CLiC-it 2019
Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics

Table of Contents

• Preface
  
  

Keynote Talks and Tutorial

• Visually-Grounded Dialogue Models: Past, Present, and Future , Raquel Fernández, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Impossible Languages and the Architecture of Human Grammars , Andrea Moro, University School for Advanced Studies Pavia, Italy
• Recognizing and Reducing Bias in NLP Applications , Dirk Hovy, Bocconi University, Italy

Contributed Papers: Long Papers

• Prerequisite or Not Prerequisite? That’s the Problem! An NLP-based Approach for Concept Prerequisite Learning
  Chiara Alzetta , Alessio Miaschi , Giovanni Adorni , Felice Dell'Orletta , Frosina Koceva , Samuele Passalacqua , Ilaria Torre
• An Empirical Analysis of Linguistic, Typographic, and Structural Features in Simplified German Texts
  Alessia Battisti , Sarah Ebling , Martin Volk
• Almawave-SLU: A New Dataset for SLU in Italian
  Valentina Bellomaria , Giuseppe Castellucci , Andrea Favalli , Raniero Romagnoli
• Nove Anni di jTEI: What's New?
  (Nine Years of jTEI: What's New?)
  Federico Boschetti , Gabriella Pardelli , Giulia Venturi
• BullyFrame: Cyberbullying Meets FrameNet
  Silvia Brambilla , Alessio Palmero Aprosio , Stefano Menini
• Lost in Text. A Cross-Genre Analysis of Linguistic Phenomena within Text
  Chiara Buongiovanni , Francesco Gracci , Dominique Brunato , Felice Dell'Orletta
• Annotating Shakespeare’s Sonnets with Appraisal Theory to Detect Irony
  Nicolò Busetto , Rodolfo Delmonte
• Embeddings Shifts as Proxies for Different Word Use in Italian Newspapers
  Michele Cafagna , Lorenzo De Mattei , Malvina Nissim
• Suitable Doesn’t Mean Attractive. Human-Based Evaluation of Automatically Generated Headlines
  Michele Cafagna , Lorenzo De Mattei , Davide Bacciu , Malvina Nissim
• There and Back Again: Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning for Event Detection
  Tommaso Caselli , Ahmet Üstün
• PESInet: Automatic Recognition of Italian Statements, Questions, and Exclamations With Neural Networks
  Sonia Cenceschi , Roberto Tedesco , Licia Sbattella , Davide Losio , Mauro Luchetti
• What Makes a Review helpful? Predicting the Helpfulness of Italian TripAdvisor Reviews
  Giulia Chiriatti , Dominique Brunato , Felice Dell'Orletta , Giulia Venturi
• Is This an Effective Way to Annotate Irony Activators?
  Alessandra Teresa Cignarella , Manuela Sanguinetti , Cristina Bosco , Paolo Rosso
• Robospierre, an Artificial Intelligence to Solve “La Ghigliottina”
  Nicola Cirillo , Chiara Pericolo , Pasquale Tufano
• From Sartre to Frege in Three Steps: A* Search for Enriching Semantic Text Similarity Measures
  Davide Colla , Marco Leontino , Enrico Mensa , Daniele P. Radicioni
• Is “manovra” Really “del popolo”? Linguistic Insights into Twitter Reactions to the Annual Italian Budget Law
  Claudia Roberta Combei
• Cross-Platform Evaluation for Italian Hate Speech Detection
  Michele Corazza , Stefano Menini , Elena Cabrio , Sara Tonelli , Serena Villata
• An Open Science System for Text Mining
  Gianpaolo Coro , Giancarlo Panichi , Pasquale Pagano
• Detecting Irony in Shakespeare’s Sonnets with SPARSAR
  Rodolfo Delmonte , Nicolò Busetto
• Towards an Italian Learner Treebank in Universal Dependencies
  Elisa Di Nuovo , Cristina Bosco , Alessandro Mazzei , Manuela Sanguinetti
• Building an Italian Written-Spoken Parallel Corpus: a Pilot Study
  Elisa Dominutti , Lucia Pifferi , Felice Dell'Orletta , Simonetta Montemagni , Valeria Quochi
• Italian and English Sentence Simplification: How Many Differences?
  Martina Fieromonte , Dominique Brunato , Felice Dell'Orletta , Giulia Venturi
• Error Analysis in a Hate Speech Detection Task: The Case of HaSpeeDe-TW at EVALITA 2018
  Chiara Francesconi , Cristina Bosco , Fabio Poletto , Manuela Sanguinetti
• Nunc Est Aestimandum: Towards an Evaluation of the Latin WordNet
  Greta Franzini , Andrea Peverelli , Paolo Ruffolo , Marco Passarotti , Helena Sanna , Edoardo Signoroni , Viviana Ventura , Federica Zampedri
• Iride: an Industrial Perspective on Production Grade End to End Dialog System
  Cristina Giannone , Valentina Bellomaria , Andrea Favalli , Raniero Romagnoli
• When Lexicon-Grammar Meets Open Information Extraction: a Computational Experiment for Italian Sentences
  Raffaele Guarasci , Emanuele Damiano , Aniello Minutolo , Massimo Esposito
• Are Subtitling Corpora really Subtitle-like?
