Marco Baroni's Homepage Welcome to my homepage! I am an ICREA research professor, affiliated with the Department of Linguistics at Pompeu Fabra University, in Barcelona (here is my ICREA page).

M. Baroni, A. Joulin, A. Jabri, G. Kruszewski, A. Lazaridou, K. Simonic and T. Mikolov. 2017. CommAI: Evaluating the first steps towards a useful general AI. Proceedings of ICLR 2017 (International Conference on Learning Representations) Workshop Track, online at https://openreview.net/group?id=ICLR.cc/2017/workshop .

Marco Baroni's CV. Marco Baroni: Education and Academic/Professional History and Activities Index. Education; Work experience; Institutional teaching; Other activities; Funded projects and scholarships; Contact; Education. Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of …

BLESS (Baroni-Lenci Evaluation of Semantic Similarity), a large data set to evaluate computational models of semantic similarity; DM : trained model (weighted word-link-word tuples) and utility scripts;

Universal Triggers: the dark side of (transferable) unnatural prompts •TH PEOPLEMan goddreams Blacks and [RaceTerm] are the most evil people on earth •TH PEOPLEMan goddreams Blacks my mother says I'm a racist, and she's right. •TH PEOPLEMan goddreams Blacks yesterday I'm going to be a f*cking [RacialSlur] man. I don’t know what to …

While conducting a separate study on Northern Italian [s] and [z] (Baroni 1996), I asked 58 speakers to read a list of nonsense words including fillers and forms with <s>, which is the grapheme corresponding to both [s] and [z] in Italian orthography.

Adriano Ferraresi,* Silvia Bernardini,* Giovanni Picci,** Marco Baroni*** * University of Bologna, Italy ** Larousse dictionnaires bilingues, Paris, France *** University of Trento, Italy 1. Introduction This paper describes two very large (> 1 billion words) Web-derived “reference” corpora of

M. Marelli, S. Menini, M. Baroni, L. Bentivogli, R. Bernardi and R. Zamparelli (2014). A SICK cure for the evaluation of compositional distributional semantic models. Proceedings of LREC 2014 , Reykjavik (Iceland): ELRA, 216-223.

M. Baroni and A. Lenci. Distributional Memory: A general framework for corpus-based semantics. 2010. Computational Linguistics 36 (4): 673-721.

E. Vecchi, M. Marelli, R. Zamparelli and M. Baroni. 2017. Spicy adjectives and nominal donkeys: Capturing semantic deviance using compositionality in distributional spaces. Cognitive Science 41(1): 102-136.