GATTINA - GenerAtion of TiTles for Italian News Articles: A CALAMITA Challenge
Maria Francis, Matteo Rinaldi, Jacopo Gili, Leonardo De Cosmo, Sandro Iannaccone, Malvina Nissim, Viviana Patti
Abstract
We introduce a new benchmark designed to evaluate the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate Italian-language headlines for science news articles. The benchmark is based on a large dataset of science news articles obtained from Ansa Scienza and Galileo, two important Italian media outlets. Effective headline generation requires more than summarizing article content; headlines must also be informative, engaging, and suitable for the topic and target audience, making automatic evaluation particularly challenging. To address this, we propose two novel transformer-based metrics to assess headline quality. We aim for this benchmark to support the evaluation of Italian LLMs and to foster the development of tools to assist in editorial workflows.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.clicit-1.121
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024)
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Pisa, Italy
- Editors:
- Felice Dell'Orletta, Alessandro Lenci, Simonetta Montemagni, Rachele Sprugnoli
- Venue:
- CLiC-it
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- CEUR Workshop Proceedings
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1094–1105
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/Ingest-2025-COMPUTEL/2024.clicit-1.121/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Maria Francis, Matteo Rinaldi, Jacopo Gili, Leonardo De Cosmo, Sandro Iannaccone, Malvina Nissim, and Viviana Patti. 2024. GATTINA - GenerAtion of TiTles for Italian News Articles: A CALAMITA Challenge. In Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024), pages 1094–1105, Pisa, Italy. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
- Cite (Informal):
- GATTINA - GenerAtion of TiTles for Italian News Articles: A CALAMITA Challenge (Francis et al., CLiC-it 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/Ingest-2025-COMPUTEL/2024.clicit-1.121.pdf