I am a PhD student in Information Engineering and Computer Science based at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, in collaboration with the University of Trento. My research investigates crisis communication through Natural Language Generation, moving from broad, general messages to more precise and personalized communication.
Previously, I earned my BSc in Information Engineering and my MSc in Computer Engineering from the University of Padua, where I completed a thesis on the exploration of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) under the supervision of Prof. Giorgio Satta and Prof. Loris Nanni.
News
- Jun 2026 New preprint on arXiv: Guide Me Out, a framework to benchmark VLM operators communication in crisis scenarios.
- Mar 2026 CrisiText was published in Findings of EACL 2026 and presented in Rabat, Morocco.
- Oct 2025 The CrisiText preprint is out on arXiv: a dataset of warning messages for LLM training in emergency communication.
- Nov 2024 Started my PhD at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, in collaboration with DISI, University of Trento.
Publications
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Guide Me Out: A Framework to Benchmark VLM Operators Communication in Crisis Scenarios Preprint
@misc{gonella2026guidemeout, title={Guide Me Out: A Framework to Benchmark VLM Operators Communication in Crisis Scenarios}, author={Giacomo Gonella and Stefano Menini and Marco Guerini}, year={2026}, eprint={2606.09428}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={cs.CL} } -
CrisiText: A dataset of warning messages for LLM training in emergency communication EACL 2026
@inproceedings{gonella-etal-2026-crisitext, title = "{C}risi{T}ext: A dataset of warning messages for {LLM} training in emergency communication", author = "Gonella, Giacomo and Campedelli, Gian Maria and Menini, Stefano and Guerini, Marco", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EACL} 2026", month = mar, year = "2026", address = "Rabat, Morocco", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-eacl.350/", doi = "10.18653/v1/2026.findings-eacl.350", pages = "6657--6677" }
Education
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PhD in Information Engineering and Computer Science
Specializing in NLP and NLG for Crisis/Emergency Management.
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MSc in Computer Engineering — AI & Robotics
Focused on advanced AI topics and robotics.
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BSc in Information Engineering
Gained foundational knowledge in computer science and engineering principles.