Rachele Sprugnoli is among the EVALITA 2016 chairs together with Pierpaolo Basile (Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro), Franco Cutugno (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II), Malvina Nissim (Center for Language and Cognition Groningen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), and Viviana Patti (University of Torino).

EVALITA is a periodic evaluation campaign of NLP and speech tools for the Italian language that has been organized around a set of shared tasks since 2007.

The 5th evaluation campaign EVALITA 2016 will be held in Naples, as a satellite event of the 3rd Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics – CLiC-it 2016 (December 5-7, 2016). 

EVALITA 2016 is an initiative of AILC (Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale).