Via Sommarive, 18 I-38050
Povo-Trento, Italy

Education:

• March 2000: Degree 110/110 in foreign languages with a major in linguistics (laurea in lingue e letterature straniere, indirizzo linguistico-glottodidattico) at the University of Trento.
  Thesis (in Italian): English Monolingual Learners' Dictionaries: Structure and Use (Abstract in English)

• May - July 2000: Research Assistant at EURAC, working on ELDIT (a basic electronic learners' dictionary for Italian and German).
• August 2000 - July 2003: Research Assistant at the TCC Division, ITC-irst.
• July 2003 - present: Junior Researcher at the TCC Division, ITC-irst.

Projects:

• SI-TAL Integrated System for the Automatic Treatment of Language, an Italian National Project aiming at the creation of large linguistic resources for natural language processing systems.
• EDAMOK Enabling Distributed and Autonomous Management of Knowledge, a project aiming at the implementation of a context-based distributed system for information retrieval (NLP Techniques for DKM project line).
• ONTOTEXT From Text to Knowledge for the Semantic Web.

• 13th-24th, August 2001: ESSLLI 2001, 13th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Helsinki, Finland.
• 5th-16th August, 2002: ESSLLI 2002, 14th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Trento, Italy.
• 21st-26th July, 2003: SSSW-2003, First European Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web, Cercedilla, Spain.
• 8th-19th August, 2005: ESSLLI 2005, 17th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Languages:

• Italian (mother tongue)
• English (Cambridge Proficiency in English, grade B)
• German
• French