I am a researcher with a background in Natural Language Processing. During the past 10 years I’ve been working on corpus analysis, grammars (parsing), multi-word expressions, machine translation, and natural language understanding. Since 2015 I have been actively exploring the field of conversational AI and developed a number of ChatBots (see Projects).
I’m currently working as a research technician in the Cognitive Neurorobotics Research Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan, where I support other researchers in a variety of fields such as Robotics, Natural Language Processing, Computer Simulations, and Human-Computer Interaction.
PhD in Computational Linguistics, 2012
University of Amsterdam
MSc in Logic Language and Computation, 2007
University of Amsterdam
BSc in Computer Science, 2004
University of Padova
Crowdsourcing recordings of Italian dialects
Carpooling service for Trentino
Search for drinking water (🚰) and other amentities (💊, 🚽) in your proximity
Order food from local chefs
An implementation of Martin Gardner’s card game on inductive reasoning.
Collaborative multilingual dictionary from/to emojis
A new language using emojis
An AI system to solve the TV quiz `La Ghigliottina’
Discover the hidden secrets of cities with this treasure hunt ChatBot.
Play with words and help improving NLP systems
Game to promote creative writing
Automatically segment subtitles
A ChatBot for Managing a Time Banking system