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# CLiC-it 2017
Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics

### Proceedings of the Fourth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2017)

### Rome, Italy, December 11-13, 2017.

Edited by

### Roberto Basili *
Malvina Nissim **
Giorgio Satta ***

* Department of Enterprise Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
** Center for Language and Cognition, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
*** Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

## Table of Contents

- Preface

### Keynote Talks

- Searching for General Models that Learn Compositionally Marco Baroni, Facebook AI Research, Paris, France
- Doing Stuff with Long Short Term Memory networks Yoav Goldberg, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
- Computational Sociolinguistics – An Emerging Partnership Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan, USA

### Contributed Papers

- I Verbi Neologici nell'Italiano del Web: Comportamento Sintattico e Selezione dell'Ausiliare
  (Italian Verbal Neologisms on the Web: Syntactic Behaviour and Auxiliary Selection)
  Matteo Amore
- Predicting Land Use of Italian Cities using Structural Semantic Models
  Gianni Barlacchi, Bruno Lepri, Alessandro Moschitti
- Predicting Controversial News Using Facebook Reactions
  Angelo Basile, Tommaso Caselli, Malvina Nissim
- Bi-directional LSTM-CNNs-CRF for Italian Sequence Labeling
  Pierpaolo Basile, Giovanni Semeraro, Pierluigi Cassotti
- Monitoring Adolescents' Distress using Social Web data as a Source: the InsideOut Project
  Roberto Basili, Valentina Bellomaria, Niels Jonas Bugge, Danilo Croce, Francesco De Michele, Federico Fiori Nastro, Paolo Fiori Nastro, Chantal Michel, Stefanie Schmidt, Frauke Schultze-Lutter
- "Gimme the Usual" - How Handling of Pragmatics Improves Chatbots
  Alessia Bianchini, Francesco Tarasconi, Raffaella Ventaglio, Mariafrancesca Guadalupi
- Deep-learning the Ropes: Modeling Idiomaticity with Neural Networks
  Yuri Bizzoni, Marco S.G. Senaldi, Alessandro Lenci
- Neural Sentiment Analysis for a Real-World Application
  Daniele Bonadiman, Giuseppe Castellucci, Andrea Favalli, Raniero Romagnoli, Alessandro Moschitti
- Emo2Val: Inferring Valence Scores from fine-grained Emotion Values
  Alessandro Bondielli, Lucia Passaro, Alessandro Lenci
- Toward a Bilingual Lexical Database on Connectives: Exploiting a German/Italian Parallel Corpus
  Peter Bourgonje, Yulia Grishina, Manfred Stede
- Developing a Large Scale FrameNet for Italian: the IFrameNet Experience
  Silvia Brambilla, Danilo Croce, Fabio Tamburini, Roberto Basili
- -io Nouns through the Ages. Analysing Latin Morphological Productivity with Lemlat
  Marco Budassi, Eleonora Litta, Marco Passarotti
- Gender Stereotypes in Film Language: a Corpus-assisted Analysis
  Lucia Busso, Gianmarco Vignozzi
- How "Deep" is Learning Word Inflection?
  Franco Alberto Cardillo, Marcello Ferro, Claudia Marzi, Vito Pirrelli
- Tree LSTMs for Learning Sentence Representations
  Héctor Cerezo Costas, Manuela I. Martín-Vicente, Francisco J. Gonzalez-Castano
- Irony Detection: from the Twittersphere to the News Space
  Alessandra Cervone, Evgeny Stepanov, Fabio Celli, Giuseppe Riccardi
- Phase-based Minimalist Parsing and Complexity in Non-local Dependencies
  Cristiano Chesi
- TWITTIRO`: a Social Media Corpus with a Multi-layered Annotation for Irony
  Alessandra Teresa Cignarella, Cristina Bosco, Viviana Patti
- Identifying Predictive Features for Textual Genre Classification: the Key Role of Syntax
  Andrea Cimino, Martijn Wieling, Felice Dell'Orletta, Simonetta Montemagni, Giulia Venturi
- CorAIt -- A Non-native Speech Database for Italian
  Claudia Roberta Combei
- Dealing with Italian Adjectives in Noun Phrase: a Study Oriented to Natural Language Generation
  Giorgia Conte, Cristina Bosco, Alessandro Mazzei
- Variabili Rilevanti nella Rappresentazione delle Parole nel Lessico Mentale: Dati Psicolinguistici da una Banca-dati di Nomi e Verbi Italiani
  (Relevant Variables for Word Representation in the Mental Lexicon: Psycholinguistic Evidence from a Database of Italian Nouns and Verbs)
  Maria De Martino, Azzurra Mancuso, Alessandro Laudanna
- Tagging Semantic Types for Verb Argument Positions
  Francesca Della Moretta, Anna Feltracco, Elisabetta Jezek, Bernardo Magnini
- Linguistic Features and Newsworthiness: an Analysis of News style
  Maria Pia Di Buono, Jan Snajder
- Can Monolingual Embeddings Improve Neural Machine Translation?
  Mattia Antonino Di Gangi, Marcello Federico
