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EVALITA 2007

NEWS

• The Picture Gallery is
  online [19/12/2009]
• Proceedings and presentations available
  [16/12/2009]
• Workshop program
  now available [27/11/2009]
• Instructions for authors
  now available [21/09/2009]
• New site section:
  Sponsors [17/09/2009]
• Test data are now available
[10/09/2009]
• Student grants for the HLTI master available [04/08/2009]
• Invited Speaker: Patrick Paroubek [28/07/2009]

Proceedings

Introduction

• Bernardo Magnini and Amedeo Cappelli: Introduction to Evalita 2009
  
• Franco Cutugno and Mauro Falcone: Evalita Speech Tasks
  

PoS Tagging

Giuseppe Attardi and Maria Simi: Overview of the EVALITA 2009 Part-of-Speech Tagging Task

• Andrea Gesmundo: Bidirectional Sequence Classification for Part of Speech Tagging
  
• Leonardo Rigutini and Guido Gioioso: PoSTagger Based on SVM
  
• Fabio Tamburini: PoS-tagging Italian texts with CORISTagger
  
• Felice Dell’Orletta: Ensemble system for Part-of-Speech tagging
  
• Giuseppe Attardi, Antonio Fuschetto, Francesco Tamberi, Maria Simi, and Eva Maria Vecchi: Experiments in tagger combination: arbitrating, guessing, correcting, suggesting
  
• Anders Søgaard: Ensemble-based POS tagging of Italian
  
• Leonardo Lesmo: The PoS Tagger of Turin University
  
• Roberto Zanoli and Emanuele Pianta: A multistage PoS-tagger at the EVALITA 2009 PoS-tagging Task
  

Parsing

• Dependency Parsing Track

  Cristina Bosco, Simonetta Montemagni, Alessandro Mazzei, Vincenzo Lombardo, Felice Dell’Orletta, and Alessandro Lenci: Evalita’09 Parsing Task: comparing dependency parsers and treebanks

  • Federico Sangati: Generative re-ranking model for dependency parsing of Italian sentences
    
  • Giuseppe Attardi, Felice Dell’Orletta, Maria Simi, and Joseph Turian: Accurate Dependency Parsing with a Stacked Multilayer Perceptron
    
  • Alberto Lavelli, Johan Hall, Jens Nilsson, and Joakim Nivre: MaltParser at the EVALITA 2009Dependency Parsing Task
    
  • Anders Søgaard and Christian Rishøj: Vine parsing augmented Italian treebanks
    
  • Marcella Testa, Andrea Bolioli, Luca Dini, and Giampaolo Mazzini: Evaluation of a Semantically Oriented Dependency Grammar for Italian at EVALITA 2009
    
  • Leonardo Lesmo: The Turin University Parser at Evalita 2009
    

• Constituency Parsing Track

  Cristina Bosco, Alessandro Mazzei, and Vincenzo Lombardo: Evalita'09 Parsing Task: constituency parsers and the Penn format for Italian

  • Alberto Lavelli and Anna Corazza: The Berkeley Parser at the EVALITA 2009 Constituency Parsing Task
    
  • Federico Sangati: A simple DOP model for constituency parsing of Italian sentences
    

Lexical Substitution

Antonio Toral: The Lexical Substitution task at EVALITA 2009

• Pierpaolo Basile and Giovanni Semeraro: UNIBA @ EVALITA 2009 - Lexical Substitution Task
  
• Diego De Cao and Roberto Basili: Combining Distributional and Paradigmatic information in a lexical substitution task
  
• Dario Pucci, Marco Baroni, Franco Cutugno, and Alessandro Lenci: Unsupervised Lexical Substitution with a Word Space Model
  

Entity Recognition

• Named Entity Recognition

  Manuela Speranza: The Named Entity Recognition Task at EVALITA 2009

  • Andrea Gesmundo: Bidirectional Sequence Classification for Named Entities Recognition
    
  • Yashar Mehdad, Vitalie Scurtu, and Evgeny Stepanov: Italian Named Entity Recognizer Participation in NER task @ Evalita 09
    
  • Peng Cai, HangZai Luo, and AoYing Zhou: Named Entity Recognition in Italian Using CRF
    
  • Truc-Vien T. Nguyen, Alessandro Moschitti, and Giuseppe Riccardi: Conditional Random Fields: Discriminative Training over Statistical features for Named Entity Recognition
    
