CLiC-it & EVALITA 2016
Proceedings CLiC-it 2016 and EVALITA 2016

Table of Contents

• Third Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CLiC–it 2016
• Fifth Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop EVALITA 2016

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Third Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CLiC-it 2016

Chaired by Anna Corazza, Simonetta Montemagni, Giovanni Semeraro

• Preface
  
  

Invited Speakers

• Reflections on Universal Dependencies Joakim Nivre, Department of Linguistics and Philology – Uppsala University
• What’s this movie about? Automatic Content Analysis and Summarization Mirella Lapata, Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation – School of Informatics – University of Edinburgh

1. Linguistic Issues in CL and NLP

• Determining the Compositionality of Noun–Adjective Pairs with Lexical Variants and Distributional Semantics
  Marco S. G. Senaldi, Gianluca E. Lebani, Alessandro Lenci
• Studio sull'Ordine dei Costituenti nel Confronto tra Generi e Complessità
  (Analysis of Constituents Order Across Textual Genres and Complexity)
  Giulia Pieri, Dominique Brunato, Felice Dell'Orletta
• Grounding the Lexical Sets of Causative–Inchoative Verbs with Word Embedding
  Edoardo Maria Ponti, Elisabetta Jezek, Bernardo Magnini
• Dieci sfumature di marcatezza sintattica: verso una nozione computazionale di complessità
  (Ten Shades of Syntactic Markedness: Towards a Computational Notion of Complexity)
  Erica Tusa, Felice Dell'Orletta, Simonetta Montemagni, Giulia Venturi

2. Machine Translation and Multilingual Applications

• Online Automatic Post–Editing across Domains
  Rajen Chatterjee, Gebremedhen Gebremelak, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi
• Language Resources for Italian: towards the Development of a Corpus of Annotated Italian Multiword Expressions
  Shiva Taslimipoor, Anna Desantis, Manuela Cherchi, Ruslan Mitkov, Johanna Monti
• Emojitalianobot and EmojiWorldBot – New online Tools and Digital Environments for Translation into Emoji
  Johanna Monti, Federico Sangati, Francesca Chiusaroli, Martin Benjamin, Sina Mansour

3. Machine Learning for CL and NLP

• IR Scientific Data: How to Semantically Represent and Enrich Them
  Toine Bogers, Georgeta Bordea, Paul Buitelaar, Nicola Ferro, Gianmaria Silvello
• Nyström Methods for Efficient Kernel–Based Methods for Community Question Answering
  Danilo Croce, Simone Filice, Roberto Basili
• Topic Modelling with Word Embeddings
  Fabrizio Esposito, Anna Corazza, Francesco Cutugno

4. Information Retrieval and Question Answering

• Imparare a Quantificare Guardando
  (Learning to Quantify by Watching)
  Sandro Pezzelle, Ionut Sorodoc, Aurelie Herbelot, Raffaella Bernardi
• Appetitoso: A Search Engine for Restaurant Retrieval based on Dishes
  Gianni Barlacchi, Azad Abad, Emanuele Rossinelli, Alessandro Moschitti
• Gamification for IR: The Query Aspects Game
  Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Maria Maistro, Daniel Zilio

5. Information Extraction, Entity Linking and (Linked) Open Data

• Semantic Interpretation of Events in Live Soccer Commentaries
  Anne–Lyse Minard, Manuela Speranza, Bernardo Magnini, Mohammed R. H. Qwaider
• Linking IMAGACT Ontology to BabelNet through Action Videos
  Lorenzo Gregori, Alessandro Panunzi, Andrea Amelio Ravelli
• Relation Mining from Clinical Records
  Anita Alicante, Anna Corazza, Francesco Isgrò, Stefano Silvestri

