Professional Experience

(2021-present) Head of Language and Dialogue Technologies group at FBK.

(2015-2020) Researcher at FBK.

(2019) Visiting researcher at Université Côte d'Azur, Inria, France in June 2019.

(2011-2015) Researcher at Trento-Rise

(2008-2011) Junior Researcher at FBK

(2001-2007) Research Consultant at ITC-Irst

(2005-2006) Visiting researcher at Haifa University, Dept. of Human Services, in May 2005 and February 2006.

(2001-2007) Visiting researcher, on various occasions, at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC – CNR) in Rome.

(2018-2019) Hatemeter - EU-funded Project. Task: Responsible for the development of the counter narrative suggestion tool. 

(2018) Conversational Banking Front-end (CBF) - EIT funded project. Task: WP-leader for developing the dialogue module. 

(2016-2017) Product Title Enhancement - eBay funded project. Task: Project Responsible. 

(2012-2015) PerTe, Persuasive Technologies – Trento-Rise project. Tasks: research activity.

(2010-2011) CORPS project - collaboration with the Center for the Evaluation of Language and Communication Technologies. Task: Scientific coordinator

(2008-2011) Intelligent technologies for cultural visits and mobile education – FIRB project. Tasks: research activity 

(2004-2007) HUMAINE - EU Network of Excellence. Tasks: research activity 

(2002-2005) PEACH project – Trento province funding. Tasks: research activity 

(2001-2004) TICCA project – Trento province funding. Tasks: research activity 

Keynote talk at ArgMining workshop, December 2020. Title: “Counter Narrative generation against online hate speech, data and strategies”.

Seminar at Language Technology Group, Department of Information and Communication Sciences, University of Groningen, October 2020. Title: “Generating Counter Narratives against Online Hate Speech”.

Invited Speaker at 1st AI IFIP Forum ‘AI and future society’, May 2019, Wien. Title: “Conversational Agents and Societal Impact”.

Seminar at Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale in Pisa, February 2019. Title: “Persuasive Natural Language Processing: from web advertising to political speeches and virality in social networks”.

Seminar at reciTAL - Paris (2019). Title: “Persuasive Natural Language Processing: future trends” 

Seminar at Université Cote d’Azur, Inria - Nizza (2019). Title: “Hate Speech Online: how to fight it with counter-narratives”

Seminar at Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale ‘A. Zampolli’ - Pisa (2019). Title: “Persuasive Natural Language Processing: from web advertising to political speeches and virality in social networks” 

Seminar at Telefonica Digital - Barcelona (2014). Title "Persuasive Natural Language Processing: from web advertising to political speeches and virality in social networks".

Invited Talk at “Big Data and Social Mining”, Project Management Institute Conference, November 2012, Milan. Title “Persuasive Language and Big Data”.

Seminar at Google Labs - Zurich (2012). Title: “Linguistic style and Content Readability in Social Networks”, “Google AdWords, scientific research and the automatic variations of ads text”.

Seminar at Google Labs - Zurich  (2011). Title: “Crowdsourcing Persuasive Message Evaluation with Google AdWords”, “Persuasion and Virality in Social Networks”.

Seminar at MIT media lab - Boston (2011). Title: “Text Virality in Social Networks”.

Seminar  at F5 Hit refresh, Code Camp - Bari (2012). Title "Persuasion in language and in political speech".

Seminar at the University of Manchester - Manchester (2006). Title: “Ethical Issues for Persuasive Agents”.

 

Lecture at the University of Trento - Center for Mind/Brain Sciences - CIMeC (2019). Title:  “Introduction to Conversational Agents” 

Lecture at the University of Trento - Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science - DISI (2019). “Personalized Conversational Agents” 

Lecture at the University of Trento - Center for Mind/Brain Sciences - CIMeC (2018). Title:  “Introduction to Conversational Agents” 

Lecture at the University of Trento (2013). Title: “Persuasiveness and Audience Reactions in Political Speeches”.

Lecture at the University of Pisa  (2012). Title: “Persuasiveness and Audience Reactions in Political Speeches”.

Lecture at the University of Trento - Center for Mind/Brain Sciences - CIMeC (2012). Title: “Persuasiveness and Audience Reactions in Political Speeches”.

Lecture at the University of Amsterdam (2011). Title: “Persuasive Natural Language Processing”. 

Area Chair of Resources and Evaluation track for the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022).

Area Chair of Multidisciplinary and COI track for the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2021).

Area Chair of Pragmatics and Creativity track for the Seventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLIC-it 2020)

Area chair of Dialogue, Discourse and Natural Language Generation track for the Sixth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLIC-it 2019).

Area chair of Pragmatics and Creativity track for the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLIC-it 2018).

Sponsor chair for the 17th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA, 2018).

 

Member of the Faculty Board of the Digital Humanities PhD from University of Genova.

Member of the Scientific Board of the Journal “Mondo Digitale”.

 

Co-organizer of the “Political ideology detection in Italian texts” (PoliticIT) task at Evalita (2023).

Co-organizer of the “Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence” workshop (NL4AI) - 1st edition (2017). 

Co-organizer of the “Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence” workshop (NL4AI) - 2nd edition (2018). 

Co-organizer of the “Italian DIALogue systems evaluation” (IDIAL) task at Evalita (2018).  

 

Project reviewer for the Leibniz association for the 2018 Leibniz Competition funding program (2018).

Project reviewer for the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia.

  

Reviewer for: IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing journal, Applied Artificial Intelligence Journal, Journal of Pragmatics, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems Journal, Journal of Systems and Software, Progress in Artificial Intelligence, Online Social Networks and Media, “Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems” (AH) 2008, Cicling 2008, “User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization” (UMAP) 2009, “Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction” (ACII) 2009, “International Conference on Computer Creativity” (ICCC) 2012, “Semantic Relations-II. Enhancing Resources and Applications” (SemRel) 2012, "workshop on Advances in Discourse Analysis" (ADACA) 2012, ACL track on "Evaluation Methods" 2013, ACL track on "NLP for the Web and Social Media" 2014, ACL track on “Resources and Evaluation” 2020, CLiC 2014, Digital Humanities conference (DH) 2014-2015, “Social Computing Conference” (SocialCom) 2012, “Computational Models of Natural Argument” (CMNA) workshops (2007-present), “AISB Symposium on Persuasive Technology” 2008-2009, “User Models for Motivational Systems: the affective and the rational routes to persuasion” (UM4Motivation) workshops 2010-2011-2012, "Content analysis" track at WWW 2014.

Internship students and PhD I supervised: 

  • Yiling Chung - University of Trento - I am her PhD supervisor. Her topic of research is multilingual conversational agents to fight online hate speech.
  • Helena Bonaldi - University of Trento – Supervisory Committee for Master Thesis: ‘Data collection for automatic counter-narratives generation against hate speech: a human-in-the-loop approach’.
  • Elizaveta Kuzmenko - University of Trento - I was her supervisor on a project concerning argumentation strategies for generating counter arguments to hate speech.
  • Ernie Chang - University of Washington - I was the Chair of the Supervisory Committee for his Master thesis: ‘Robust Product Title Generation for E-commerce’.
  • Sara Falcone - University of Trento - I was her supervisor on a project concerning novel evaluation methodologies for the pragmatic interaction aspects of task-oriented conversational agents.
  • Sourabh Majumdar - Birla Institute of Technology and Science - Supervisor on a project concerning end-to-end task-orienteded conversational agents and supervisor for his Master thesis.

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