Cruciverb-IT

This is the official space for Cruciverb-IT, a research project on Italian crossword solving.

The project originated with the Crossword Space work presented at CLiC-it 2025 and was subsequently extended through the EVALITA 2026 Cruciverb-IT Shared Task and further research presented at CLiC-it 2026.

This organization hosts resources and models developed throughout these stages of the project, including the dataset released for the EVALITA 2026 shared task and models resulting from subsequent research building upon the systems and approaches developed for the task.

Related papers

CLiC-it 2025

Crossword Space: Latent Manifold Learning for Italian Crosswords and beyond Cristiano Ciaccio, Gabriele Sarti, Alessio Miaschi, Felice Dell’Orletta [Paper]

EVALITA 2026

Cruciverb-IT at EVALITA 2026: Overview of the Crossword Solving in Italian Task Cristiano Ciaccio, Gabriele Sarti, Alessio Miaschi, Felice Dell’Orletta, Malvina Nissim [Paper]

CLiC-it 2026

Reading Between the Clues: A Fine-Grained Analysis of Italian Crossword Solving Systems Cristiano Ciaccio, Asya Zanollo, Alessio Miaschi, Gabriele Sarti, Felice Dell’Orletta, Malvina Nissim