Evaluation of Natural Language and Speech Tools for Italian Inte

EVALITA (http://www.evalita.it/) is the reference evaluation campaign of both Natural Language Processing and Speech Technologies for the Italian language. The objective of the shared tasks proposed at EVALITA is to promote the development of language tec

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LNAI Founding Series Editor Joerg Siekmann DFKI and Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

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Bernardo Magnini Francesco Cutugno Mauro Falcone Emanuele Pianta (Eds.)

Evaluation of Natural Language and Speech Tools for Italian International Workshop, EVALITA 2011 Rome, January 24-25, 2012 Revised Selected Papers

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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Bernardo Magnini Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Via Sommarive 18, 38123 Povo (TN), Italy E-mail: [email protected] Francesco Cutugno University of Naples, Via Cinthia, 80126 Napels, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Mauro Falcone Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Viale del Policlinico 147, Rome 161, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Emanuele Pianta CELCT, Via alla Cascata 56/C, 38123 Povo (TN), Italy E-mail: [email protected] Managing Editors Rachele Sprugnoli, CELCT, Povo (TN), Italy Valentina Bartalesi Lenzi, CELCT, Povo (TN), Italy ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-35827-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-35828-9

e-ISSN 1611-3349 e-ISBN 978-3-642-35828-9

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Preface

EVALITA (http://www.evalita.it/) is the reference evaluation campaign of both Natural Language Processing and Speech Technologies for the Italian language. The objective of the shared tasks proposed at EVALITA is to promote the development of language technologies for Italian, providing a common framework where different systems and approaches can be evaluated and compared in a consistent manner. This volume collects the final and extended contributions presented at EVALITA 2011, the third edition of the evaluation campaign. EVALITA 2011 is organized collectively by the Italian comm