This page lists all papers accepted to EVALITA2020, also availble in the CEUR Proceedings.
Each paper is provided with the link to the proceedings and a video presentation by the authors (when available).

The proceedings are published by aAccademia as well, and are available here: https://www.aaccademia.it/scheda-libro?aaref=1423

EVALITA 2020: Overview of the 7th Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian
Valerio Basile, Danilo Croce, Maria Di Maro, Lucia C. Passaro

Track “Affect, Hate, and Stance”

AMI: Automatic Misogyny Identification

• AMI @ EVALITA2020: Automatic Misogyny Identification [VIDEO] Elisabetta Fersini, Debora Nozza and Paolo Rosso
• UniBO @ AMI: A Multi-Class Approach to Misogyny and Aggressiveness Identification on Twitter Posts Using AlBERTo [VIDEO] Arianna Muti and Alberto Barrón-Cedeño
• fabsam @ AMI: A Convolutional Neural Network Approach (short paper) [VIDEO] Samuel Fabrizi
• Jigsaw @ AMI and HaSpeeDe2: Fine-Tuning a Pre-Trained Comment-Domain BERT Model [VIDEO] Alyssa Lees, Jeffrey Sorensen and Ian Kivlichan
• PoliTeam @ AMI: Improving Sentence Embedding Similarity with Misogyny Lexicons for Automatic Misogyny Identification in Italian Tweets [VIDEO] Giuseppe Attanasio and Eliana Pastor
• MDD @ AMI: Vanilla Classifiers for Misogyny Identification (short paper)
  Samer El Abassi and Sergiu Nisioi
• No Place For Hate Speech @ AMI: Convolutional Neural Network and Word Embedding for the Identification of Misogyny in Italian (short paper) [VIDEO] Adriano dos S. R. da Silva and Norton T. Roman

ATE_ABSITA: Aspect Term Extraction and Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

• ATE_ABSITA @ EVALITA2020: Overview of the Aspect Term Extraction and Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis Task [VIDEO] Lorenzo de Mattei, Graziella De Martino, Andrea Iovine, Alessio Miaschi, Marco Polignano and Giulia Rambelli
• SentNA @ ATE_ABSITA: Sentiment Analysis of Customer Reviews Using Boosted Trees with Lexical and Lexicon-based Features (short paper) [VIDEO] Francesco Mele, Antonio Sorgente and Giuseppe Vettigli
• ghostwriter19 @ ATE_ABSITA: Zero-Shot and ONNX to Speed up BERT on Sentiment Analysis Tasks at EVALITA 2020 (short paper)
  Mauro Bennici
• App2Check @ ATE_ABSITA 2020: Aspect Term Extraction and Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (short paper)VIDEO
  Emanuele Di Rosa and Alberto Durante

