publications

2026

1. EMNLP

   Paint It, Black: Evaluating LLMs for De-Identification of Multimodal Clinical Documents

   F. Zangrillo, A. Cocchieri, Giacomo Frisoni, and 6 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2026

   Main Track. To appear.

   Bib Website

   @inproceedings{zangrillo2026paintitblack,
     title = {Paint It, Black: Evaluating LLMs for De-Identification of Multimodal Clinical Documents},
     author = {Zangrillo, F. and Cocchieri, A. and Frisoni, Giacomo and Freddi, D. and Ragazzi, L. and Aguzzi, A. and Raimondo, D. and Seracchioli, R. and Moro, G.},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
     year = {2026},
     note = {Main Track. To appear.},
   }

2. AAAI

   

   Graph-of-Mark: Promote Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal Language Models with Graph-Based Visual Prompting

   Giacomo Frisoni, L. Molfetta, M. Buzzoni, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026

   DOI Bib Code Poster

   @inproceedings{frisoni2026graphofmark,
     title = {Graph-of-Mark: Promote Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal Language Models with Graph-Based Visual Prompting},
     author = {Frisoni, Giacomo and Molfetta, L. and Buzzoni, M. and Moro, G.},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
     volume = {40},
     number = {36},
     pages = {30726--30734},
     year = {2026},
     doi = {10.1609/aaai.v40i36.40329},
   }

3. AIL

   COMMA: A Multi-Task and Multi-Lingual Dataset of Constitutional Verdicts

   L. Ragazzi, Giacomo Frisoni, G. Moro, and 3 more authors

   Artificial Intelligence and Law, 2026

   Bib

   @article{ragazzi2026comma,
     title = {COMMA: A Multi-Task and Multi-Lingual Dataset of Constitutional Verdicts},
     author = {Ragazzi, L. and Frisoni, Giacomo and Moro, G. and Italiani, P. and Molfetta, L. and Folin, V.},
     journal = {Artificial Intelligence and Law},
     pages = {1--55},
     year = {2026}
   }

4. ESWA

   OpenBioNER-v2: A Suite of Lightweight Models for Zero-Shot Medical Named Entity Recognition via Type Descriptions

   A. Cocchieri, Giacomo Frisoni, F. Zangrillo, and 4 more authors

   Expert Systems with Applications, 2026

   Bib

   @article{cocchieri2026openbionerv2,
     title = {OpenBioNER-v2: A Suite of Lightweight Models for Zero-Shot Medical Named Entity Recognition via Type Descriptions},
     author = {Cocchieri, A. and Frisoni, Giacomo and Zangrillo, F. and Ragazzi, L. and Galindo, M. M. and Tagliavini, G. and Moro, G.},
     journal = {Expert Systems with Applications},
     pages = {131725},
     year = {2026}
   }

5. arXiv

   Mixture of Masters: Sparse Chess Language Models with Player Routing

   Giacomo Frisoni, L. Molfetta, D. Freddi, and 1 more author

   2026

   Bib

   @misc{frisoni2026mom,
     title = {Mixture of Masters: Sparse Chess Language Models with Player Routing},
     author = {Frisoni, Giacomo and Molfetta, L. and Freddi, D. and Moro, G.},
     howpublished = {arXiv},
     year = {2026}
   }

2025

1. EMNLP

   

   PORTS: Preference-Optimized Retrievers for Tool Selection with Large Language Models

   L. Molfetta, Giacomo Frisoni, N. Monaldini, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025

   DOI Bib Poster

   @inproceedings{molfetta2025ports,
     title = {PORTS: Preference-Optimized Retrievers for Tool Selection with Large Language Models},
     author = {Molfetta, L. and Frisoni, Giacomo and Monaldini, N. and Moro, G.},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
     pages = {10018--10041},
     year = {2025},
     doi = {10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.507},
   }

