DIACR-Ita @ EVALITA2020: Overview of the EVALITA2020 Diachronic Lexical Semantics (DIACR-Ita) Task.

This paper describes the first edition of the “Diachronic Lexical Seman-tics” (DIACR-Ita) task at the EVALITA2020 campaign. The task challenges participants to develop systems that can automatically detect if a given word has changed its meaning over time, given con-textual information from corpora.The task, at its first edition, attracted 9 participant teams and collected a total of 36 sub-mission runs