CLiC-it 2020
Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics 2020

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 80 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 69 papers were accepted for this volume, 49 as regular papers and 20 as short papers.

Keynote Talks and Tutorial

• Fine-grained sentiment analysis: a piece of cake?
  Veronique Hoste, Ghent University, Belgium
• Interaction-aware multimodal dialogue with conversational agents,
  Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University, Germany
• Distributional Semantics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,
  Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa, Italy

Contributed Papers: Long Papers

• Investigating Proactivity in Task-Oriented Dialogues
  Vevake Balaraman, Bernardo Magnini
• Domain Adaptation for Text Classification with Weird Embeddings
  Valerio Basile
• Personal-ITY: A Novel YouTube-based Corpus for Personality Prediction in Italian
  Elisa Bassignana, Malvina Nissim, Viviana Patti
• Gender Bias in Italian Word Embeddings
  Davide Biasion, Alessandro Fabris, Gianmaria Silvello, Gian Antonio Susto
• Automatic Induction of FrameNet lexical units in Italian
  Silvia Brambilla, Danilo Croce, Fabio Tamburini, Roberto Basili
• Detecting Early Onset of Depression from Social Media Text using Learned Confidence Scores
  Ana-Maria Bucur, Liviu Dinu
• Building a Treebank in Universal Dependencies for Italian Sign Language
  Gaia Caligiore, Cristina Bosco, Alessandro Mazzei
• Hate Speech Detection with Machine-Translated Data: The Role of Annotation Scheme, Class Imbalance and Undersampling
  Camilla Casula, Sara Tonelli
• UDante: First Steps Towards the Universal Dependencies Treebank of Dante's Latin Works
  Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini, Rachele Sprugnoli, Giovanni Moretti, Marco Passarotti
• "Spotto la quarantena": per una analisi dell'italiano scritto degli studenti universitari via social network in tempo di COVID-19
  ("Spotto la quarantena": an analysis of the written Italian language by university students via social network at COVID-19 times.)
  Francesca Chiusaroli, Johanna Monti, Maria Laura Pierucci, Gennaro Nolano
• Italian Counter Narrative Generation to Fight Online Hate Speech
  Yi-Ling Chung, Serra Sinem Tekiroğlu, Marco Guerini
• Clustering verbal Objects: Manual and Automatic Procedures Compared
  Ilaria Colucci, Elisabetta Ježek, Vít Baisa
• GePpeTto Carves Italian into a Language Model
  Lorenzo De Mattei, Michele Cafagna, Felice Dell'Orletta, Malvina Nissim, Marco Guerini
• Phonological Layers of Meaning: A Computational Exploration of Sound Iconicity
  Andrea Gregor de Varda, Carlo Strapparava
• Natural Language Generation in Dialogue Systems for Customer Care
  Mirko Di Lascio, Manuela Sanguinetti, Luca Anselma, Dario Mana, Alessandro Mazzei, Viviana Patti, Rossana Simeoni
• Cross-Language Transformer Adaptation for Frequently Asked Questions
  Luca Di Liello, Daniele Bonadiman, Alessandro Moschitti, Cristina Giannone, Andrea Favalli, Raniero Romagnoli
• How Good are Humans at Native Language Identification? A Case Study on Italian L2 writings
  Elisa Di Nuovo, Cristina Bosco, Elisa Corino
• Linguistic Features in Automatic Sarcasm Detection
  Martina Ducret, Lauren Kruse, Carlos Martinez, Anna Feldman, Jing Peng
• Risorse e strumenti per le varietà storiche dell'italiano: il progetto TrAVaSI
  (Language Resources for Historical Varieties of Italian: the TrAVaSI Project)
  Manuel Favaro, Marco Biffi, Simonetta Montemagni
• The AEREST Reading Database
  Marcello Ferro, Sara Giulivi, Claudia Cappa
• On Knowledge Distillation for Direct Speech Translation
  Marco Gaido, Mattia Antonino Di Gangi, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi
• Grounded and Ungrounded Referring Expressions in Human Dialogues: Language Mirrors Different Grounding Conditions
