Silvia Casola

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow

TALN group · Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

About

I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, hosted by Prof. Horacio Saggion (TALN). My project, GenEval, studies how generation and evaluation interact in LLM judges, to predict their reliability and build better metrics.

Previously, I was a postdoc at LMU Munich & MCML with Prof. Barbara Plank (NLG and evaluation) and at the University of Turin with Dr. Valerio Basile (perspectivism and human label variation). I hold a Ph.D. cum laude from the University of Padua and FBK, and interned at Spotify and Huawei.

Natural Language Generation
Evaluation
LLM-as-a-judge
Summarization
Simplification
Human label variation

News

Publications

* Equal contribution. See also my Google Scholar and ORCID profiles.

Teaching

Summarization LMU Munich, MSc Computational Linguistics · Summer 2025, 2026 · own course
Simplification LMU Munich, MSc Computational Linguistics · Winter 2026 · own course
Summarization and Simplification LMU Munich, MSc Computational Linguistics · Winter 2025 · own course
NLG Evaluation LMU Munich, MSc Computational Linguistics · Summer 2025, 2026
Information Retrieval LMU Munich, BSc/MSc Computational Linguistics & Computer Science · Summer 2026
Trustworthy Data-centric AI LMU Munich, MSc Computational Linguistics · Winter 2025, 2026
Vertiefung der Grundlagen der Computerlinguistik LMU Munich, MSc Computational Linguistics · Winter 2025, 2026
NLP lectures, HumanAIze Second-level Master, Politecnico di Torino & University of Turin · 2025, 2026

I have also supervised four Master’s and two Bachelor’s theses at LMU Munich.

Service

Area Chair ACL Rolling Review (2025, 2026) · GEM Workshop (2026)
Shared task organiser LeWiDi 2025 – Learning With Disagreements, NLPerspectives @ EMNLP 2025
Reviewer Computational Linguistics · Natural Language Engineering · Information Processing & Management · ACL Rolling Review · INLG · CLiC-it · ECAI · GEM · NLPerspectives
Mentor ACL Student Research Workshop (2024)
Selection committee relAI – Konrad Zuse School of Excellence in Reliable AI, MSc scholarships (TUM & LMU)