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MariannaBolog
@mariannabolog.bsky.social
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Linguist (Semantics, Cognition, Computation)
PI of ABSTRACTION (ERC-2021-STG-101039777)
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MariannaBolog @mariannabolog.bsky.social · Nov 15
Word Ladders is a free mobile app developed by @Abstraction_ERC to collect linguistic data
site.unibo.it/abstraction/en

Join more than 3400 players to help us study the role of language in Abstraction.

Download:

Android 👉 shorturl.at/kqAOS
Apple 👉 shorturl.at/buIS2
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New theoretical paper: “Beyond concreteness: why word specificity is the missing piece in theories on embodied language comprehension”
shorturl.at/6Rv3Y
Included in the special issue
"Rethinking the Embodiment of Language: Challenges and Future Horizons", led by V. Cuccio, V. Gallese & Y. Shtyrov.
Frontiers | Beyond concreteness: why word specificity is the missing piece in theories on embodied language comprehension
The concreteness effect has long been associated with embodied theories of language, which propose that concrete words are easier to process than abstract on...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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📣 Abstraction seminars are back!
🗓️ 12 December, 10:30 (CET)
🎙️Prof.ssa Kristina S. Despot
🎓Metaphor literalization strategy: From concrete to abstract and back to concrete again
📍 Bologna
💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/B4H7R)
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
✨@abstractionerc.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mariannabolog.bsky.social
🌐 Il seminario della collega Valentina Cuccio è ora online!
È disponibile sul sito di Abstraction al link: site.unibo.it/abstraction/...