6. Linguistic Resources

• Subjective Well–Being and Social Media. A Semantically Annotated Twitter Corpus on Fertility and Parenthood
  Emilio Sulis, Cristina Bosco, Viviana Patti, Mirko Lai, Delia Irazu Hernandez Farias, Letizia Mencarini, Michele Mozzachiodi, Daniele Vignoli
• An Extended Version of the KoKo German L1 Learner Corpus
  Andrea Abel, Aivars Glaznieks, Lionel Nicolas, Egon Stemle
• Annotating Content Zones in News Articles
  Daniela Baiamonte, Tommaso Caselli, Irina Prodanof
• LICO: A Lexicon of Italian Connectives
  Anna Feltracco, Elisabetta Jezek, Bernardo Magnini, Manfred Stede
• Formatio formosa est. Building a Word Formation Lexicon for Latin
  Eleonora Litta, Marco Passarotti, Chris Culy
• SIMPITIKI: a Simplification corpus for Italian
  Sara Tonelli, Alessio Palmero Aprosio, Francesca Saltori
• (Almost) Automatic Conversion of the Venice Italian Treebank into the Merged Italian Dependency Treebank Format
  Linda Alfieri, Fabio Tamburini
• Enrichring the Ita–TimeBank with Narrative Containers
  Alice Bracchi, Tommaso Caselli, Irina Prodanof
• Increasing Information Accessibility on the Web: a Rating System for Specialized Dictionaries
  Valeria Caruso, Anna De Meo, Vincenzo Norman Vitale
• Parsing di Corpora di Apprendenti di Italiano: un Primo Studio su VALICO
  (Parsing Italian Learner Corpora: a Case Study on VALICO)
  Elisa Corino, Claudio Russo
• Spammare senza pietà – Corpus based analysis of English, unacclimatised verb Loans in Italian and Creation of a Reference Lexicon
  Anna Fantini
• Taming Sense Sparsity: a Common–Sense Approach
  Antonio Lieto, Enrico Mensa, Daniele P. Radicioni
• Building a Computational Lexicon by using SQL
  Alessandro Mazzei
• FB-NEWS15: A Topic–Annotated Facebook Corpus for Emotion Detection and Sentiment Analysis
  Lucia C. Passaro, Alessandro Bondielli, Alessandro Lenci
• Sardinian on Facebook: Analysing Diatopic Varieties through Translated Lexical Lists
  Irene Russo, Simone Pisano, Claudia Soria
• A New Dataset for Source Code Comment Coherence
  Anna Corazza, Valerio Maggio, Giuseppe Scanniello

7. Pragmatics, Creativity and Linguistic Games

• Tracing Metaphors in Time through Self–Distance in Vector Spaces
  Marco Del Tredici, Malvina Nissim, Andrea Zaninello

8. Semantics and Knowledge Acquisition

• KD Strikes Back: from Keyphrases to Labelled Domains Using External Knowledge Sources
  Giovanni Moretti, Rachele Sprugnoli, Sara Tonelli

9. NLP for Digital Humanities

• Investigating the Application of Distributional Semantics to Stylometry
  Giulia Benotto, Emiliano Giovannetti, Simone Marchi
• Diachronic Analysis of the Italian Language exploiting Google Ngram
  Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Roberta Luisi, Giovanni Semeraro
• Hybrid Language Segmentation for Historical Documents
  David Alfter, Yuri Bizzoni
• La Leggibilità dei Testi di Ambito Medico rivolti al Paziente: il Caso dei Bugiardini di Farmaci Senza Obbligo di Prescrizione Medica
  (Readability of Medical Texts for Patients: a Case Study on Information Leaflets of Drugs without Obligation of Medical Prescription)
  Franca Orletti, Felice Dell'Orletta, Rossella Iovino
• La Modellazione Diacronica di Risorse Termino–Ontologiche nell'Ambito delle Digital Humanities: Esperimenti su Clavius
  (Diachronic Modeling of Terminological-Ontological Resources within Digital Humanities: Experiments on Clavius)
  Silvia Piccini, Andrea Bellandi, Giulia Benotto, Emiliano Giovannetti
• Panta Rei: Tracking Semantic Change with Distributional Semantics in Ancient Greek
  Martina Astrid Rodda, Marco S. G. Senaldi, Alessandro Lenci

10. Cognitive Modeling of Language Processing and Psycholinguistics

• Reassessing Inflectional Regularity in Modern Greek Conjugation
  Stavros Bompolas, Marcello Ferro, Claudia Marzi, Franco Alberto Cardillo, Vito Pirrelli
• Written Word Production and Lexical Self–Organisation: Evidence from English (Pseudo)Compounds
  Marcello Ferro, Franco Alberto Cardillo, Vito Pirrelli, Christina L. Gagné, Thomas L. Spalding
• Lexical Categories or Frequency Effects? A Feedback from Quantitative Methods Applied to Psycholinguistic Models in two Studies on Italian
  Francesca Franzon, Giorgio Arcara, Chiara Zanini
• Semantic Priming Effects in Italian Verbs Recognition: the Role of Grammatical Classes and Semantic Categories
  Azzurra Mancuso, Maria De Martino, Alessandro Laudanna
• Sentiment Analysis: Applicazione in un Dominio Psico–Forense
  Francesca Guglielmi, Pierpaolo Basile, Antonietta Curci, Giovanni Semeraro
• Stepping out of the Chinese Room: Word meaning with and without consciousness
  Roberto Bottini, Daniel Casasanto, Andrea Nadalini, Davide Crepaldi

11. Spoken Language Processing and Understanding

• Context–aware Spoken Language Understanding for Human Robot Interaction
  Andrea Vanzo, Danilo Croce, Roberto Basili, Daniele Nardi

12. NLP for Web and Social Media

• Argument Mining on Italian News Blogs
  Pierpaolo Basile, Valerio Basile, Elena Cabrio, Serena Villata
• Twitter Sentiment Polarity Classification using Barrier Features
  Anita Alicante, Anna Corazza, Antonio Pironti
• The DiDi Corpus of South Tyrolean CMC Data: A multilingual corpus of Facebook texts
  Jennifer–Carmen Frey, Aivars Glaznieks, Egon W. Stemle
• Sequenze N+pN (Nome Comune + Nome Proprio): Descrizione Linguistica da un Corpus dell’Italiano
  (N+pN (Common Noun + Proper Noun) Sequences: Linguistic Description from an Italian Corpus)
  Felicia Logozzo

13. Morphology and Syntax Processing

• (Better than) State–of–the–Art PoS–tagging for Italian Texts
  Fabio Tamburini
• Tree Kernels–based Discriminative Reranker for Italian Constituency Parsers
  Antonio Uva, Alessandro Moschitti
• Comparing State–of–the–art Dependency Parsers on the Italian Stanford Dependency Treebank
  Alberto Lavelli
• May the Goddess of Hope Help Us. Homonymy in Latin Lexicon and Onomasticon
  Marco Passarotti, Marco Budassi

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Fifth Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop EVALITA 2016

Chaired by Pierpaolo Basile, Franco Cutugno, Malvina Nissim, Viviana Patti, Rachele Sprugnoli

• Preface
  
  

PART I: Introduction to Evalita 2016

• EVALITA 2016: Overview of the 5th Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian
  Pierpaolo Basile, Franco Cutugno, Malvina Nissim, Viviana Patti, Rachele Sprugnoli
• Raising Interest and Collecting Suggestions on the EVALITA Evaluation Campaign
  Rachele Sprugnoli, Viviana Patti, Franco Cutugno
• Keynote: Profiling the Personality of Social Media Users
  Walter Daelemans

PART II: Task Overviews and Participant Reports

Task 1: ArtiPhon – Articulatory Phone Recognition

• The ArtiPhon Task at Evalita 2016
  Leonardo Badino
• Phone Recognition Experiments on ArtiPhon with KALDI
  Piero Cosi

Task 2: FactA – Event Factuality Annotation

• The EVALITA 2016 Event Factuality Annotation Task (FactA)
  Anne–Lyse Minard, Manuela Speranza, Tommaso Caselli

Task 3: NEEL–IT – Named Entity rEcognition and Linking in Italian Tweets

• Overview of the EVALITA 2016 Named Entity rEcognition and Linking in Italian Tweets (NEEL–IT) Task
  Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Anna Lisa Gentile, Giuseppe Rizzo
• Using Embeddings for Both Entity Recognition and Linking in Tweet
  Giuseppe Attardi, Daniele Sartiano, Maria Simi, Irene Sucameli
• UNIMIB@NEEL–IT: Named Entity Recognition and Linking of Italian Tweets
  Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini, Elisabetta Fersini, Pikakshi Manchanda, Enza Messina, Debora Nozza, Matteo Palmonari, Cezar Sas
• MicroNeel: Combining NLP Tools to Perform Named Entity Detection and Linking on Microposts
  Francesco Corcoglioniti, Alessio Palmero Aprosio, Yaroslav Nechaev, Claudio Giuliano
• sisinflab: an Ensemble of Supervised and Unsupervised Strategies for the NEEL–IT Challenge at Evalita 2016
  Vittoria Cozza, Wanda La Bruna, Tommaso Di Noia
• FBK–NLP at NEEL–IT: Active Learning for Domain Adaptation
  Anne–Lyse Minard, Mohammed Refat Hamouda Qwaider, Bernardo Magnini

