Papers by Davide Testa
We Understand Elliptical Sentences, and Language Models should Too: A New Dataset for Studying Ellipsis and its Interaction with Thematic Fit (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | ellipsis is a linguistic phenomenon characterized by the omission of one or more sentence elements. |
| Approach: | They investigated how prototypicality affects the ability of Language Models to handle elliptical sentences . they found that models were better suited to evaluating argument thematic fit . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset shows that the models perform better for typical events than for atypical ones in different elliptical contexts. |
All-in-one: Understanding and Generation in Multimodal Reasoning with the MAIA Benchmark (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Davide Testa, Giovanni Bonetta, Raffaella Bernardi, Alessandro Bondielli, Alessandro Lenci, Alessio Miaschi, Lucia Passaro, Bernardo Magnini
| Challenge: | MAIA evaluates visual language models on video-related tasks using reasoning categories that aim to disentangle language and vision relations. |
| Approach: | a native-italian benchmark is designed for fine-grained investigation of the reasoning abilities of visual language models on videos. |
| Outcome: | The benchmark evaluates visual language models on two aligned tasks and a visual question-answering task. |