On behalf of the Program Committee, a very warm welcome to the Seventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2020). This edition of the conference is held in Bologna and organised by the University of Bologna. The CLiC-it conference series is an initiative of the Italian Association for Computational Linguistics (AILC) which, after six 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.
As last year, we propose a tutorial at the beginning of the conference by Alessandro Lenci. 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 will not be 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
Please join us at CLiC-it 2020 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 thi ea cfeece will be intellectually stimulating, and that you will take home many new ideas and methods that will help extend your own research.
Dialogue, Discourse and Natural Language Generation
Information Extraction, Information Retrieval and Question Answering
Language Resources and Evaluation
Language and Cognition
Linguistic Issues in CL and NLP
Machine Learning for NLP
Machine Translation and Multilinguality
Morphology and Syntax Processing
NLP for Digital Humanities
NLP for Web and Social Media
Pragmatics and Creativity
Research and Industrial NLP Applications
Semantics and Knowledge Representation
Spoken Language Processing and Automatic Speech Understanding
Vision, Robotics, Multimodal and Grounding
CNR)
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