Wednesday 7 December 2016

• 9:15 – 9:30 Introduction to the Workshop
  
• 9:30 – 10:30 SENTIPOLC (chair: Valerio Basile)
  • Overview of the Evalita 2016 SENTIment POLarity Classification Task
  • 9:50 – 10:00 Giuseppe Attardi, Daniele Sartiano, Chiara Alzetta and Federica Semplici: Convolutional Neural Networks for Sentiment Analysis on Italian Tweets
  • 10:00 – 10:10 Giuseppe Castellucci, Danilo Croce and Roberto Basili: Context-aware Convolutional Neural Networks for Twitter Sentiment Analysis in Italian
  • 10:10 – 10:20 Simona Frenda: Computational rule-based model for Irony Detection in Italian Tweets
  • 10:20 – 10:30 Jan Deriu and Mark Cieliebak: Sentiment Detection using Convolutional Neural Networks with Multi-Task Training and Distant Supervision
• 10:30 – 11:00 IBM Challenge
  • 10:30 – 10:45 Pietro Leo: Introduction to the IBM Challenge
  • 10:45 – 10:55 Booster session:
    • Gianni Barlacchi, Alessandro Moschitti, Andrea Mariani, Emanuele Rossinelli: Appetitoso: Search the dish, find the restaurant!
    • Giovanni Moretti: MARTIN: Monitoring and Analysing Real-time Tweets in Italian Natural language
    • Walter Basile and Valerio Basile: Stockle: feel the market. [Video]
  • 10:55 – 11:00 Award Ceremony: 1st prize to Walter Basile and Valerio Basile / 2nd prize to Giovanni Moretti / 3rd prize to Gianni Barlacchi, Alessandro Moschitti, Andrea Mariani, Emanuele Rossinelli
• 11:00 – 11:45 coffee break + IBM Challenge demos + SENTIPOLC posters
• SENTIPOLC
  • Davide Buscaldi and Delia Irazù Hernandez-Farias IRADABE2: Lexicon Merging and Positional Features for Sentiment Analysis in Italian
  • Andrea Cimino and Felice Dell’Orletta: Tandem LSTM-SVM Approach for Sentiment Analysis
  • Vito Vincenzo Covella, Berardina Nadja De Carolis, Stefano Ferilli and Domenico Redavid: Lacam&Int @ UNIBA at the EVALITA 2016-SENTIPOLC Task
  • Emanuele Di Rosa and Alberto Durante: Tweet2Check evaluation at Evalita Sentipolc 2016
  • Daniela Moctezuma, Eric S. Tellez, Mario Graff and Sabino Miranda-Jiménez: On the performance of B4MSA on SENTIPOLC’16
  • Lucia C. Passaro, Alessandro Bondielli and Alessandro Lenci: Exploiting Emotive Features for the Sentiment Polarity Classification of tweets
  • Irene Russo and Monica Monachini: Samskara Minimal structural features for detecting subjectivity and polarity in Italian tweets
  • Giuseppe Attardi, Daniele Sartiano, Chiara Alzetta and Federica Semplici: Convolutional Neural Networks for Sentiment Analysis on Italian Tweets
  • Giuseppe Castellucci, Danilo Croce and Roberto Basili: Context-aware Convolutional Neural Networks for Twitter Sentiment Analysis in Italian
  • Simona Frenda: Computational rule-based model for Irony Detection in Italian Tweets
  • Jan Deriu and Mark Cieliebak: Sentiment Detection using Convolutional Neural Networks with Multi-Task Training and Distant Supervision
• 11:45 – 12:00 FactA
  Anne-Lyse Minard, Manuela Speranza and Tommaso Caselli: The EVALITA 2016 Event Factuality Annotation Task (FactA)
• 12:00 – 13:00: INVITED SPEAKER – Walter Daelemans: Profiling the Personality of Social Media Users
• 13:00 – 14:15 Lunch
• 14:15 – 15:15 PoSTWITA (chair: Alessandro Mazzei)
  • 14:15 – 14:30 Cristina Bosco, Fabio Tamburini, Andrea Bolioli, Alessandro Mazzei: Overview of the EVALITA 2016 Part Of Speech on TWitter for ITAlian Task
  • 14:30 – 14:45 Andrea Cimino, Felice Dell’Orletta: Building the state-of-the-art in POS tagging of Italian Tweets