2. ACL

   ZeroNER: Fueling Zero-Shot Named Entity Recognition via Entity Type Descriptions

   A. Cocchieri, M. M. Galindo, Giacomo Frisoni, and 3 more authors

   In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025, 2025

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{cocchieri2025zeroner,
     title = {ZeroNER: Fueling Zero-Shot Named Entity Recognition via Entity Type Descriptions},
     author = {Cocchieri, A. and Galindo, M. M. and Frisoni, Giacomo and Moro, G. and Sartori, C. and Tagliavini, G.},
     booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025},
     pages = {15594--15616},
     year = {2025},
     doi = {10.18653/v1/2025.findings-acl.805}
   }

3. NAACL

   OpenBioNER: Lightweight Open-Domain Biomedical Named Entity Recognition Through Entity Type Description

   A. Cocchieri, Giacomo Frisoni, M. M. Galindo, and 3 more authors

   In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025, 2025

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{cocchieri2025openbioner,
     title = {OpenBioNER: Lightweight Open-Domain Biomedical Named Entity Recognition Through Entity Type Description},
     author = {Cocchieri, A. and Frisoni, Giacomo and Galindo, M. M. and Moro, G. and Tagliavini, G. and Candoli, F.},
     booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025},
     pages = {818--837},
     year = {2025},
     doi = {10.18653/v1/2025.findings-naacl.47}
   }

4. ECAI

   FEAST: Retrieval-Augmented Multi-Hierarchical Food Classification for the FoodEx2 System

   L. Molfetta, A. Cocchieri, S. Fantazzini, and 3 more authors

   In ECAI 2025, 2025

   Bib

   @inproceedings{molfetta2025feast,
     title = {FEAST: Retrieval-Augmented Multi-Hierarchical Food Classification for the FoodEx2 System},
     author = {Molfetta, L. and Cocchieri, A. and Fantazzini, S. and Frisoni, Giacomo and Ragazzi, L. and Moro, G.},
     booktitle = {ECAI 2025},
     pages = {4169--4176},
     publisher = {IOS Press},
     year = {2025}
   }

5. ECAI

   Magic Mirror on the Wall, Which Is the Fairest Prompt of All? A Survey on Automatic Prompt Learning

   S. Fantazzini, Giacomo Frisoni, G. Moro, and 3 more authors

   In ECAI 2025, 2025

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{fantazzini2025magicmirror,
     title = {Magic Mirror on the Wall, Which Is the Fairest Prompt of All? A Survey on Automatic Prompt Learning},
     author = {Fantazzini, S. and Frisoni, Giacomo and Moro, G. and Ragazzi, L. and Ciccioni, M. and Sartori, C.},
     booktitle = {ECAI 2025},
     pages = {4444--4451},
     publisher = {IOS Press},
     year = {2025},
     doi = {10.3233/FAIA251343}
   }

6. ECAI

   

   Predicting Protein Functions with Ensemble Deep Learning and Protein Language Models

   Giacomo Frisoni, M. Fuschi, and G. Moro

   In ECAI 2025, 2025

   Bib Poster

   @inproceedings{frisoni2025protein,
     title = {Predicting Protein Functions with Ensemble Deep Learning and Protein Language Models},
     author = {Frisoni, Giacomo and Fuschi, M. and Moro, G.},
     booktitle = {ECAI 2025},
     pages = {5139--5142},
     publisher = {IOS Press},
     year = {2025},
   }

7. AIL

   LAWSUIT: A Large Expert-Written Summarization Dataset of Italian Constitutional Court Verdicts

   L. Ragazzi, G. Moro, S. Guidi, and 1 more author

   Artificial Intelligence and Law, 2025

   Bib

   @article{ragazzi2025lawsuit,
     title = {LAWSUIT: A Large Expert-Written Summarization Dataset of Italian Constitutional Court Verdicts},
     author = {Ragazzi, L. and Moro, G. and Guidi, S. and Frisoni, Giacomo},
     journal = {Artificial Intelligence and Law},
     volume = {33},
     number = {4},
     pages = {1151--1187},
     year = {2025}
   }

