PoliticIT at EVALITA 2023: Overview of the Political Ideology Detection in Italian Texts Task

This paper presents the PoliticIT 2023 shared task, organised at EVALITA 2023 workshop. The task aims to extract politicians’ ideology information from a set of tweets in Italian framed as a binary and a multiclass classification. The task is designed to be privacy-preserving and it is accompanied by a subtask targeting the identification of self-assigned gender as a demographic trait. The PoliticIT task attracted 7 teams that registered for the task, submitted results and presented working notes describing their systems. Most of the teams proposed transformer-based approaches, while some of them also used traditional machine learning algorithms or even a combination of both.