HaSpeeDe: Hate Speech Detection

• HaSpeeDe 2 @ EVALITA2020: Overview of the EVALITA 2020 Hate Speech Detection Task [VIDEO] Manuela Sanguinetti, Gloria Comandini, Elisa Di Nuovo, Simona Frenda, Marco Stranisci, Cristina Bosco, Tommaso Caselli, Viviana Patti and Irene Russo
• YNU_OXZ @ HaSpeeDe 2 and AMI : XLM-RoBERTa with Ordered Neurons LSTM for Classification Task at EVALITA 2020 [VIDEO] Xiaozhi Ou and Hongling Li
• DH-FBK @ HaSpeeDe2: Italian Hate Speech Detection via Self-Training and Oversampling [VIDEO] Elisa Leonardelli, Stefano Menini and Sara Tonelli
• By1510 @ HaSpeeDe 2: Identification of Hate Speech for Italian Language in Social Media Data (short paper) [VIDEO] Tao Deng, Yang Bai and Hongbing Dai
• Venses @ HaSpeeDe2 & SardiStance: Multilevel Deep Linguistically Based Supervised Approach to Classification [VIDEO] Rodolfo Delmonte
• UR NLP @ HaSpeeDe 2 at EVALITA 2020: Towards Robust Hate Speech Detection with Contextual Embeddings [VIDEO] Julia Hoffmann and Udo Kruschwitz
• Fontana-Unipi @ HaSpeeDe2: Ensemble of transformers for the Hate Speech task at Evalita (short paper) [VIDEO] Michele Fontana and Giuseppe Attardi
• TheNorth @ HaSpeeDe 2: BERT-based Language Model Fine-tuning for Italian Hate Speech Detection (short paper) [VIDEO] Eric Lavergne, Rajkumar Saini, György Kovács and Killian Murphy
• UO @ HaSpeeDe2: Ensemble Model for Italian Hate Speech Detection (short paper)
  Mariano Jason Rodriguez Cisnero and Reynier Ortega Bueno
• No Place For Hate Speech @ HaSpeeDe 2: Ensemble to Identify Hate Speech in Italian (short paper) [VIDEO] Adriano dos S. R. da Silva and Norton T. Roman
• Svandiela @ HaSpeeDe: Detecting Hate Speech in Italian Twitter Data with BERT (short paper)
  Svea Klaus, Anna-Sophie Bartle and Daniela Rossmann
• CHILab @ HaSpeeDe 2: Enhancing Hate Speech Detection with Part-of-Speech Tagging (short paper) [VIDEO] Giuseppe Gambino and Roberto Pirrone
• Montanti @ HaSpeeDe2 EVALITA 2020: Hate Speech Detection in online contents (short paper) [VIDEO] Elia Bisconti, Matteo Montagnani

SardiStance: Stance Detection

• SardiStance @ EVALITA2020: Overview of the Task on Stance Detection in Italian Tweets [VIDEO] Alessandra Teresa Cignarella, Mirko Lai, Cristina Bosco, Viviana Patti and Paolo Rosso
• UNITOR @ Sardistance2020: Combining Transformer-based Architectures and Transfer Learning for Robust Stance Detection [VIDEO] Simone Giorgioni, Marcello Politi, Samir Salman, Roberto Basili and Danilo Croce
• ghostwriter19 @ SardiStance: Generating New Tweets to Classify SardiStance EVALITA 2020 Political Tweets (short paper)
  Mauro Bennici
• QMUL-SDS @ SardiStance: Leveraging Network Interactions to Boost Performance on Stance Detection using Knowledge Graphs (short paper)
  Rabab Alkhalifa and Arkaitz Zubiaga
• DeepReading @ SardiStance 2020: Combining Textual, Social and Emotional Features [VIDEO] Maria S. Espinosa, Rodrigo Agerri, Alvaro Rodrigo and Roberto Centeno
• TextWiller @ SardiStance, HaSpeede2: Text or Con-text? A Smart Use of Social Network Data in Predicting Polarization (short paper) [VIDEO] Federico Ferraccioli, Andrea Sciandra, Mattia Da Pont, Paolo Girardi, Dario Solari and Livio Finos
• UninaStudents @ SardiStance: Stance Detection in Italian Tweets – Task A (short paper)
  Maurizio Moraca, Gianluca Sabella and Simone Morra
• SSN NLP @ SardiStance : Stance Detection from Italian Tweets using RNN and Transformers (short paper) [VIDEO] Kayalvizhi S, Thenmozhi D and Aravindan Chandrabose
• SSNCSE-NLP @ EVALITA2020: Textual and Contextual Stance Detection from Tweets Using Machine Learning Approach (short paper)
  Bharathi B, Bhuvana J and Nitin Nikamanth Appiah Balaji

Track “Creativity and Style”

CHANGE-IT: Style Transfer

• CHANGE-IT @ EVALITA 2020: Change Headlines, Adapt News, GEnerate (short paper) [VIDEO] Lorenzo De Mattei, Michele Cafagna, Felice Dell’Orletta, Malvina Nissim and Albert Gatt

