CLiC-it 2019
Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics

Table of Contents

• Preface
  
  

Keynote Talks and Tutorial

• Visually-Grounded Dialogue Models: Past, Present, and Future, Raquel Fernández, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Impossible Languages and the Architecture of Human Grammars, Andrea Moro, University School for Advanced Studies Pavia, Italy
• Recognizing and Reducing Bias in NLP Applications, Dirk Hovy, Bocconi University, Italy

Contributed Papers: Long Papers

• Prerequisite or Not Prerequisite? That’s the Problem! An NLP-based Approach for Concept Prerequisite Learning
  Chiara Alzetta, Alessio Miaschi, Giovanni Adorni, Felice Dell'Orletta, Frosina Koceva, Samuele Passalacqua, Ilaria Torre
• An Empirical Analysis of Linguistic, Typographic, and Structural Features in Simplified German Texts
  Alessia Battisti, Sarah Ebling, Martin Volk
• Almawave-SLU: A New Dataset for SLU in Italian
  Valentina Bellomaria, Giuseppe Castellucci, Andrea Favalli, Raniero Romagnoli
• Nove Anni di jTEI: What's New?
  (Nine Years of jTEI: What's New?)
  Federico Boschetti, Gabriella Pardelli, Giulia Venturi
• BullyFrame: Cyberbullying Meets FrameNet
  Silvia Brambilla, Alessio Palmero Aprosio, Stefano Menini
• Lost in Text. A Cross-Genre Analysis of Linguistic Phenomena within Text
  Chiara Buongiovanni, Francesco Gracci, Dominique Brunato, Felice Dell'Orletta
• Annotating Shakespeare’s Sonnets with Appraisal Theory to Detect Irony
  Nicolò Busetto, Rodolfo Delmonte
• Embeddings Shifts as Proxies for Different Word Use in Italian Newspapers
  Michele Cafagna, Lorenzo De Mattei, Malvina Nissim
• Suitable Doesn’t Mean Attractive. Human-Based Evaluation of Automatically Generated Headlines
  Michele Cafagna, Lorenzo De Mattei, Davide Bacciu, Malvina Nissim
• There and Back Again: Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning for Event Detection
  Tommaso Caselli, Ahmet Üstün
• PESInet: Automatic Recognition of Italian Statements, Questions, and Exclamations With Neural Networks
  Sonia Cenceschi, Roberto Tedesco, Licia Sbattella, Davide Losio, Mauro Luchetti
• What Makes a Review helpful? Predicting the Helpfulness of Italian TripAdvisor Reviews
  Giulia Chiriatti, Dominique Brunato, Felice Dell'Orletta, Giulia Venturi
• Is This an Effective Way to Annotate Irony Activators?
  Alessandra Teresa Cignarella, Manuela Sanguinetti, Cristina Bosco, Paolo Rosso
• Robospierre, an Artificial Intelligence to Solve “La Ghigliottina”
  Nicola Cirillo, Chiara Pericolo, Pasquale Tufano
• From Sartre to Frege in Three Steps: A* Search for Enriching Semantic Text Similarity Measures
  Davide Colla, Marco Leontino, Enrico Mensa, Daniele P. Radicioni
• Is “manovra” Really “del popolo”? Linguistic Insights into Twitter Reactions to the Annual Italian Budget Law
  Claudia Roberta Combei
• Cross-Platform Evaluation for Italian Hate Speech Detection
  Michele Corazza, Stefano Menini, Elena Cabrio, Sara Tonelli, Serena Villata
• An Open Science System for Text Mining
  Gianpaolo Coro, Giancarlo Panichi, Pasquale Pagano
• Detecting Irony in Shakespeare’s Sonnets with SPARSAR
  Rodolfo Delmonte, Nicolò Busetto
• Towards an Italian Learner Treebank in Universal Dependencies
  Elisa Di Nuovo, Cristina Bosco, Alessandro Mazzei, Manuela Sanguinetti
• Building an Italian Written-Spoken Parallel Corpus: a Pilot Study
  Elisa Dominutti, Lucia Pifferi, Felice Dell'Orletta, Simonetta Montemagni, Valeria Quochi
• Italian and English Sentence Simplification: How Many Differences?
  Martina Fieromonte, Dominique Brunato, Felice Dell'Orletta, Giulia Venturi
• Error Analysis in a Hate Speech Detection Task: The Case of HaSpeeDe-TW at EVALITA 2018
  Chiara Francesconi, Cristina Bosco, Fabio Poletto, Manuela Sanguinetti
• Nunc Est Aestimandum: Towards an Evaluation of the Latin WordNet
  Greta Franzini, Andrea Peverelli, Paolo Ruffolo, Marco Passarotti, Helena Sanna, Edoardo Signoroni, Viviana Ventura, Federica Zampedri
• Iride: an Industrial Perspective on Production Grade End to End Dialog System
  Cristina Giannone, Valentina Bellomaria, Andrea Favalli, Raniero Romagnoli
• When Lexicon-Grammar Meets Open Information Extraction: a Computational Experiment for Italian Sentences
  Raffaele Guarasci, Emanuele Damiano, Aniello Minutolo, Massimo Esposito
• Are Subtitling Corpora really Subtitle-like?