  • Stefan Rigo: Named Entity Recognition for Italian using SVM
    
  • Giuseppe Attardi, Stefano Dei Rossi, Felice Dell'Orletta, and Eva Maria Vecchi: The Tanl Named Entity Recognizer at Evalita 2009
    
  • Roberto Zanoli, Emanuele Pianta, and Claudio Giuliano: Named Entity Recognition through Redundancy Driven Classifiers
    

• Local Entity Detection and Recognition

  Valentina Bartalesi Lenzi and Rachele Sprugnoli: EVALITA 2009: Description and Results of the Local Entity Detection and Recognition (LEDR) task

  • Silvana Marianela Bernaola Biggio, Claudio Giuliano, Massimo Poesio, Yannick Versley, Olga Uryupina, and Roberto Zanoli: Local Entity Detection and Recognition Task Evalita 2009
    

Textual Entailment

Johan Bos, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, and Marco Pennacchiotti: Textual Entailment at EVALITA 2009

• Elena Cabrio, Yashar Mehdad, Matteo Negri, Milen Kouylekov, and Bernardo Magnini: Recognizing Textual Entailment for Italian EDITS @ EVALITA 2009
  
• Óscar Ferrández, Antonio Toral, and Rafael Muñoz: Exploiting Lexical Measures and a Semantic LR to Tackle Textual Entailment in Italian
  

Connected Digits Recognition

Gianpaolo Coro, Roberto Gretter, and Marco Matassoni: EVALITA 2009: Description and Results of the Speech Recognition task

• Maria Palmerini: Cedat85's automatic speech recognition system
  
• Francesco Cutugno, Bogdan Ludusan, Antonio Origlia, and Serena Soldo: Connected Digits Recognition Using a Syllable-Based ASR System
  
• Leandro D’Anna, Gianpaolo Coro, and Francesco Cutugno: EVALITA 2009: Abla srl Participant Report
  
• Piero Cosi and Mauro Nicolao: Connected Digits Recognition Task ISTC–CNR Comparison of Open Source Tools
  

Spoken Dialogue Systems Evaluation

Paolo Baggia, Francesco Cutugno, Morena Danieli, Roberto Pieraccini, Silvia Quarteron, Giuseppe Riccardi, and Pierluigi Roberti: The Multi-site 2009 EVALITA Spoken Dialog System Evaluation

• Stefan Rigo, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Pierluigi Roberti, Silvia Quarteroni, and Giuseppe Riccardi: The 2009 UNITN EVALITA Italian Spoken Dialogue System
  
• Enrico Giraudo and Paolo Baggia: EVALITA 2009: Loquendo Spoken Dialog System
  
• Gianluca Mignini and Francesco Cutugno: EVALITA2009 UNINA Spoken Dialogue System
  

Speaker Identity Verification

• Application Track

  Guido Aversano, Niko Brümmer, and Mauro Falcone: EVALITA 2009 Speaker Identity Verification “Application" Track - Organizer's Report

  • Mitchell McLaren, Robbie Vogt, Brendan Baker, and Sridha Sridharan: QUT Speaker Identity Verification System for EVALITA 2009
    
  • Lukáš Machlica and Jan Vanĕk: UWB system description: EVALITA 2009
    
  • Jia Liu, Liang He, Tao Hou, Zhiyi Li, Yongzhe Shi, and Wei-Qiang Zhang: The THUEE Speaker Identity Verification System for Evalita 2009 SIV-Application
    
  • Jesús Villalba, Eduardo Lleida, Alfonso Ortega, Carlos Vaquero, and Antonio MiguelI: I3A System for Evalita 2009 Speaker Verification Application Evaluation
    
  • Niko Brümmer and Albert Strasheim: AGNITIO's Speaker Recognition System for EVALITA 2009
    
  • Marijn Huijbregts and David van Leeuwen: The RU Submission to the Evalita'09 “application track" Speaker Recognition Evaluation
    
  • Benoît Fauve, Driss Matrouf, Jean-François Bonastre, and John Mason: VAS system for EVALITA 2009 Speaker Identity Verication - Application Track Task
    

• Forensic Track

  Luciano Romito and Vincenzo Galatà: Forensic Speaker Identity Verification (F-SIV) in Italy First Evaluation Campaign Evalita-2009

  • Monica Carfagni and Matteo Nunziati: The Unifi-EV2009-1 Protocol for Evalita 2009
    
  • Claudio Ciampini: Testing the IDEM System Technical Report for Evalita-2009 Forensic SIV
    
  • Maria Tucci: Testing the SMART System Technical Report for Evalita-2009 Forensic SIV