The “Federico Sangati” Best System Award has gone to "RES2 at IMPOLS 2026: Implicit Content Classification via Span-Awareness, Hierarchical Multi-Task Learning and Synthetic Data".
Congratulations to the winners and a loving thought to our colleague Federico Sangati
#EVALITA2026
Great participants and great organizers! #EVALITA2026
on my way to #EVALITA2026 where I’ll present team TiGRO  ‘s work (Stefano Azzeni, Malvina Nissim @gsarti.com) on fallacy detection (btw, we ranked #1) @gronlp.bsky.social @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @ailc-nlp.bsky.social
#EVALITA2026 is ongoing in Bari! Here are some pics of the opening and of the keynote talk by Paolo Rosso "Tu chiamale se vuoi emozioni: The impact of emotions on disinformation and sexism identification".
The first #CFP of #clicit2026 is online!
We also have a brand new logo and a website: clic2026.unipa.it
Papers submission deadline: 29/05/2026
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Segnaliamo l'uscita della call per lo shared task "Multilingual Clinical Entity Annotation Projection and Extraction" che riguarda 7 lingue tra cui l'italiano:
- Web: temu.bsc.es/MultiClinAI/
- Dati: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
- Registrazione: temu.bsc.es/MultiClinAI/...
Registration for #EVALITA2026 is now open!
The tentative schedule is available on the official website: plenty of tasks, an invited keynote, and a panel! 🔥
See you in Bari! 🇮🇹
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The #EVALITA2026 final workshop will be held in Bari on February 26-27th, 2026!
REGISTRATION is now open (in order to support the community, participants are requested to become members of AILC before registering for the workshop): www.ai-lc.it/en/evalita-r...
🥳 I "Proceedings of the Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025)" sono ora anche sull'ACL Anthology (con ISBN: 979-12-243-0587-3): aclanthology.org/volumes/2025... 🥳
Best wishes for a peaceful festive season, renewed energy, and a positive start to the year ahead!
È stato eletto il nuovo direttivo AILC! 👏
Buon lavoro a Pierpaolo Basile, Raffaella Bernardi, Tommaso Caselli, Danilo Croce, Elisabetta Fersini, Alessandro Mazzei, Paola Merlo, Sara Tonelli, Giulia Venturi!
The CALAMITA (Challenging the Abilities of LAnguage Models in ITAlian) paper is now available on arXiv:
arxiv.org/abs/2512.04759
We warmly thank all the individuals involved for their extraordinary work, dedication, and collaborative spirit that made this project possible!
Il modulo online per suggerire eventi, risorse, attività nel campo della linguistica computazionale da inserire nella nostra prossima newsletter rimarrà aperto fino al 25/11: forms.gle/eQFUkochsUob...
Let’s present the tasks at #EVALITA2026!
Last but not least: FadeIT 🔍💬
Can your system spot fallacies in social media posts?
FadeIT focuses on Italian texts about migration, climate change & public health.
Detect flawed reasoning — where it spreads fastest.
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Tenth up: PFB – Prometeia Financial Benchmark 💶📊
Can LLMs handle finance?
PFB evaluates open & closed models on domain-specific MCQs, with a twist: each question has a complexity score.
2 tasks: Italian and Multilingual QA
From GPT to finance pro.
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Ninth up: Cruciverb-IT 🧩🇮🇹
Ready to crack some Italian crosswords?
Cruciverb-IT offers a challenging playground for NLP systems:
1️⃣ Answer clues from real crosswords
2️⃣ Autonomously solve full crossword grids
Wordplay meets AI.
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Eighth up: SVELA 🧠🧽
Can LLMs forget on purpose?
SVELA tackles Machine Unlearning: design and evaluate metrics to verify if a model forgets specific knowledge while keeping the rest intact.
Selective forgetting, measurable impact.
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Seventh up: MultiPRIDE 🏳️🌈🧠
Can a system tell when a slur is reclaimed?
💬 In this multilingual task (IT/ES/EN), classify whether LGBTQ+ terms in context are used with reclamatory intent.
It’s not just about words, it’s about meaning.
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Sixth up: DeSegMa-It 🤖📝
Can you spot the line between human and machine?
DeSegMa-It challenges systems to:
1️⃣ Detect machine-generated texts
2️⃣ Segment where the human ends & the machine begins
Human or AI? Let’s find out.
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Fifth up: Enhanced-VWSD 🖼️📚
Can you pick the right image for a word in context?
Given a sentence and 10 images, choose the one that best captures the meaning of a target word.
A vision meets language challenge!
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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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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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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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Pictures of #clicit2025 social dinner!
Thanks to all the participants! #clicit2025
#clicit2025 awards winners!
Last oral session at #clicit2025!
Invited talk by @edoardo-ponti.bsky.social: “A Blueprint for Foundation Models with Adaptive Tokenization and Memory” #clicit2025
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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Next year #clicit2026 will be in……Palermo!
