CLiC-it 2021
Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics 2021

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 68 papers submitted for peer-review to this conference. Out of these, 58 papers were accepted for this volume, 49 as regular papers and 9 as short papers.

Keynote Talks and Tutorials

• Returning the L in NLP: Why Language (Variety) Matters and How to Embrace it in Our Models (keynote)
  Barbara Plank
• It’s Time for Reasoning (keynote)
  Dan Roth
• Introduction to Linguistic Linked Open Data (tutorial)
  Christian Chiarcos
• Universal Dependencies: Principles and Tools (tutorial)
  Daniel Zeman

Contributed Papers: Long Papers

• Atypical or Underrepresented? A Pilot Study on Small Treebanks
  Akshay Aggarwal, Chiara Alzetta
• On the Role of Textual Connectives in Sentence Comprehension: A New Dataset for Italian
  Giorgia Albertin, Alessio Miaschi, Dominique Brunato
• Query in linguaggio naturale per il dominio della dieta mediterranea
  (Natural Language Queries for the Mediterranean Diet Domain)
  Luca Anselma, Dario Ferrero, Alessandro Mazzei
• Are Crescia and Piadina the Same? Towards Identifying Synonymy or Non-Synonymy between Italian Words to Enable Crowdsourcing from Language Learners
  Lavinia Aparaschivei, Lionel Nicolas, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño
• Moving from Human Ratings to Word Vectors to Classify People With Focal Dementias: Are We There Yet?
  Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Marco Marelli, Carlo Reverberi
• WITS: Wikipedia for Italian Text Summarization
  Silvia Casola, Alberto Lavelli
• Policycorpus XL: An Italian Corpus for the Detection of Hate Speech Against Politics
  Fabio Celli, Mirko Lai, Armend Duzha, Cristina Bosco, Viviana Patti
• Quale testo è scritto meglio? A Study on Italian Native Speakers' Perception of Writing Quality
  Aldo Cerulli, Dominique Brunato, Felice Dell'Orletta
• On the Development of Customized Neural Machine Translation Models
  Mauro Cettolo, Roldano Cattoni, Marco Turchi
• A Common Derivation for Parsing and Generation With Expectation-Based Minimalist Grammars (e-MGs)
  Cristiano Chesi
• "La ministro è incinta": A Twitter Account of Women’s Job Titles in Italian
  Alessandra Teresa Cignarella, Mirko Lai, Andrea Marra, Manuela Sanguinetti
• GQA-it: Italian Question Answering on Image Scene Graphs
  Danilo Croce, Lucia C. Passaro, Alessandro Lenci, Roberto Basili
• Implementing a Pragmatically Adequate Chatbot in DialogFlow CX
  Anna Dall'Acqua, Fabio Tamburini
• La produzione di testi semplificati di notiziari televisivi italiani destinati a persone con disturbi cognitivi acquisiti: un'integrazione tra metodi psicolinguistici e analisi automatiche
  (Implementing Simplified TV News Texts in Italian for People with Acquired Cognitive Disorders: Psycholinguistic Methods and Automatic Analyses)
  Maria De Martino, Annalisa Colella
• Dialogue Analysis with Graph Databases: Characterising Domain Items Usage for Movie Recommendations
  Martina Di Bratto, Maria Di Maro, Antonio Origlia, Francesco Cutugno
• Do You Have Any Recommendation? An Annotation System For The Seekers' Strategies In Recommendation Dialogues
  Martina Di Bratto, Riccardo Orrico, Ancuta Budeanu, Marta Maffia, Loredana Schettino
• Language Transfer for Identifying Diagnostic Paragraphs in Clinical Notes
  Luca Di Liello, Olga Uryupina, Alessandro Moschitti
• Trattamento automatico della lingua a supporto dell’editoria: primi esperimenti con il Devoto-Oli Junior
  (Automatic Language Treatment to Support Publishing: First Experiments with the Devoto-Oli Junior)
  Irene Dini, Felice Dell'Orletta, Fabio Ferri, Biancamaria Gismondi, Simonetta Montemagni
• A First Step Towards Automatic Consolidation of Legal Acts: Reliable Classification of Textual Modifications
  Samuel Fabrizi, Maria Iacono, Andrea Tesei, Lorenzo De Mattei
• Hate Speech and Topic Shift in the Covid-19 Public Discourse on Social Media in Italy
  Komal Florio, Valerio Basile, Viviana Patti
• Recognizing Hate with NLP: The Teaching Experience of the #DeactivHate Lab in Italian High Schools
  Simona Frenda, Alessandra Teresa Cignarella, Marco Antonio Stranisci, Mirko Lai, Cristina Bosco, Viviana Patti
• The Role of a Computational Lexicon for Query Expansion in Full-Text Search
  Emiliano Giovannetti, Davide Albanesi, Andrea Bellandi, Simone Marchi, Mafalda Papini, Flavia Sciolette
• A Methodology for Large-Scale, Disambiguated and Unbiased Lexical Knowledge Acquisition Based on Multilingual Word Alignment
  Francesca Grasso, Luigi Di Caro
• The Annotation of Liber Abbaci, a Domain-Specific Latin Resource
  Francesco Grotto, Rachele Sprugnoli, Margherita Fantoli, Maria Simi, Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini, Marco Passarotti
• Detecting Age-Related Linguistic Patterns in Dialogue: Toward Adaptive Conversational Systems
  Lennert Jansen, Arabella Sinclair, Margot J. van der Goot, Raquel Fernández, Sandro Pezzelle
• From Cambridge to Pisa: A Journey into Cross-Lingual Dialogue Domain Adaptation for Conversational Agents
  Tiziano Labruna, Bernardo Magnini
• Agentività e telicità in GilBERTo: implicazioni cognitive
  (Agentivity and Telicity in GilBERTo: Cognitive Implications)
  Agnese Lombardi, Alessandro Lenci
• Investigating Continued Pretraining for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Spoken Language Understanding
  Samuel Louvan, Silvia Casola, Bernardo Magnini
• Linking the Lewis & Short Dictionary to the LiLa Knowledge Base of Interoperable Linguistic Resources for Latin
  Francesco Mambrini, Eleonora Litta, Marco Passarotti, Paolo Ruffolo
• The ListTyp Database
  Francesca Masini, Simone Mattiola, Stefano Dei Rossi
• Probing Tasks Under Pressure
  Alessio Miaschi, Chiara Alzetta, Dominique Brunato, Felice Dell'Orletta, Giulia Venturi
• Frame Semantics for Social NLP in Italian: Analyzing Responsibility Framing in Femicide News Reports
  Gosse Minnema, Sara Gemelli, Chiara Zanchi, Viviana Patti, Tommaso Caselli, Malvina Nissim
• Leveraging Bias in Pre-Trained Word Embeddings for Unsupervised Microaggression Detection
  Tolúlọpẹ́ Ògúnrẹ̀mí, Nazanin Sabri, Valerio Basile, Tommaso Caselli
• REDIT: A Tool and Dataset for Extraction of Personal Data in Documents of the Public Administration Domain
  Teresa Paccosi, Alessio Palmero Aprosio
• It Is MarkIT That Is New: An Italian Treebank of Marked Constructions
  Teresa Paccosi, Alessio Palmero Aprosio, Sara Tonelli
• Linguistic Cues of Deception in a Multilingual April Fools’ Day Context
  Katerina Papantoniou, Panagiotis Papadakos, Giorgos Flouris, Dimitris Plexousakis
• Visualization: The Missing Factor in Simultaneous Speech Translation
  Sara Papi, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi
• Audience Engagement Prediction in Guided Tours through Multimodal Features
  Andrea Amelio Ravelli, Andrea Cimino, Felice Dell'Orletta
• FANCY: A Diagnostic Data-Set for NLI Models
  Guido Rocchietti, Flavia Achena, Giuseppe Marziano, Sara Salaris, Alessandro Lenci
• Automatic Assessment of English CEFR Levels Using BERT Embeddings
  Veronica Juliana Schmalz, Alessio Brutti
• Introducing a Gold Standard Corpus from Young Multilinguals for the Evaluation of Automatic UD-PoS Taggers for Italian
  Veronica Juliana Schmalz, Jennifer-Carmen Frey, Egon W. Stemle
• Extracting Relations from Italian Wikipedia using Self-Training
  Lucia Siciliani, Pierluigi Cassotti, Pierpaolo Basile, Marco de Gemmis, Pasquale Lops, Giovanni Semeraro
• Sentiment Analysis of Latin Poetry: First Experiments on the Odes of Horace
  Rachele Sprugnoli, Francesco Mambrini, Marco Passarotti, Giovanni Moretti
• Playing with NeMo for Building an Automatic Speech Recogniser for Italian
  Fabio Tamburini
• OCTIS 2.0: Optimizing and Comparing Topic Models in Italian Is Even Simpler!
  Silvia Terragni, Elisabetta Fersini
• How Contextualized Word Embeddings Represent Word Senses
  Rocco Tripodi
• ConteCorpus: An Analysis of People Response to Institutional Communications During the Pandemic
  Viviana Ventura, Elisabetta Jezek
• PROTECT - A Pipeline for Propaganda Detection and Classification
  Vorakit Vorakitphan, Elena Cabrio, Serena Villata
• A Multi-Strategy Approach to Crossword Clue Answer Retrieval and Ranking
  Andrea Zugarini, Marco Ernandes

