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https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2263/preface.pdf
Preface to the Evalita 2018 Proceedings
Welcome to EVALITA 2018! EVALITA is the evaluation campaign of Natural Language Processing
and Speech Tools for the Italian language. This year we celebrate 10 years of EVALITA and shared tasks
covering the analysis of both written and spoken language with the aim of enhancing the development
and dissemination of resources and technologies for Italian. EVALITA is an initiative of the Italian
Association for Computational Linguistics (AILC, http://www.ai-lc.it/). It is supported by the
Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA, http://www.aixia.it/) and by the Italian
Association of Speech Science (AISV, http://www.aisv.it/).
This volume collects the reports of the tasks organisers and of the participants to all of the EVALITA
2018 tasks. This year we helped to organize 10 tasks structured in four tracks: i.) Affect, Creativity and
Style: Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (ABSITA), Italian Emoji Prediction (ITAMoji), Irony Detec-
tion in Twitter (IronITA), Cross-Genre Gender Prediction (GxG); ii.) Dialogue Systems: itaLIan Speech
acT labEliNg (iLISTEN), Italian DIALogue systems evaluation (IDIAL); iii.) Hate Speech: Automatic
Misogyny Identification (AMI); Hate Speech Detection (HaSpeeDe); iv.) Semantics4AI: Solving lan-
guage games (NLP4FUN), Spoken Utterances Guiding Chefs Assistant Robots (SUGAR).
The volume opens with an overview to the campaign, in which we describe the tasks in more detail,
provide figures on the participants, and, especially, highlight the innovations introduced in this year’s
edition. The abstract of Saif M. Mohammad’s keynote with title “The Search for Emotions, Creativity,
and Fairness in Language” is also included in this introductory part of the volume.
The final workshop was held in Turin on the 12th and 13th of December 2018 as a co-located event
of the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2018, http://clic2018.
di.unito.it/en/home-2/). The workshop has been an occasion for organizers and participants,
from both academic institutions and companies, to disseminate their work and results and to share ideas
through oral and poster presentations. This year the program also includes a panel on “The Future of
Shared Tasks: data, evaluation, and technology transfer” as a moment of reflection after 10 years of
EVALITA, also in light of the new regulations on privacy (i.e., the EU General Data Protection Regu-
lation (GDPR)). A major innovation of this year is the best system award across all tasks. This wants
to be a further incentive to involve students (both, undergraduates and Ph.D. students) and to push the
boundaries of the state of the art further by “daring to experiment” rather than just winning.
We thank all the people and institutions involved in the organisation of the tasks, and all the par-
ticipants, who contributed to the success of the event. A special thank is due to AILC. Thanks are
also due to AI*IA and AISV for endorsing EVALITA, to FBK and Manuela Speranza for making the
web platform available once more for this edition (http://www.evalita.it), to our sponsors:
CELI (https://www.celi.it/), Google Research, ELRA (http://elra.info/en/), and to
Agenzia per l’Italia Digitale (AGID, https://www.agid.gov.it) for its endorsement. Last but
not least, we heartily thank our invited speaker, Saif M. Mohammad from National Research Council
Canada, for agreeing to share his expertise on key topics of EVALITA 2018 and to participate in our
panel discussion, and all the other panelists: Franco Cutugno, (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico
II), Caterina Flick (Lawyer and coordinator of the Web & Media Committee of the Fédération Interna-
tionale des Femmes des Carrières Juridiques) and Malvina Nissim (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen).
November 2018
Tommaso Caselli
Nicole Novielli
Viviana Patti
Paolo Rosso
Chairs
Tommaso Caselli, Rijksuniveristeit Groningen, The Netherlands
Nicole Novielli, Università degli Studi di Bari “A. Moro”, Italy
Viviana Patti, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Paolo Rosso, PRHLT Research Center, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Steering Committee
Maria Anzovino, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Francesco Barbieri, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Pierpaolo Basile, Università degli Studi di Bari “A. Moro”, Italy
Valerio Basile, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Cristina Bosco, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Francesca Chiusaroli, Università degli Studi di Macerata, Italy
Alessandra Cignarella, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Danilo Croce, Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Italy
Francesco Cutugno, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Italy
Marco De Gemmis, Università degli Studi di Bari “A. Moro”, Italy
Felice Dell’Orletta, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “A. Zampolli”, CNR Pisa, Italy
Maria Di Maro, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Italy
Sara Falcone, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Elisabetta Fersini, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Simona Frenda, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Marco Guerini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Bernardo Magnini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Malvina Nissim, Rijksuniveristeit Groningen, The Netherlands
Nicole Novielli, Università degli Studi di Bari “A. Moro”, Italy
Antonio Origlia, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Italy
Endang Wahyu Pamungkas, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Viviana Patti, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Fabio Poletto, Acmos, Torino, Italy
Marco Polignano, Università degli Studi di Bari “A. Moro”, Italy
Francesco Ronzano, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Hospital del Mar Medical Research Center, Spain
Paolo Rosso, PRHLT Research Center, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Manuela Sanguinetti, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Giovanni Semeraro, Università degli Studi di Bari “A. Moro”, Italy
Lucia Siciliani, Università degli Studi di Bari “A. Moro”, Italy
Maurizio Tesconi, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, CNR Pisa, Italy
Claudia Tortora, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, Italy
Website
Manuela Speranza, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy