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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 22h

Let’s present the tasks at #EVALITA2026!
Fourth up: IMPOLS 🗳️

Can systems detect what’s not said in political speech?
💬 IMPOLS targets implicit, questionable content that sounds true but isn’t explicit.

🔍 Tasks:
1️⃣ Detect implicit contents
2️⃣ Classify them
3️⃣ Classify implicatures

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 3d

Let’s present the tasks at #EVALITA2026!
Third up: ATE-IT 🏷️

Time to extract key concepts automatically, with the first large-scale eval of Automatic Term Extraction for Italian on institutional texts.

Subtasks:
🔹 Term Extraction
🔹 Term Variants Clustering

Let’s make terminology smarter.
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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 9d

Let’s present the tasks at #EVALITA2026!
Second up: GSI:detect

Can machines detect gender stereotypes in Italian texts?
🧠 Score sentences for stereotypical content
🏷️ Classify them into stereotype categories

From classification to social awareness.
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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 12d

Pictures of #clicit2025 social dinner!

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks to all the participants! #clicit2025

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 12d

#clicit2025 awards winners!

AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 12d

Last oral session at #clicit2025!

AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 13d

Invited talk by @edoardo-ponti.bsky.social: “A Blueprint for Foundation Models with Adaptive Tokenization and Memory” #clicit2025

AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 13d

Let’s present the tasks at #EVALITA2026!
First up: EXPLAINITA 🔍

Can you explain what a latent neuron means?
🧠 Describe Sparse Autoencoder latents
📝 Decide if a text activates a latent based on its explanation

From prediction to interpretability 💬
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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 13d

Next year #clicit2026 will be in……Palermo!

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sarapapi.bsky.social @sarapapi.bsky.social · 14d

🚀 Excited to present FAMA, the first large-scale #OpenScience #Speech foundation model for 🇮🇹 Italian & 🇬🇧 English, at #clicit2025 (17:30–18:45 oral session)!

🔗 Models: hf.co/collections/...
📊 Data: hf.co/datasets/FBK...
💻 Code: github.com/hlt-mt/FBK-f...
📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.22759

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MT Group at FBK @fbk-mt.bsky.social · 13d

Our very own @sarapapi.bsky.social presenting FAMA at #clicit2025:

📗Paper: clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/u...
🔗 Models: hf.co/collections/...
📊 Data: hf.co/datasets/FBK...
💻 Code: github.com/hlt-mt/FBK-f...

Joint work with @speechtekfbk.bsky.social

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 14d

Poster session and invited talk by Karen Fort at #clicit2025

AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 14d

The second day of #clicit2025 has started with an oral session on Linked Data, relation extraction and legal information retrieval

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 14d

Last oral session of the first #clicit2025 day! See you all at the welcome drink!

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Fabio Celli @facells.bsky.social · 14d

we invented the wearable poster - with @mrovera.bsky.social at CLIC-it @ailc-nlp.bsky.social

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 14d

Interview with Paola Merlo: a lot of interesting questions from #NLProc students

AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 14d

First poster session at #clicit2025

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 14d

First #clicit2025 oral session on benchmarks and LLMs evaluation

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 14d

Opening session of #clicit2025! Welcome to Cagliari!

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Rachele Sprugnoli @rsprugnoli.bsky.social · 15d

In Cagliari for #clicit2025! Tomorrow I will presents two papers: 1) Ciallabacialla! Modeling and Linking a Regional Lexical Resource to Include Sicilian in the SemanticWeb; 2) Annotating Manzoni: Challenges in the Annotation of Lemmas, POS and Features in “I Promessi Sposi”
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DH Group at FBK @dh-fbk.bsky.social · 15d

We are on our way to Casteddu for #clicit2025 with a guest from @fbk-mt.bsky.social @ailc-nlp.bsky.social

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 15d

#clicit2025 starts with a tutorial by Sandro Pezzelle (Universiteit van Amsterdam): “Language-and-vision models: From Image-Language Alignment to Storytelling and Narration”
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Michele Ciletti @mikcil.bsky.social · 16d

Excited to be in Cagliari for #clicit2025! I'll be presenting a paper on text-to-speech LLMs and Latin prosody - check out the full program!

AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · Aug 28

The #clicit2025 program is out!
clic2025.unica.it/technical-pr...

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 23d

🚀 The Call for Interest is out!
📢 Want to participate in one of the EVALITA 2026 tasks? Check out the CFI and get ready to join the challenge 👉 www.evalita.it/campaigns/ev...

In the next few days, we’ll introduce the tasks one by one. Stay tuned!
#EVALITA2026 #NLProc #ItalianNLP

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