The second volume of the fifth year of the Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics (IJCoL) integrates original research results as well as papers that have been presented at CLiC-it 2019 held in Bari, in November 2019. All contributions are subjected to  a peer-review process, which can be considered a second round of review in the case of those articles awarded as “Best Young Paper” and “Distinguished Young Paper” at the conference. The volume closes with a contribution dedicated to the memory of Emanuele Pianta, a researcher who significantly contributed to the growth of Computational Linguistics in Italy and died prematurely in 2012.

The major themes discussed by the papers are hot topics that include complex learning methods for the analysis of Social Media texts, neural algorithms for integrated audio, visual and language learning. Some works are on NLP resources developed for the Italian language.

THE COMPLETE VOLUME

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THE INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES

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Editorial Note
Roberto Basili, Simonetta Montemagni.

AlBERTo: Modeling Italian Social MediaLanguage with BERT
Marco Polignano, Valerio Basile, Pierpaolo Basile, Marco de Gemmis, Giovanni Semeraro.

Using Deep Neural Networks for Smoothing Pitch Profiles in Connected Speech
Michele Ferro, Fabio Tamburini.

Large scale datasets for Image and Video Captioning in Italian
Scaiella Antonio, Danilo Croce, Roberto Basili.

PARSEME-It: an Italian corpus annotated with verbal multiword expressions
Johanna Monti, Maria Pia di Buono.

In Memory of Emanuele Pianta’s Contribution to Computational Linguistics
Bernardo Magnini, Rodolfo Delmonte, Sara Tonelli.