Curriculum Vitae of Alberto Lavelli

Place and date of birth:

• Born in Milan (Italy), March 27th 1962.

Degree:

• 1987: Laurea Degree in Computer Science at the University of Milan (Milan, Italy).

Current position (since 2005):

• Senior Researcher in the Human Language Technologies research unit of FBK-irst (previously Cognitive and Communication Technologies Division of ITC-irst).

Previous positions:

• 1992 - 2005: Researcher at the Cognitive and Communication Technologies Division of ITC-irst (Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica).

• 1988 - 1991: Junior Researcher at the Cognitive and Communication Technologies Division of ITC-irst (Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica).

Organisational Activities:

• Local Chair of the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-2006), Trento, Italy, April 3-7 2006.
• Member of the Organizing Committee of the EACL 2006 Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining (ATEM 2006), Trento, Italy, April 4 2006.
• Research Notes and Demos Chair of the 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-2003), Budapest, Hungary, April 12-17 2003.
• Member of the Organizing Committee of the 6th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Frameworks (TAG+6), Venice, Italy, 20-23 May 2002.
• Local Chair of the Sixth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT 2000), Trento, Italy, 23-25 February 2000.
• Member of the Organizing Committee of the ACL/EACL'97 Workshop on Computational Environments for Grammar Development and Linguistic Engineering, Madrid, Spain, July 12th 1997.

Programme Committees and Reviewing Activities:

• Member of the Scientific Committee of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010), La Valletta, Malta, May 19-21 2010.
• Member of the Program Committee of the Joint conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2009), Suntec, Singapore, August 2-7 2009.
• Member of the Program Committee of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-2009), Athens, Greece, March 30 - April 3 2009.
• Member of the Program Committee of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2008), Manchester, UK, 18-22 August, 2008.
• Member of the Program Committee of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2008), Columbus, Ohio, June 15-20 2008.
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008), Marrakech, Morocco, May 28-30 2008.
• Member of the Program Committee of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2007), Prague, Czech Republic, June 25-27 2007.
• Reviewer for the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hyderabad, India, January 6-12 2007.
• Member of the Program Committee of the joint conference of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics (Coling/ACL2006), Sydney, Australia, July 17-21 2006.
• Member of the Programme Committee of the Workshop on Information Extraction Beyond The Document, Sydney, Australia, July 22 2006.
• Member of the Program Committee of the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-2006), Trento, Italy, April 3-7 2006.
• Member of the Programme Committee of the 4th Workshop on RObust Methods in Analysis of Natural language Data (ROMAND 2006), Trento, Italy, April 3 2006.
• External examiner of the PhD thesis by Aidan Finn A Multi-Level Boundary Classification Approach to Information Extraction, University College Dublin, 2006.
• Reviewer for the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh, Scotland, 30 July - 5 August 2005.
• Member of the Programme Committee of the EKAW 2004 Workshop on the Application of Language and Semantic Technologies to support Knowledge Management Processes, Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire, UK, October 8 2004.
• Reviewer for the Eleventh Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, Padua, Italy, October 5-8 2004.
• Member of the Programme Committee of the 3rd Workshop on RObust Methods in Analysis of Natural language Data (ROMAND 2004), Geneve, Switzerland, August 29 2004.
• Reviewer for the Student Research Workshop of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2004), Barcelona, Spain, July 21-26 2004.
• Member of the Program Committee of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2003), Sapporo, Japan, July 7-12 2003.
• Reviewer for the Special Issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems on Advances in Natural Language Processing.
• Member of the Program Committee of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2002), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 7-12 2002.
• Member of the Reviewing Committee of the Special Issue of the Journal Natural Language Engineering on Robust Methods in Analysis of Natural Language Data.
• Member of the Program Committee of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2001), Toulouse, France, 6 - 11 July 2001.
• Member of the Programme Committee of the 1st Workshop on RObust Methods in Analysis of Natural language Data (ROMAND 2000), Lausanne, Switzerland, October 19-20 2000.
• Member of the Program Committee of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2000), Hong Kong, 1 - 8 October 2000.
• Member of the Program Committee of the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2000), Saarbrücken, Germany, 31 July - 4 August 2000.

Research interests:

• Machine Learning Techniques for Information Extraction;
• Application of Statistical Parsing Techniques to Italian;
• Semi-Automatic Generation of Thematic Lexical Resources;

• study and development of syntactic analyzers (more precisely, chart parsers) for various NLP systems;
• study of techniques for the integration between Speech and Natural Language Processing;
• study and development of a bidirectional chart parser integrated with a unification-based formalism (more precisely Typed Feature Structures); this work is carried on using the integrated environment for the development of grammars and lexica built within the GEPPETTO project;
• development of grammars and lexica both for parsers (LE-FACiLE, ALFRESCO, MAIA) and for generators (LRE-GIST).

Research Projects:

• X-Media (2006-2010): Large Scale Knowledge Sharing and Reuse Across Media (funded by European Union);
• Dot.Kom (2002-2005): Designing adaptive infOrmation exTraction from text for KnOwledge Management (funded by European Union);
• MEANING (2002-2005): Developing Multilingual Web-scale Language Technologies (funded by European Union);
• TAL-SiSSA (1999-2001): a project funded by the Italian Ministry for University and Scientific Research;
• NESPOLE! (2000-02): NEgotiating through SPOken Language in E-commerce (funded by European Union);
• LE-FACiLE (1996-98): Online News Classification (funded by European Union);
• Pinocchio: a toolkit for developing and running Information Extraction applications (an ITC-IRST internal project);
• GEPPETTO: a computational environment aiming at facilitating the development of linguistic modules and resources for NLP (an ITC-IRST internal project);
• C-STAR II;
• LE-TAMIC-P (1997-98): the aim of the project is to support a desk operator of a pension organization in providing citizens with the relevant information about their pensions and social security; the interface allows the use of natural language together with standard WIMP techniques (funded by European Union).
• LRE-GIST (1994-96): it involves multilingual generation (English, German, Italian) of bureaucratic texts (funded by European Union);
• MLAP-TAMIC (1994): a preliminary study for development of an interface based on dialogue in natural language aimed at improving the way in which the citizen may access information managed by Public Administrations (funded by European Union).
• EUREKA-GRAAL: a project aimed at the construction of a toolbox that made it easier the development of NL applications (funded by European Union);
• MAIA: an NLP system able to answer written questions about the structure, staff and research activities of IRST (an ITC-IRST internal project);
• ALFRESCO (1989-92): a multimodal NLP system for a user interested in painters and frescoes of the 14th Century (an ITC-IRST internal project).

Programming experience:

• Common Lisp (Allegro, Lucid, and the Xerox Medley environment): very good knowledge
• Perl
• Java

Cognitive and Communication Technologies Division