UniTor at Cruciverb-IT: Retrieval-Augmented Two-Step Reasoning for Italian Crossword Clue Answering

Andriy Shcherbakov; Danilo Croce; Roberto Basili

UniTor at Cruciverb-IT: Retrieval-Augmented Two-Step Reasoning for Italian Crossword Clue Answering

Andriy Shcherbakov, Danilo Croce, Roberto Basili

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Volume:: Proceedings of the Ninth Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop (EVALITA 2026)
Month:: February
Year:: 2026
Address:: Bari, Italy
Editors:: Francesco Cutugno, Alessio Miaschi, Alessio Palmero Aprosio, Giulia Rambelli, Lucia Siciliani, Marco Antonio Stranisci
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Cite (ACL):: Andriy Shcherbakov, Danilo Croce, and Roberto Basili. 2026. UniTor at Cruciverb-IT: Retrieval-Augmented Two-Step Reasoning for Italian Crossword Clue Answering. In Proceedings of the Ninth Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop (EVALITA 2026), pages 452–466, Bari, Italy. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
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[UniTor at Cruciverb-IT: Retrieval-Augmented Two-Step Reasoning for Italian Crossword Clue Answering](https://aclanthology.org/2026.evalita-1.41/) (Shcherbakov et al., EVALITA 2026)

UniTor at Cruciverb-IT: Retrieval-Augmented Two-Step Reasoning for Italian Crossword Clue Answering (Shcherbakov et al., EVALITA 2026)

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Andriy Shcherbakov, Danilo Croce, and Roberto Basili. 2026. UniTor at Cruciverb-IT: Retrieval-Augmented Two-Step Reasoning for Italian Crossword Clue Answering. In Proceedings of the Ninth Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop (EVALITA 2026), pages 452–466, Bari, Italy. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.