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Preface to the EVALITA 2020 Proceedings
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)1 and it is endorsed by the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA)2 and
the Italian Association for Speech Sciences (AISV)3 .
This volume includes the reports of both task organisers and participants to all of the EVALITA 2020
challenges. In the 2020 edition, we coordinated the organization of 14 different tasks belonging to five
research areas, being: (i) Affect, Hate, and Stance, (ii) Creativity and Style, (iii) New Challenges in
Long-standing Tasks, (iv) Semantics and Multimodality, Time and Diachrony.
The volume is opened by an overview to the EVALITA 2020 campaign, in which we describe the
tasks, provide statistics on the participants and task organizers as well as our supporting sponsors. The
abstract of the keynote speech made by Preslav Nakov titled “Flattening the Curve of the COVID-19
Infodemic: These Evaluation Campaigns Can Help!” is also included in this collection.
Due to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, the traditional workshop was held online, where several mem-
bers of the Italian NLP Community presented the results of their research. Despite the circumstances,
the workshop represented an occasion for all participants from both academic institutions and private
companies to disseminate their work and results and to share ideas through online sessions dedicated to
each task and a general discussion during the plenary event.
We carried on with the tradition of the “Best system across tasks” award. As in 2018, it represented
an incentive for students, IT developers and researchers to push the boundaries of the state of the art by
facing tasks in new ways, even if not winning.
We would like to thank our sponsors Amazon Science4 , Bnova5 , CELI6 , European Language and
Resources Association (ELRA)7 and Google Research8 for their support to the virtual event and to the
prize for the best system award.
Our gratitude goes also to University of Turin for hosting the online events. In addition, we sincerely
thank the Best System across Tasks committee for providing their expertise and experience. Moreover,
we acknowledge the AILC Board members for their trust and support, our mentor Nicole Novielli and
all the chairs of the 2018 edition, who helped us during all the organization process of EVALITA 2020.
We warmly thank our invited speaker Preslav Nakov for having shared his knowledge and insights
with his talk.
Last but not least, we would like to thank all the task organizers and participants, who made this edition
special with their enthusiasm and creativity.
December 2020
Valerio Basile
Danilo Croce
Maria Di Maro
Lucia C. Passaro
1
http://www.ai-lc.it
2
http://www.aixia.it
3
http://www.aisv.it
4
https://www.amazon.science/
5
https://www.bnova.it
6
https://www.celi.it/
7
http://elra.info/en/
8
https://research.google/
Chairs
Valerio Basile, University of Turin
Danilo Croce, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
Maria Di Maro, University of Naples “Federico II”
Lucia Passaro, University of Pisa
Advisor: Nicole Novielli, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”
Steering Committee
Chiara Alzetta, Università degli Studi di Genova
Guido Anselmi, University of Milan
Silvia Ballarè, Università degli Studi di Bologna
Pierpaolo Basile, University of Bari Aldo Moro
Cristina Bosco, University of Torino
Dominique Brunato, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” - CNR
Michele Cafagna, University of Pisa
Annalina Caputo, Dublin City University
Tommaso Caselli, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Pierluigi Cassotti, University of Bari Aldo Moro
Massimo Cerruti, University of Torino
Cristiano Chesi, NETS-IUSS
Alessandra Teresa Cignarella, University of Turin / Universitat Politècnica de València
Andrea Cimino, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” - CNR
Gloria Comandini, Università degli Studi di Trento
Graziella De Martino, University of Bari Aldo Moro
Lorenzo de Mattei, University of Pisa
Felice Dell’Orletta, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” - CNR
Elisa Di Nuovo, University of Torino
Elisabetta Fersini, University of Milano-Bicocca
Simona Frenda, University of Torino / Universitat Politècnica de València
Albert Gatt, University of Malta
Giulia Giorgi, University of Milan
Eugenio Goria, University of Torino
Lorenzo Gregori, University of Florence
Andrea Iovine, University of Bari Aldo Moro
Frosina Koceva, Università di Genova
Mirko Lai, University of Torino
Gianluca E. Lebani, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Marco Lovetere, Ghigliottiniamo
Caterina Mauri, Università degli Studi di Bologna
Stefano Menini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Alessio Miaschi, University of Pisa
Martina Miliani, University for Foreigners of Siena / University of Pisa
Maria Montefinese, University of Padua
Simonetta Montemagni, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” - CNR
Johanna Monti, University of Naples ”L’Orientale”
Giovanni Moretti, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Malvina Nissim, Faculty of Arts - CLCG University of Groningen
Debora Nozza, Bocconi University
Antonio Pascucci, L’Orientale University of Naples
Viviana Patti, University of Torino
Marco Polignano, University of Bari Aldo Moro
Daniele P. Radicioni, University of Turin
Ilir Rama, University of Milan
Giulia Rambelli, University of Pisa
Andrea Amelio Ravelli, ILC-CNR of Pisa
Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València
Irene Russo, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” - CNR
Federico Sangati, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
Manuela Sanguinetti, University of Torino
Lucia Siciliani, University of Bari Aldo Moro
Rachele Sprugnoli, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Marco Stranisci, Associazione Acmos
Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Ilaria Torre, University of Genova
Rossella Varvara, University of Florence
Giulia Venturi, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” - CNR
Roberto Zamparelli, Università degli Studi di Trento
Best System Award committee
Giuseppe Attardi, University of Pisa
Francesca Chiusaroli, University of Macerata
Giuseppe Castellucci, Amazon Science
Gloria Gagliardi, “L’Orientale” University of Naples
Nicole Novielli, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”
Website
Manuela Speranza, Fondazione Bruno Kessler