Authorship Analysis
1. Preface
Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale)1 and it is endorsed by the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA)2 and the Italian Association for Speech Sciences (AISV)3. As in the previous editions (http://www.evalita.it/), EVALITA 2023 is organized along a set of selected tasks, which provide participants with opportunities to discuss and explore both emerging and traditional areas of Natural Language Processing and Speech for Italian. The participation is encouraged for teams working both in academic institutions and industrial organizations.
organizers and participants to all of the EVALITA 2023 challenges. In the 2023 edition, we coordinated the organization of 13 diferent tasks belonging to four research areas, being: Afect The workshop, held in Parma on 7 and 8 September 2023, represented an occasion for all participants from both academic institutions and private companies to disseminate their work and results and to share ideas through sessions dedicated to each task and a general discussion Felice Dell’Orletta, Institute for Computational Linguisduring the plenary event. We carried on with the tradi- tics “A. Zampolli”, ILC-CNR tion of the Best system award. It represented an incentive Francesco Cutugno, University of Naples Federico II for students, IT developers, and researchers to push the Giovanni Gafà, University of Catania boundaries of the state of the art by facing tasks in new Giuseppe Russo, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ways, even if not winning. Greta Damo, Bocconi University
We would like to thank our supporters: Talia4, Irene Dini, University of Pisa Almawave5, Aptus.AI6 and Logogramma SRL7. Our José García-Díaz, Universidad de Murcia gratitude goes also to the University of Parma for hosting Kenji Sagae, University of California, Davis the event. In addition, we sincerely thank the Best System Lucia Passaro, University of Pisa award committee (Felice Dell’Orletta, Bernardo Magnini, Lucia Siciliani, University of Bari Azzurra Mancini, Stefano Menini, Viviana Patti) for Manuela Speranza, Fondazione Bruno Kessler providing their expertise and experience. Moreover, we Marco Guerini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler acknowledge the AILC Board members for their trust Maristella Gatto, University of Bari and support. We warmly thank our invited speaker Julio Oscar Araque, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Gonzalo, for having shared his knowledge and insights Pierluigi Cassotti, University of Bari with his talk. Last but not least, we would like to thank Pierpaolo Basile, University of Bari all the task organizers and participants who made this Pietro Dell’Oglio, University of Florence edition special with their enthusiasm and creativity. Rafael Valencia-García, Universidad de Murcia Roberto Zanoli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Chairs Salud María Jiménez-Zafra, Universidad de Jaén Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Simona Frenda, University of Turin Teresa Paccosi, University of Trento Tommaso Caselli, University of Groningen Viviana Patti, University of Turin
Stefano Menini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Marco Polignano, University of Bari Valentina Russo, Logogramma SRL Rachele Sprugnoli, University of Parma Giulia Venturi, Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli”, ILC-CNR
Azzurra Mancini, Logogramma SRL Bernardo Magnini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler