CLiC-it 2020
Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics 2020

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 80 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 69 papers were accepted for this volume, 49 as regular papers and 20 as short papers.

Keynote Talks and Tutorial

• Fine-grained sentiment analysis: a piece of cake?
  Veronique Hoste, Ghent University, Belgium
• Interaction-aware multimodal dialogue with conversational agents ,
  Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University, Germany
• Distributional Semantics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow ,
  Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa, Italy

Contributed Papers: Long Papers

• Investigating Proactivity in Task-Oriented Dialogues
  Vevake Balaraman , Bernardo Magnini
• Domain Adaptation for Text Classification with Weird Embeddings
  Valerio Basile
• Personal-ITY: A Novel YouTube-based Corpus for Personality Prediction in Italian
  Elisa Bassignana , Malvina Nissim , Viviana Patti
• Gender Bias in Italian Word Embeddings
  Davide Biasion , Alessandro Fabris , Gianmaria Silvello , Gian Antonio Susto
• Automatic Induction of FrameNet lexical units in Italian
  Silvia Brambilla , Danilo Croce , Fabio Tamburini , Roberto Basili
• Detecting Early Onset of Depression from Social Media Text using Learned Confidence Scores
  Ana-Maria Bucur , Liviu Dinu
• Building a Treebank in Universal Dependencies for Italian Sign Language
  Gaia Caligiore , Cristina Bosco , Alessandro Mazzei
• Hate Speech Detection with Machine-Translated Data: The Role of Annotation Scheme, Class Imbalance and Undersampling
  Camilla Casula , Sara Tonelli
• UDante: First Steps Towards the Universal Dependencies Treebank of Dante's Latin Works
  Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini , Rachele Sprugnoli , Giovanni Moretti , Marco Passarotti
• "Spotto la quarantena": per una analisi dell'italiano scritto degli studenti universitari via social network in tempo di COVID-19
  ("Spotto la quarantena": an analysis of the written Italian language by university students via social network at COVID-19 times.)
  Francesca Chiusaroli , Johanna Monti , Maria Laura Pierucci , Gennaro Nolano
• Italian Counter Narrative Generation to Fight Online Hate Speech
  Yi-Ling Chung , Serra Sinem Tekiroğlu , Marco Guerini
• Clustering verbal Objects: Manual and Automatic Procedures Compared
  Ilaria Colucci , Elisabetta Ježek , Vít Baisa
• GePpeTto Carves Italian into a Language Model
  Lorenzo De Mattei , Michele Cafagna , Felice Dell'Orletta , Malvina Nissim , Marco Guerini
• Phonological Layers of Meaning: A Computational Exploration of Sound Iconicity
  Andrea Gregor de Varda , Carlo Strapparava
• Natural Language Generation in Dialogue Systems for Customer Care
  Mirko Di Lascio , Manuela Sanguinetti , Luca Anselma , Dario Mana , Alessandro Mazzei , Viviana Patti , Rossana Simeoni
• Cross-Language Transformer Adaptation for Frequently Asked Questions
  Luca Di Liello , Daniele Bonadiman , Alessandro Moschitti , Cristina Giannone , Andrea Favalli , Raniero Romagnoli
• How Good are Humans at Native Language Identification? A Case Study on Italian L2 writings
  Elisa Di Nuovo , Cristina Bosco , Elisa Corino
• Linguistic Features in Automatic Sarcasm Detection
  Martina Ducret , Lauren Kruse , Carlos Martinez , Anna Feldman , Jing Peng
• Risorse e strumenti per le varietà storiche dell'italiano: il progetto TrAVaSI
  (Language Resources for Historical Varieties of Italian: the TrAVaSI Project)
  Manuel Favaro , Marco Biffi , Simonetta Montemagni
• The AEREST Reading Database
  Marcello Ferro , Sara Giulivi , Claudia Cappa
• On Knowledge Distillation for Direct Speech Translation
  Marco Gaido , Mattia Antonino Di Gangi , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi
• Grounded and Ungrounded Referring Expressions in Human Dialogues: Language Mirrors Different Grounding Conditions
