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Preface
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.
This
year
CLiC-‐it
received
70
submissions
against
64
submissions
in
2015,
69
in
2016
and
72
in
2017.
The
Programme
Committee
worked
very
hard
to
ensure
that
every
paper
received
at
least
two
careful
and
fair
reviews.
This
process
finally
led
to
the
acceptance
of
18
papers
for
oral
presentation
and
45
papers
for
poster
presentation,
with
a
global
acceptance
rate
of
90%
motivated
by
the
inclusive
spirit
of
the
conference.
The
conference
is
also
receiving
considerable
attention
from
the
international
community,
with
16
(23%)
submissions
showing
at
least
one
author
affiliated
to
a
foreign
institution.
Regardless
of
the
format
of
presentation,
all
accepted
papers
are
allocated
5
pages
plus
2
pages
for
references
in
the
proceedings,
available
as
open
access
publication.
In
line
with
previous
editions,
the
conference
is
organised
around
thematic
areas
managed
by
one
or
two
area
chairs
per
area.
In
addition
to
the
technical
programme,
this
year
we
are
honoured
to
have
as
invited
speakers
internationally
recognised
researchers
as
Johan
Bos
(University
of
Groningen)
and
Iryna
Gurevych
(Technische
Universität
Darmstadt).
We
are
very
grateful
to
Johan
and
Iryna
for
agreeing
to
share
with
the
Italian
community
their
knowledge
and
expertise
on
key
topics
in
Computational
Linguistics.
Traditionally,
around
one
half
of
the
participants
at
CLiC-‐it
are
young
postdocs,
PhD
students,
and
even
undergraduate
students.
As
in
the
previous
edition
of
the
conference,
we
organised
a
special
track
called
“Research
Communications”,
encouraging
authors
of
articles
published
in
2018
at
outstanding
international
conferences
in
our
field
to
submit
short
abstracts
of
their
work.
Research
communications
are
not
published
in
the
proceedings,
but
are
orally
presented
within
a
dedicated
session
at
the
conference,
in
order
to
enforce
dissemination
of
excellence
in
research.
Moreover,
during
the
conference
we
award
the
prize
for
the
best
Master
Thesis
(Laurea
Magistrale)
in
Computational
Linguistics,
submitted
at
an
Italian
University
between
August
1st
2017
and
July
31st
2018.
This
special
prize
is
also
endorsed
by
AILC.
We
have
received
6
candidate
theses,
which
have
been
evaluated
by
a
special
jury.
The
prize
will
be
awarded
at
the
conference,
by
a
member
of
the
jury.
As
last
year,
we
propose
a
tutorial
at
the
beginning
of
the
conference
(Paolo
Rosso
–
Profiling
Information
in
Social
Media).
We
highlight
the
importance
that
this
kind
of
opportunities
have
for
young
researchers
in
particular,
and
we
are
proud
of
having
made
the
tutorial
attendance
free
for
all
registered
students.
Even
if
CLiC-‐it
is
a
medium
size
conference,
organizing
this
annual
meeting
requires
major
effort
from
many
people.
This
conference
would
not
have
been
possible
without
the
dedication,
devotion
and
hard
work
of
the
members
of
the
Local
Organising
Committee,
who
volunteered
their
time
and
energies
to
contribute
to
the
success
of
the
event.
We
are
also
extremely
grateful
to
our
Programme
Committee
members
for
producing
a
lot
of
detailed
and
insightful
reviews,
as
well
as
to
the
Area
Chairs
who
assisted
the
Programme
Chairs
in
their
duties.
All
these
people
are
named
in
the
following
pages.
We
also
want
to
acknowledge
the
support
from
endorsing
organisations
and
institutions
and
from
all
of
our
sponsors,
who
generously
provided
funds
and
services
that
are
crucial
for
the
realisation
of
this
event.
Special
thanks
are
also
due
to
the
University
of
Torino
for
its
support
in
the
organisation
of
the
event
and
for
hosting
the
conference
at
the
main
lecture
hall
“Cavallerizza
Reale”.
Please
join
us
at
CLiC-‐it
2018
to
interact
with
experts
from
academia
and
industry
on
topics
related
to
Computational
Linguistics
and
Natural
Language
Processing
and
to
experience
and
share
new
research
findings,
best
practices,
state-‐of-‐the-‐art
systems
and
applications.
We
hope
that
this
year’s
conference
will
be
intellectually
stimulating,
and
that
you
will
take
home
many
new
ideas
and
methods
that
will
help
extend
your
own
research.
