NL4AI 2024
Eight Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 18 papers submitted for peer-review, 14 papers were accepted for this volume, 8 as regular papers and 6 as short papers.
  
• NL4AI 2024: Overview of the Seventh Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI 2024)
  Giovanni Bonetta, Claudiu Daniel Hromei, Lucia Siciliani, Marco Antonio Stranisci

Keynote Talk

• The European AI Act: Challenges and Opportunities for Ethical and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
  Brando Benifei
• Modeling and Evaluation for Perspectivist NLP
  Valerio Basile

Generative and Conversational AI

• Enhancing Human Capital Management through GPT-driven Questionnaire Generation
  Lucrezia Laraspata, Fabio Cardilli, Giovanna Castellano, Gennaro Vessio
• AI Multi-Agent Interoperability Extension for Managing Multiparty Conversations
  Diego Gosmar, Deborah A. Dahl, Emmett Coin, David Attwater

LLM Applications

• Enhancing Clinical Data Capture: Developing a Natural Language Processing Pipeline for Converting Free Text Admission Notes to Structured EHR Data (short paper)
  Patrick Styll, Wojciech Kusa, Allan Hanbury
• Adapting a Large Language Model to the Legal Domain: A Case Study in Italian (short paper)
  Flavio Valerio, Pierpaolo Basile, Marco de Gemmis
• A Comprehensive Framework for Aspect-Category Sentiment Analysis (short paper)
  Loris Di Quilio, Fabio Fioravanti
• UniQA: an Italian and English Question-Answering Data Set Based on Educational Documents (short paper)
  Irene Siragusa, Roberto Pirrone
• Last Utterance Proactivity Prediction in Task-oriented Dialogues (short paper)
  Sofia Brenna, Bernardo Magnini
• Towards Automatically Filling Questionnaires from Clinical Records with Large Language Models (short paper)
  Valeria Nardoni, Marco Lippi, Giulia Hyeraci, Martina Maccari, Amirreza Dehghan Tarazjani, Gianni Virgili, Rosa Gini, Simone Marinai

Multimodal and NLP Applications

• Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models for Visual Question-Answering in Italian
  Antonio Scaiella, Daniele Margiotta, Claudiu Daniel Hromei, Danilo Croce, Roberto Basili
• Fantastic Labels and Where to Find Them: Attention-Based Label Selection for Text-to-Text Classification
  Michele Papucci, Alessio Miaschi, Felice Dell’Orletta
• Coherence Evaluation in Italian Language Models
  Marta Sartor, Felice Dell’Orletta, Giulia Venturi
• On the Reform of the Italian Constitution: an Interdisciplinary Text Readability Analysis
  Calogero Jerik Scozzaro, Matteo Delsanto, Antonio Mastropaolo, Enrico Mensa, Luisa Revelli, Daniele P. Radicioni

Selected Papers

• LLaVA-NDiNO: Empowering LLMs with Multimodality for the Italian Language
  Elio Musacchio, Lucia Siciliani, Pierpaolo Basile, Giovanni Semeraro
• Towards Italian Sign Language Generation for Digital Humans
  Emanuele Colonna, Alessandro Arezzo, Domenico Roberto, David Landi, Felice Vitulano, Gennaro Vessio, Giovanna Castellano