  Alina Karakanta , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi
• Asymmetries in Extraction From Nominal Copular Sentences: a Challenging Case Study for NLP Tools
  Paolo Lorusso , Matteo Greco , Cristiano Chesi , Andrea Moro
• Objective Frequency Values of Canonical and Syntactically Modified Idioms: Preliminary Normative Data
  Azzurra Mancuso , Alessandro Laudanna
• Gender Detection and Stylistic Differences and Similarities between Males and Females in a Dream Tales Blog
  Raffaele Manna , Antonio Pascucci , Johanna Monti
• CROATPAS: A Resource of Corpus-derived Typed Predicate Argument Structures for Croatian
  Costanza Marini , Elisabetta Jezek
• Enhancing a Text Summarization System with ELMo
  Claudio Mastronardo , Fabio Tamburini
• KIParla Corpus: A New Resource for Spoken Italian
  Caterina Mauri , Silvia Ballarè , Eugenio Goria , Massimo Cerruti , Francesco Suriano
• Evaluating Speech Synthesis on Mathematical Sentences
  Alessandro Mazzei , Michele Monticone , Cristian Bernareggi
• Automated Short Answer Grading: A Simple Solution for a Difficult Task
  Stefano Menini , Sara Tonelli , Giovanni De Gasperis , Pierpaolo Vittorini
• Games for Learning Old and Special Alphabets – The Case Study of Gamifying Mrežnik
  Josip Mihaljević
• Text Frame Detector: Slot Filling Based On Domain Knowledge Bases
  Martina Miliani , Lucia C. Passaro , Alessandro Lenci
• Defining Action Types: on the roles of Thematic Structures and Argument Alternations
  Massimo Moneglia , Alessandro Panunzi , Rossella Varvara
• HateChecker: a Tool to Automatically Detect Hater Users in Online Social Networks
  Cataldo Musto , Angelo Sansonetti , Marco Polignano , Giovanni Semeraro , Marco Stranisci
• The Contribution of Embeddings to Sentiment Analysis on YouTube
  Moniek Nieuwenhuis , Malvina Nissim
• A Novel Integrated Industrial Approach with Cobots in the Age of Industry 4.0 through Conversational Interaction and Computer Vision
  Andrea Pazienza , Nicola Macchiarulo , Felice Vitulano , Antonio Fiorentini , Marco Cammisa , Leonardo Rigutini , Ernesto Di Iorio , Achille Globo , Antonio Trevisi
• Annotating Hate Speech: Three Schemes at Comparison
  Fabio Poletto , Valerio Basile , Cristina Bosco , Viviana Patti , Marco Stranisci
• AlBERTo: Italian BERT Language Understanding Model for NLP Challenging Tasks Based on Tweets
  Marco Polignano , Pierpaolo Basile , Marco de Gemmis , Giovanni Semeraro , Valerio Basile
• Evaluating the MuMe Dialogue System with the IDIAL protocol
  Aureliano Porporato , Alessandro Mazzei , Daniele P. Radicioni , Rosa Meo
• To be Fair: a Case for Cognitively-Inspired Models of Meaning
  Simon Preissner , Aurélie Herbelot
• The Impact of Self-Interaction Attention on the Extraction of Drug-Drug Interactions
  Luca Putelli , Alfonso Emilio Gerevini , Alberto Lavelli , Ivan Serina
• Enriching Open Multilingual Wordnets with Morphological Features
  Stefania Racioppa , Thierry Declerck
• A Comparison of Representation Models in a Non-Conventional Semantic Similarity Scenario
  Andrea Amelio Ravelli , Oier Lopez de Lacalle , Eneko Agirre
• How Much Competence Is There in Performance? Assessing the Distributional Hypothesis in Word Bigrams
  Johann Seltmann , Luca Ducceschi , Aurélie Herbelot
• Jointly Learning to See, Ask, Decide when to Stop, and then GuessWhat
  Ravi Shekhar , Alberto Testoni , Raquel Fernández , Raffaella Bernardi
• Creating a Multilingual Terminological Resource using Linked Data: the case of Archaeological Domain in the Italian language
  Giulia Speranza , Carola Carlino , Sina Ahmadi
• Vir is to Moderatus as Mulier is to Intemperans - Lemma Embeddings for Latin
  Rachele Sprugnoli , Marco Passarotti , Giovanni Moretti
• Valutazione umana di Google Traduttore e DeepL per le traduzioni di testi giornalistici dall’inglese verso l’italiano
  (Human evaluation of Google Translator and DeepL for translations of journalistic texts from English into Italian)
  Mirko Tavosanis
• Prendo la Parola in Questo Consesso Mondiale: A Multi-Genre 20th Century Corpus in the Political Domain
  Sara Tonelli , Rachele Sprugnoli , Giovanni Moretti
• Reflexives, Impersonals and Their Kin: a Classification Problem
  Kledia Topciu , Cristiano Chesi
• Annotation and Analysis of the PoliModal Corpus of Political Interviews
  Daniela Trotta , Sara Tonelli , Alessio Palmero Aprosio , Annibale Elia
• Analyses of Literary Texts by Using Statistical Inference Methods
  Mehmet Can Yavuz

