Lessons Learned from EVALITA 2020 and Thirteen Years of Evaluation of Italian Language Technology

This paper provides a summary of the 7th Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian (EVALITA2020) which was held online on December 17th, due to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020 edition of Evalita included 14 different tasks belonging to five research areas,...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:de9b512d04b74a4b875c01e9e22d72812021-12-02T09:52:20ZLessons Learned from EVALITA 2020 and Thirteen Years of Evaluation of Italian Language Technology2499-455310.4000/ijcol.740https://doaj.org/article/de9b512d04b74a4b875c01e9e22d72812020-12-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/ijcol/740https://doaj.org/toc/2499-4553This paper provides a summary of the 7th Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian (EVALITA2020) which was held online on December 17th, due to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020 edition of Evalita included 14 different tasks belonging to five research areas, namely: (i) Affect, Hate, and Stance, (ii) Creativity and Style, (iii) New Challenges in Long-standing Tasks, (iv) Semantics and Multimodality, (v) Time and Diachrony. This paper provides a description of the tasks and the key findings from the analysis of participant outcomes. Moreover, it provides a detailed analysis of the participants and task organizers which demonstrates the growing interest with respect to this campaign. Finally, a detailed analysis of the evaluation of tasks across the past seven editions is provided; this allows to assess how the research carried out by the Italian community dealing with Computational Linguistics has evolved in terms of popular tasks and paradigms during the last 13 years.Lucia C. PassaroMaria Di MaroValerio BasileDanilo CroceAccademia University PressarticleSocial SciencesHComputational linguistics. Natural language processingP98-98.5ENIJCoL, Vol 6, Iss 2, Pp 79-102 (2020)
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Computational linguistics. Natural language processing
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Computational linguistics. Natural language processing
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Lucia C. Passaro
Maria Di Maro
Valerio Basile
Danilo Croce
Lessons Learned from EVALITA 2020 and Thirteen Years of Evaluation of Italian Language Technology
description This paper provides a summary of the 7th Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian (EVALITA2020) which was held online on December 17th, due to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020 edition of Evalita included 14 different tasks belonging to five research areas, namely: (i) Affect, Hate, and Stance, (ii) Creativity and Style, (iii) New Challenges in Long-standing Tasks, (iv) Semantics and Multimodality, (v) Time and Diachrony. This paper provides a description of the tasks and the key findings from the analysis of participant outcomes. Moreover, it provides a detailed analysis of the participants and task organizers which demonstrates the growing interest with respect to this campaign. Finally, a detailed analysis of the evaluation of tasks across the past seven editions is provided; this allows to assess how the research carried out by the Italian community dealing with Computational Linguistics has evolved in terms of popular tasks and paradigms during the last 13 years.
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author Lucia C. Passaro
Maria Di Maro
Valerio Basile
Danilo Croce
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Danilo Croce
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title Lessons Learned from EVALITA 2020 and Thirteen Years of Evaluation of Italian Language Technology
title_short Lessons Learned from EVALITA 2020 and Thirteen Years of Evaluation of Italian Language Technology
title_full Lessons Learned from EVALITA 2020 and Thirteen Years of Evaluation of Italian Language Technology
title_fullStr Lessons Learned from EVALITA 2020 and Thirteen Years of Evaluation of Italian Language Technology
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