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Raffaella Bernardi is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. She previously held academic positions at the University of Trento and the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Her research is centered on Computational Linguistics, with a focus on the interplay between language and reasoning in multimodal and conversational contexts.
Research Interests: Her primary research areas include Natural Language Processing, Visually Grounded Conversational Models, Large Language Models (LLMs), Vision-Language Models (VLMs), and the cognitive abilities of AI systems. She investigates how language and reasoning interact, particularly in dialogue and multimodal settings.
The analysis of her 15 most recent publications reveals a strong emphasis on multimodal reasoning, human-AI interaction, and the cognitive evaluation of language models. Her work frequently explores how AI systems understand and generate language in context, particularly in grounded and interactive environments. There is a consistent trend toward benchmarking, evaluation, and understanding the reasoning capabilities of modern LLMs and VLMs.
- Fellow of ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems)
- Best Paper Award, INLG 2023
- Best Paper Nomination, Clic-it 2020
- Best Paper Nomination, NL4AI 2020
Raffaella Bernardi has supervised numerous PhD and Master’s students, including Leonardo Bertolazzi, Claudio Greco, Alberto Testoni, and Sandro Pezzelle. She has been involved in significant research projects, often funded by industrial partners like SAP and EU initiatives. She has also been active in organizing scientific events and serving in leadership roles within the ACL and AILC communities.
She leads a research group focused on multimodal language understanding and grounded interaction. Her team has developed benchmarks such as BD2BB (Be Different to Be Better) to evaluate the complementarity of language and vision in AI systems.
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