Social Media

MONICA: Monitoring Coverage and Attitudes of Italian Measures in Response to COVID-19

Modern social media have long been observed as a mirror for public discourse and opinions. Especially in the face of exceptional events, computational language tools are valuable for understanding public sentiment and reacting quickly. During the …

LearningToAdapt with word embeddings: Domain adaptation of Named Entity Recognition systems

The task of Named Entity Recognition (NER) is aimed at identifying named entities in a given text and classifying them into pre-defined domain entity types such as persons, organizations, locations. Most of the existing NER systems make use of …

AMI @ EVALITA2020: Automatic Misogyny Identification

**Automatic Misogyny Identification (AMI)** is a **shared task** proposed at the Evalita 2020 evaluation campaign. The AMI challenge, based on **Italian tweets**, is organized into two subtasks: (1) Subtask A about misogyny and aggressiveness …

Word Embeddings for Unsupervised Named Entity Linking

The huge amount of textual user-generated content on the Web has incredibly grown in the last decade, creating new relevant opportunities for different real-world applications and domains. In particular, microblogging platforms enables the collection …

SemEval-2019 Task 5: Multilingual Detection of Hate Speech Against Immigrants and Women in Twitter

The paper describes the organization of the SemEval 2019 Task 5 about the detection of **hate speech against immigrants and women** in **Spanish and English** messages extracted from Twitter. The task is organized in two related classification …

Overview of the Evalita 2018 Task on Automatic Misogyny Identification (AMI)

**Automatic Misogyny Identification** (AMI) is a new **shared task** proposed for the first time at the Evalita 2018 evaluation campaign. The AMI challenge, based on both **Italian and English** tweets, is distinguished into two subtasks, i.e. …

UNIMIB@ NEEL-IT: Named Entity Recognition and Linking of Italian Tweets

This paper describes the framework proposed by the UNIMIB Team for the task of Named Entity Recognition and Linking of Italian tweets (NEEL-IT). The proposed pipeline, which represents an entry level system, is composed of three main steps: (1) Named …