Rome, September 10th 2007

• 9.00- 9.10 Introduction – B. Magnini, A. Cappelli
• 9.10-9.20 Evalita 2007: The Part-of-Speech Tagging Task – F. Tamburini
  9.20-9.35 TagPro: A System for Italian PoS Tagging Based on SVM – E. Pianta, R. Zanoli
  9.35-9.50 The Enriched TreeTagger System – H. Schmid, M. Baroni, E. Zanchetta, A. Stein
• 9.50-10.00 Evalita Parsing Task: An Analysis of the first Parsing System Contest for Italian – C. Bosco, A. Mazzei, V. Lombardo
  10.00-10.15 The Rule-Based Parser of the NLP Group of the University of Torino – L. Lesmo
  10.15-10.30 Phrase Based Statistical Parsing – A. Corazza, A. Lavelli, G. Satta
• 10.30-11.00 — Coffee break —
• 11.00-11.15 Evalita 2007: The All-Words WSD Task – F. Bertagna, A. Toral, N. Calzolari
  11.15-11.30 JIGSAW: An Algorithm for Word Sense Disambiguation – P. Basile, G. Semeraro
  11.30-11.40 Discussion
• 11.40-11.50 Evalita 2007: Description and Results of the TERN Task – V. Bartalesi Lenzi, R. Sprugnoli
  11.50-12.00 Dealing with Italian Temporal Expressions: The ITA-Chronos System – M. Negri
  12.00-12.10 ITA-TERSEO – E. Saquete Boró, P. Martinez-Barco, R. Muñoz Guillena
  12.10-12.20 An Italian Parser for TERN – L. Faina, S. Spina
• 12.20-12.30 Evalita 2007: The Named Entity Recognition Task – M. Speranza
  12.30-12.45 Exploiting SVM for Italian Named Entity Recognition – E. Pianta, R. Zanoli
  12.45-13.00 Applying WALU to Annotate Named Entities in Italian – M. Rössler, A. Wagner, F. Jungermann, W. Hoeppner
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  13.00-14.00 LUNCH
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• 14.00-15.15 Poster/Demo session
  15.15-16.00 Final Panel
• 16.00-16.30 — Coffee break —
• 16.30-18.30 NLP session at the main conference

POSTER SESSION
Part of Speech Tagging Task

• 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. Schiehlen
• 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 Task

• Recovering from Failure with the GraFo Left Corner Parser – E. Pianta
• Online Learning Based Deterministic Dependency Parsing for Italian – P. Mannem>
• DeSR at the Evalita Dependency Parsing Task – G. Attardi, M. Simi
• Lost in Grammar Translation – F. M. Zanzotto
• A Dependency Parser for Italian – M. Schiehlen
• Bidirectional Dependency Parsing Trained on the Turin University Treebank – L. Champollion, P. Mannem, L. Robaldo

TERN Task

• RETA2 System at Evalita 2007 – M. Puchol Blasco, E. Saquete Boró, P. Martinez-Barco

Named Entity Recognition Task

• 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
• Named Entity Tagging with a PoS Tagger- M. Ciaramita, J. Atserias