Research

Publications

Academic work on AI and science communication.


Papers

June 2026

Long Paper

SciTeller: An LLM-Based Framework for Persona-Adaptive Scientific Storytelling

Alex Argese, Andrea Sillano, Pasquale Lisena, Raphaël Troncy, Tommaso Calò, Luigi De Russis

LLM4Good @ ACM UMAP 2026 · Gothenburg, Sweden

Transforms scientific papers into engaging stories tailored for different audiences using large language models, with systematic evaluation of persona-fit and narrative quality.

March 2026

Short Paper

Hallucination or Creativity: How to Evaluate AI-Generated Scientific Stories?

Alex Argese, Pasquale Lisena, Raphaël Troncy

Text2Story @ ECIR 2026 · CEUR Workshop Proceedings · Delft, Netherlands

Investigates the boundary between hallucination and creative licence in LLM-generated scientific communication. Presented in Delft at poster session and oral presentation.

PDF (CEUR) Proceedings arXiv GitHub Presentation Poster
BibTeX
@inproceedings{argese2026hallucination,
  author = {Argese, Alex and Lisena, Pasquale and Troncy, Raphaël},
  title = {Hallucination or Creativity: How to Evaluate AI-Generated Scientific Stories?},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story 2026) co-located with ECIR 2026},
  year = {2026},
  series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
  volume = {4202},
  url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4202/paper7.pdf}
}
Oral Presentation Poster Session
Alex Argese presenting Hallucination or Creativity: How to Evaluate AI-Generated Scientific Stories?

2026

MSc Thesis

AI Scientist Storyteller: An LLM-Based Framework and Web Platform for Persona-Adaptive Scientific Storytelling

Alex Argese

EURECOM / Politecnico di Torino

Master's thesis presenting the full research arc behind SciTeller — dataset construction, model fine-tuning, web platform design, and a multi-dimensional evaluation pipeline for persona-adaptive scientific narratives.

Thesis Page PDF
BibTeX
@mastersthesis{argese2026ai,
  title={AI Scientist Storyteller: An LLM-Based Framework and Web Platform for Persona-Adaptive Scientific Storytelling},
  author={Argese, Alex},
  year={2026},
  school={Politecnico di Torino}
  url={https://webthesis.biblio.polito.it/39637/}
}

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