Language Report Italian

Abstract In the last few years, three important factors have influenced the Italian Language Technology (LT) community: 1. in 2015, the foundation of the Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale (Italian Association for Computational Linguistics, AILC); 2. the organisation of CLiC-it, the annual Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics; 3. the organisation of the EVALITA (Evaluation of NLP and Speech Tools for Italian) evaluation campaigns. This situation is producing a widespread expansion of interest in LT for Italian in academia and industry.