This paper addresses the issue of text normalization on non-standard Italian data. We present TweetNorm1, a system which normalizes Italian tweets in a way that the amount of microblog slang and distorted text appearance is drastically reduced and the normalized output has a much cleaner and more formal style. The paper shows that with a set of fixed language-independent rules and trained rules...

This paper describes our official runs for CLEF 2003. We took part in the monolingual task (for Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish), and in the bilingual task (English to Russian, French to Dutch, German to Italian, Italian to Spanish). We also conducted our first experiments for the multilingual task (both multi-4 and multi-8), and took part in the GIRT task.

This paper discusses the design and implementation issues of ALEA: an editor for assisted translation. This editor constitutes a complete environment that allow the translation from Italian Language to Italian Sign Language of deaf people. It is interfaced with a database that stores information about source and target language and with the Italian Wordnet for disambiguation. The tool has been ...

Shoulder syndrome after neck dissection is a well known entity, but its incidence and prognostic factors influencing recovery have not been clearly assessed due to the heterogeneity of possible evaluations. The University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) Shoulder Scale, the Shoulder Pain and Disability Index (SPADI) and the Simple Shoulder Test (SST) are three English-language questionnaires ...

Novel norovirus strains are continuously emerging worldwide. Molecular investigation and phylogenetic analysis identified GII.P16 recombinant noroviruses from the stools of four Italian children with gastroenteritis. The capsid gene was characterized as either GII.13 or GII.3. The GII.P16_GII.13 Italian strains were closely related to German strains involved in a large outbreak in the second ha...

In this paper we present the results of a quantitative evaluation of the discrepancies between the Italian and English lexica in terms of lexical gaps. This evaluation has been carried out in the context of MultiWordNet, an ongoing project that aims at building a multilingual lexical database. The quantitative evaluation of the English-to-Italian lexical gaps shows that the English and Italian ...

The PLEIADI Project (acronym for “Portale per la Letteratura scientifica Elettronica Italiana su Archivi aperti e Depositi Istituzionali”, a portal for Italian scholarly e-literature in open archives and institutional repositories) originated from the collaboration between two major Italian university consortia, CASPUR and CILEA, within the framework of the AEPIC project. PLEIADI aims at buildi...

articles online) by Novática, journal of the Spanish CEPIS society ATI (Asociación de Técnicos de Informática) at , and in Italian (online edition only, containing summary, abstracts, and some articles) by the Italian CEPIS society ALSI (Associazione nazionale Laureati in Scienze dell’informazione e Informatica) and the Italian IT portal Tecnoteca at <http://www.tec...

This paper presents work on document retrieval for Italian carried out at ITC-irst. Two different approaches to information retrieval were investigated, one based on the Okapi weighting formula and one based on a statistical model. Development experiments were carried out using the Italian sample of the TREC-8 CLIR track. Performance evaluation was done on the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (C...

The present paper examines the elicited production of definite determiners, pronominal and reflexive clitics in a group of Italian children diagnosed for Selective Language Impairment. The present results argue against the Surface Hypothesis (Leonard, 1998; Leonard, 1989): Italian singular definite determiners and object pronominal clitics are phonologically identical, they are brief and non sa...