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# EVALITA 2026
9th Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian

## Proceedings of the 9th Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop (EVALITA 2026)

### Bari, Italy, February 26th-27th, 2026.

Edited by

### Francesco Cutugno *
Alessio Miaschi **
Alessio Palmero Aprosio ***
Giulia Rambelli ****
Lucia Siciliani *****
Marco Antonio Stranisci ******

* University of Naples Federico II, Italy
** Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “A. Zampolli” – CNR, Italy
*** University of Trento, Trento, Italy, Italy
**** Aix-Marseille University , France
***** Università di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
****** Università di Torino, Italy

## Table of Contents

- Preface
  Summary: There were 69 papers accepted to this workshop, 55 as regular papers and 14 as short papers.
- EVALITA 2026: Overview of the 9th evaluation campaign of natural language processing and speech tools for italian
  Francesco Cutugno, Alessio Miaschi, Alessio Palmero Aprosio, Giulia Rambelli, Lucia Siciliani, Marco Antonio Stranisci

### Keynote Talk

- Tu chiamale se vuoi emozioni: The impact of emotions on disinformation and sexism identification
  Paolo Rosso

### Multi-Track System

- Kenji-Endo: a BabyLM @EVALITA
  Calogero Jerik Scozzaro, Matteo Rinaldi, Gianluca Mittone, Marco Antonio Stranisci

### Track "Authorship Analysis"

### Desegma-IT - Detection and Segmentation of Machine Generated Text in Italian

- DeSegMa-IT at EVALITA 2026: Overview of the ”Detection and Segmentation of Machine Generated Texts in Italian”
  Giovanni Puccetti, Andrea Pedrotti, Andrea Esuli
- Gradient Descenders at DeSegMa-IT: Leveraging Monolingual Transformer for LLM-Generated Text Detection and Boundary Identification
  Tran Phuoc Thanh Nhan, Bui Hong Son, Dang Van Thin
- MINDS at DeSegMa-IT: Detecting Human-LLM Authorship Switches via Token-Level Classification (short paper)
  Flavio Giobergia
- Nicla at DeSegMa-IT: DistilBERT for MGT Detection and LightGBM Regressor for HMT Segmentation
  Nicla Auletta
- Stochastic Gradient Descenders at DeSegMa-IT: Instruction-Tuned LLM and Token Classification for MGT Detection and Boundary Localization
  Huynh Nguyen Phu, Bui Hong Son, Dang Van Thin
- UniTor at DeSegMa-It: Analyzing Supervision and Encoder Representations for Italian Machine-Generated Text Detection
  Federico Borazio, Giacomo De Luca, Daniele Pasquini, Danilo Croce, Roberto Basili

### Track "Computational Ethics"

### GSI:detect – Detecting Gender Stereotypes in Italian

- GSI:detect at EVALITA 2026: Overview of the Task on Detecting Gender Stereotypes in Italian
  Gloria Comandini, Manuela Speranza, Sofia Brenna, Davide Testa, Stefania Cavagnoli, Bernardo Magnini
- DIAG-Sapienza at GSI:detect: Joint Detection and Classification of Gender Stereotypes with Structured Prompting and Fine-Tuning
  Olga E. Sorokoletova, Emanuele Musumeci, Daniele Nardi
- Festa at GSI:detect: In-Context Learning vs. Fine-Tuning for Gender Stereotype Detection (short paper)
  Donato Festa
- MINDS at GSI:detect: From Logits to Degrees of Agreement in Gender Stereotype Detection with LLMs (short paper)
  Flavio Giobergia
- StereoBusters at GSI:detect: LLM-Based Detection and Human Qualitative Analysis of Gender Stereotypes in Italian Short Text
  Salvatore Greco, Moreno La Quatra, Marta Marchiori Manerba, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Alessandra Teresa Cignarella
- Team Prisma at GSI:detect: Comparing PB&J Persona-Based and Few-Shot Approaches to Gender Stereotype Detection at EVALITA 2026
  Claudia Zaghi
- Tiz at GSI:detect: Modeling Gender Stereotype Detection as Multi-Category Gender Stereotype Scoring
  Tiziano LaBruna

