Skills

NLP

ChatBots

using Telegram

Python

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Research Tecnician, Cognitive Neurorobotics Research Unit (Jun Tani)

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

Mar 2021 – Present Okinawa, Japan
 
 
 
 
 

Research Tecnician, Embodied Cognitive Science Unit (Tom Froese)

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

May 2020 – Feb 2021 Okinawa, Japan
 
 
 
 
 

Research Assistant

University of Naples “L’Orientale”

May 2018 – Apr 2020 Italy
Developing collaborative games for language learning and crowdsourcing of linguistic resourcing, with a focus on multiword expressions.
 
 
 
 
 

NLP Freelancer

Nuance, Cerence, Dimension

Sep 2017 – Apr 2020 Italy

Responsibilities include:

  • NLU modeling
  • ChatBots
 
 
 
 
 

Full Stack Developer

Mondriatech Inc.

Mar 2016 – Dec 2017 The Netherlands
Developing dynamic and interactive webpages for data visualization using CDL language.
 
 
 
 
 

ChatBot Developer

Jan 2015 – Present Europe, Japan
Since 2015 I have been actively developing a number of ChatBots using the Telegram Bot Platform for fun, educational and social purposes.
 
 
 
 
 

Post-Doc

FBK

Feb 2014 – Dec 2015 Italy
Computational Linguistics Researcher in Digital Humanities: building NLP Tools for supporting research in the Humanities and developing educational technologies.
 
 
 
 
 

Language Engeneer

Lionbridge

Dec 2012 – Dec 2013 United Kingdom
NLP Developer: building an Italian grammar correction system.
 
 
 
 
 

Researcher at the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (Frank Keller and Mirella Lapata)

University of Edinburgh

Nov 2011 – Nov 2012 Scotland, United Kingdom
Syntactic and Semantic Models, Incremental Parsing, Language Modeling, Students Supervision.
 
 
 
 
 

Teaching Assistant in the course Communication and Cognition (Jelle Zuidema)

University of Amsterdam

Jan 2006 – Jun 2006 The Netherlands
 
 
 
 
 

Phone Interviewer

INTERVIEW NSS

Jan 2005 – Dec 2007 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 
 
 
 
 

Student Intern

IT Cardiology at Pordenone Hospital (Eugenio Cervesato)

Nov 2004 – Jan 2005 Italy
 
 
 
 
 

Dish Washer

The Hague Restaurant

Jan 2004 – Dec 2005 The Netherlands
 
 
 
 
 

Guardian and Cleaner

F. Severi High School, Padova

Jan 2003 – Dec 2004 Italy

Projects

hiSTORIC

Discover the hidden secrets of cities with this treasure hunt ChatBot

Re-Word

Game to promote creative writing

Emojilingo

A new language using emojis

Dialects

Crowdsourcing recordings of Italian dialects

PickMeUp

Carpooling service for Trentino

Search Around

Search for drinking water (🚰) and other amentities (💊, 🚽) in your proximity

CusCus

Order food from local chefs

Eleusis

An implementation of Martin Gardner’s card game on inductive reasoning

Ghigliottina

An AI system to solve the TV quiz `La Ghigliottina'

Lingo Game

Play with words and help improving NLP systems

Subtitle Segmenter

Automatically segment subtitles

Time Bank

A ChatBot for Managing a Time Banking system

Recent Publications

We present a new behavioral evaluation of ChatGPT-3.5 and 4 Large Language Models. Groups of 3 ChatGPT agents were asked to play a …

Starting from the crowdsourcing experience of Pinocchio in Emojitaliano, the present paper intends to test Chat-GPT’s ability to …

Emergence is a property often claimed to apply to complex systems on multiple levels of organization: individual behavior emerges from …

The Perceptual Crossing Experiment (PCE) has been the object of study for over a decade, and aims at explaining how we perceive, …

According to the embodied approach to cognition, perception and action are tightly intertwined, as perception is for action and is …