- Distributed Processes for Spoken Questions and Commands Understanding
  Dario Di Mauro, Antonio Origlia, Francesco Cutugno
- A Reproducible Approach with R Markdown to Automatic Classification of Medical Certificates in French
  Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Federica Beghini, Federica Vezzani, Geneviève Henrot
- Contrast-Ita Bank: A corpus for Italian Annotated with Discourse Contrast Relations
  Anna Feltracco, Bernardo Magnini, Elisabetta Jezek
- Ironic Gestures and Tones in Twitter
  Simona Frenda
- Emerging Sentiment Language Model for Emotion Detection
  Anastasia Giachanou, Francisco Rangel, Fabio Crestani, Paolo Rosso
- Stylometry in Computer-Assisted Translation: Experiments on the Babylonian Talmud
  Emiliano Giovannetti, Davide Albanesi, Andrea Bellandi, David Dattilo, Felice Dell'Orletta
- Towards an Italian Lexicon for Polarity Classification (polarITA): a Comparative Analysis of Lexical Resources for Sentiment Analysis
  Delia Irazú Hernández Farías, Irene Laganà, Viviana Patti, Cristina Bosco
- Multilingual Neural Machine Translation for Low Resource Languages
  Surafel Melaku Lakew, Mattia Antonino Di Gangi, Marcello Federico
- Stem and Fragment Priming on Verbal Forms of Italian
  Alessandro Laudanna, Giulia Bracco
- Metadata Annotation for Dramatic Texts
  Vincenzo Lombardo, Rossana Damiano, Antonio Pizzo
- Deep Learning for Automatic Image Captioning in Poor Training Conditions
  Caterina Masotti, Danilo Croce, Roberto Basili
- E Pluribus Unum. Representing Compounding in a Derivational Lexicon of Latin
  Silvia Micheli, Eleonora Litta
- Sanremo's Winner Is... Category-driven Selection Strategies for Active Learning
  Anne-Lyse Minard, Manuela Speranza, Mohammed R. H. Qwaider, Bernardo Magnini
- Dalla Word Sense Disambiguation alla Sintassi: il Problema dell'Articolo Partitivo in Italiano
  (From Word Sense Disambiguation to Syntax: the Case of the Italian Partitive Article)
  Ignazio Mauro Mirto, Emanuele Cipolla
- PARSEME-It Corpus An annotated Corpus of Verbal Multiword Expressions in Italian
  Johanna Monti, Maria Pia di Buono, Federico Sangati
- MODAL: A Multilingual Corpus Annotated for Modality
  Malvina Nissim, Paola Pietrandrea
- AHyDA: Automatic Hypernym Detection with Feature Augmentation
  Ludovica Pannitto, Lavinia Salicchi, Alessandro Lenci
- INFORMed PA: A NER for the Italian Public Administration Domain
  Lucia Passaro, Alessandro Lenci, Anna Gabbolini
- Mining Offensive Language on Social Media
  Serena Pelosi, Alessandro Maisto, Pierluigi Vitale, Simonetta Vietri
- Automatic Evaluation of Employee Satisfaction
  Marco Piersanti, Giulia Brandetti, Pierluigi Failla
- Hate Speech Annotation: Analysis of an Italian Twitter Corpus
  Fabio Poletto, Marco Stranisci, Manuela Sanguinetti, Viviana Patti, Cristina Bosco
- PoS Taggers in the Wild: A Case Study with Swiss Italian Student Essays
  Daniele Puccinelli, Silvia Demartini, Aris Piatti, Sara Giulivi, Luca Cignetti, Simone Fornara
- Find Problems before They Find You with AnnotatorPro's Monitoring Functionalities
  Mohammed R. H. Qwaider, Anne-Lyse Minard, Manuela Speranza, Bernardo Magnini
- Evaluating a Rule Based Strategy to Map IMAGACT, T-PAS
  Andrea Amelio Ravelli, Lorenzo Gregori, Anna Feltracco
- Domain-specific Named Entity Disambiguation in Historical Memoirs
  Marco Rovera, Federico Nanni, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Anna Goy
- Toward a Treebank Collecting German Aesthetic Writings of the Late 18th Century
  Alessio Salomoni
- Assessing the Use of Terminology in Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation for Academic Course Catalogues Translation
  Randy Scansani, Marcello Federico, Luisa Bentivogli
- A little bit of bella pianura: Detecting Code-Mixing in Historical English Travel Writing
  Rachele Sprugnoli, Sara Tonelli, Giovanni Moretti, Stefano Menini
- PARAD-it: Eliciting Italian Paradigmatic Relations with Crowdsourcing
  Irene Sucameli, Alessandro Lenci
- The Impact of Phrases on Italian Lexical Simplification
  Sara Tonelli, Alessio Palmero Aprosio, Marco Mazzon
- Analysis of Italian Word Embeddings
  Rocco Tripodi, Stefano Li Pira
- Applicazione di un Metodo Attribuzionistico Quantitativo alla Monodia Liturgica Medievale
  (A Quantitative Method for the Attribution of Medieval Liturgical Monody)
  Francesco Unguendoli, Giampaolo Cristadoro, Marco Beghelli
- Commercial Applications through Community Question Answering Technology
  Antonio Uva, Valerio Storch, Casimiro Carrino, Ugo Di Iorio, Alessandro Moschitti

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