--- title: "Francesca Padovani — author profile and papers" description: "Francesca Padovani, University of Groningen: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesca-padovani/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesca-padovani/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Francesca Padovani # Francesca Padovani 3 papers on this site · 2025–2026 current affiliation [University of Groningen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-groningen/), Groningen, Netherlands; [Dialyse Centrum Groningen](https://ror.org/022nxqs47), Groningen, Netherlands Francesca Padovani has 3 papers on this site, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Syntax & grammar formalisms](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/), [Universal Dependencies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/universal-dependencies/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Arianna Bisazza](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arianna-bisazza/), [Jaap Jumelet](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jaap-jumelet/), [Yevgen Matusevych](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yevgen-matusevych/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5093026574) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3489-9631) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5093026574) · [12 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5093026574) · [7 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5093026574&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [3 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesca-padovani/#papers) · [25 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesca-padovani/cited-by/) · 1 more work in our library · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4611](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/47/#star-4611) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Francesca+Padovani) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Francesca+Padovani) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Francesca+Padovani) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Francesca+Padovani) ## Affiliations - [University of Groningen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-groningen/) · Groningen, Netherlands —current · 2025–2026 on 8 papers - [Dialyse Centrum Groningen](https://ror.org/022nxqs47) · Groningen, Netherlands —current · 2026 on 1 paper - [Sony Computer Science Laboratories](https://ror.org/02nc46417) · Tokyo, Japan —2023–2024 on 2 papers - [University of Trento](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-trento/) · Trento, Italy —2023–2024 on 2 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Topics [Syntax & grammar formalisms 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/) · [Universal Dependencies 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/universal-dependencies/) · [Language models & pretraining 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Psycholinguistics & language acquisition 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/psycholinguistics/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ud-2026-padovani-cait-syntactic-parsing-toolkit-child/) · [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesca-padovani/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[TurBLiMP: A Turkish Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ar-2025-turblimp-turkish-benchmark-linguistic-minimal/)** *(2025 · 14 citations)* The authors created TurBLiMP, the first set of linguistic minimal pairs for Turkish. It makes it possible to test the grammatical knowledge of monolingual and multilingual language models. The benchmark covers 16 grammatical phenomena, from anaphor agreement and argument structure to NPIs, ellipsis and island… 2. **[Child-Directed Language Does Not Consistently Boost Syntax Learning in Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/padovani-2025-child-directed-language-does-not/)** *(2025 · 9 citations)* The paper tests whether child-directed language (CDL) is truly better material for training language models than text written for adults. 3. **[CAIT: A Syntactic Parsing Toolkit for Child–Adult InTeractions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ud-2026-padovani-cait-syntactic-parsing-toolkit-child/)** *(2026)* The authors train a biaffine dependency parser (SuPar, with RoBERTa-large) on the gold part of UD-English-CHILDES, about 48k manually corrected sentences, and add a POS tagger and an utterance-level construction tagger. ## Also in our library 1 more work of theirs is in our library without a page here yet; it will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Arianna Bisazza](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arianna-bisazza/) ×3 - [Jaap Jumelet](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jaap-jumelet/) ×3 - [Yevgen Matusevych](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yevgen-matusevych/) ×2 - [Bastian Bunzeck](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bastian-bunzeck/) - [Nathan Schneider](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nathan-schneider/) - [Xiulin Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiulin-yang/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 25 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [5 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesca-padovani/cited-by/).