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The task of Named Entity Recognition (NER) is aimed at identifying named entities in a given text and classifying them into pre-defined domain entity types such as persons, organizations, locations. Most of the existing NER systems make use of …

Sentiment analysis is a common task to understand people's reactions online. Still, we often need more nuanced information: is the post negative because the user is angry or because they are sad? An abundance of approaches has been introduced for …

The paper describes the MilaNLP team’s submission (Bocconi University, Milan) in the WASSA 2021 Shared Task on Empathy Detection and Emotion Classification. We focus on Track 2 - Emotion Classification - which consists of predicting the emotion of …

We introduce a novel topic modeling method that can make use of contextulized embeddings (e.g., BERT) to do zero-shot cross-lingual topic modeling.

**Automatic Misogyny Identification (AMI)** is a **shared task** proposed at the Evalita 2020 evaluation campaign. The AMI challenge, based on **Italian tweets**, is organized into two subtasks: (1) Subtask A about misogyny and aggressiveness …

Topic models have been widely used to discover hidden topics in a collection of documents. In this paper, we propose to investigate the role of two different types of relational information, i.e. document relationships and concept relationships. …

**Hate speech** may take different forms in online social environments. In this paper, we address the problem of automatic detection of misogynous language on **Italian tweets** by focusing both on raw text and stylometric profiles. The proposed …