### MultiPRIDE: Multilingual Automatic Detection of Reclamation of Slurs in the LGBTQ+ Context

- MultiPRIDE at EVALITA 2026: Overview of the Multilingual Automatic Detection of Slur Reclamation in the LGBTQ+ Context Task
  Chiara Ferrando, Lia Draetta, Marco Madeddu, Mae Sosto, Viviana Patti, Paolo Rosso, Cristina Bosco, Jacinto Mata, Estrella Gualda
- AIWizards at MULTIPRIDE: A Hierarchical Approach to Slur Reclamation Detection
  Luca Tedeschini, Matteo Fasulo
- AVAHI at MultiPRIDE: Multilingual Reclaimed Language Detection via Knowledge Graphs and Retrieval-Augmented Generation
  Tania Alcántara, Omar Garcia-Vazquez, Jose A. Torres-León, Marco Cardoso-Moreno, Diana Jimenez, Luis Moreno-Mendieta
- Challenger at MultiPRIDE: Is It Hate Speech or Reclaimed?
  Hadi Bayrami Asl Tekanlou, Mahdi Bakhtiyarzade, Jafar Razmara
- DataSummit at MultiPRIDE: Context-Aware Multilingual Detection of Slur Reclamation in LGBTQ+ Contexts
  Federico Dingeo, Marco Viviani
- Ghavidel-Rajabi at MultiPRIDE: Identity, Toxicity, or Complexity? A Language-Specific Feature Selection Approach to Reclamatory Intent Detection
  Houman Rajabi, Fatemeh Ghavidel, Kourosh Ghahremani
- GRUPPETTOZZO at MultiPRIDE: Detecting LGBTQ+ Reclamatory Intent via Context-Aware Transformers
  Federico Traina, Alessandro Santoro, Gabriele Greco, Irene Siragusa, Roberto Pirrone
- HateItOff at MultiPRIDE: Linguistic and Sentiment Cues in Reclaimed LGBTQ+ Slur Detection
  Greta Damo, Nicolás Benjamín Ocampo
- I2C At MultiPRIDE: Transformers And Generative LLMs For Multilingual Reclamation Classification
  Laura Vázquez-Ramos, Jacinto Mata-Vázquez, Victoria Pachón-Álvarez
- INFOTEC-NLP at MultiPRIDE: Region-Aware Transformer Models for Spanish Reclaimed Language Classification (short paper)
  Jorge Gleaves, Guillermo Ruiz
- KIT-TIP-NLP at MultiPride: Continual Learning with Multilingual Foundation Model
  Barathi Ganesh HB, Michal Ptaszynski, Rene Melendez, Juuso Eronen
- LlaNa at MultiPRIDE: A Fine-Tuning Approach with Cross-Lingual Augmentation (short paper)
  Alessio Mercurio, Giorgio Talluto, Irene Siragusa, Roberto Pirrone
- MilaNLP at MultiPRIDE: Evaluating Lexical, Transformer, and Retrieval-Augmented Models for Reclaimed Language
  Ivana Crescenzi, Arianna Muti, Debora Nozza
- NamDang at MultiPride@EVALITA 2026: Multilingual Classification of Reclaimed Language in LGBTQ+ Discourse using Transformer-based Models
  Nam Dang, Vo Tuan Kiet, Dang Van Thin
- NetGuardAI at MultiPRIDE: Multilingual Detection of Reclaimed Language (short paper)
  Noe Come Jacques Le Pollotec, Elena Simona Apostol, Ciprian Octavian Truică
- SaFe Tweets at MultiPRIDE: From Multi-Model Ensembles to Expert LLMs for Reclamation Detection
  Sara Visconti, Federica Manzi
- The Hate Busters at MultiPRIDE: Automatic Identification of Reappropriated Slurs in Multilingual LGBTQ+ Discourse
  Aurora Ciminelli, Giulia Corvino, Camilla Gentili, Marco Viviani
- UniBO-FICLIT at MultiPRIDE: Fine-Tuning an ELECTRA-Based Model for the Detection of Italian Reclaimed Slurs
  Simone Casazza

