Computational Linguistics and the COVID-19 Outbreak
This page is maintained by AILC (the Italian Association for Computational Linguistics). It groups some of the initiatives that the Computational Linguistics community is carrying out to contribute to the fight against COVID-19. Everyone is invited to collaborate by reporting new initiatives. Please do so through our contact form. [...]
COVID-19 Browser: Using Natural Language Processing to Fight the Pandemic
Our society is facing an unprecedented crisis due to the recent COVID-19 outbreak that is putting sanitary systems in check all around the world. Recently, dozens of countries announced the shutdown of all non-essential activities for the next foreseeable future, and scientists are striving worldwide to find cures and [...]
AILC @ SISSA, Student Day 2020
On 13 February the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics participated in the Student Day of the International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste. Its aim was to introduce fourth and fifth year's students to research in the field of computational linguistics and to its key role in technological [...]
ACL 2019
ACL 2019, held in Italy for the first time ever, turned out to be e great success.
AILC Master Thesis Prize 2018 assigned
Also this year, in connection with its annual conference (CLiC-it), AILC assigned a prize for the best master thesis in computational linguistics defended at an Italian University.
AILC Master Thesis Prize 2017 assigned
This year, in connection with its annual conference (CLiC-it), for the first time AILC introduced a prize for the best master thesis in computational linguistics defended at an Italian University, which was awarded to Alessio Miaschi, from Università di Pisa.