Elena
Cabrio,
Alessandro
Mazzei
and
Fabio
Tamburini
CLiC-‐it
2018
General
Chairs
Organising
Committee
Conference
and
Programme
Chairs
Elena
Cabrio
(Université
Côte
d’Azur,
Inria,
CNRS,
I3S)
Alessandro
Mazzei
(Università
di
Torino)
Fabio
Tamburini
(Università
di
Bologna)
Area
Chairs
Dialogue,
Discourse
and
Natural
Language
Generation
Barbara
Di
Eugenio
(University
of
Illinois)
Information
Extraction,
Information
Retrieval
and
Question
Answering
Pierpaolo
Basile
(Università
degli
Studi
di
di
Bari
“Aldo
Moro”)
Luigi
Di
Caro
(Università
di
Torino)
Language
and
Cognition
Marco
Marelli
(Università
di
Milano-‐Bicocca)
Daniele
Radicioni
(Università
di
Torino)
Language
Resources
Cristina
Bosco
(Università
di
Torino)
Maria
Simi
(Università
degli
Studi
di
Pisa)
Linguistic
Issues
in
CL
and
NLP
Alessandro
Lenci
(Università
degli
Studi
di
Pisa)
Johanna
Monti
(Università
di
Napoli
“L’Orientale”)
Machine
Learning
for
NLP
Danilo
Croce
(Università
di
Roma,
Tor
Vergata)
Machine
Translation
and
Multilinguality
Marco
Turchi
(Fondazione
Bruno
Kessler,
Trento)
Morphology
and
Syntax
Processing
Felice
dell’Orletta
(Istituto
di
Linguistica
Computazionale
“Antonio
Zampolli”,
CNR)
Giorgio
Satta
(Università
di
Padova)
NLP
for
Digital
Humanities
Simonetta
Montemagni
(Istituto
di
Linguistica
Computazionale
“Antonio
Zampolli”,
CNR)
Sara
Tonelli
(Fondazione
Bruno
Kessler,
Trento)
NLP
for
Web
and
Social
Media
Paolo
Rosso
(Universitat
Politècnica
de
València)
Pragmatics
and
Creativity
Marco
Guerini
(Fondazione
Bruno
Kessler,
Trento)
Research
and
Industrial
NLP
Applications
Roberto
Basili
(Università
di
Roma,
Tor
Vergata)
Semantics
and
Knowledge
Representation
Malvina
Nissim
(Università
di
Groningen)
Spoken
Language
Processing
and
Automatic
Speech
Understanding
Francesco
Cutugno
(Università
di
Napoli
“Federico
II”)
Local
Organisers
from
the
University
of
Torino
Alessandro
Mazzei
Cristina
Bosco
Viviana
Patti
Daniele
Radicioni
Alessandra
Cignarella
Reviewers
Sabita
Acharya,
Mehrdad
Alizadeh,
Simona
Amenta,
Oscar
Araque,
Giuseppe
Attardi,
Valentina
Bambini,
Francesco
Barbieri,
Anabela
Barreiro,
Pierpaolo
Basile,
Valerio
Basile,
Roberto
Basili,
Núria
Bel,
Luisa
Bentivogli,
Laurent
Besacier,
Andrea
Bolioli,
Marianna
Bolognesi,
Anna
Borghi,
Johan
Bos,
Federico
Boschetti,
Cristina
Bosco,
Dominique
Brunato,
Davide
Buscaldi,
Elena
Cabrio,
Cristina
Cacciari,
Nicoletta
Calzolari,
Angelo
Cangelosi,
Tommaso
Caselli,
Giuseppe
Castellucci,
Mario
Cataldi,
Alessandro
Cattelan,
Fabio
Celli,
Mauro
Cettolo,
Emmanuele
Chersoni,
Cristiano
Chesi,
Isabella
Chiari,
Francesca
Chiusaroli,
Alessandra
Teresa
Cignarella,
Andrea
Cimino,
Anna
Corazza,
Elisa
Corino,
Gianpaolo
Coro,
Piero
Cosi,
Davide
Crepaldi,
Danilo
Croce,
Franco
Cutugno,
José
G.
C.
de
Souza,
Thierry
Declerck,
Felice
Dell'Orletta,
Marco
Deltredici,
Maria
Pia
Di
Buono,
Luigi
Di
Caro,
Barbara
Di
Eugenio,
Maria
Di
Maro,
Giorgio
Maria
Di
Nunzio,
Mauro
Dragoni,
Andrea
Esuli,
Stefano
Faralli,
Marcello
Ferro,
Elisabetta
Fersini,
Mikel
Forcada,
Simona
Frenda,
Francesca
Frontini,
Lorenzo
Gatti,
Anastasia
Giachanou,
Emiliano
Giovannetti,
Marco
Guerini,
Itika
Gupta,
Hessel
Haagsma,
Christian
Hardmeier,
Aurelie
Herbelot,
Elisabetta
Jezek,
Maria
Jung
Barrett,
Fahad
Khan,
Abhinav
Kumar,
Alberto
Lavelli,
Gianluca
Lebani,
Alessandro
Lenci,
Eleonora
Litta,
Simone
Magnolini,
Diego
Marcheggiani,
Marco
Marelli,
Claudia
Marzi,
Alessandro
Mazzei,
Ida
Mele,
Massimo
Melucci,
Stefano
Menini,
Paola
Merlo,
Anne-‐Lise
Minard,
Monica
Monachini,
Natawut
Monaikul,
Simonetta
Montemagni,
Johanna
Monti,
Alejandro
Moreo
Fernández,
Alessandro
Moschitti,
Claudio
Mulatti,
Cataldo
Musto,
Federico
Nanni,
Borja
Navarro-‐
Colorado,
Massimo
Nicosia,
Malvina
Nissim,
Nicole
Novielli,
Antonio
Origlia,
Alessio
Palmero
Aprosio,
Silvia
Pareti,
Marco
Passarotti,
Viviana
Patti,
Serena
Pelosi,
Arianna
Pipitone,
Vito
Pirrelli,
Roberto
Pirrone,
Massimo
Poesio,
Daniele
Radicioni,
Francisco
Manuel
Rangel
Pardo,
Diego
Reforgiato,
Giuseppe
Rizzo,
Matteo
Romanello,
Francesco
Ronzano,
Paolo
Rosso,
Irene
Russo,
Federico
Sangati,
Manuela
Sanguinetti,
Enrico
Santus,
Giorgio
Satta,
Giovanni
Semeraro,
Marco
S.
G.
Senaldi,
Maria
Simi,
Giovanni
Siragusa,
Claudia
Soria,
Rachele
Sprugnoli,
Jacopo
Staiano,
Simone
Sulpizio,
Fabio
Tamburini,
Serra
Tekiroglu,
Sara
Tonelli,
Marco
Turchi,
Antonio
Uva,
Giulia
Venturi,
Laure
Vieu.
CLiC-‐it
2018
is
endorsed
by
Silver
Sponsors
Bronze
Sponsors