### Track "Emerging Tasks"

### Cruciverb-IT: Crossword Solving

- Cruciverb-IT at EVALITA 2026: Overview of the Crossword Solving in Italian Task
  Cristiano Ciaccio, Gabriele Sarti, Alessio Miaschi, Felice Dell'Orletta, Malvina Nissim
- AC/DG at Cruciverb-IT: Retrieval-Based Approaches for Italian Crossword Clue Answering
  Ali Yassine, Claudio Savelli, Davide Napolitano, Giuseppe Gallipoli, Luca Cagliero, Elena Baralis
- FFT-UniBa at Cruciverb-IT: Special Length Tokens and CSP for Italian Crossword Solving
  Andrea Porcelli, Filippo Di Gravina, Emanuele Fontana, Mattia Curri, Francesco Damiano Di Gregorio
- MINDS at Cruciverb-IT: Solving Italian Crossword Clues with Masked Language Models and Candidate Pooling
  Flavio Giobergia
- UNIBA at Cruciverb-IT: Solving Italian Crosswords with Encoder–Decoder Models and Beam Search
  Pierpaolo Basile
- UniTor at Cruciverb-IT: Retrieval-Augmented Two-Step Reasoning for Italian Crossword Clue Answering
  Andriy Shcherbakov, Danilo Croce, Roberto Basili

### SVELA: Selective Verification of Erasure from LLM Answers

- SVELA at EVALITA 2026: Overview of the Selective Verification of Erasure from LLM Answers Task
  Claudio Savelli, Moreno La Quatra, Alkis Koudounas, Flavio Giobergia
- Eraserhead at SVELA: Detecting LLM Forgetting via Logit-Space Statistics (short paper)
  Matteo Berta, Tania Cerquitelli
- Ita-Lib at SVELA: Detecting the Forgotten — Representation-Based Approach for Verifying Machine Unlearning
  Ali Yassine, Hadi Ibrahim, Luca Cagliero
- MALTO at SVELA: A Specific-Attention-Head Approach for Membership Inference Attacks in LLMs Unlearning Evaluation
  Evren A. Munis, Mattia Sabato, Erfan Bayat, Andrea Lolli
- priyam_saha17 at SVELA: A Feature-Centric Pipeline for Verifying Selective Forgetting in Large Language Models
  Priyam Saha

### Track "Multimodality"

### EVWSD-ITA: Enhanced Visual Word Sense Disambiguation for Italian

- EVWSD-ITA at EVALITA 2026: Overview of the Enhanced Visual Word Sense Disambiguation for Italian Task
  Elio Musacchio, Lucia Siciliani, Pierpaolo Basile, Giovanni Semeraro
- UniTor at EVWSD-ITA: Zero-Shot Visual Word Sense Disambiguation via Visual Question-Answering
  Claudiu D. Hromei, Antonio Scaiella, Danilo Croce, Roberto Basili

### Track "New Challenges in Long-Standing Tasks"

### ATE-IT: Automatic Term Extraction – Italian Testbed

- ATE-IT at EVALITA 2026: Overview of the Automatic Term Extraction Italian Testbed Task
  Nicola Cirillo, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Federica Vezzani
- DSBKTE at ATE-IT: From Token Classification to Zero-Shot Generation: Two Approaches to Italian ATE at EVALITA 2026
  Danil Smirnov, Bita Khashechian, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio
- JTTE at ATE-IT: A CRF Model with Contextual Embeddings
  Juliette Tonneau, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio
- MKTE at ATE-IT: CRF-Based Term Extraction for Italian Waste Management Documents (short paper)
  Minseok Kim, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio
- OATE at ATE-IT: A Hybrid Approach for Automatic Terminology Extraction in Italian (short paper)
  Omar Arab, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio
- Peacemaker at ATE-IT: Automatic term extraction from Italian text for waste management data using encoder model
  Mahdi Bakhtiyarzadeh, Hadi Bayrami Asl Tekanlou, Jafar Razmara
- SMTE at ATE-IT: Ensemble Term Extraction with Italian BERT, spaCy, and Vocabulary-Based Filtering
  Sofia Maule, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio
- TermNinjas at ATE-IT: Overview of the Term Extraction and Term Variants Clustering Task
  Zunaira Hasnain, Fashad Ahmed Siddqu
- TrietNLP at ATE-IT: A Hybrid Pipeline for Italian Waste Management Terminology Analysis
  Nguyen Minh Triet, Dang Van Thin
- VVTE at ATE-IT: From Candidates to Terms: Hybrid Italian ATE with Dependency Heuristics, Gemini, and Random Forest Filtering (short paper)
  Valentine G. L. Vandervoort, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio

### PFB: Prometeia Financial Benchmark – Benchmarking Language Models in the Financial Domain

- PFB at EVALITA 2026: Overview of the Prometeia Financial Benchmark (short paper)
  Alessandro P. Bardelli, Tolga Çekiç, Irem Demirtaş, Michele Filannino, Simona Scala, Andrea Galassi, Gianmarco Pappacoda, Paolo Torroni
- AMSN at PFB: Overview of the Automated Multilingual Economics Question Answering Task (short paper)
  Ali Saleh Mohammadabad, Mehregan Nazarmohsenifakori
- UniTor at PFB: Constrained Agentic Prompting and Self-Consistency for Financial Multi-Choice QA
  Federico Borazio, Seyed Alireza Mousavian Anaraki, Shahid Iqbal Rai, Danilo Croce, Roberto Basili

### Track "Pragmatics"

### FadeIT: Fallacy Detection in Italian Social Media Texts

- FadeIT at EVALITA 2026: Overview of the Fallacy Detection in Italian Social Media Texts Task
  Alan Ramponi, Sara Tonelli
- Label at FadeIT: Fallacy-Aware LLM Reasoning for Score-Based Classification
  Tiziano Labruna, Eleni Papadopulos
- MALTO at FadeIT: A BERT-Based System for Multi-Label Fallacy Detection in Italian Social Media
  Matin Salami, Luca M. Rodia, Vladimir Schiau, Evren A. Munis, Claudio Savelli, Flavio Giobergia
- PuDy at FadeIT: Enhancing Fine-Grained Fallacy Detection with Hierarchy-Aware Training and Contextual Enrichment
  Duy Dang Phu, Son Bui Hong, Thin Van Dang
- RBG-AI at FadeIT: Prompted LLMs with Label Abstraction for Logical Fallacy Detection
  Meenakshi, Jairam R, Reshma U, Barathi Ganesh HB, Michal Ptaszynski
- TIGRO at FadeIT: E Pluribus Unum – A Multi-task Approach to Fallacy Detection and Span Identification
  Stefano Atzeni, Gabriele Sarti, Tommaso Caselli, Malvina Nissim
- Unica at FadeIT: Adapting Large Language Models to Fallacy Identification in Social Networks
  Matteo Fenu, Maurizio Atzori

### IMPOLS: IMplicit contents in POLitical Speech

- IMPOLS at EVALITA 2026: Overview of the IMPOLS Task
  Lorenzo Gregori, Walter Paci, Valentina Saccone
- RES2 at IMPOLS 2026: Implicit Content Classification via Span-Awareness, Hierarchical Multi-Task Learning and Synthetic Data
  Salvatore Spezia, Salvatore Ferrara, Roberto Dioguardi, Ernesto Davì, Irene Siragusa, Roberto Pirrone

### CALAMITA

- INDAQA2 - A Large Italian Narrative QA Benchmark: A CALAMITA 2026 Challenge
  Luca Gioffré, Luca Moroni, Alberte Fernández-Castro, Elena Marafatto, Giacomo Garufi, and Roberto Navigli
- ProverbIT - Easy to complete, hard to choose: A CALAMITA Challenge (short paper)
  Enrico Mensa, Lorenzo Zane, Calogero J. Scozzaro, Matteo Delsanto, Tommaso Milani, and Daniele P. Radicioni

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