  Eleonora Gualdoni , Raffaella Bernardi , Raquel Fernández , Sandro Pezzelle
• Point Break: Surfing Heterogeneous Data for Subtitle Segmentation
  Alina Karakanta , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi
• How Granularity of Orthography-Phonology Mappings Affect Reading Development: Evidence from a Computational Model of English Word Reading and Spelling
  Alfred Lim , Beth A. O'Brien , Luca Onnis
• Simple Data Augmentation for Multilingual NLU in Task Oriented Dialogue Systems
  Samuel Louvan , Bernardo Magnini
• The E3C Project:Collection and Annotation of a Multilingual Corpus of Clinical Cases
  Bernardo Magnini , Begoña Altuna , Alberto Lavelli , Manuela Speranza , Roberto Zanoli
• Monitoring Social Media to Identify Environmental Crimes through NLP. A preliminary study
  Raffaele Manna , Antonio Pascucci , Wanda Punzi Zarino , Vincenzo Simoniello , Johanna Monti
• Does Finger-Tracking Point to Child Reading Strategies?
  Claudia Marzi , Anna Rodella , Andrea Nadalini , Loukia Taxitari , Vito Pirrelli
• The Style of a Successful Story: a Computational Study on the Fanfiction Genre
  Andrea Mattei , Dominique Brunato , Felice Dell'Orletta
• A Multimodal Dataset of Images and Text to Study Abusive Language
  Stefano Menini , Alessio Palmero Aprosio , Sara Tonelli
• A Resource for Detecting Misspellings and Denoising Medical Text Data
  Enrico Mensa , Gian Manuel Marino , Davide Colla , Matteo Delsanto , Daniele P. Radicioni
• Is Neural Language Model Perplexity Related to Readability?
  Alessio Miaschi , Chiara Alzetta , Dominique Brunato , Felice Dell'Orletta , Giulia Venturi
• Italian Transformers Under the Linguistic Lens
  Alessio Miaschi , Gabriele Sarti , Dominique Brunato , Felice Dell'Orletta , Giulia Venturi
• ItaGLAM: A corpus of Cultural Communication on Twitter during the Pandemic
  Gennaro Nolano , Carola Carlino , Maria Pia di Buono , Johanna Monti
• (Stem and Word) Predictability in Italian Verb Paradigms: An Entropy-Based Study Exploiting the New Resource LeFFI
  Matteo Pellegrini , Alessandra Teresa Cignarella
• A Case Study of Natural Gender Phenomena in Translation. A Comparison of Google Translate, Bing Microsoft Translator and DeepL for English to Italian, French and Spanish
  Argentina Anna Rescigno , Eva Vanmassenhove , Johanna Monti , Andy Way
• Multifunctional ISO Standard Dialogue Act Tagging in Italian
  Gabriel Roccabruna , Alessandra Cervone , Giuseppe Riccardi
• Tracing Metonymic Relations in T-PAS: An Annotation Exercise on a Corpus-based Resource for Italian
  Emma Romani , Elisabetta Ježek
• Datasets and Models for Authorship Attribution on Italian Personal Writings
  Gaetana Ruggiero , Albert Gatt , Malvina Nissim
• The Archaeo-Term Project: Multilingual Terminology in Archaeology
  Giulia Speranza , Raffaele Manna , Maria Pia Di Buono , Johanna Monti
• Exploiting Distributional Semantics Models for Natural Language Context-aware Justifications for Recommender Systems
  Giuseppe Spillo , Cataldo Musto , Marco de Gemmis , Pasquale Lops , Giovanni Semeraro
• MultiEmotions-It: a New Dataset for Opinion Polarity and Emotion Analysis for Italian
  Rachele Sprugnoli
• Becoming JILDA
  Irene Sucameli , Alessandro Lenci , Bernardo Magnini , Maria Simi , Manuela Speranza
• How "BERTology" Changed the State-of-the-Art also for Italian NLP
  Fabio Tamburini
• Overprotective Training Environments Fall Short at Testing Time: Let Models Contribute to Their Own Training
  Alberto Testoni , Raffaella Bernardi
• Topic Modelling Games
  Rocco Tripodi
• Polarity Imbalance in Lexicon-based Sentiment Analysis
  Marco Vassallo , Giuliano Gabrieli , Valerio Basile , Cristina Bosco
• #andràtuttobene: Images, Texts, Emojis and Geodata in a Sentiment Analysis Pipeline
  Pierluigi Vitale , Serena Pelosi , Mariacristina Falco
• Suoidne-varra-bleahkka-mála-bihkka-senet-dielku 'hay-blood-ink-paint-tar-mustard-stain' -Should compounds be lexicalized in NLP?
  Linda Wiechetek , Chiara Argese , Tommi A Pirinen , Trond Trosterud

