HLT-nlp news

Title: Improving Native Language Identification by Using Spelling Errors
Authors: Lingzhen Chen, Carlo Strapparava and Vivi Nastase

LCL 2017 is a two-day event featuring both tutorials on topics in Computational Linguistics and student's presentations.  LCL - 2017 is organized by the Doctoral School of Linguistic Sciences of University of Bergamo-Pavia and by Fondazione Bruno Kessler,  with the endorsement of AILC, the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics.

The event will be held at University of Pavia on May, 4-5 2017.

Website:  LCL 2017

The call for papers for the "NLP meets Journalism" Workshop at EMNLP 2017 is now open.

Begoña Altuna, Anne-Lyse Minard and Manuela Speranza. The Scope and Focus of Negation: A Complete Annotation Framework for Italian

Tthe HLT-NLP/Fortia team won the SemEval 2017 Task 5 challenge on predicting fine-grained sentiment from financial news headlines (1st out of 45 runs).

HLT-NLP Members: Lorenzo Gatti, Marco Guerini

Fortia Members: Youness Mansar, Sira Ferradans, Jacopo Staiano

Tthe HLT-NLP/Fortia team won the SemEval 2017 Task 5 challenge on predicting fine-grained sentiment from financial news headlines (1st out of 45 runs).

HLT-NLP Members: Lorenzo Gatti, Marco Guerini

Fortia Members: Youness Mansar, Sira Ferradans, Jacopo Staiano

The call for papers for the "NLP meets Journalism" Workshop at EMNLP 2017 is now open.

The following short papers have been accepted at EACL2017:

Title: A Computational Analysis of the Language of Drug
Authors: Carlo Strapparava and Rada Mihalcea

Title: To Sing like a Mockingbird
Authors: Lorenzo Gatti, Gözde Özbal, Oliviero Stock and Carlo Strapparava

Simone Magnolini, Ngoc Phuoc An Vo and Octavian Popescu. Analysis of the Impact of Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics for Semantic Textual Similarity

Title: Bootstrapping Technique + Embeddings = Emotional Corpus Annotated Automatically
Authors: Lea Canales, Carlo Strapparava, Ester Boldrini and Patricio Martinez-Barco

"LICO: A Lexicon of Italian Connectives", "Comparing State-of-the-art Dependency Parsers on the Italian Stanford Dependency Treebank", "Semantic Interpretation of Events in Live Soccer Commentaries", and "Grounding the Lexical Sets of Causative-Inchoative Verbs with Word Embedding"

Title: Exploiting a Bootstrapping Approach for Annotating Emotions in Texts Automatically
Authors: Lea Canales, Carlo Strapparava, Ester Boldrini and Patricio Martinez-Barco

Title: Learning to Identify Metaphors from a Corpus of Proverbs
Authors: Gözde Özbal, Carlo Strapparava, Serra Sinem Tekiroglu and Daniele Pighin

http://nlpj2016.fbk.eu
IJCAI 2016 Workshop, July 10th, New York

A transformation-driven approach for recognizing textual entailment

Roberto Zanoli and Silvia Colombo

A knowledge-poor approach to chemical-disease relation extraction
Firoj Alam, Anna Corazza, Alberto Lavelli, and Roberto Zanoli
Database Vol. 2016, baw071 doi:10.1093/database/baw071

In the contest of Evalita 2016, we are co-organizing FactA (Event Factuality Annotation), the first evaluation exercise for factuality profiling of events in Italian.

Title: Identifying User Issues and Request Types in Forum Question Posts based on Discourse Analysis

Authors: Agnes Sandor, Nikolaos Lagos, Ngoc Phuoc An Vo, Caroline Brun.

"MEANTIME, the NewsReader Multilingual Event and Time Corpus", "Annotating opposition relations among Italian verb senses using crowdsourcing", "Classifying Temporal Relations with Simple Features", and "Corpora for Learning the Mutual Relationship between Semantic Relatedness and Textual Entailment"

Vivi Nastase and Carlo Strapparava. knoWitiary: A Machine Readable Incarnation of Wiktionary. International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Applications. Vol. 6 No. 2 - December 2015