The proceedings of the final EVALITA 2007 workshop have been published as a special issue of Intelligenza Artificiale, the journal of Associazione Italiana Intelligenza Artificiale.

Introduction

Evalita 2007: Evaluating Natural Language Tools for Italian – B. Magnini, A. Cappelli.

Part of speech tagging

Evalita 2007: The Part-of-Speech Tagging Task – F. Tamburini

• TagPro: A System for Italian PoS Tagging Based on SVM – E. Pianta, R. Zanoli
• Maximum Entropy for Italian PoS Tagging – F. Dell’Orletta, M. Federico, A. Lenci, S. Montemagni, V. Pirrelli
• C4: HMM PoS Tagger with PoS Guesser and External Lexicon – S. Romagnoli
• CORISTagger: A High Performance PoS Tagger for Italian – F. Tamburini
• UniPiSynthema PoS Tagger Description and Evaluation – C. Aliprandi, N. Carmignani, N. Deha, P. Mancarella, M. Rubino
• Are two Heads Better than one? Experiments with Italian Part-of-Speech Labelling – J. Bos, M. Nissim
• An SVM Tagger for Italian – M. Schielen
• The Enriched TreeTagger System – H. Schmid, M. Baroni, E. Zanchetta, A. Stein
• The PoS Tagger of the NLP Group of the University of Torino – L. Lesmo
• VEST Venice Symbolic Tagger – R. Delmonte
• PoS Tagging with a Named Entity Tagger – M. Ciaramita, J. Atserias

Parsing

Evalita Parsing Task: An Analysis of the first Parsing System Contest for Italian – C. Bosco, A. Mazzei, V. Lombardo

• Recovering from Failure with the GraFo Left Corner Parser – E. Pianta
• Online Learning Based Deterministic Dependency Parsing for Italian – P. Mannem
• Phrase Based Statistical Parsing – A. Corazza, A. Lavelli, G. Satta
• DeSR at the Evalita Dependency Parsing Task – G. Attardi, M. Simi
• Lost in Grammar Translation – F. M. Zanzotto
• A Dependency Parser for Italian – M. Schielen
• The Rule-Based Parser of the NLP Group of the University of Torino – L. Lesmo
• Bidirectional Dependency Parsing Trained on the Turin University Treebank – L. Champollion, P. Mannem, L. Robaldo

Word sense disambiguation

F. Bertagna, A. Toral, N. Calzolari

• JIGSAW: An Algorithm for Word Sense Disambiguation – P. Basile, G. Semeraro

Temporal expresion recognition and normalization

Evalita 2007: Description and Results of the TERN Task – V. Bartalesi Lenzi, Rachele Sprugnoli

• Dealing with Italian Temporal Expressions: The ITA-Chronos System – M. Negri
• RETA2 System at Evalita 2007 – M. Puchol Blasco, E. Saquete Boró, P. Martinez-Barco
• ITA-TERSEO – E. Saquete Boró, P. Martinez-Barco, R. Muñoz Guillena
• An Italian Parser for TERN – L. Faina, S. Spina

Named entity recognition

Evalita 2007: The Named Entity Recognition Task – M. Speranza

• Exploiting SVM for Italian Named Entity Recognition – E. Pianta, R. Zanoli
• Resource Integration for Named Entity Tagger Development in Italian – C. R. Walker
• UniAli: Building a Resource Independent System for Italian Named Entity Recognition – Z. Kozareva, A. Montoyo
• NER in Texts without Domain- or Language-Knowledge using Wikipedia – F. Jungermann, M. Rössler
• Applying WALU to Annotate Named Entities in Italian – M. Rössler, A. Wagner, F. Jungermann, W. Hoeppner
• Named Entity Tagging with a PoS Tagger – M. Ciaramita, J. Atserias