CALAMITA: Challenge the Abilities of LAnguage Models in ITAlian

Giuseppe Attanasio, Pierpaolo Basile, Federico Borazio, Danilo Croce, Maria Francis, Jacopo Gili, Elio Musacchio, Malvina Nissim, Viviana Patti, Matteo Rinaldi, Daniel Scalena


Abstract
The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has called for robust benchmarks to assess their abilities, track progress, and compare iterations. While existing benchmarks provide extensive evaluations across diverse tasks, they predominantly focus on English, leaving other languages underserved. For Italian, the EVALITA campaigns have provided a long-standing tradition of classification-focused shared tasks. However, their scope does not fully align with the nuanced evaluation required for modern LLMs. To address this gap, we introduce “Challenge the Abilities of LAnguage Models in ITAlian” (CALAMITA), a collaborative effort to create a dynamic and growing benchmark tailored to Italian. CALAMITA emphasizes diversity in task design to test a wide range of LLM capabilities through resources natively developed in Italian by the community. This initiative includes a shared platform, live leaderboard, and centralized evaluation framework. This paper outlines the collaborative process, initial challenges, and evaluation framework of CALAMITA.
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2024.clicit-1.116
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Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024)
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December
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2024
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Pisa, Italy
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Felice Dell'Orletta, Alessandro Lenci, Simonetta Montemagni, Rachele Sprugnoli
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Giuseppe Attanasio, Pierpaolo Basile, Federico Borazio, Danilo Croce, Maria Francis, Jacopo Gili, Elio Musacchio, Malvina Nissim, Viviana Patti, Matteo Rinaldi, and Daniel Scalena. 2024. CALAMITA: Challenge the Abilities of LAnguage Models in ITAlian. In Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024), pages 1054–1063, Pisa, Italy. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
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