The Evalita 2014 Dependency Parsing task

The Parsing Task is among the “historical” tasks of Evalita, and in all editions its main objective has been to define and improve state-of-the-art technologies for parsing Italian. The 2014’s edition of the shared task features several novelties that have mainly to do with the data set and the subtasks. The paper therefore focuses on these two strictly interrelated aspects and presents an overview of the participants systems and results