Contributed Papers: Short Papers

• Emerging Trends in Gender-Specific Occupational Titles in Italian Newspapers
  Pierluigi Cassotti, Andrea Iovine, Pierpaolo Basile, Marco De Gemmis, Giovanni Semeraro
• Deep Learning Representations in Automatic Misogyny Identification: What Do We Gain and What Do We Miss?
  Elisabetta Fersini, Luca Rosato, Antonio Candelieri, Francesco Archetti, Enza Messina
• An Obligations Extraction System for Heterogeneous Legal Documents: Building and Evaluating Data and Model
  Maria Iacono, Laura Rossi, Paolo Dangelo, Andrea Tesei, Lorenzo De Mattei
• FONTI 4.0: Evaluating Speech-to-Text Automatic Transcription of Digitized Historical Oral Sources
  Roberta Bianca Luzietti, Niccolò Pretto, Frédéric Kaplan, Alain Dufaux, Sergio Canazza
• An Unsupervised Approach to Extract Life-Events from Personal Narratives in the Mental Health Domain
  Seyed Mahed Mousavi, Roberto Negro, Giuseppe Riccardi
• An Italian Question Answering System Based on Grammars Automatically Generated from Ontology Lexica
  Gennaro Nolano, Mohammad Fazleh Elahi, Maria Pia Di Buono, Basil Ell, Philipp Cimiano
• Tackling Italian University Assessment Tests with Transformer-Based Language Models
  Daniele Puccinelli, Silvia Demartini, Pier Luigi Ferrari
• KERMIT for Sentiment Analysis in Italian Healthcare Reviews
  Leonardo Ranaldi, Michele Mastromattei, Dario Onorati, Elena Sofia Ruzzetti, Francesca Fallucchi, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
• T-PAS Scraper: An Application for Linguistic Data Extraction and Analysis
  Emma Romani, Valerio Gattero, Elisabetta Jezek