Proceedings of the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CLiC-it 2018

On behalf of the Program Committee, a very warm welcome to the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-­‐it 2018). This edition of the conference is held in Torino. The conference is locally organised by the University of Torino and hosted into its prestigious main lecture hall “Cavallerizza Reale”. The CLiC-­‐it conference series is an initiative of the Italian Association for Computational Linguistics (AILC) which, after five years of activity, has clearly established itself as the premier national forum for research and development in the fields of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, where leading researchers and practitioners from academia and industry meet to share their research results, experiences, and challenges

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)

Mammuthus meridionalis di Madonna della Strada (Scoppito, L'Aquila): Diagnostica e restauro.

The skeleton of Mammuthus meridionalis (Nesti, 1825), found in 1954 at Madonna della Strada (Scoppito, L\u2019Aquila, central Italy) and exhibited since 1960 in the Spanish Fortress in L\u2019Aquila, has recently undergone a complex diagnostic and restoration project funded by the \u201cGuardia di Finanza\u201d as a contribution to the reconstruction of the city of L\u2019Aquila after the earthquake of 6 April 2009. The specimen was only slightly damaged by the seismic event. The restoration based on a highly integrated multidisciplinary approach, began with a preliminary diagnostic analysis in order to acquire information on the state of preservation of the skeleton and on the dynamic behaviour of the metal supporting frame-skeleton assembly. The restoration was carried out by combining the most common techniques applied in Palaeontology with the most advanced techniques used for the restoration of cultural artefacts. The painstaking restoration enabled the original shape of the skeleton to be restored, revealing the actual shape of the skull and its pathological modifications. Before reassembling the skeleton, a new, correct posture was also defined

Annotated corpora and tools of the PARSEME Shared Task on Automatic Identification of Verbal Multiword Expressions (edition 1.1)

This multilingual resource contains corpora in which verbal MWEs have been manually annotated. VMWEs include idioms (let the cat out of the bag), light-verb constructions (make a decision), verb-particle constructions (give up), inherently reflexive verbs (help oneself), and multi-verb constructions (make do). VMWEs were annotated according to the universal guidelines in 19 languages. The corpora are provided in the cupt format, inspired by the CONLL-U format. The corpora were used in the 1.1 edition of the PARSEME Shared Task (2018). For most languages, morphological and syntactic information ­­­­– not necessarily using UD tagsets – including parts of speech, lemmas, morphological features and/or syntactic dependencies are also provided. Depending on the language, the information comes from treebanks (e.g., Universal Dependencies) or from automatic parsers trained on treebanks (e.g., UDPipe). This item contains training, development and test data, as well as the evaluation tools used in the PARSEME Shared Task 1.1 (2018). The annotation guidelines are available online: http://parsemefr.lif.univ-mrs.fr/parseme-st-guidelines/1.

Annotated corpora and tools of the PARSEME Shared Task on Automatic Identification of Verbal Multiword Expressions (edition 1.0)

The PARSEME shared task aims at identifying verbal MWEs in running texts. Verbal MWEs include idioms (let the cat out of the bag), light verb constructions (make a decision), verb-particle constructions (give up), and inherently reflexive verbs (se suicider 'to suicide' in French). VMWEs were annotated according to the universal guidelines in 18 languages. The corpora are provided in the parsemetsv format, inspired by the CONLL-U format. For most languages, paired files in the CONLL-U format - not necessarily using UD tagsets - containing parts of speech, lemmas, morphological features and/or syntactic dependencies are also provided. Depending on the language, the information comes from treebanks (e.g., Universal Dependencies) or from automatic parsers trained on treebanks (e.g., UDPipe). This item contains training and test data, tools and the universal guidelines file

Annotated corpora and tools of the PARSEME Shared Task on Automatic Identification of Verbal Multiword Expressions (edition 1.1)

This multilingual resource contains corpora in which verbal MWEs have been manually annotated. VMWEs include idioms (let the cat out of the bag), light-verb constructions (make a decision), verb-particle constructions (give up), inherently reflexive verbs (help oneself), and multi-verb constructions (make do). VMWEs were annotated according to the universal guidelines in 19 languages. The corpora are provided in the cupt format, inspired by the CONLL-U format. The corpora were used in the 1.1 edition of the PARSEME Shared Task (2018). For most languages, morphological and syntactic information ­­­­– not necessarily using UD tagsets – including parts of speech, lemmas, morphological features and/or syntactic dependencies are also provided. Depending on the language, the information comes from treebanks (e.g., Universal Dependencies) or from automatic parsers trained on treebanks (e.g., UDPipe). This item contains training, development and test data, as well as the evaluation tools used in the PARSEME Shared Task 1.1 (2018). The annotation guidelines are available online: http://parsemefr.lif.univ-mrs.fr/parseme-st-guidelines/1.

PARSEME corpora annotated for verbal multiword expressions (version 1.3)

This multilingual resource contains corpora in which verbal MWEs have been manually annotated. VMWEs include idioms (let the cat out of the bag), light-verb constructions (make a decision), verb-particle constructions (give up), inherently reflexive verbs (help oneself), and multi-verb constructions (make do). This is the first release of the corpora without an associated shared task. Previous version (1.2) was associated with the PARSEME Shared Task on semi-supervised Identification of Verbal MWEs (2020). The data covers 26 languages corresponding to the combination of the corpora for all previous three editions (1.0, 1.1 and 1.2) of the corpora. VMWEs were annotated according to the universal guidelines. The corpora are provided in the cupt format, inspired by the CONLL-U format. Morphological and syntactic information, ­­­­including parts of speech, lemmas, morphological features and/or syntactic dependencies, are also provided. Depending on the language, the information comes from treebanks (e.g., Universal Dependencies) or from automatic parsers trained on treebanks (e.g., UDPipe). All corpora are split into training, development and test data, following the splitting strategy adopted for the PARSEME Shared Task 1.2. The annotation guidelines are available online: https://parsemefr.lis-lab.fr/parseme-st-guidelines/1.3 The .cupt format is detailed here: https://multiword.sourceforge.net/cupt-format