  Alina Karakanta, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi
• Asymmetries in Extraction From Nominal Copular Sentences: a Challenging Case Study for NLP Tools
  Paolo Lorusso, Matteo Greco, Cristiano Chesi, Andrea Moro
• Objective Frequency Values of Canonical and Syntactically Modified Idioms: Preliminary Normative Data
  Azzurra Mancuso, Alessandro Laudanna
• Gender Detection and Stylistic Differences and Similarities between Males and Females in a Dream Tales Blog
  Raffaele Manna, Antonio Pascucci, Johanna Monti
• CROATPAS: A Resource of Corpus-derived Typed Predicate Argument Structures for Croatian
  Costanza Marini, Elisabetta Jezek
• Enhancing a Text Summarization System with ELMo
  Claudio Mastronardo, Fabio Tamburini
• KIParla Corpus: A New Resource for Spoken Italian
  Caterina Mauri, Silvia Ballarè, Eugenio Goria, Massimo Cerruti, Francesco Suriano
• Evaluating Speech Synthesis on Mathematical Sentences
  Alessandro Mazzei, Michele Monticone, Cristian Bernareggi
• Automated Short Answer Grading: A Simple Solution for a Difficult Task
  Stefano Menini, Sara Tonelli, Giovanni De Gasperis, Pierpaolo Vittorini
• Games for Learning Old and Special Alphabets – The Case Study of Gamifying Mrežnik
  Josip Mihaljević
• Text Frame Detector: Slot Filling Based On Domain Knowledge Bases
  Martina Miliani, Lucia C. Passaro, Alessandro Lenci
• Defining Action Types: on the roles of Thematic Structures and Argument Alternations
  Massimo Moneglia, Alessandro Panunzi, Rossella Varvara
• HateChecker: a Tool to Automatically Detect Hater Users in Online Social Networks
  Cataldo Musto, Angelo Sansonetti, Marco Polignano, Giovanni Semeraro, Marco Stranisci
• The Contribution of Embeddings to Sentiment Analysis on YouTube
  Moniek Nieuwenhuis, Malvina Nissim
• A Novel Integrated Industrial Approach with Cobots in the Age of Industry 4.0 through Conversational Interaction and Computer Vision
  Andrea Pazienza, Nicola Macchiarulo, Felice Vitulano, Antonio Fiorentini, Marco Cammisa, Leonardo Rigutini, Ernesto Di Iorio, Achille Globo, Antonio Trevisi
• Annotating Hate Speech: Three Schemes at Comparison
  Fabio Poletto, Valerio Basile, Cristina Bosco, Viviana Patti, Marco Stranisci
• AlBERTo: Italian BERT Language Understanding Model for NLP Challenging Tasks Based on Tweets
  Marco Polignano, Pierpaolo Basile, Marco de Gemmis, Giovanni Semeraro, Valerio Basile
• Evaluating the MuMe Dialogue System with the IDIAL protocol
  Aureliano Porporato, Alessandro Mazzei, Daniele P. Radicioni, Rosa Meo
• To be Fair: a Case for Cognitively-Inspired Models of Meaning
  Simon Preissner, Aurélie Herbelot
• The Impact of Self-Interaction Attention on the Extraction of Drug-Drug Interactions
  Luca Putelli, Alfonso Emilio Gerevini, Alberto Lavelli, Ivan Serina
• Enriching Open Multilingual Wordnets with Morphological Features
  Stefania Racioppa, Thierry Declerck
• A Comparison of Representation Models in a Non-Conventional Semantic Similarity Scenario
  Andrea Amelio Ravelli, Oier Lopez de Lacalle, Eneko Agirre
• How Much Competence Is There in Performance? Assessing the Distributional Hypothesis in Word Bigrams
  Johann Seltmann, Luca Ducceschi, Aurélie Herbelot
• Jointly Learning to See, Ask, Decide when to Stop, and then GuessWhat
  Ravi Shekhar, Alberto Testoni, Raquel Fernández, Raffaella Bernardi
• Creating a Multilingual Terminological Resource using Linked Data: the case of Archaeological Domain in the Italian language
  Giulia Speranza, Carola Carlino, Sina Ahmadi
• Vir is to Moderatus as Mulier is to Intemperans - Lemma Embeddings for Latin
  Rachele Sprugnoli, Marco Passarotti, Giovanni Moretti
• Valutazione umana di Google Traduttore e DeepL per le traduzioni di testi giornalistici dall’inglese verso l’italiano
  (Human evaluation of Google Translator and DeepL for translations of journalistic texts from English into Italian)
  Mirko Tavosanis
• Prendo la Parola in Questo Consesso Mondiale: A Multi-Genre 20th Century Corpus in the Political Domain
  Sara Tonelli, Rachele Sprugnoli, Giovanni Moretti
• Reflexives, Impersonals and Their Kin: a Classification Problem
  Kledia Topciu, Cristiano Chesi
• Annotation and Analysis of the PoliModal Corpus of Political Interviews
  Daniela Trotta, Sara Tonelli, Alessio Palmero Aprosio, Annibale Elia
• Analyses of Literary Texts by Using Statistical Inference Methods
  Mehmet Can Yavuz

