Curriculum Vitae of Emanuele Pianta

1960

Born in Winterthur (Switzerland)

1990

Degree in Literature and Linguistics at Padova University with a thesis about theoretical aspects of automatic text generation.

1986-1993

Part-time consultant at ICON-srl, Verona, working on Expert Systems development, Logic Programming teaching, Automatic Report Generation.

1990-1993

Research consultant at University of Venice (prof. Rodolfo Delmonte, Computational Linguistics), working on LFG-based Parsing and Generation, Anaphora Resolution, Computational Morphology, Logic Programming Teaching.

1993-present

Researcher at the Natural Language Processing and Communication Group of IRST - ITC.

• Past Projects
• GIST (Generating instructions; especially the Text Structurer component)
• SAX (Generating HyperText Explanations from SADT diagrams)
• ATP (Automatic Call Center for Touristic Information; the generation component)
• C-STAR II (Speech to Speech Translation; developemento of XIG, the Italian generation component)

• Current Projects
• Nespole! (A development of C-STAR)
• Italian WordNet

Programming Experience

• Prolog (Sicstus, LPA MacProlog and WinProlog)
• Perl
• Lisp (Allegro, Lucid), ProLisp (Logic Programmin in Lisp)

Spoken Languages

• English (oral and written)
• French (oral and written)
• some German and some Spanish