NEWS

Instructions for authors


All the final reports will be published on the official CD-Rom of EVALITA 2009 with regular ISBN number.


Requirements for final reports by participants and task organizers

  • Language: English
  • Format: final reports must be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines (download the LNCS default author instructions file or go to the website)
  • Max. length: 6 pages for participants and 8 pages for task organizers.
    Subtask organizers can choose to submit different reports for each subtask.

Participants should write one report for each EVALITA 2009 task they participated in including at least the following sections:
- system description
- results obtained
- discussion about results


Task organizers are invited to include in their reports the following sections:
- Motivation
- Definition of the task
- Dataset
- Evaluation measures
- Participation results
- Discussion
- References


Submission of final reports

Authors must submit both the final PDF file and the original Word or Latex file.


Technical reports have to be sent to proceedings.evalita@celct.it and to one of the task organizers, i.e:

Text tasks

  • PoS-Tagging: Maria Simi e Giuseppe Attardi, evalita[at]di.unipi.it
  • Parsing: Cristina Bosco, bosco[at]di.unito.it
  • Lexical Substitution: Antonio Toral, antonio.toral[at]ilc.cnr.it
  • Entity Recognition: Manuela Speranza, manspera[at]fbk.eu
  • Local Entity Detection and Recognition: Rachele Sprugnoli, sprugnoli[at]celct.it
  • Textual Entailment: Johan Bos, bos[at]di.uniroma1.it

Speech tasks

  • Connected Digits Recognition: Marco Matassoni, matassoni[at]fbk.eu
  • Spoken Dialogue Systems Evaluation: Franco Cutugno, cutugno[at]na.infn.it
  • Speaker Identity Verification - Application: information will be soon available
  • Speaker Identity Verification - Forensic: Luciano Romito, luciano.romito[at]unical.it

Submission deadline: October 25th 2009

We invite authors to submit their reports at least a few days before the deadline.
The organizers will check for the correctness of the format, the exactness of results and ranking, and overall exposition. In the event of problems, authors will be contacted within a couple of days after their submission and asked to make corrections.
Failure to respond promptly may result in the technical report being excluded from the official proceedings.