KonKretiKa @ CONcreTEXT: Computing concreteness indexes with sigmoid transformation and adjustment for context

The present paper is a technical report of KonKretiKa, a system for computation of concreteness indexes of words in context, submitted to the English track of the CONcreTEXT shared task. We treat concreteness as a bimodal problem and compute the concreteness indexes using paradigms of concrete and abstract seed words and distributional semantic similarity. We also conduct sigmoid transformation to achieve greater similarity to the psycholinguistically attested data, and apply dynamic adjustment of static indexes for sentential context. One of the modifications of the presented system ranked third in the task, with rs = .6634 and r = .6685 against the gold standard

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)