Introduction

• Bernardo Magnini and Amedeo Cappelli: Introduction to Evalita 2009
• Franco Cutugno and Mauro Falcone: Evalita Speech Tasks

PoS Tagging

Giuseppe Attardi and Maria Simi: Overview of the EVALITA 2009 Part-of-Speech Tagging Task

• Andrea Gesmundo: Bidirectional Sequence Classification for Part of Speech Tagging
• Leonardo Rigutini and Guido Gioioso: PoSTagger Based on SVM
• Fabio Tamburini: PoS-tagging Italian texts with CORISTagger
• Felice Dell’Orletta: Ensemble system for Part-of-Speech tagging
• Giuseppe Attardi, Antonio Fuschetto, Francesco Tamberi, Maria Simi, and Eva Maria Vecchi: Experiments in tagger combination: arbitrating, guessing, correcting, suggesting
• Anders Søgaard: Ensemble-based POS tagging of Italian
• Leonardo Lesmo: The PoS Tagger of Turin University
• Roberto Zanoli and Emanuele Pianta: A multistage PoS-tagger at the EVALITA 2009 PoS-tagging Task

Parsing

Dependency Parsing Track

Cristina Bosco, Simonetta Montemagni, Alessandro Mazzei, Vincenzo Lombardo, Felice Dell’Orletta, and Alessandro Lenci: Evalita’09 Parsing Task: comparing dependency parsers and treebanks

• Federico Sangati: Generative re-ranking model for dependency parsing of Italian sentences
• Giuseppe Attardi, Felice Dell’Orletta, Maria Simi, and Joseph Turian: Accurate Dependency Parsing with a Stacked Multilayer Perceptron
• Alberto Lavelli, Johan Hall, Jens Nilsson, and Joakim Nivre: MaltParser at the EVALITA 2009Dependency Parsing Task
• Anders Søgaard and Christian Rishøj: Vine parsing augmented Italian treebanks
• Marcella Testa, Andrea Bolioli, Luca Dini, and Giampaolo Mazzini: Evaluation of a Semantically Oriented Dependency Grammar for Italian at EVALITA 2009
• Leonardo Lesmo: The Turin University Parser at Evalita 2009

Constituency Parsing Track

Cristina Bosco, Alessandro Mazzei, and Vincenzo Lombardo: Evalita’09 Parsing Task: constituency parsers and the Penn format for Italian

• Alberto Lavelli and Anna Corazza: The Berkeley Parser at the EVALITA 2009 Constituency Parsing Task
• Federico Sangati: A simple DOP model for constituency parsing of Italian sentences

Lexical substittion

Antonio Toral: The Lexical Substitution task at EVALITA 2009

• Pierpaolo Basile and Giovanni Semeraro: UNIBA @ EVALITA 2009 – Lexical Substitution Task
• Diego De Cao and Roberto Basili: Combining Distributional and Paradigmatic information in a lexical substitution task
• Dario Pucci, Marco Baroni, Franco Cutugno, and Alessandro Lenci: Unsupervised Lexical Substitution with a Word Space Model

Entity regognition

Named Entity Recognition

Manuela Speranza: The Named Entity Recognition Task at EVALITA 2009

• Andrea Gesmundo: Bidirectional Sequence Classification for Named Entities Recognition
• Yashar Mehdad, Vitalie Scurtu, and Evgeny Stepanov: Italian Named Entity Recognizer Participation in NER task @ Evalita 09
• Peng Cai, HangZai Luo, and AoYing Zhou: Named Entity Recognition in Italian Using CRF
• Truc-Vien T. Nguyen, Alessandro Moschitti, and Giuseppe Riccardi: Conditional Random Fields: Discriminative Training over Statistical features for Named Entity Recognition
• Stefan Rigo: Named Entity Recognition for Italian using SVM
• Giuseppe Attardi, Stefano Dei Rossi, Felice Dell’Orletta, and Eva Maria Vecchi: The Tanl Named Entity Recognizer at Evalita 2009
• Roberto Zanoli, Emanuele Pianta, and Claudio Giuliano: Named Entity Recognition through Redundancy Driven Classifiers

Local Entity Detection and Recognition

Valentina Bartalesi Lenzi and Rachele Sprugnoli: EVALITA 2009: Description and Results of the Local Entity Detection and Recognition (LEDR) task

