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 [...]
Postponement of the 2020 Lectures on Computational Linguistics
The 2020 edition of the Lectures on Computational Linguistics of the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics scheduled for the 6th-8th of May at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" has been postponed to a date to be determined.
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 [...]
AILC is in BergamoScienza!
As part of the XVII edition of the "Bergamo Scienza" scientific dissemination festival, AILC organized the "Do not say málvísindi if you do not have it in the bag" workshop, aimed at boys and girls from the eigth grade upwards, to approach them to (computational) linguistics.
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.