EVALITA 2018 - Call For Participation

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

EVALITA 2018 
6th Evaluation campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for the Italian Language

http://www.evalita.it/2018 <http://www.evalita.it/2018>
co-located with CLIC-it 2018
http://clic2018.di.unito.it <http://clic2018.di.unito.it/>
12 and 13 December 2018
“Cavallerizza Reale” of the University of Turin 
Via Giuseppe Verdi, 5 
Turin, Italy

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The 6th evaluation campaign EVALITA 2018 is organized along the following selected tasks:

ABSITA <http://sag.art.uniroma2.it/absita/> - Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis 
ITAMoji <https://sites.google.com/view/itamoji/> - Italian Emoji Prediction 
IronITA <http://di.unito.it/ironita18> - Irony Detection in Twitter 
GxG <https://sites.google.com/view/gxg2018> - Cross-Genre Gender Prediction
iLISTEN <https://ilisten2018.github.io/> - itaLIan Speech acT labEliNg
IDIAL <https://sites.google.com/view/idial/> - Italian DIALogue systems evaluation
AMI <https://amievalita2018.wordpress.com/> - Automatic Misogyny Identification
HaSpeeDe <http://di.unito.it/haspeedeevalita18> - Hate Speech Detection
NLP4FUN <https://nlp4fun.github.io/> - Solving language games
SUGAR <https://sites.google.com/view/sugar-evalita/> - Spoken Utterances Guiding chef’s Assistant Robots

The EVALITA 2018 final workshop will be held in Turin on 12 and 13 December, 2018, as a satellite event of the 5th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics - CLiC-it 2016. Registration is open (http://www.ai-lc.it/en/registration-procedure/?v=796834e7a283 <http://www.ai-lc.it/en/registration-procedure/?v=796834e7a283>). Information on program below.

PROGRAM
http://www.evalita.it/2018/workshop-program <http://www.evalita.it/2018/workshop-program> 

INVITED SPEAKER 
Saif M. Mohammad (National Research Council, Canada): "The Search for Emotions, Creativity, and Fairness in Language"
http://www.evalita.it/2018/workshop/invited_speaker <http://www.evalita.it/2018/workshop/invited_speaker> 

On December 12th there will be a panel on "The future of shared tasks: data, evaluation, and technology transfer". Confirmed panelists:
Franco Cutugno <https://www.docenti.unina.it/francesco.cutugno> (University of Naples "Federico II")
Caterina Flick <https://www.linkedin.com/in/caterinaflick/> (Lawyer and coordinator of the Web & Media Commission of the Fédération Internationale des Femmes des Carrières Juridiques - FIFCJ-IFWLC)
Malvina Nissim <https://www.rug.nl/staff/m.nissim/> (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherland)
Saif M. Mohammad <http://saifmohammad.com/> (National Research Council, Canada)
Paolo Turriziani (Interactive Media)

EVALITA 2018 CHAIRS

Tommaso Caselli (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands)
Nicole Novielli (Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy)
Viviana Patti (Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy)
Paolo Rosso (PRHLT Research Center, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)


CONTACT

evalita2018[AT]gmail.com <http://gmail.com/>
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