NEWS

Data distribution


  • PoS-Tagging: we require that all participants in the EVALITA 2009 Part of Speech Tagging task accept the terms of a license agreement before receiving training or evaluation data.
    For data download, please refer to the following web page: http://medialab.di.unipi.it/evalita/
    For any problem please contact: Maria Simi, simi[at]di.unipi.it


  • Parsing: training and test data are covered by a Creative Commons license "Attribution- Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.5 Italy".
    1. TUT data (for Dependency Parsing Main Task and for Constituency Parsing Track) can be downloaded from the dedicated web page.
      For any problem please contact: Cristina Bosco, bosco[at]di.unito.it
    2. TANL Dependency annotated corpus (for Dependency Parsing Pilot task) can be downloaded from the dedicated web page.
      For any problem please contact: Simonetta Montemagni, simonetta.montemagni@ilc.cnr.it


  • Lexical Substitution: Trial data and Test data can be freely downloaded.
  • Participants can obtain optionally "ItalWordNet for EVALITA" and "PAROLE-SIMPLE-CLIPS PISA Italian Lexicon for EVALITA" from ELDA (Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency) by contacting Ms Valerie Mapelli at mapelli[at]elda.org, who will inform you on the licensing and delivery procedure.


  • Entity Recognition: I-CAB is freely available for research purposes upon acceptance of a license agreement.



  • Textual Entailment:
    - The test data are now available.
    - The development set is available on the Textutal Entailment page.


  • Connected Digits Recognition:
    - The test data are now available.
    - Training data consist in 5348 sentences, 17505 digits; development data consist in 515 sentences, 3569 digits.
    Data are freely available and no fee will be required.
    Data can be downloaded at this address: http://evalita.fbk.eu/evalita2009srt.zip
    Contact: Roberto Gretter, gretter[at]fbk.eu


  • Dialogue System Evaluation:
    Training data can be downloaded at this address: http://evalita.fbk.eu/evalita-SDS-database.zip
    Contact: Francesco Cutugno, cutugno[at]na.infn.it


  • Speaker Identity Verification:

    1. Application task: All participants in the EVALITA 2009 "Application" track of the SIV task can receive development and test data by contacting directly the speech tasks coordinator:
      Mauro Falcone, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni (FUB)
      falcone[at]fub.it
      tel +39 0654803352, fax +39 0654804405


    2. Forensic task: All participants in the EVALITA 2009 Speaker Identity Verification task can receive development and test data by contacting directly the organizer:
      Luciano Romito, Università della Calabria
      luciano.romito[at]unical.it
      www.linguistica.unical.it/labfon/home.htm
      Phone: 0984-494097, fax: 0984494114, mobile: 3388434124