Sergio E. Zanotto

Publications & code

Where a project has public code or data, its repository is linked under the entry. All repositories are on GitHub.

Peer-reviewed

  • Linguistic and Embedding-Based Profiling of Texts Generated by Humans and Large Language Models

  • Language Complexity in Populist Rhetoric

  • GRIT: A Dataset of Group Reference Recognition in Italian

  • Your Stereotypical Mileage May Vary: Practical Challenges of Evaluating Biases in Multiple Languages and Cultural Contexts

Book

  • Linguistic Characterization of Populism in U.S. Presidential Campaigns

Preprint

  • Human Variability vs. Machine Consistency: A Linguistic Analysis of Texts Generated by Humans and Large Language Models

Working papers

  • Talking the talk, but not walking the walk: How autocracies commit to shallow norms in global governance

  • From ItalExit to Internationalist: How Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni Transformed Her Online Rhetoric in Tumultuous Times

  • Media Coverage and Party Press Releases in Germany and the UK – Who Follows Whom?

  • Populism Goes Global: The Politics of Performing International Solidarity on Twitter by Populist Leaders

  • Unveiling Inequality: An Open-ended Survey Approach

Conferences

  • 2025
    SeoulPopulism Goes Global: The Politics of Performing International Solidarity. IPSA World Congress of Political Science. With Giada Pasquettaz.
  • 2025
    ViennaDivided by Design: Unveiling In-Group and Out-Group Dynamics in US and Italian Political Discourse. 7th Annual COMPTEXT Conference, University of Vienna.
  • 2024
    TurinGRIT: A Dataset of Group Reference Recognition in Italian. LREC-COLING 2024.
  • 2024
    KonstanzTypes of Inequality: What matters to Whom. Inequality Conference.
  • 2024
    ViennaLanguage Complexity in Populist Rhetoric. Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences, University of Vienna.

Talks

  • 2025
    TokyoPopulism Goes Global: International Solidarity on Twitter Around Populist Leaders Across Nations. Global Governance Research Seminar, Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Studies (HIAS), Hitotsubashi University.
  • 2025
    KonstanzAnalysis of Populist Communication via Computational Models. Lecture in “Perception of Speaker Characteristics”, Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz.
  • 2024
    KonstanzStatistical Analyses of Populism for Language Complexity. Lecture in “Comparative Populist Politics”, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz.
  • 2023
    RomeWhat’s (the) Right? What’s (the) Left? Identities appeals in Italian Political Discourses. University of Roma III.
  • 2023
    FlorenceMethods on Retrieving Identities appeals in Italian Political Discourses. University of Florence.
  • 2022
    VeronaHedging as a diplomatic tool. University of Verona.