Federico Sangati

Researcher in Computational Linguistics, NLP, Conversational AI

Biography

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 assistant in the Cognitive Neurorobotics Research Unit and Embodied Cognitive Science 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.

Interests

Computational Linguistics
ChatBots
Conversational AI
Crowdsourcing
Artificial Intelligence
Educational Games

Education

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

Skills

NLP

ChatBots

Python

Experience

Research Assistant

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

May 2020 – Present 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.

Post-Doc

FBK

Feb 2014 – Dec 2015 Italy

Computational Linguistics Researcher in Digital Humanities: building NLP Tools for supporting re- search in the Humanities and developing educational technologies.