  Eleonora Gualdoni, Raffaella Bernardi, Raquel Fernández, Sandro Pezzelle
• Point Break: Surfing Heterogeneous Data for Subtitle Segmentation
  Alina Karakanta, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi
• How Granularity of Orthography-Phonology Mappings Affect Reading Development: Evidence from a Computational Model of English Word Reading and Spelling
  Alfred Lim, Beth A. O'Brien, Luca Onnis
• Simple Data Augmentation for Multilingual NLU in Task Oriented Dialogue Systems
  Samuel Louvan, Bernardo Magnini
• The E3C Project:Collection and Annotation of a Multilingual Corpus of Clinical Cases
  Bernardo Magnini, Begoña Altuna, Alberto Lavelli, Manuela Speranza, Roberto Zanoli
• Monitoring Social Media to Identify Environmental Crimes through NLP. A preliminary study
  Raffaele Manna, Antonio Pascucci, Wanda Punzi Zarino, Vincenzo Simoniello, Johanna Monti
• Does Finger-Tracking Point to Child Reading Strategies?
  Claudia Marzi, Anna Rodella, Andrea Nadalini, Loukia Taxitari, Vito Pirrelli
• The Style of a Successful Story: a Computational Study on the Fanfiction Genre
  Andrea Mattei, Dominique Brunato, Felice Dell'Orletta
• A Multimodal Dataset of Images and Text to Study Abusive Language
  Stefano Menini, Alessio Palmero Aprosio, Sara Tonelli
• A Resource for Detecting Misspellings and Denoising Medical Text Data
  Enrico Mensa, Gian Manuel Marino, Davide Colla, Matteo Delsanto, Daniele P. Radicioni
• Is Neural Language Model Perplexity Related to Readability?
  Alessio Miaschi, Chiara Alzetta, Dominique Brunato, Felice Dell'Orletta, Giulia Venturi
• Italian Transformers Under the Linguistic Lens
  Alessio Miaschi, Gabriele Sarti, Dominique Brunato, Felice Dell'Orletta, Giulia Venturi
• ItaGLAM: A corpus of Cultural Communication on Twitter during the Pandemic
  Gennaro Nolano, Carola Carlino, Maria Pia di Buono, Johanna Monti
• (Stem and Word) Predictability in Italian Verb Paradigms: An Entropy-Based Study Exploiting the New Resource LeFFI
  Matteo Pellegrini, Alessandra Teresa Cignarella
• A Case Study of Natural Gender Phenomena in Translation. A Comparison of Google Translate, Bing Microsoft Translator and DeepL for English to Italian, French and Spanish
  Argentina Anna Rescigno, Eva Vanmassenhove, Johanna Monti, Andy Way
• Multifunctional ISO Standard Dialogue Act Tagging in Italian
  Gabriel Roccabruna, Alessandra Cervone, Giuseppe Riccardi
• Tracing Metonymic Relations in T-PAS: An Annotation Exercise on a Corpus-based Resource for Italian
  Emma Romani, Elisabetta Ježek
• Datasets and Models for Authorship Attribution on Italian Personal Writings
  Gaetana Ruggiero, Albert Gatt, Malvina Nissim
• The Archaeo-Term Project: Multilingual Terminology in Archaeology
  Giulia Speranza, Raffaele Manna, Maria Pia Di Buono, Johanna Monti
• Exploiting Distributional Semantics Models for Natural Language Context-aware Justifications for Recommender Systems
  Giuseppe Spillo, Cataldo Musto, Marco de Gemmis, Pasquale Lops, Giovanni Semeraro
• MultiEmotions-It: a New Dataset for Opinion Polarity and Emotion Analysis for Italian
  Rachele Sprugnoli
• Becoming JILDA
  Irene Sucameli, Alessandro Lenci, Bernardo Magnini, Maria Simi, Manuela Speranza
• How "BERTology" Changed the State-of-the-Art also for Italian NLP
  Fabio Tamburini
• Overprotective Training Environments Fall Short at Testing Time: Let Models Contribute to Their Own Training
  Alberto Testoni, Raffaella Bernardi
• Topic Modelling Games
  Rocco Tripodi
• Polarity Imbalance in Lexicon-based Sentiment Analysis
  Marco Vassallo, Giuliano Gabrieli, Valerio Basile, Cristina Bosco
• #andràtuttobene: Images, Texts, Emojis and Geodata in a Sentiment Analysis Pipeline
  Pierluigi Vitale, Serena Pelosi, Mariacristina Falco
• Suoidne-varra-bleahkka-mála-bihkka-senet-dielku 'hay-blood-ink-paint-tar-mustard-stain' -Should compounds be lexicalized in NLP?
  Linda Wiechetek, Chiara Argese, Tommi A Pirinen, Trond Trosterud