Se vi siete persi l’incontro o volete riascoltarlo con calma, potete trovarlo lì. Buona visione! 🎧✨
SEMINARI REGISTRATI
Qui si trovano le registrazioni ed i materiali relativi ai seminari tenuti nell'ambito del progetto ABSTRACTION da invited speakers e collaboratori.
site.unibo.it
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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In the Netherlands, when you walk into a pharmacy with a prescription, a pharmacist takes your medication and then, every single time, hands both the prescription and the medicine to a second pharmacist for a congruence check before you pay.
Peer review all the way down.
I find it brilliant!
a man in a suit is pointing at the camera in front of a sign that says maandag
ALT: a man in a suit is pointing at the camera in front of a sign that says maandag
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November 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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E oggi ho condiviso con il centro interdipartimentale Alma AI e un gruppo di colleghe e colleghi giuristi capitanati da Monica Palmirani i risultati a grandi linee del gruppo @abstractionerc.bsky.social su studi che coinvolgono l'uso di LLMs. Questa settimana è decisamente densa :-)
November 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Reposted by MariannaBolog
grambelli.bsky.social
Seeing this slide after completing my postdoc at @abstractionerc.bsky.social makes me emotional. Great talk of @mariannabolog.bsky.social at the workshop "Large and Small Language Models: stato dell’arte fra limiti e prospettive" at Unibo. Many works about abstraction and LLM are on the horizon! :)
November 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Dopo il seminario di Valentina Cuccio con una delegazionedi Abstraction, nel magnifico chiostro del dipartimento di storia, San Giovanni in Monte, Bologna.
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Prof. Valentina Cuccio kicks off her seminar asking whether there are any cross-cutting, neglected dimensions that can explain the concreteness effect. She elaborates on the modality of acquisition of concepts
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Tavola rotonda all' ISTI-DAY, un'opportunità per discutere dei rischi, responsabilità e opportunità legate all'uso di GenAI per la ricerca.
November 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Tomorrow I’m ready to hop on a train to Pisa right after my class, to take part in the round table at CNR ISTI, with top-notch computer scientists, to talk about the use and abuse of AI in research. I’ll be contributing the perspective of the humanities. Stay tuned!
www.isti.cnr.it/it/ricerca/i...
November 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Per chi fosse interessato a leggere cosa fa il gruppo ABSTRACTION @erc.europa.eu , ecco il flipbook interattivo con gli studi condotti fino ad oggi (in lingua italiana).
heyzine.com/flip-book/61...
Il flipbook accompagna un video introduttivo, che trovate qui:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIqc...
Alla scoperta dell'astrazione linguistica - final | PDF to Flipbook
Created with the Heyzine flipbook maker
heyzine.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Reposted by MariannaBolog
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📣 November's Abstraction seminar is all set too!
🗓️ 19 November, 11:30 - 12.30 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/xW7mF )
🎆 Join us, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
✨
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Today I officially took up my new position as Full Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bologna @unibo.it 🎉
Funny to think it all began when I was a kid, convinced everyone thought in Italian (of course!) and the others just had to translate into whatever language they spoke 😅.
November 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Time flies! 🚀 @grambelli.bsky.social just wrapped up her 3-year postdoc with Abstraction_ERC and is already off exploring new research frontiers. Grateful that some projects still keep us collaborating: once an Abstractioner, always an Abstractioner! ☕✨Thanks for the amazing mug!!!
October 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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I primi 2 seminari autunnali di @abstractionerc.bsky.social sono online!🥳
share.google/gGvHTdAA9O07...
👉Filippo Domaneschi
🎤Titolo: Concretely offensive: the processing f reclaimed slurs.
👉Veronica Repetti,
🎤Titolo: Concrete or abstract possession? Animacy, alienability, and syntactic structure.
a gazelle is looking at a bowl of popcorn ..
ALT: a gazelle is looking at a bowl of popcorn ..
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October 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
mariannabolog.bsky.social
Love this visual device: parents's discussions are shown not through words, only symbols, mostly pointing fingers.
From the child’s view, the words don’t matter; it’s adult stuff. What he perceives is the tone, the tension, the conflict.
A brilliant way to show how kids experience adult language.
October 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Invited keynote at Rende, University of Calabria, went great!
On the role of context and abstraction mechanisms in the construction and interpretation of multimodal metaphors
October 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Excited to kick off day 1 of the CIRM International Annual Conference on Metaphor and Multimodality at the University of Calabria in Rende: such a beautiful campus nestled in the hills. Enjoyed a lovely morning walk to get here! My invited keynote is scheduled for tomorrow morning.
October 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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In the seminar room this morning, there was this (rather distracting) writing on the wall: “Piume al vento” (“Feathers in the Wind"). 🦩 Quite exotic and mysterious, indeed 🙃
October 17, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Veronica Repetti explaining variation in animacy, alienability and syntactic structure of concrete and abstract possession, this morning for the second @abstractionerc.bsky.social seminar.
All seminars are recorded and posted on site.unibo.it/abstraction/...
October 17, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Filippo Domaneschi, director of the Lab of Language and Cognition presenting at @abstractionerc.bsky.social on the reclamation of slurs, discussing pragmatic and psycholinguistic aspects in relation to abstraction mechanisms
October 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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📣 November's Abstraction seminar is all set too!
🗓️ 19 November, 11:30 - 12.30 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/xW7mF )
🎆 Join us, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
✨
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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I knew I hired well for @abstractionerc.bsky.social from day 1.
But seeing @tomlamarra.bsky.social presenting this morning his phd progress in front of faculty and this evening to the city, taking part to phd storytelling (part of EU Researchers' night) was a clear confirmation. Brilliant, Tom!
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“What do I mean by simulating through language?” 🤔

At #GenerAzioni, @tomlamarra.bsky.social satisfied our curiosity in one of the most beautiful places in the city.
Science is better when shared 💡

Thank you UniBo, and well done Tom! 👏
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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tomlamarra.bsky.social
Excited to share that @abstractionerc.bsky.social has even reached #CambridgeUniversity and #TrinityCollege!

Yesterday, at the #XPrag2025 conference, I presented how speakers maximize the informativeness of their descriptions in naturalistic conversations.

Thanks for the insightful discussions!
September 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Reposted by MariannaBolog
tomlamarra.bsky.social
Glad to be at #XPrag2025 at the #UniversityOfCambridge!
Day 1 was packed with fascinating talks and exciting discussions!
September 18, 2025 at 11:03 AM