Workshop Program
(December 11th 2014)
- 9:00 – 10:00 Plenary session
- 10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
- 10:30 – 10:40 Introduction to the Workshop – Cristina Bosco
- 10:40 – 11:40 SENTIment POLarity Classification (SENTIPOLC)
- 10:40 – 10:55 Valerio Basile, Andrea Bolioli, Malvina Nissim, Viviana Patti and Paolo Rosso. Overview of the Evalita 2014 SENTIment POLarity Classification Task
- 10:55 – 11:10 Pierpaolo Basile and Nicole Novielli. UNIBA at EVALITA 2014-SENTIPOLC Task: Predicting tweet sentiment polarity combining micro-blogging, lexicon and semantic features
- 11:10 – 11:25 Giuseppe Castellucci, Danilo Croce, Diego De Cao and Roberto Basili. A Multiple Kernel Approach for Twitter Sentiment Analysis in Italian
- 11:25 – 11:40 Questions and General discussion
- 11:40 – 12:20 EValuation of Events and Temporal Information (EVENTI)
- 11:40 – 11:50 Tommaso Caselli, Rachele Sprugnoli, Manuela Speranza, Monica Monachini. EVENTI: EValuation of Events and Temporal INformation at Evalita 2014
- 11:50 – 12:00 Giulio Manfredi, Jannik Strotgen, Julian Zell and Michael Gertz. HeidelTime at EVENTI: Tuning Italian Resources and Addressing TimeML’s Empty Tags
- 12:00 – 12:10 Paramita Mirza and Anne-Lyse Minard. FBK-HLT-time: a complete Italian Temporal Processing system for EVENTI-Evalita 2014
- 12:10 – 12:20 Questions and General discussion
- 12:20 – 13:00 Dependency Parsing (DPIE, CLaP)
- 12:20 – 12:30 Cristina Bosco, Felice Dell’Orletta, Simonetta Montemagni, Manuela Sanguinetti and Maria Simi. The Evalita 2014 Dependency Parsing Task
- 12:30 – 12:45 Giuseppe Attardi and Maria Simi. Dependency Parsing Techniques for Information Extraction
- 12:45 – 13:00 Alessandro Mazzei. Testing parsing improvements with combination and translation in Evalita 2014
- 13:00 – 14:00 Light lunch
- 14:00 – 14:30 In memory of G. Soda
- 14:30 – 15:30 Invited talk by Ryan McDonald (Google), chair: Maria Simi. Resources and algorithms for broad-coverage multilingual syntactic analysis
- 15:30 – 16:00 Emotion Recognition Task (ERT)
- 15:30 – 15:40 Antonio Origlia, Vincenzo Galatà. The EVALITA Emotion Recognition Task report
- 15:40 – 15:50 Fabio Tamburini. Emotion Recognition with a Kernel Quantum Classifier
- 15:50 – 16:00 Claudio Gallicchio. A Preliminary Application of Echo State Networks to Emotion Recognition
- 16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
- 16:30 – 17:00 Forced Alignment on Children Speech (FACS)
- 16:30 – 16:40 Piero Cosi, Francesco Cutugno, Vincenzo Galatà and Antonio Origlia. Forced Alignment on Children Speech
- 16:30 – 16:40 Brigitte Bigi. The SPPAS participation to Evalita 2014
- 17:00 – 17:30 Speech Activity detection and Speaker LOcalization in DOMestic environments (SASLODOM)
- 17:00 – 17:15 Alessio Brutti, Mirco Ravanelli, Maurizio Omologo. SASLODOM: Speech Activity detection and Speaker LOcalization in DOMestic environments
- 17:15 – 17:30 Giacomo Ferroni, Roberto Bonfigli, Emanuele Principi, Stefano Squartini and Francesco Piazza. Neural Networks Based Methods for Voice Activity Detection in a Multi-room Domestic Environment
- 17:30 – 17:45 Human and Machine Dialect Identification from natural speech and artificial stimuli (HMDI) Antonio Romano and Claudio Russo. Human and Machine Language/Dialect Identification from Natural Speech and Artificial Stimuli: a Pilot Study with Italian Listeners
- 17:45 – 18:45 Poster session
- For SENTIPOLC Task:
- Arseni Anisimovich. Self-evaluating Workflow for Language-Independent Sentiment Analysis
- Francesco Barbieri, Francesco Ronzano and Horacio Saggion. Relying on intrinsic word features to characterise subjectivity, polarity and irony of Tweets
- Andrea Cimino, Stefano Cresci, Felice Dell’Orletta and Maurizio Tesconi. Linguistically–motivated and Lexicon Features for Sentiment Analysis of Italian Tweets
- Rodolfo Delmonte. ITGETARUNS A Linguistic Rule-Based System for Pragmatic Text Processing
- Pierluigi Di Gennaro, Arianna Rossi and Fabio Tamburini. The FICLIT+CS@UniBO System at the EVALITA 2014 Sentiment Polarity Classification Task
- Elisabetta Fersini, Enza Messina and Federico Alberto Pozzi. Subjectivity, Polarity And Irony Detection: A Multi-Layer Approach
- Irazu Hernandez Farias, Davide Buscaldi and Belém Priego Sánchez. IRADABE: Adapting English Lexicons to the Italian Sentiment Polarity Classification task
- Lucia C. Passaro, Gianluca E. Lebani, Laura Pollacci, Emmanuele Chersoni and Alessandro Lenci. The CoLing Lab system for Sentiment Polarity Classification of tweets
- For EVENTI Task:
- Giuseppe Attardi and Luca Baronti. Experiments in Identification of Italian Temporal Expressions
- Giulio Manfredi, Jannik Strotgen, Julian Zell and Michael Gertz. HeidelTime at EVENTI: Tuning Italian Resources and Addressing TimeML’s Empty Tags
- Paramita Mirza and Anne-Lyse Minard. FBK-HLT-time: a complete Italian Temporal Processing system for EVENTI-Evalita 2014
- For DP Task:
- Alberto Lavelli. Comparing State-of-the-art Dependency Parsers for the Evalita 2014 Dependency Parsing Task
- Alessandro Mazzei. Testing parsing improvements with combination and translation in Evalita 2014
- For SASLODOM Task:
- Alberto Abad, Miguel Matos, Hugo Meinedo, Ramon F. Astudillo and Isabel Trancoso. The L2F system for the EVALITA-2014 speech activity detection challenge in domestic environments