  • 14:45 – 15:00 Tobias Horsmann, Torsten Zesch: Building a Social Media Adapted PoS Tagger Using FlexTag – A Case Study on Italian Tweets
  • 15:00 – 15:10 Discussion & Questions
• 15:15 – 16:00 NEEL-it (chair: Pierpaolo Basile)
  • 15:15 – 15:30 Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Anna Lisa Gentile and Giuseppe Rizzo: Overview of the EVALITA 2016 Named Entity rEcognition and Linking in Italian Tweets (NEEL-IT) Task
  • 15:30 – 15:45 Giuseppe Attardi, Daniele Sartiano, Maria Simi, Irene Sucameli: Using Embeddings for Both Entity Recognition and Linking in Tweets
  • 15:45 – 16:00 Discussion
• 16:00 – 16:45 QA4FAQ (chair: Pasquale Lops)
  • 16:00 – 16:15 Annalina Caputo, Marco de Gemmis, Pasquale Lops, Francesco Lovecchio and Vito Manzari: Overview of the EVALITA 2016 Question Answering for Frequently Asked Questions (QA4FAQ) Task
  • 16:15 – 16:30 Arianna Pipitone, Giuseppe Tirone, Roberto Pirrone: ChiLab4It System in the QA4FAQ Competition
  • 16:30 – 16:45 Discussion
• 16:45 – 17:30 coffee break + posters NEEL-it, PoSTWITA, QA4FAQ, ARTIPHON
• NEEL-IT
  • Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini, Elisabetta Fersini, Pikakshi Manchanda, Enza Messina, Debora Nozza, Matteo Palmonari and Cezar Sas: UNIMIB @ NEEL-IT : Named Entity Recognition and Linking of Italian Tweets
  • Francesco Corcoglioniti, Alessio Palmero Aprosio, Yaroslav Nechaev and Claudio Giuliano: MicroNeel: Combining NLP Tools to Perform Named Entity Detection and Linking on Microposts
  • Vittoria Cozza, Wanda La Bruna and Tommaso Di Noia: sisinflab: an ensemble of supervised and unsupervised strategies for the neel-it challenge at Evalita 2016
  • Anne-Lyse Minard, Mohammed R. H. Qwaider and Bernardo Magnini: FBK-NLP at NEEL-IT: Active Learning for Domain Adaptation
  • Giuseppe Attardi, Daniele Sartiano, Maria Simi, Irene Sucameli: Using Embeddings for Both Entity Recognition and Linking in Tweets
• PoSTWITA
  • Giuseppe Attardi and Maria Simi: Character Embeddings PoS Tagger vs HMM Tagger for Tweets
  • Giulio Paci: Mivoq Evalita 2016 PosTwITA tagger
  • Partha Pakray and Goutam Majumder: NLP–NITMZ:Part-of-Speech Tagging on Italian Social Media Text using Hidden Markov Model
  • Barbara Plank and Malvina Nissim: When silver glitters more than gold: Bootstrapping an Italian part-of-speech tagger for Twitter
  • Egon W. Stemle: bot.zen @ EVALITA 2016 – A minimally-deep learning PoS-tagger (trained for Italian Tweets)
  • Fabio Tamburini: A BiLSTM-CRF PoS-tagger for Italian tweets using morphological information
  • Andrea Cimino, Felice Dell’Orletta: Building the state-of-the-art in POS tagging of Italian Tweets
  • Tobias Horsmann, Torsten Zesch: Building a Social Media Adapted PoS Tagger Using FlexTag – A Case Study on Italian Tweets
• QA4FAQ
  • Divyanshu Bhardwaj, Partha Pakray, Jereemi Bentham, Saurav Saha and Alexander Gelbukh: Question Answering System for Frequently Asked Questions
  • Erick R. Fonseca, Simone Magnolini, Anna Feltracco, Mohammed R. H. Qwaider and Bernardo Magnini: Tweaking Word Embeddings for FAQ Ranking
  • Arianna Pipitone, Giuseppe Tirone, Roberto Pirrone: ChiLab4It System in the QA4FAQ Competition
• ARTIPHON
  • Piero Cosi: Phone Recognition Experiments on ArtiPhon with KALDI
  • 17:30 – 17:50 ARTIPHON (chair: Franco Cutugno)
    • 17:30-17:40 Leonardo Badino and Franco Cutugno: The ArtiPhon Task at Evalita 2016
    • 17:40 – 17:50 Piero Cosi: Phone Recognition Experiments on ArtiPhon with KALDI
• 17:50 – 18:00 CLOSING