Challenge: Existing tools for lexical normalization of social media data are designed with canonical texts in mind, and this makes it difficult to process data in multiple languages.
Approach: They propose to create a lexical normalization dataset for Italian and analyze the inter-annotator agreement for this task.
Outcome: The proposed model improves the parsing of social media data in Italian and shows that it can be used to translate non-standard social media content to canonical language.

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