8. NN

   Abstractive Summarization through the Prism of Decoding Strategies

   Giacomo Frisoni, L. Ragazzi, D. Cohen, and 3 more authors

   Neural Networks, 2025

   Bib

   @article{frisoni2025decoding,
     title = {Abstractive Summarization through the Prism of Decoding Strategies},
     author = {Frisoni, Giacomo and Ragazzi, L. and Cohen, D. and Moro, G. and Carbonaro, A. and Sartori, C.},
     journal = {Neural Networks},
     pages = {108249},
     year = {2025}
   }

9. Knowledge-Enhanced Information Retrieval

   Z. Wang, J. Fang, Giacomo Frisoni, and 4 more authors

   2025

   Bib

   @book{wang2025keir,
     title = {Knowledge-Enhanced Information Retrieval},
     author = {Wang, Z. and Fang, J. and Frisoni, Giacomo and Dai, Z. and Meng, Z. and Moro, G. and Yilmaz, E.},
     year = {2025}
   }

10. KEIR

    Enhancing Representation Learning for Content-Based Information Retrieval: A Knowledge-Enhanced Geometric Approach

    M. Goyo, Giacomo Frisoni, G. Moro, and 1 more author

    In International Workshop on Knowledge-Enhanced Information Retrieval, 2025

    Bib

    @inproceedings{goyo2025geometric,
      title = {Enhancing Representation Learning for Content-Based Information Retrieval: A Knowledge-Enhanced Geometric Approach},
      author = {Goyo, M. and Frisoni, Giacomo and Moro, G. and Sartori, C.},
      booktitle = {International Workshop on Knowledge-Enhanced Information Retrieval},
      pages = {36--68},
      publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
      year = {2025}
    }

2024

1. EMNLP

   Unknown Claims: Generation of Fact-Checking Training Examples from Unstructured and Structured Data

   J. F. Bussotti, L. Ragazzi, Giacomo Frisoni, and 2 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{bussotti2024unknown,
     title = {Unknown Claims: Generation of Fact-Checking Training Examples from Unstructured and Structured Data},
     author = {Bussotti, J. F. and Ragazzi, L. and Frisoni, Giacomo and Moro, G. and Papotti, P.},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
     pages = {12105--12122},
     year = {2024},
     doi = {10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.675}
   }

2. ACL

   To Generate or to Retrieve? On the Effectiveness of Artificial Contexts for Medical Open-Domain Question Answering

   Giacomo Frisoni, A. Cocchieri, A. Presepi, and 2 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{frisoni2024medgenie,
     title = {To Generate or to Retrieve? On the Effectiveness of Artificial Contexts for Medical Open-Domain Question Answering},
     author = {Frisoni, Giacomo and Cocchieri, A. and Presepi, A. and Moro, G. and Meng, Z.},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)},
     pages = {9878--9919},
     year = {2024},
     doi = {10.18653/v1/2024.acl-long.533}
   }

3. NEUCOM

   Evidence, my Dear Watson: Abstractive Dialogue Summarization on Learnable Relevant Utterances

   P. Italiani, Giacomo Frisoni, G. Moro, and 2 more authors

   Neurocomputing, 2024

   Bib

   @article{italiani2024evidence,
     title = {Evidence, my Dear Watson: Abstractive Dialogue Summarization on Learnable Relevant Utterances},
     author = {Italiani, P. and Frisoni, Giacomo and Moro, G. and Carbonaro, A. and Sartori, C.},
     journal = {Neurocomputing},
     volume = {572},
     pages = {127132},
     year = {2024}
   }

4. SEBD

   Refining Triplet Sampling for Improved Self-Supervised Representation Learning

   M. Goyo, Giacomo Frisoni, G. Moro, and 1 more author

   In SEBD, 2024

   Bib

   @inproceedings{goyo2024triplet,
     title = {Refining Triplet Sampling for Improved Self-Supervised Representation Learning},
     author = {Goyo, M. and Frisoni, Giacomo and Moro, G. and Sartori, C.},
     booktitle = {SEBD},
     pages = {227--246},
     year = {2024}
   }

2023

1. AAAI

   Cogito Ergo Summ: Abstractive Summarization of Biomedical Papers via Semantic Parsing Graphs and Consistency Rewards

   Giacomo Frisoni, P. Italiani, S. Salvatori, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023

