Last modified: November, 15th 2018

Rooms: Task sessions, keynote and panel will take place in Aula Magna, while poster sessions will take place in the room nextdoor (Sala Multifunzione 1)

Note: Coffee breaks and lunch on the first day are included in the registration fee, the social dinner is not

Wednesday 12 December 2018

• 13:00 – 14:00 Poster Session + Light Lunch (All participants of the tasks presented on Dec. 12th – HaSpeeDe, GxG, iLISTEN, ITAmoji, IDIAL – are invited to present their systems)
• 14:00 – 14:10 Opening
• 14:10 – 15:10 KEYNOTE – Saif M. Mohammad: The Search for Emotions, Creativity, and Fairness in Language
• 15:10 – 15:30 Coffee Break
• 15:30 – 16:00 Task Session – HaSpeeDe – Hate Speech Detection
  • 15:30 – 15:40 Cristina Bosco, Felice Dell’Orletta, Fabio Poletto, Manuela Sanguinetti and Maurizio Tesconi. Overview of the Evalita 2018 Hate Speech Detection Task
  • 15:40 – 15:50 Andrea Cimino and Lorenzo De Mattei. Multi-task learning in Deep Neural Networks for Hate Speech Detection in Facebook and Twitter
  • 15:50 – 16:00 Michele Corazza, Pinar Arslan, Stefano Menini, Rachele Sprugnoli, Sara Tonelli, Serena Villata and Elena Cabrio. Comparing Different Supervised Approaches to Hate Speech Detection
• 16:00 – 16:30 Task Session – GxG – Cross-Genre Gender Prediction
  • 16:00 – 16:10 Felice Dell’Orletta and Malvina Nissim. Overview of the EVALITA 2018 Cross-Genre Gender Prediction (GxG) Task
  • 16:10 – 16:20 Angelo Basile, Gareth Dwyer and Chiara Rubagotti. CapetownMilanoTirana for GxG at Evalita2018. Simple n-gram based models perform well for gender prediction. Sometimes
  • 16:20 – 16:30 Andrea Cimino, Lorenzo De Mattei and Felice Dell’Orletta. Multi-task learning in Deep Neural Networks for Cross Genre Gender Detection
• 16:30 – 17:00 Task Session – iLISTEN – itaLIan Speech acT labEliNg
  • 16:30 – 16:50 Pierpaolo Basile and Nicole Novielli. Overview of the Evalita 2018 itaLIan Speech acT labEliNg (iLISTEN) Task
  • 16:50 – 17:00 Danilo Croce and Roberto Basili. A Markovian Kernel-based Approach for itaLIan Speech acT labEliNg
• 17:00 – 17:30 Task Session – ITAMoji – Italian Emoji Prediction
  • 17:00 – 17:20 Francesco Ronzano, Francesco Barbieri, Endang Wahyu Pamungkas, Viviana Patti and Francesca Chiusaroli. Overview of the EVALITA 2018 Italian Emoji Prediction (ITAMoji) Task
  • 17:20 – 17:30 Andrei Catalin Coman, Yaroslav Nechaev and Giacomo Zara. Predicting Emoji Exploiting Multimodal Data: FBK Participation in ITAmoji Task
• 17:30 – 17:50 Task Session – IDIAL – Italian DIALogue systems evaluation
  • 17:30 – 17:50 Francesco Cutugno, Maria Di Maro, Sara Falcone, Marco Guerini, Bernardo Magnini and Antonio Origlia. Overview of the EVALITA 2018 Evaluation of Italian DIALogue systems (IDIAL) Task
• 17:50 – 18:00 Small Break
• 18:00 – 19:00 Panel – The future of shared tasks: data, evaluation, and technology transfer
  Confirmed panelists:
  • Franco Cutugno (Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II)
  • Caterina Flick (Avvocata e coordinatrice della Commissione Web & Media della Fédération Internationale des Femmes des
  • Carrières Juridiques – FIFCJ-IFWLC)
  • Malvina Nissim (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherland)
  • Paolo Turriziani (Interactive Media)
• TBA EVALITA Social Dinner

Thursday 13 December 2018

• 09:00 – 09:25 Task Session – IronITA – Irony Detection in Twitter
  • 9:00 – 9:15 Alessandra Teresa Cignarella, Simona Frenda, Valerio Basile, Cristina Bosco, Viviana Patti and Paolo Rosso. Overview of the EVALITA 2018 Task on Irony Detection in Italian Tweets (IronITA)
  • 9:15 – 09:25 Andrea Santilli, Danilo Croce and Roberto Basili. A Kernel-based Approach for Irony and Sarcasm detection in Italian
• 09:25 – 10:00 Task Session – ABSITA – Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis
  • 09:25 – 09:40 Pierpaolo Basile, Valerio Basile, Danilo Croce and Marco Polignano. Overview of the EVALITA 2018 Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis task (ABSITA)
  • 09:40 – 09:50 Andrea Cimino, Lorenzo De Mattei and Felice Dell’Orletta. Multi-task Learning in Deep Neural Networks at EVALITA 2018
  • 09:50 – 10:00 Rodolfo Delmonte. ItVENSES – A Symbolic System for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
• 10:00 – 11:10 Poster Session + Coffee Break (All participants of the tasks presented on Dec. 13th – IronITA, ABSITA, AMI, NLP4FUN, SUGAR – are invited to present their systems)
• 11:10 – 11:30 Best System Award (slides)
• 11:30 – 12:00 Task Session – AMI – Automatic Misogyny Identification
  • 11.30 – 11:40 Elisabetta Fersini, Debora Nozza and Paolo Rosso. Overview of the Evalita 2018 Task on Automatic Misogyny Identification (AMI)
  • 11.40 – 11:50 Angelo Basile and Chiara Rubagotti. CrotoneMilano for AMI at Evalita2018. A performant, cross-lingual misogyny detection system
  • 11.50 – 12:00 Simona Frenda, Bilal Ghanem, Estefanı́a Guzmán-Falcón, Manuel Montes-Y-Gómez and Luis Villaseñor-Pineda. Automatic Expansion of Lexicons for Multilingual Misogyny Detection
• 12:00 – 12:30 Task Session – NLP4FUN – Solving language games
  • 12:00 – 12:20 Pierpaolo Basile, Marco de Gemmis, Lucia Siciliani and Giovanni Semeraro. Overview of the EVALITA 2018 Solving language games (NLP4FUN) Task
  • 12:20 – 12:30 Federico Sangati, Johanna Monti and Antonio Pascucci. Exploiting Multiword Expressions to solve “La Ghigliottina”
• 12:30 – 13:00 Task Session – SUGAR – Spoken Utterances Guiding chef’s Assistant Robots
  • 12:30 – 12:50 Maria Di Maro, Antonio Origlia and Francesco Cutugno. Overview of the EVALITA 2018 Spoken Utterances Guiding Chef’s Assistant Robots (SUGAR) Task
  • 12:50 – 13:00 Simone Magnolini, Vevake Balaraman, Marco Guerini and Bernardo Magnini. The Perfect Recipe: Add SUGAR, Add Data
• 13:00 – 13:15 CLOSING