Francesco Periti

I am a Research Assistant at the Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven, where I contribute to the international Change is Key! program. My research focuses on modeling word meaning and semantic change within the field of Natural Language Processing. I completed my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Milan, with a thesis titled Modeling Semantic Change through Large Language Models. My office is located at LETT 02.42, and I can be reached at francesco.periti@kuleuven.be.

Research Interests

I am particularly interested in:

• Neural language models
• Computational Humanities

In general, my research interests revolve around:

• Natural Language Processing
• Computational Linguistics

I would like to learn more about:

• Evolutionary Clustering
• Machine and Deep Learning
• Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
• Bio and Clinical NLP
• . . .

"Homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto" (Terenzio, Heautontimorùmenos, 165 BC)

Contact

News

• New position: I started a new position as a Research Assistant in KU Leuven!
  
• My survey paper, submitted between December 2022 and January 2023, has now been officially accepted by the prestigious ACM, Association for Computing Machinery Computing Surveys journal.
  Lexical Semantic Change through Large Language Models: a Survey
  
• Two papers accepted at The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP2024)!
  Automatically Generated Definitions and their utility for Modeling Word Meaning
  TRoTR: A Framework for Evaluating the Re-contextualization of Text Reuse
  
• Paper accepted at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL2024)!
  Analyzing Semantic Change through Lexical Replacements
  
• Paper accepted at the 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL2024)! Now available as a preprint:
  A Systematic Comparison of Contextualized Word Embeddings for Lexical Semantic Change
  
• Paper accepted at the Findingts of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL2024)!
  (Chat)GPT v BERT: Dawn of Justice for Semantic Change Detection