Research

Papers & Preprints

Ciapparelli, M., Marelli, M., Graves, W., & Reverberi, C. (2025). Compositionality in the semantic network: a model-driven representational similarity analysis. Cerebral Cortex, 35(8), bhaf246. [paper]
Ciapparelli, M., Zarbo, C., & Marelli, M. (2025). Conceptual Combination in Large Language Models: Uncovering Implicit Relational Interpretations in Compound Words With Contextualized Word Embeddings. Cognitive Science, 49(3), e70048. [paper]
Ciapparelli, M. (2025). Multiple routes to conceptual combination: a distributional modeling approach. [dissertation]
Petilli, M. A., Günther, F., Vergallito, A., Ciapparelli, M., & Marelli, M. (2021). Data-driven computational models reveal perceptual simulation in word processing. Journal of Memory and Language, 117, 104194. [paper]

Ciapparelli, M., & de Varda, A. G. (2025). The BERT Model Family and Encoder-Only Transformers. [chapter]
de Varda, A. G., & Ciapparelli, M. (2024). Word Semantic Similarity Norms. [chapter]