CHANGE-IT @ EVALITA 2020: Change Headlines, Adapt News, GEnerate

We propose a generation task for Italian – more specifically, a style transfer task for headlines of Italian newspapers. This is the first shared task on generation included in the EVALITA evaluation framework. Indeed, one of the reasons to have this task is to stimulate more research on generation within the Italian community. With this aim in mind, we release to the participating teams not only training data, but also a baseline sequence to sequence model that performs the task in order to help everyone get started, even when not accustomed to Natural Language Generation (NLG) approaches. Contextually, we explore the complex issue of automatic evaluation of generated text, which is receiving particular attention in the NLG community

EVALITA Evaluation of NLP and Speech Tools for Italian - December 17th, 2020

Welcome to EVALITA 2020! EVALITA is the evaluation campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. EVALITA is an initiative of the Italian Association for Computational Linguistics (AILC, http://www.ai-lc.it) and it is endorsed by the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA, http://www.aixia.it) and the Italian Association for Speech Sciences (AISV, http://www.aisv.it)