Contributed Papers: Short Papers

• Neural Semantic Role Labeling using Verb Sense Disambiguation
  Domenico Alfano, Roberto Abbruzzese, Donato Cappetta
• Kronos-it: a Dataset for the Italian Semantic Change Detection Task
  Pierpaolo Basile, Giovanni Semeraro, Annalina Caputo
• How do Physiotherapists and Patients talk? Developing and annotating RiMotivAzione dialogue corpus.
  Andrea Bolioli, Francesca Alloatti, Mariafrancesca Guadalupi, Roberta Iolanda Lanzi, Giorgia Pregnolato, Andrea Turolla
• Standardizing Language with Word Embeddings and Language Modeling in Reports of Near Misses in Seveso Industries
  Simone Bruno, Silvia Maria Ansaldi, Patrizia Agnello, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
• Computational Linguistics Against Hate: Hate Speech Detection and Visualization on Social Media in the "Contro L’Odio" Project
  Arthur T. E. Capozzi, Mirko Lai, Valerio Basile, Cataldo Musto, Marco Polignano, Fabio Poletto, Manuela Sanguinetti, Cristina Bosco, Viviana Patti, Giancarlo Ruffo, Giovanni Semeraro, Marco Stranisci
• Supporting Journalism by Combining Neural Language Generation and Knowledge Graphs
  Marco Cremaschi, Federico Bianchi, Andrea Maurino, Andrea Primo Pierotti
• Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Italian Question Answering
  Danilo Croce, Giorgio Brandi, Roberto Basili
• Applying Psychology of Persuasion to Conversational Agents through Reinforcement Learning: an Exploratory Study
  Francesca Di Massimo, Valentina Carfora, Patrizia Catellani, Marco Piastra
• WebIsAGraph: A Very Large Hypernymy Graph from a Web Corpus
  Stefano Faralli, Irene Finocchi, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Paola Velardi
• CULTURE as a ‘Liquid’ Modern Word. Evidence from Synchronic and Diachronic Language Resources
  Maristella Gatto
• A Dataset of Real Dialogues for Conversational Recommender Systems
  Andrea Iovine, Fedelucio Narducci, Marco de Gemmis
• Quanti anni hai? Age Identification for Italian
  Aleksandra Maslennikova, Paolo Labruna, Andrea Cimino, Felice Dell'Orletta
• Multi-task Learning Applied to Biomedical Named Entity Recognition Task
  Tahir Mehmood, Alfonso Gerevini, Alberto Lavelli, Ivan Serina
• Mining Italian Short Argumentative Texts
  Ivan Namor, Pietro Totis, Samuele Garda, Manfred Stede
• Fixing Comma Splices in Italian with BERT
  Daniele Puccinelli, Silvia Demartini, Renée E. D'Aoust
• A Comparative Study of Models for Answer Sentence Selection
  Federico Rossetto, Alessio Gravina, Silvia Severini, Giuseppe Attardi
• An Italian Question Answering System for Structured Data based on Controlled Natural Languages
  Lucia Siciliani, Pierpaolo Basile, Giovanni Semeraro, Matteo Mennitti
• The Tenuousness of Lemmatization in Lexicon-based Sentiment Analysis
  Marco Vassallo, Giuliano Gabrieli, Valerio Basile, Cristina Bosco