Contributed Papers: Short Papers

• Neural Semantic Role Labeling using Verb Sense Disambiguation
  Domenico Alfano , Roberto Abbruzzese , Donato Cappetta
• Kronos-it: a Dataset for the Italian Semantic Change Detection Task
  Pierpaolo Basile , Giovanni Semeraro , Annalina Caputo
• How do Physiotherapists and Patients talk? Developing and annotating RiMotivAzione dialogue corpus.
  Andrea Bolioli , Francesca Alloatti , Mariafrancesca Guadalupi , Roberta Iolanda Lanzi , Giorgia Pregnolato , Andrea Turolla
• Standardizing Language with Word Embeddings and Language Modeling in Reports of Near Misses in Seveso Industries
  Simone Bruno , Silvia Maria Ansaldi , Patrizia Agnello , Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
• Computational Linguistics Against Hate: Hate Speech Detection and Visualization on Social Media in the "Contro L’Odio" Project
  Arthur T. E. Capozzi , Mirko Lai , Valerio Basile , Cataldo Musto , Marco Polignano , Fabio Poletto , Manuela Sanguinetti , Cristina Bosco , Viviana Patti , Giancarlo Ruffo , Giovanni Semeraro , Marco Stranisci
• Supporting Journalism by Combining Neural Language Generation and Knowledge Graphs
  Marco Cremaschi , Federico Bianchi , Andrea Maurino , Andrea Primo Pierotti
• Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Italian Question Answering
  Danilo Croce , Giorgio Brandi , Roberto Basili
• Applying Psychology of Persuasion to Conversational Agents through Reinforcement Learning: an Exploratory Study
  Francesca Di Massimo , Valentina Carfora , Patrizia Catellani , Marco Piastra
• WebIsAGraph: A Very Large Hypernymy Graph from a Web Corpus
  Stefano Faralli , Irene Finocchi , Simone Paolo Ponzetto , Paola Velardi
• CULTURE as a ‘Liquid’ Modern Word. Evidence from Synchronic and Diachronic Language Resources
  Maristella Gatto
• A Dataset of Real Dialogues for Conversational Recommender Systems
  Andrea Iovine , Fedelucio Narducci , Marco de Gemmis
• Quanti anni hai? Age Identification for Italian
  Aleksandra Maslennikova , Paolo Labruna , Andrea Cimino , Felice Dell'Orletta
• Multi-task Learning Applied to Biomedical Named Entity Recognition Task
  Tahir Mehmood , Alfonso Gerevini , Alberto Lavelli , Ivan Serina
• Mining Italian Short Argumentative Texts
  Ivan Namor , Pietro Totis , Samuele Garda , Manfred Stede
• Fixing Comma Splices in Italian with BERT
  Daniele Puccinelli , Silvia Demartini , Renée E. D'Aoust
• A Comparative Study of Models for Answer Sentence Selection
  Federico Rossetto , Alessio Gravina , Silvia Severini , Giuseppe Attardi
• An Italian Question Answering System for Structured Data based on Controlled Natural Languages
  Lucia Siciliani , Pierpaolo Basile , Giovanni Semeraro , Matteo Mennitti
• The Tenuousness of Lemmatization in Lexicon-based Sentiment Analysis
  Marco Vassallo , Giuliano Gabrieli , Valerio Basile , Cristina Bosco