TAG-it: Topic, Age and Gender Prediction

• TAG-it @ EVALITA2020: Overview of the Topic, Age, and Gender Prediction Task for Italian [VIDEO] Andrea Cimino, Felice Dell’Orletta and Malvina Nissim
• UO_4to @ TAG-it 2020: Ensemble of Machine Learning Methods (short paper) [VIDEO] Maria Fernanda Artigas Herold and Daniel Castro Castro
• UOBIT @ TAG-it: Exploring a Multi-faceted Representation for Profiling Age, Topic and Gender in Italian Texts. [VIDEO] Roberto Labadie Tamayo, Daniel Castro Castro and Reynier Ortega Bueno
• ItaliaNLP @ TAG-IT: UmBERTo for Author Profiling at TAG-it 2020 (short paper) [VIDEO] Daniela Occhipinti, Andrea Tesei, Maria Iacono, Carlo Aliprandi and Lorenzo De Mattei

Track “Semantics and Multimodality”

DANKMEMES: Multimodal Artefacts Recognition

• DANKMEMES @ EVALITA 2020: The Memeing of Life: Memes, Multimodality and Politics [VIDEO] Martina Miliani, Giulia Giorgi, Ilir Rama, Guido Anselmi and Gianluca E. Lebani
• SNK @ DANKMEMES: Leveraging Pretrained Embeddings for Multimodal Meme Detection (short paper) [VIDEO] Stefano Fiorucci
• UPB @ DANKMEMES: Italian Memes Analysis – Employing Visual Models and Graph Convolutional Networks for Meme Identification and Hate Speech Detection (short paper) [VIDEO] George-Alexandru Vlad, George-Eduard Zaharia, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel and Mihai Dascalu
• ArchiMeDe @ DANKMEMES: A New Model Architecture for Meme Detection [VIDEO] Jinen Setpal and Gabriele Sarti
• UNITOR @ DANKMEME: Combining Convolutional Models and Transformer-based architectures for accurate MEME management [VIDEO] Claudia Breazzano, Edoardo Rubino, Danilo Croce and Roberto Basili

CONcreTEXT: Concreteness in Context

• CONcreTEXT @ EVALITA2020: The Concreteness in Context Task [VIDEO] Lorenzo Gregori, Maria Montefinese, Daniele P. Radicioni, Andrea Amelio Ravelli and Rossella Varvara
• ANDI @ CONcreTEXT: Predicting Concreteness in Context for English and Italian using Distributional Models and Behavioural Norms (short paper) [VIDEO] Armand Stefan Rotaru
• CAPISCO @ CONcreTEXT 2020: (Un)supervised Systems to Contextualize Concreteness with Norming Data [VIDEO] Alessandro Bondielli, Gianluca E. Lebani, Lucia C. Passaro and Alessandro Lenci
• KonKretiKa @ CONcreTEXT: Computing Concreteness Indexes with Sigmoid Transformation and Adjustment for Context [VIDEO] Yulia Badryzlova

Ghigliottin-AI: Evaluating Artificial Players for the Language Game “La Ghigliottina”

• Ghigliottin-AI@EVALITA2020: Evaluating Artificial Players for the Language Game “La Ghigliottina” (short paper) [VIDEO] Pierpaolo Basile, Marco Lovetere, Johanna Monti, Antonio Pascucci, Federico Sangati and Lucia Siciliani
• “Il Mago della Ghigliottina” @ GhigliottinAI: When Linguistics meets Artificial Intelligence [VIDEO] Federico Sangati, Antonio Pascucci and Johanna Monti
• GUL.LE.VER @ GhigliottinAI: A Glove based Artificial Player to Solve the Language Game “La Ghigliottina” (short paper) [VIDEO] Nazareno de Francesco

PRELEARN: Prerequisite Relation Learning

• PRELEARN @ EVALITA 2020: Overview of the Prerequisite Relation Learning Task for Italian [VIDEO] Chiara Alzetta, Alessio Miaschi, Felice Dell’Orletta, Frosina Koceva and Ilaria Torre
• B4DS @ PRELEARN: Ensemble Method for Prerequisite Learning (short paper) [VIDEO] Giovanni Puccetti, Luis Bolanos, Filippo Chiarello and Gualtiero Fantoni
• UNIGE_SE @ PRELEARN: Utility for Automatic Prerequisite Learning from Italian Wikipedia (short paper) [VIDEO] Alessio Moggio and Andrea Parizzi
• NLP-CIC @ PRELEARN: Mastering Prerequisites Relations, from Handcrafted Features to Embeddings (short paper)
  Jason Angel and Segun Aroyehun

Track “Time and Diachrony”

DaDoEval: Dating Documents

• DaDoEval @ EVALITA 2020: Same-Genre and Cross-Genre Dating of Historical Documents [VIDEO] Stefano Menini, Giovanni Moretti, Rachele Sprugnoli and Sara Tonelli
• matteo-brv @ DaDoEval: An SVM-based Approach for Automatic Document Dating (short paper) [VIDEO] Matteo Brivio
• rmassidda @ DaDoEval: Document Dating Using Sentence Embeddings at EVALITA 2020 [VIDEO] Riccardo Massidda

DIACR-Ita: Diachronic Lexical Semantics

• DIACR-Ita @ EVALITA2020: Overview of the EVALITA2020 Diachronic Lexical Semantics (DIACR-Ita) Task [VIDEO] Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Tommaso Caselli, Pierluigi Cassotti and Rossella Varvara
• University of Padova @ DIACR-Ita (short paper) [VIDEO] Benyou Wang, Emanuele Di Buccio and Massimo Melucci
• UWB @ DIACR-Ita: Lexical Semantic Change Detection with CCA and Orthogonal Transformation [VIDEO] Ondřej Pražák, Pavel Přibáň, Stephen Taylor
• QMUL-SDS @ DIACR-Ita: Evaluating Unsupervised Diachronic Lexical Semantics Classification in Italian (short paper)
  Rabab Alkhalifa, Adam Tsakalidis, Arkaitz Zubiaga and Maria Liakata
• CL-IMS @ DIACR-Ita: Volente o Nolente: BERT is still not Outperforming SGNS on Semantic Change Detection
  Severin Laicher, Gioia Baldissin, Enrique Castaneda, Dominik Schlechtweg and Sabine Schulte Im Walde
• OP-IMS @ DIACR-Ita: Back to the Roots: SGNS+OP+CD still Rocks Semantic Change Detection [VIDEO] Jens Kaiser, Dominik Schlechtweg and Sabine Schulte Im Walde
• UNIMIB @ DIACR-Ita: Aligning Distributional Embeddings with a Compass for Semantic Change Detection in the Italian Language (short paper) [VIDEO] Federico Belotti, Federico Bianchi and Matteo Palmonari
• NLP-CIC @ DIACR-Ita: POS and Neighbor Based Distributional Models for Lexical Semantic Change in Diachronic Italian Corpora (short paper)
  Jason Angel

Track “New Challenges in Long-standing Tasks”

AcCompl-it: Acceptability & Complexity evaluation

• AcCompl-it @ EVALITA2020: Overview of the Acceptability & Complexity Evaluation Task for Italian [VIDEO] Dominique Brunato, Cristiano Chesi, Felice Dell’Orletta, Simonetta Montemagni, Giulia Venturi and Roberto Zamparelli
• UmBERTo-MTSA @ AcCompl-It: Improving Complexity and Acceptability Prediction with Multi-task Learning on Self-Supervised Annotations (short paper) [VIDEO] Gabriele Sarti
• Venses @ AcCompl-It: Computing Complexity vs Acceptability with a Constituent Trigram Model and Semantics [VIDEO] Rodolfo Delmonte

KIPoS: Part-of-speech Tagging on Spoken Language

• KIPoS @ EVALITA2020: Overview of the Task on KIParla Part of Speech Tagging [VIDEO] Cristina Bosco, Silvia Ballarè, Massimo Cerruti, Eugenio Goria and Caterina Mauri
• UniBO @ KIPoS: Fine-tuning the Italian “BERTology” for PoS-tagging Spoken Data (short paper) [VIDEO] Fabio Tamburini
• UniBA @ KIPoS: A Hybrid Approach for Part-of-Speech Tagging (short paper) [VIDEO] Giovanni Luca Izzi and Stefano Ferilli
• KLUMSy @ KIPoS: Experiments on Part-of-Speech Tagging of Spoken Italian [VIDEO] Thomas Proisl and Gabriella Lapesa

Published on CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org, ISSN 1613-0073)