   Bib

   @inproceedings{frisoni2023cogito,
     title = {Cogito Ergo Summ: Abstractive Summarization of Biomedical Papers via Semantic Parsing Graphs and Consistency Rewards},
     author = {Frisoni, Giacomo and Italiani, P. and Salvatori, S. and Moro, G.},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
     volume = {37},
     number = {11},
     pages = {12781--12789},
     year = {2023}
   }

2. SNCS

   Graph-Enhanced Biomedical Abstractive Summarization via Factual Evidence Extraction

   Giacomo Frisoni, P. Italiani, G. Moro, and 3 more authors

   SN Computer Science. Revised version of Best Student Paper Award , 2023

   Bib

   @article{frisoni2023graphenhanced,
     title = {Graph-Enhanced Biomedical Abstractive Summarization via Factual Evidence Extraction},
     author = {Frisoni, Giacomo and Italiani, P. and Moro, G. and Bartolini, I. and Boschetti, M. A. and Carbonaro, A.},
     journal = {SN Computer Science},
     volume = {4},
     number = {5},
     pages = {500},
     year = {2023},
   }

3. NEUCOM

   Efficient Text-Image Semantic Search: A Multi-Modal Vision-Language Approach for Fashion Retrieval

   G. Moro, S. Salvatori, and Giacomo Frisoni

   Neurocomputing, 2023

   Bib

   @article{moro2023fashion,
     title = {Efficient Text-Image Semantic Search: A Multi-Modal Vision-Language Approach for Fashion Retrieval},
     author = {Moro, G. and Salvatori, S. and Frisoni, Giacomo},
     journal = {Neurocomputing},
     volume = {538},
     pages = {126196},
     year = {2023}
   }

4. Sensors

   Efficient Memory-Enhanced Transformer for Long-Document Summarization in Low-Resource Regimes

   G. Moro, L. Ragazzi, L. Valgimigli, and 3 more authors

   Sensors, 2023

   Bib

   @article{moro2023memory,
     title = {Efficient Memory-Enhanced Transformer for Long-Document Summarization in Low-Resource Regimes},
     author = {Moro, G. and Ragazzi, L. and Valgimigli, L. and Frisoni, Giacomo and Sartori, C. and Marfia, G.},
     journal = {Sensors},
     volume = {23},
     number = {7},
     pages = {3542},
     year = {2023}
   }

2022

1. EMNLP

   BioReader: a Retrieval-Enhanced Text-to-Text Transformer for Biomedical Literature

   Giacomo Frisoni, M. Mizutani, G. Moro, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022

   Bib

   @inproceedings{frisoni2022bioreader,
     title = {BioReader: a Retrieval-Enhanced Text-to-Text Transformer for Biomedical Literature},
     author = {Frisoni, Giacomo and Mizutani, M. and Moro, G. and Valgimigli, L.},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
     pages = {5770--5793},
     year = {2022}
   }

2. DATA

   Enhancing Biomedical Scientific Reviews Summarization with Graph-Based Factual Evidence Extracted from Papers

   Giacomo Frisoni, P. Italiani, F. Boschi, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications. Best Student Paper Award , 2022

   Bib

   @inproceedings{frisoni2022enhancing,
     title = {Enhancing Biomedical Scientific Reviews Summarization with Graph-Based Factual Evidence Extracted from Papers},
     author = {Frisoni, Giacomo and Italiani, P. and Boschi, F. and Moro, G.},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications},
     pages = {168--179},
     year = {2022},
   }

3. COLING

   Text-to-Text Extraction and Verbalization of Biomedical Event Graphs

   Giacomo Frisoni, G. Moro, and L. Balzani

   In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2022

   Bib

   @inproceedings{frisoni2022text2text,
     title = {Text-to-Text Extraction and Verbalization of Biomedical Event Graphs},
     author = {Frisoni, Giacomo and Moro, G. and Balzani, L.},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics},
     pages = {2692--2710},
     year = {2022}
   }

4. Electronics

   Comprehensive Analysis of Knowledge Graph Embedding Techniques Benchmarked on Link Prediction

