Why Organizational AI Needs Epistemic Infrastructure
Paper, preprint — Federico Bottino, Carlo Ferrero, Nicholas Dosio, Pierfrancesco Beneventano — arXiv preprint (cs.AI), 2026
Organizational AI systems need epistemic structure beyond retrieval capabilities. We present OIDA, a framework that represents organizational knowledge as typed objects with epistemic properties, commitment strength, and contradiction status. A key innovation is QUESTION-as-modeled-ignorance, which surfaces organizational unknowns. Experimental evaluation uses an Epistemic Quality Score methodology; OIDA achieves 0.530 EQS with 3,868 tokens versus 0.848 for a full-context baseline using 108,687 tokens. The QUESTION mechanism shows statistical significance with Fisher p=0.0325.
—Epistemic infrastructure · Organizational AI
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Why Traditional NLP Fails Political News — and How LLMs Can Bridge the Gap
Paper — Maryam Fooladi, Federico Bottino — 3rd Workshop on NLP for Political Sciences (PoliticalNLP 2026) at LREC 2026 — Palma de Mallorca, 2026
Traditional sentiment analysis collapses politically substantive news into a 'neutral' bin in roughly 70% of cases, missing framing, ideology, and rhetorical strategy. We compare classical NLP pipelines with LLM-based approaches and show how LLMs can recover the analytic dimensions social scientists actually need.
—Political NLP · LLM evaluation
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Paper — Maryam Fooladi, Federico Bottino — Information Disorder Workshop (InDor) at LREC 2026 — Palma de Mallorca, 2026
A multi-layer architecture for analyzing modern information landscapes. The framework articulates four interconnected layers — strategic (narrative analysis, ideological framing), operational (source extraction, monitoring), compliance (regulatory signals, auditing), and collaboration (analyst–AI interaction) — addressing limitations of monolithic single-layer AI approaches and supporting institutional analysts in practice.
—Information disorder · Multi-layer AI
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Piccola guida all'uso consapevole del web
Book — Pietro Jarre, Federico Bottino — Golem Edizioni, 2018
A practical guide to a more conscious use of the web. Sloweb maps how the web actually works, where its threads run, and how to detect digital misbehaviour — written for readers who want to understand the medium rather than just consume it. Co-authored with Pietro Jarre.
—Digital ethics · Media sociology
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