Task 4: PoSTWITA – POS tagging for Italian Social Media Texts

• Overview of the EVALITA 2016 Part Of Speech on TWitter for ITAlian Task
  Cristina Bosco, Fabio Tamburini, Andrea Bolioli, Alessandro Mazzei
• Character Embeddings PoS Tagger vs HMM Tagger for Tweets
  Giuseppe Attardi, Maria Simi
• Building the state–of–the–art in POS tagging of Italian Tweets
  Andrea Cimino, Felice Dell'Orletta
• Building a Social Media Adapted PoS Tagger Using FlexTag –– A Case Study on Italian Tweets
  Tobias Horsmann, Torsten Zesch
• Mivoq Evalita 2016 PosTwITA tagger
  Giulio Paci
• NLP–NITMZ: Part–of–Speech Tagging on Italian Social Media Text using Hidden Markov Model
  Partha Pakray, Goutam Majumder
• When silver glitters more than gold: Bootstrapping an Italian part–of–speech tagger for Twitter
  Barbara Plank, Malvina Nissim
• bot.zen @ EVALITA 2016 – A minimally–deep learning PoS–tagger (trained for Italian Tweets)
  Egon W. Stemle
• A BiLSTM–CRF PoS–tagger for Italian tweets using morphological information
  Fabio Tamburini

Task 5: QA4FAQ – Question Answering for Frequently Asked Questions

• Overview of the EVALITA 2016 Question Answering for Frequently Asked Questions (QA4FAQ) Task
  Annalina Caputo, Marco de Gemmis, Pasquale Lops, Francesco Lovecchio, Vito Manzari
• Question Answering System for Frequently Asked Question
  Divyanshu Bhardwaj, Partha Pakray, Jereemi Bentham, Saurav Saha, Alexander Gelbukh
• Tweaking Word Embeddings for FAQ Ranking
  Erick R. Fonseca, Simone Magnolini, Anna Feltracco, Mohammed R. H. Qwaider, Bernardo Magnini
• ChiLab4It System in the QA4FAQ Competition
  Arianna Pipitone, Giuseppe Tirone, Roberto Pirrone

Task 6: SENTIPOLC – SENTIment POLarity Classification

• Overview of the Evalita 2016 SENTIment POLarity Classification Task
  Francesco Barbieri, Valerio Basile, Danilo Croce, Malvina Nissim, Nicole Novielli, Viviana Patti
• Convolutional Neural Networks for Sentiment Analysis on Italian Tweets
  Giuseppe Attardi, Daniele Sartiano, Chiara Alzetta, Federica Semplici
• IRADABE2: Lexicon Merging and Positional Features for Sentiment Analysis in Italian
  Davide Buscaldi, Delia Irazú Hernández Farías
• Context–aware Convolutional Neural Networks for Twitter Sentiment Analysis in Italian
  Giuseppe Castellucci, Danilo Croce, Roberto Basili
• Tandem LSTM–SVM Approach for Sentiment Analysis
  Andrea Cimino, Felice Dell'Orletta
• Lacam&Int@UNIBA at the EVALITA 2016–SENTIPOLC Task
  Vito Vincenzo Covella, Berardina Nadja De Carolis, Stefano Ferilli, Domenico Redavid
• Sentiment Detection using Convolutional Neural Networks with Multi–Task Training and Distant Supervision
  Jan Deriu, Mark Cieliebak
• Tweet2Check evaluation at Evalita Sentipolc 2016
  Emanuele Di Rosa, Alberto Durante
• Computational rule–based model for Irony Detection in Italian Tweets
  Simona Frenda
• On the performance of B4MSA on SENTIPOLC'16
  Daniela Moctezuma, Eric S. Tellez, Mario Graff, Sabino Miranda–Jiménez
• Exploiting Emotive Features for the Sentiment Polarity Classification of tweets
  Lucia C. Passaro, Alessandro Bondielli, Alessandro Lenci
• Samskara Minimal structural features for detecting subjectivity and polarity in Italian tweets
  Irene Russo, Monica Monachini