   I. Ferrari, Giacomo Frisoni, P. Italiani, and 2 more authors

   Electronics, 2022

   Bib

   @article{ferrari2022comprehensive,
     title = {Comprehensive Analysis of Knowledge Graph Embedding Techniques Benchmarked on Link Prediction},
     author = {Ferrari, I. and Frisoni, Giacomo and Italiani, P. and Moro, G. and Sartori, C.},
     journal = {Electronics},
     volume = {11},
     number = {23},
     pages = {3866},
     year = {2022}
   }

5. Sensors

   Human Being Detection from UWB NLOS Signals: Accuracy and Generality of Advanced Machine Learning Models

   G. Moro, F. Di Luca, D. Dardari, and 1 more author

   Sensors, 2022

   Bib

   @article{moro2022uwb,
     title = {Human Being Detection from UWB NLOS Signals: Accuracy and Generality of Advanced Machine Learning Models},
     author = {Moro, G. and Di Luca, F. and Dardari, D. and Frisoni, Giacomo},
     journal = {Sensors},
     volume = {22},
     number = {4},
     pages = {1656},
     year = {2022}
   }

2021

1. Sensors

   Unsupervised Event Graph Representation and Similarity Learning on Biomedical Literature

   Giacomo Frisoni, G. Moro, G. Carlassare, and 1 more author

   Sensors, 2021

   Bib

   @article{frisoni2021eventgraph,
     title = {Unsupervised Event Graph Representation and Similarity Learning on Biomedical Literature},
     author = {Frisoni, Giacomo and Moro, G. and Carlassare, G. and Carbonaro, A.},
     journal = {Sensors},
     volume = {22},
     number = {1},
     pages = {3},
     year = {2021}
   }

2. IEEE Access

   A Survey on Event Extraction for Natural Language Understanding: Riding the Biomedical Literature Wave

   Giacomo Frisoni, G. Moro, and A. Carbonaro

   IEEE Access, 2021

   Bib

   @article{frisoni2021survey,
     title = {A Survey on Event Extraction for Natural Language Understanding: Riding the Biomedical Literature Wave},
     author = {Frisoni, Giacomo and Moro, G. and Carbonaro, A.},
     journal = {IEEE Access},
     volume = {9},
     pages = {160721--160757},
     year = {2021}
   }

3. Springer

   Phenomena Explanation from Text: Unsupervised Learning of Interpretable and Statistically Significant Knowledge

   Giacomo Frisoni and G. Moro

   In Data Management Technologies and Applications. DATA 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Revised version of Best Paper Award , 2021

   Bib

   @incollection{frisoni2021phenomena,
     title = {Phenomena Explanation from Text: Unsupervised Learning of Interpretable and Statistically Significant Knowledge},
     author = {Frisoni, Giacomo and Moro, G.},
     booktitle = {Data Management Technologies and Applications. DATA 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science},
     volume = {1446},
     pages = {293--318},
     publisher = {Springer, Cham},
     year = {2021},
   }

2020

1. KDIR

   Unsupervised Descriptive Text Mining for Knowledge Graph Learning

   Giacomo Frisoni, G. Moro, and A. Carbonaro

   In Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, 2020

   Bib

   @inproceedings{frisoni2020unsupervised,
     title = {Unsupervised Descriptive Text Mining for Knowledge Graph Learning},
     author = {Frisoni, Giacomo and Moro, G. and Carbonaro, A.},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management},
     volume = {1},
     pages = {316--324},
     year = {2020}
   }

2. DATA

   Learning Interpretable and Statistically Significant Knowledge from Unlabeled Corpora of Social Text Messages: A Novel Methodology of Descriptive Text Mining

   Giacomo Frisoni, G. Moro, and A. Carbonaro

   In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications. Best Paper Award , 2020

   Bib

   @inproceedings{frisoni2020learning,
     title = {Learning Interpretable and Statistically Significant Knowledge from Unlabeled Corpora of Social Text Messages: A Novel Methodology of Descriptive Text Mining},
     author = {Frisoni, Giacomo and Moro, G. and Carbonaro, A.},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications},
     pages = {121--132},
     year = {2020},
   }