Contributed Papers: Short Papers

• Quantitative Linguistic Investigations across Universal Dependencies Treebanks
  Chiara Alzetta, Felice Dell'Orletta, Simonetta Montemagni, Petya Osenova, Kiril Simov, Giulia Venturi
• A Machine Learning approach for Sentiment Analysis for Italian Reviews in Healthcare
  Luca Bacco, Andrea Cimino, Luca Paulon, Mario Merone, Felice Dell'Orletta
• A Diachronic Italian Corpus based on "L'Unità"
  Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Tommaso Caselli, Pierluigi Cassotti, Rossella Varvara
• The "Corpus Anchise 320" and the Analysis of Conversations between Healthcare Workers and People with Dementia
  Nicola Benvenuti, Andrea Bolioli, Alessandro Mazzei, Pietro Vigorelli, Alessio Bosca
• Analysis of Lexical Semantic Changes in Corpora with the Diachronic Engine
  Pierluigi Cassotti, Pierpaolo Basile, Marco De Gemmis, Giovanni Semeraro
• Surviving the Legal Jungle: Text Classification of Italian Laws in Extremely Noisy Conditions
  Riccardo Coltrinari, Alessandro Antinori, Fabio Celli
• AriEmozione: Identifying Emotions in Opera Verses
  Francesco Fernicola, Shibingfeng Zhang, Federico Garcea, Paolo Bonora, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño
• Græcissare: Ancient Greek Loanwords in the LiLa Knowledge Base of Linguistic Resources for Latin
  Greta Franzini, Federica Zampedri, Marco Passarotti, Francesco Mambrini, Giovanni Moretti
• L'impatto emotivo della comunicazione istituzionale durante la pandemia di COVID-19: uno studio di Twitter Sentiment Analysis
  (Emotional Impact of Institutional Communication during COVID-19 Pandemic: a Twitter Sentiment Analysis study)
  Gloria Gagliardi, Lorenzo Gregori, Alice Suozzi
• Predicting Social Exclusion: A Study of Linguistic Ostracism in Social Networks
  Greta Gandolfi, Carlo Strapparava
• Predicting Movie-elicited Emotions from Dialogue in Screenplay Text: A Study on ''Forrest Gump''
  Benedetta Iavarone, Felice Dell'Orletta
• Multiword Expressions We Live by: A Validated Usage-based Dataset from Corpora of Written Italian
  Francesca Masini, M. Silvia Micheli, Andrea Zaninello, Sara Castagnoli, Malvina Nissim
• BERTino: An Italian DistilBERT model
  Matteo Muffo, Enrico Bertino
• Creativity Embedding: A Vector to Characterise and Classify Plausible Triples in Deep Learning NLP Models
  Isabeau Oliveri, Luca Ardito, Giuseppe Rizzo, Maurizio Morisio
• The CREENDER Tool for Creating Multimodal Datasets of Images and Comments
  Alessio Palmero Aprosio, Stefano Menini, Sara Tonelli
• A Deep Learning Model for the Analysis of Medical Reports in ICD-10 Clinical Coding Task
  Marco Polignano, Pierpaolo Basile, Marco de Gemmis, Pasquale Lops, Giovanni Semeraro
• Exploring Attention in a Multimodal Corpus of Guided Tours
  Andrea Amelio Ravelli, Antonio Origlia, Felice Dell'Orletta
• Valutazione umana di DeepL a livello di frase per le traduzioni di testi specialistici dall'inglese verso l'italiano
  (Human Evaluation of Google Translator and DeepL for Translations of Journalistic Texts from English into Italian)
  Mirko Tavosanis, Sirio Papa
• Dialog-based Help Desk through Automated Question Answering and Intent Detection
  Antonio Uva, Pierluigi Roberti, Alessandro Moschitti
• Analyses of Character Emotions in Dramatic Works by Using EmoLex Unigrams
  Mehmet Can Yavuz