Papers by Caterina Villani
How Humans and LLMs Organize Conceptual Knowledge: Exploring Subordinate Categories in Italian (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on hierarchical organization of categories focused on basic-1 . but, words at the subordinate level are crucial for effective communication in specialized domains. |
| Approach: | They analyze a psycholinguistic dataset of human-generated exemplars for 187 concrete words . they then evaluate whether textual and vision LLMs produce meaningful exemplar . |
| Outcome: | The results show that human-generated exemplars perform poorly in three key tasks . the results highlight the potential of using AI-generated categories in psycholinguistic research . |