour & Information Technology, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2025.2573436

 

  • Grasso, F. & Locci, S. (2025-forthcoming). A Multilingual Investigation of Anthropocentrism in GPT-4o. In C. Bosco, E. Ježek, M. Polignano, M. Sanguinetti (Eds.), Proceedings of the Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025), Cagliari, Italy.

 

 

 

 

  • Grasso, F., Locci, S. (2024). Assessing Generative Language Models in Classification Tasks: Performance and Self-evaluation Capabilities in the Environmental and Climate Change Domain. In: Rapp, A., Di Caro, L., Meziane, F., Sugumaran, V. (eds) Natural Language Processing and Information Systems. NLDB 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14763. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70242-6_29

 

  • Grasso, F., Valese, A., Micheli, M. (2024). Body-Shaming Detection and Classification in Italian Social Media. In: Rapp, A., Di Caro, L., Meziane, F., Sugumaran, V. (eds) Natural Language Processing and Information Systems. NLDB 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14762. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70239-6_18

 

 

  • Grasso, F., Locci, S., Siragusa, G., & Di Caro, L. (2024, May). EcoVerse: An Annotated Twitter Dataset for Eco-Relevance Classification, Environmental Impact Analysis, and Stance Detection. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) (pp. 5461-5472).https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.485

 

  • Criscuolo, L., Bordogna, G., Barbara, L., Benessia, A., Bergami, C., Calastri, E., Capocefalo, V., Caretto, A., Cavallo, C., Chakraborty, A., Colella, C., Colucci-Gray, L., Crosetto, S., De Lazzari, A., Di Lonardo, S., Ercole, E., Giuffredi, R., Grasso, F., Grasso, V., ... L’Astorina, A. (2024). Developing a Participatory Process for Soil Fertility: A Case Study in an Urban Area of Italy. Sustainability, 16(12), 4882.https://www.mdpi.com/2820968

 

 

 

 

  • Grasso, F. and Di Caro, L. (2021). A methodology for large-scale, disambiguated, and unbiased lexical knowledge acquisition based on multilingual word alignment. In Elisabetta Fersini, et al., editors, Proceedings of the Eighth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, CLiC-it 2021, Milan, Italy, January 26-28, 2022, volume 3033 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR-WS.org.
    https://doi.org/10.4000/books.aaccademia.10653 
    https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1900672

Proceedings/Editorial Contributions:

 

  • Italo Jose da Silva Oliveira, Pedro Paulo F. Barcelos, Rodrigo F. Calhau, Claudenir M. Fonseca, Guendalina Righetti, Stefano De Giorgis, Guendalina Righetti, Gabriele Sacco, Maria M. Hedblom, Oliver Kutz, Martin Glauer, Mirjam Stappel, Cássia Trojahn, María Poveda-Villalón, Daniel Garijo, César Henrique Bernabé, Asiyah Yu Lin, Francesco Compagno, Anna Fensel, Walter Terkaj, Guendalina Righetti, Greta Adamo, Damion M. Dooley, Michaela Kümpel, Georgeta Bordea, Robert Warren, Anoosha Sehar, Matthew Lange, Felix Bindt, Ido Toxopeus, Davide Audrito, Francesca Grasso, Roberto Nai, Emilio Sulis, John Beverley, Mark Jensen, Sergio de Cesare, Frederik Gailly, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Chris Partridge, Oscar Pastor, Alexander García Castro, Thomas Hubauer, Wolfgang Süß, Philipp Schmurr, Greta Adamo, Max Willis, Daniele Francesco Santamaria, Thijs van Ede, Dan Klein, Gal Engelberg, Gianpietro Castiglione, Giampaolo Bella, Andrea Continella, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Davide Lanti, Alessandro Mosca, Federico Maria Scafoglieri, Guohui Xiao, Krzysztof Kutt, Jesualdo Tomás Fernández-Breis, Alois Pichler, Gábor Palkó, Grzegorz J. Nalepa, Pawel Garbacz, Robert Pergl, Zubeida Casmod Khan, Pedro Paulo F. Barcelos, João Moreira, Adrien Barton, Emilio M. Sanfilippo, Laura Daniele, João Paulo A. Almeida, Enrico Franconi, Paul Johannesson, Chiara Ghidini, Veruska Zamborlini: Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO) - Episode X: The Tukker Zomer of Ontology, and satellite events co-located with the 14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2024), Enschede, The Netherlands, July 15-19, 2024. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 3882, CEUR-WS.org 2024. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3882/

 

  • Toyoshima,F., Katsumi, M., Righetti, G., De Giorgis, S., M. Hedblom, M., Kutz,o., Brodaric,B., Grüninger,M., Hahmann,t., Damion Dooley, S., Lange, M., Küçük-McGinty, H., Sehar Simon, A., Cameron, R., Gajderowicz, B., Rosu, D., Hastings, J., Audrito, D., Di Caro, L., Grasso, F., Nai, R., Sulis, E., Bozzato, L., Shimizu, C., Zimmermann, A., Baratella, R., Borgo, S., de Cesare, S., Prince Sales, T.: Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops 2023 Episode IX: The Quebec Summer of Ontology co-located with the 13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2023), Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, July 19-20, 2023. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 3637, CEUR-WS.org 2023. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3637/

 

  • Symeonidou, D., Yu, R., Ceolin, D., Poveda-Villalón, M., Audrito, D., Di Caro, L., Grasso, F., Nai, R., Sulis, E., Ekaputra F., Kutz, O. & Troquard, N. (2022). EKAW-C 2022: Companion Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, September 26-29, 2022.
    https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1900692

Awards and Honors:

  • Best Paper Award at NLDB 2024 - The 29th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems – for the paper "Body-Shaming Detection and Classification in Italian Social Media" (Grasso, Valese & Micheli 2024); Turin, June 27th 2024.