• Silvana Marianela Bernaola Biggio, Claudio Giuliano, Massimo Poesio, Yannick Versley, Olga Uryupina, and Roberto Zanoli: Local Entity Detection and Recognition Task Evalita 2009

Textual entailment

Johan Bos, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, and Marco Pennacchiotti: Textual Entailment at EVALITA 2009

• Elena Cabrio, Yashar Mehdad, Matteo Negri, Milen Kouylekov, and Bernardo Magnini: Recognizing Textual Entailment for Italian EDITS @ EVALITA 2009
• Óscar Ferrández, Antonio Toral, and Rafael Muñoz: Exploiting Lexical Measures and a Semantic LR to Tackle Textual Entailment in Italian

Connected digits recognition

Gianpaolo Coro, Roberto Gretter, and Marco Matassoni: EVALITA 2009: Description and Results of the Speech Recognition task

• Maria Palmerini: Cedat85’s automatic speech recognition system
• Francesco Cutugno, Bogdan Ludusan, Antonio Origlia, and Serena Soldo: Connected Digits Recognition Using a Syllable-Based ASR System
• Leandro D’Anna, Gianpaolo Coro, and Francesco Cutugno: EVALITA 2009: Abla srl Participant Report
• Piero Cosi and Mauro Nicolao: Connected Digits Recognition Task ISTC–CNR Comparison of Open Source Tools

Spoken dialogue system evaluations

Paolo Baggia, Francesco Cutugno, Morena Danieli, Roberto Pieraccini, Silvia Quarteron, Giuseppe Riccardi, and Pierluigi Roberti: The Multi-site 2009 EVALITA Spoken Dialog System Evaluation

• Stefan Rigo, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Pierluigi Roberti, Silvia Quarteroni, and Giuseppe Riccardi: The 2009 UNITN EVALITA Italian Spoken Dialogue System
• Enrico Giraudo and Paolo Baggia: EVALITA 2009: Loquendo Spoken Dialog System
• Gianluca Mignini and Francesco Cutugno: EVALITA2009 UNINA Spoken Dialogue System

Speaker identity verification

Application Track

Guido Aversano, Niko Brümmer, and Mauro Falcone: EVALITA 2009 Speaker Identity Verification “Application” Track – Organizer’s Report

• Mitchell McLaren, Robbie Vogt, Brendan Baker, and Sridha Sridharan: QUT Speaker Identity Verification System for EVALITA 2009
• Lukáš Machlica and Jan Vanĕk: UWB system description: EVALITA 2009
• Jia Liu, Liang He, Tao Hou, Zhiyi Li, Yongzhe Shi, and Wei-Qiang Zhang: The THUEE Speaker Identity Verification System for Evalita 2009 SIV-Application
• Jesús Villalba, Eduardo Lleida, Alfonso Ortega, Carlos Vaquero, and Antonio MiguelI: I3A System for Evalita 2009 Speaker Verification Application Evaluation
• Niko Brümmer and Albert Strasheim: AGNITIO’s Speaker Recognition System for EVALITA 2009
• Marijn Huijbregts and David van Leeuwen: The RU Submission to the Evalita’09 “application track” Speaker Recognition Evaluation
• Benoît Fauve, Driss Matrouf, Jean-François Bonastre, and John Mason: VAS system for EVALITA 2009 Speaker Identity Verication – Application Track Task

Forensic Track

Luciano Romito and Vincenzo Galatà: Forensic Speaker Identity Verification (F-SIV) in Italy First Evaluation Campaign Evalita-2009

• Monica Carfagni and Matteo Nunziati: The Unifi-EV2009-1 Protocol for Evalita 2009
• Claudio Ciampini: Testing the IDEM System Technical Report for Evalita-2009 Forensic SIV
• Maria Tucci: Testing the SMART System Technical Report for Evalita-2009 Forensic SIV

How to cite

• • The whole proceedings volume:
    Poster and Workshop Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, 12th December 2009, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ISBN 978-88-903581-1-1 (2009)
  • Example for a single paper:
    Bartalesi Lenzi, V. and Sprugnoli, R.: EVALITA 2009: Description and Results of the Local Entity Detection and Recognition (LEDR) task. In Poster and Workshop Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, 12th December 2009, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ISBN 978-88-903581-1-1 (2009)