People

I graduated in Linguistics at the University of Padova in 1991. After working for two years at the Univerisity of Venezia, and for Icon, one of the first Italian companies applying Artificial Intelligence techniques, I've been working as a researcher at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (formerly ITC-irst) since 1993. My current interests include computational morphology and lexicography, deep parsing, relation extraction, evaluation of human language technologies. I teach linguistics at the University of Trento and University of Bolzano, and work for the PhD Program in Cognitive and Brain Sciences at CIMEC, Roverto.

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E-mail: pianta[at]fbk.eu

I graduated in Sociology at the University of Trento in 2002, I have a good knowledge of English and French. After some work experience in stewardship and management organization, I am now at the Secretary of CELCT taking care of all the administrative activities.

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E-mail: vegiordani[at]celct.it

I graduated in Humanities Computing at the University of Pisa in 2004, with a thesis on usability evaluation for museum web sites. I worked on the development of web access to cultural heritage and historical archives and I collaborated as webmistress with the Department of Italian Studies (PI). Since September 2005, I'm a project consultant at CELCT working on semantic and speech annotation, and on legal ontologies.

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E-mail: bartalesi[at]celct.it

I graduated in Philosophy of Language at the University of Bologna in 1999. I've been working as a researcher at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (formerly ITC-irst) since 1999. I've been involved in several research projects, including MEANING (multilingual Web-scale language technologies), ONTOTEXT (ontology population from texts), LiveMemories ( active digital memories of collective life). My interests include Computational Lexicography, Lexical Semantics, Contrastive Linguistics, Corpus Creation and Annotation, Evaluation of Human Language Technologies.

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E-mail: bentivo[at]fbk.eu

I graduated in Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Trento in 2000. From 2001 to 2006 I worked at ITC-irst doing research in the field of contrastive linguistics, computational lexicography (Italian MultiWordNet), and multilingual corpora. From early 2006 to the present, I have been working at CELCT on the organization of evaluation campaigns, and annotations at different levels.

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E-mail: forner[at]celct.it

I studied Foreign Languages and Literatures (English and German) and Linguistics at the University of Trento. In February, 2004, I started working on the evaluation of NLP systems at ITC-irst. Since September 2005, I have coordinated the annotation and evaluation activities at CELCT.

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E-mail: giampiccolo[at]celct.it

I graduated in 2008 in Classic Literature and Linguistics, at University of Pisa, with a thesis in Computational Linguistics about Italian verbs, transitivity and alternations. From January 2009, I have been working at CELCT mostly on Textual Entailment and semantic annotation.

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E-mail: loleggio[at]celct.it

I graduated in Humanities Computing at the University of Pisa in 2004, with a thesis about the digitization of Renaissance Italian text. I did an internship at Philips in Eindhoven (NL) for the development of an Italian TTS system. Since June 2005, I am a Project consultant at CELCT working on semantic and speech annotation, and on legal ontologies.

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E-mail: sprugnoli[at]celct.it

I’m studying Information Technology at the University of Pisa and I worked as administrator of Oracle system as well as on the development of web sites and stand-alone applications. I’m familiar with most of the more used programming languages (e.g. C, C++, Perl, Php, VB). Since 2007, I’m a computer technician at CELCT working on the SMSCollector Project, RTE and on the Question/Answering evaluation campaigns (CLEF 2008, ResPubliQA 2009) developing the web interface for data acquisition and for results analysis.

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E-mail: moretti[at]celct.it

Currently, a Research Director at the “Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione - A. Faedo” of the CNR in Pisa, he has led many Italian and International Research Projects in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. He currently teaches NLP and text analysis at the University of Pisa.

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E-mail: cappelli[at]celct.it