Contributed Papers: Short Papers

• Quantitative Linguistic Investigations across Universal Dependencies Treebanks
  Chiara Alzetta , Felice Dell'Orletta , Simonetta Montemagni , Petya Osenova , Kiril Simov , Giulia Venturi
• A Machine Learning approach for Sentiment Analysis for Italian Reviews in Healthcare
  Luca Bacco , Andrea Cimino , Luca Paulon , Mario Merone , Felice Dell'Orletta
• A Diachronic Italian Corpus based on "L'Unità"
  Pierpaolo Basile , Annalina Caputo , Tommaso Caselli , Pierluigi Cassotti , Rossella Varvara
• The "Corpus Anchise 320" and the Analysis of Conversations between Healthcare Workers and People with Dementia
  Nicola Benvenuti , Andrea Bolioli , Alessandro Mazzei , Pietro Vigorelli , Alessio Bosca
• Analysis of Lexical Semantic Changes in Corpora with the Diachronic Engine
  Pierluigi Cassotti , Pierpaolo Basile , Marco De Gemmis , Giovanni Semeraro
• Surviving the Legal Jungle: Text Classification of Italian Laws in Extremely Noisy Conditions
  Riccardo Coltrinari , Alessandro Antinori , Fabio Celli
• AriEmozione: Identifying Emotions in Opera Verses
  Francesco Fernicola , Shibingfeng Zhang , Federico Garcea , Paolo Bonora , Alberto Barrón-Cedeño
• Græcissare: Ancient Greek Loanwords in the LiLa Knowledge Base of Linguistic Resources for Latin
  Greta Franzini , Federica Zampedri , Marco Passarotti , Francesco Mambrini , Giovanni Moretti
• L'impatto emotivo della comunicazione istituzionale durante la pandemia di COVID-19: uno studio di Twitter Sentiment Analysis
  (Emotional Impact of Institutional Communication during COVID-19 Pandemic: a Twitter Sentiment Analysis study)
  Gloria Gagliardi , Lorenzo Gregori , Alice Suozzi
• Predicting Social Exclusion: A Study of Linguistic Ostracism in Social Networks
  Greta Gandolfi , Carlo Strapparava
• Predicting Movie-elicited Emotions from Dialogue in Screenplay Text: A Study on ''Forrest Gump''
  Benedetta Iavarone , Felice Dell'Orletta
• Multiword Expressions We Live by: A Validated Usage-based Dataset from Corpora of Written Italian
  Francesca Masini , M. Silvia Micheli , Andrea Zaninello , Sara Castagnoli , Malvina Nissim
• BERTino: An Italian DistilBERT model
  Matteo Muffo , Enrico Bertino
• Creativity Embedding: A Vector to Characterise and Classify Plausible Triples in Deep Learning NLP Models
  Isabeau Oliveri , Luca Ardito , Giuseppe Rizzo , Maurizio Morisio
• The CREENDER Tool for Creating Multimodal Datasets of Images and Comments
  Alessio Palmero Aprosio , Stefano Menini , Sara Tonelli
• A Deep Learning Model for the Analysis of Medical Reports in ICD-10 Clinical Coding Task
  Marco Polignano , Pierpaolo Basile , Marco de Gemmis , Pasquale Lops , Giovanni Semeraro
• Exploring Attention in a Multimodal Corpus of Guided Tours
  Andrea Amelio Ravelli , Antonio Origlia , Felice Dell'Orletta
• Valutazione umana di DeepL a livello di frase per le traduzioni di testi specialistici dall'inglese verso l'italiano
  (Human Evaluation of Google Translator and DeepL for Translations of Journalistic Texts from English into Italian)
  Mirko Tavosanis , Sirio Papa
• Dialog-based Help Desk through Automated Question Answering and Intent Detection
  Antonio Uva , Pierluigi Roberti , Alessandro Moschitti
• Analyses of Character Emotions in Dramatic Works by Using EmoLex Unigrams
  Mehmet Can Yavuz