Long-term Social Media Data Collection at the University of Turin

We report on the collection of social media messages — from Twitter in particular — in the Italian language that is continuously going on since 2012 at the University of Turin. A number of smaller datasets have been extracted from the main collection and enriched with different kinds of annotations for linguistic purposes. Moreover, a few extra datasets have been collected independently and are now in the process of being merged with the main collection. We aim at making the resource available to the community to the best of our possibility, in accordance with the Terms of Service provided by the platforms where data have been gathered from.In questo articolo descriviamo il lavoro di raccolta di messaggi — da Twitter in particolar modo—in lingua italiana che va avanti in maniera continuativa dal 2012 presso l’Università di Torino. Diversi dataset sono stati estratti dalla raccolta principale ed arricchiti con differenti tipi di annotazione per scopi linguistici. Inoltre, dataset ulteriori sono stati raccolti indipendentemente, e fanno ora parte della raccolta principale. Il nostro scopo è rendere questa risorsa disponibile alla comunit` a in maniera pi`u completa possibile, considerati i termini d’uso imposti dalle piattaforme da cui i dati sono stati estratti

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