  • Best Student Paper Award at MTSR 2023 - 18th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research – for the paper “VerbAligNet: Unlocking Multilingual Exploration of  Verbal Arguments” (Grasso, Lovera Rulfi & Di Caro 2023); Milan, October 27th 2023.

  • Best Paper Award at EKAW 2022 - 23rd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - for the paper "MultiAligNet: Cross-lingual Knowledge Bridges Between Words and Senses" (Grasso, Lovera Rulfi & Di Caro 2022);
    Bözen, September 29th 2022.

Courses

Teaching Assistant - INSEGNAMENTI:

LINGUA INGLESE - SPS - A-L (SCP0135)
Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società

INTRODUZIONE ALLA LINGUISTICA (CPS0893)
Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società

DISCOURSE STRATEGIES IN CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH - SEZIONE 3 (SCP0377)
Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società

LINGUA INGLESE - SISCO - (Sez. 3) (SCP0135)
Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società

Research topics

I hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Turin, with formal training in linguistics and a research focus on Natural Language Processing (NLP).

My doctoral project bridged ecolinguistics and ecocriticism theory and methods with NLP techniques. In my thesis, I developed different methodological frameworks for the automatic detection of language attitudes that are either harmful or beneficial to sustainability and ecological well-being. In particular, I focused on the automatic detection, classification, and assessment of environmental and climate change-related narratives. The analysis draws on various types of texts – from social media posts and news articles to academic editorials – and also included the identification of anthropocentric biases in language use, especially those embedded in Large Language Models (LLMs).

My other research interests include multilingual knowledge modelling – with a particular focus on lexical semantics and verb valency frames – as well as human–conversational agent interaction and hate speech detection, specifically targeting body shaming.

Worth mentioning: throughout my studies, I have developed strong expertise in Germanic Philology, especially at the intersection with theoretical and typological linguistics. My focus has been on verb valency alternation (Valenzänderung) and diachronic change (Valenzwandel) in Gothic, Old High German, Old English – I have focused on Old Saxon as well.

Collaborations and Organizational Roles:

I am an active member of several academic entities, including the Social Computing Research Group, Computer Science Department Board (as Ph.D. students representative), and the Ph.D. Committee (also as Ph.D. students representative).

I'm part of the Organizing Committee for the 38th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2025), serving as Local Chair.

I'm part of the Organizing Committee for the 11th Italian Conference on Computational Lingistics (CLiC-it 2025), serving as Proceedings Chair.

I designed, co-founded, and co-organized the 1st edition of the International Workshop on Ecology, Environment, and Natural Language Processing (NLP4Ecology 2025) at the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/BalticHLT 2025).

I co-organized and chaired the first, second, third, and fourth editions of the International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Process Mining for Law (KM4LAW) at the International Conferences EKAW 2022, FOIS 2023, and FOIS 2024. I am currently co-organizing its fourth edition, to be hosted by FOIS 2025.

I've been part of the Organizing Committee for the 29th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems (NLDB 2024), serving as the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Chair.

I co-organized and chaired the 1st edition of the International Workshop on Biased Data in Conversational Agents at the European Conference ECML PKDD 2023.

Research internship:

Since the end of October 2023, I have been a visiting Ph.D. Student at the University of Potsdam, Germany, under Prof. Dr. Manfred Stede. Our collaboration focuses on analyzing texts related to climate change and ecological issues.

In a collaborative internship with Almawave, a company specializing in NLP techniques, my focus has been on investigating corporate communication to identify unsustainable business practices.

Teaching/Supervisory Activities:

- I supervised an international group of Master’s students at the University of Potsdam for Prof. Manfred Stede’s Argument Mining Master’s course.

- I am co-supervising a Master’s thesis student in the Master Program in Comunicazione e Culture dei Media at the University of Turin with Prof. Antonio Dante Maria Santangelo.

- I am co-supervising a Master’s student for a Master’s Project on a fine-grained approach to analyzing framing through syntactic parsing at the University of Potsdam with Prof. Manfred Stede.

- I am currently serving as a teaching assistant to Prof. Angela Zottola for the Bachelor's course English Language in the Bachelor's Program in Political and Social Sciences (second semester, 2025). Previously, I substituted for Prof. Zottola as a teaching assistant for the Master's course Discourse Strategies in Contemporary English in the Master's Program in Government Sciences.

- I will lead a topic-specific seminar within Prof. Luigi Di Caro’s Master's course in Natural Language Processing, part of the Master's Program in Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems "Pietro Torasso" (second semester, 2025).

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