This is the firts time that ACL, the most important conference in our field, is hosted in Italy.
We are proud and honored: this result is a great opportunity for the whole community around AILC!
Bernardo Magnini
Simonetta Montemagni
Alessandro Lenci
The event is organized by the Doctoral School of Linguistic Sciences of the University of Bergamo-Pavia in collaboration with Fondazione Bruno Kessler, with the endorsement of AILC, the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics.
We invite students and all those interested in computational linguistics to participate. Participation is free but subject to registration.
For more information and for registration please visit the event website.
Below is the schedule:
May 4, 2017 – classroom L2 – Palace St. Thomas, University of Pavia
May 5, 2017 – classroom L5 – Palace St. Thomas, University of Pavia
If the website is the business card of the association, then AILC is very well presented. The new website is elegant, informative and easy to navigate, and its colors evoke the roots of the Italian community. The logo itself hints at both the linguistic and the computational aspects that AILC intends to represent.
I think we have achieved the ideal balance between the need to introduce ourselves as a scientific community and the need to adapt to more modern communication styles, which have been “suggested” by the AILC industrial partners.
In this regard, I would like to emphasize how the social element has been enhanced, notably thanks to the AILC blog, a tool meant to give space to reflections, comments, and exchanges of opinion on the many hot topics in computational linguistics.
Soon we will also add safer and more effective procedures for the member registration and for on-line credit card payments.
I hope that the new website will meet all of your expectations: please use it, that’s why we built it!
Greetings to everyone,
Bernardo Magnini
Our best wishes on behalf of AILC to the organizing committee (Roberto Basili, Malvina Nissim and Giorgio Satta)!
The Italian community has played roles of highest importance in the organisation of the conference, including the general chair of the conference (Nicoletta Calzolari), the workshop chair (Monica Monachini), the tutorial chair (Marcello Federico), and the organisation of the workshop “Computational Modeling of People’s Opinions, Personality, and Emotions in Social Media” (Malvina Nissim and Viviana Patti).
A less positive remark. The presence of the Italian community, according to the data provided by the organizers, consisted of five accepted papers: not many when compared to those from other European countries.
Set in the suggestive environs of the Accademia Pontaniana, the conference hosted more than 120 participants who enjoyed a rich scientific program including talks, posters, discussion sessions, and distinguished invited speakers, such as Joakim Nivre, Mirella Lapata and Walter Daelemans.
Our sincere appreciation on behalf of AILC, especially to the local organizers, for making CLiC-it and EVALITA in Naples such a pleasant experience, and also to the event sponsors.
All the details, including the conference proceedings, are available on the websites of the conference and the evaluation campaign.
