Description
Cruciverb-IT is a web application developed in the context of the EVALITA 2026 shared task that allows users to play automatically generated Italian crosswords while interacting with an AI system designed to solve them. Players can request suggestions from the model for difficult clues, verify their own answers, and compare their solution with the one proposed by the AI. The underlying system is a lightweight, task-specific model based on an Asymmetric Dual Encoder trained with contrastive learning to map crossword clues and solutions into a shared semantic space, enabling efficient retrieval of candidate answers. The app aims both to explore the capabilities of AI models in Italian crossword solving and to provide an interactive and accessible way to experiment with them.