Proceedings of the Ninth Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop (EVALITA 2026)
Francesco Cutugno, Alessio Miaschi, Alessio Palmero Aprosio, Giulia Rambelli, Lucia Siciliani, Marco Antonio Stranisci (Editors)
- Anthology ID:
- 2026.evalita-1
- Month:
- February
- Year:
- 2026
- Address:
- Bari, Italy
- Venues:
- EVALITA | WS
- Events:
- The Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian (2026) | Other Workshops and Events (2026)
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- CEUR Workshop Proceedings
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2026.evalita-1/
- DOI:
- ISBN:
- 979-12-243-0586-6
- PDF:
- https://aclanthology.org/2026.evalita-1.pdf
Proceedings of the Ninth Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop (EVALITA 2026)
Francesco Cutugno | Alessio Miaschi | Alessio Palmero Aprosio | Giulia Rambelli | Lucia Siciliani | Marco Antonio Stranisci
Francesco Cutugno | Alessio Miaschi | Alessio Palmero Aprosio | Giulia Rambelli | Lucia Siciliani | Marco Antonio Stranisci
Preface
Francesco Cutugno | Alessio Miaschi | Alessio Palmero Aprosio | Giulia Rambelli | Lucia Siciliani | Marco Antonio Stranisci
Francesco Cutugno | Alessio Miaschi | Alessio Palmero Aprosio | Giulia Rambelli | Lucia Siciliani | Marco Antonio Stranisci
EVALITA 2026: Overview of the 9th evaluation campaign of natural language processing and speech tools for italian
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Tu chiamale se vuoi emozioni: The impact of emotions on disinformation and sexism identification
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Kenji-Endo: a BabyLM @EVALITA
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MINDS at DeSegMa-IT: Detecting Human-LLM Authorship Switches via Token-Level Classification
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Flavio Giobergia
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Nicla Auletta
Stochastic Gradient Descenders at DeSegMa-IT: Instruction-Tuned LLM and Token Classification for MGT Detection and Boundary Localization
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UniTor at DeSegMa-It: Analyzing Supervision and Encoder Representations for Italian Machine-Generated Text Detection
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GSI:detect at EVALITA 2026: Overview of the Task on Detecting Gender Stereotypes in Italian
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Festa at GSI:detect: In-Context Learning vs. Fine-Tuning for Gender Stereotype Detection
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MINDS at GSI:detect: From Logits to Degrees of Agreement in Gender Stereotype Detection with LLMs
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StereoBusters at GSI:detect: LLM-Based Detection and Human Qualitative Analysis of Gender Stereotypes in Italian Short Text
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AIWizards at MULTIPRIDE: A Hierarchical Approach to Slur Reclamation Detection
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AVAHI at MultiPRIDE: Multilingual Reclaimed Language Detection via Knowledge Graphs and Retrieval-Augmented Generation
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DataSummit at MultiPRIDE: Context-Aware Multilingual Detection of Slur Reclamation in LGBTQ+ Contexts
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Federico Dingeo | Marco Viviani
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HateItOff at MultiPRIDE: Linguistic and Sentiment Cues in Reclaimed LGBTQ+ Slur Detection
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I2C At MultiPRIDE: Transformers And Generative LLMs For Multilingual Reclamation Classification
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Jorge Gleaves | Guillermo Ruiz
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Barathi Ganesh HB | Michal Ptaszynski | Rene Melendez | Juuso Eronen
LlaNa at MultiPRIDE: A Fine-Tuning Approach with Cross-Lingual Augmentation
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MilaNLP at MultiPRIDE: Evaluating Lexical, Transformer, and Retrieval-Augmented Models for Reclaimed Language
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NamDang at MultiPride@EVALITA 2026: Multilingual Classification of Reclaimed Language in LGBTQ+ Discourse using Transformer-based Models
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NetGuardAI at MultiPRIDE: Multilingual Detection of Reclaimed Language
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SaFe Tweets at MultiPRIDE: From Multi-Model Ensembles to Expert LLMs for Reclamation Detection
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Sara Visconti | Federica Manzi
The Hate Busters at MultiPRIDE: Automatic Identification of Reappropriated Slurs in Multilingual LGBTQ+ Discourse
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UniBO-FICLIT at MultiPRIDE: Fine-Tuning an ELECTRA-Based Model for the Detection of Italian Reclaimed Slurs
Simone Casazza
Simone Casazza
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MINDS at Cruciverb-IT: Solving Italian Crossword Clues with Masked Language Models and Candidate Pooling
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Flavio Giobergia
UNIBA at Cruciverb-IT: Solving Italian Crosswords with Encoder–Decoder Models and Beam Search
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Pierpaolo Basile
UniTor at Cruciverb-IT: Retrieval-Augmented Two-Step Reasoning for Italian Crossword Clue Answering
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Matteo Berta | Tania Cerquitelli
Ita-Lib at SVELA: Detecting the Forgotten — Representation-Based Approach for Verifying Machine Unlearning
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MKTE at ATE-IT: CRF-Based Term Extraction for Italian Waste Management Documents
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OATE at ATE-IT: A Hybrid Approach for Automatic Terminology Extraction in Italian
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SMTE at ATE-IT: Ensemble Term Extraction with Italian BERT, spaCy, and Vocabulary-Based Filtering
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TermNinjas at ATE-IT: Overview of the Term Extraction and Term Variants Clustering Task
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VVTE at ATE-IT: From Candidates to Terms: Hybrid Italian ATE with Dependency Heuristics, Gemini, and Random Forest Filtering
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AMSN at PFB: Overview of the Automated Multilingual Economics Question Answering Task
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