PHD Student Alumni

Silvia Casola, PhD in Brain, Mind and Computer Science, U. Padua, September 2023. Dissertation "Natural Language Processing for Technology Foresight. Summarization and Simplification: the case of patents".

Vevake Balaraman, IECS Doctorate, U. Trento, April 2022. Dissertation: "Leveraging Domain Information for Data Driven Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems".

Samuel Louvan, IECS Doctorate, U. Trento, March 2022. Dissertation: "Low-Resource Natural Language Understanding in Task-Oriented Dialogue".

Tahir Mehmood, PhD in Information Engineering, U. Brescia, 2021. Dissertation "Knowledge Transfer Techniques in Deep Learning for Biomedical Named Entity Recognition".

Ivano Lauriola, PhD in Brain, Mind and Computer Science, U. Padua, 2021. Dissertation "Towards feature space of Deep Kernels: synergy with Neural Networks and application to NLP".

Luca Putelli, PhD in Information Engineering, U. Brescia, 2021. Dissertation "Attention Mechanism and Explanation of Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing in biomedical domain".

Anna Feltracco, PhD in Linguistic Sciences, U. Bergamo and U. Pavia, May 2018. Dissertation: “Lexical Opposition and Discourse Contrast: A Data-driven Investigation”.

Serra Sinem Tekiroglu, PhD in ICT, U. Trento, May 2018. Dissertation: “Computational Sensory Analysis of Creative Language”.

Lorenzo Gatti, PhD in ICT, U. Trento, April 2018. Dissertation: “Automatic Creation of Evocative Witty Expressions”.

Simone Magnolini, PhD in Computer Science/Engineering and Control Systems, U. Brescia, May 2017. Dissertation: “Monolingual Semantic Alignment for Textual Inferences”. Currently he is a Postdoctoral Researcher at FBK, HLT-NLP research unit.

Ngoc Phuoc An Vo, PhD in ICT, U. Trento, April 2016. Dissertation: “Contributions to Semantic Textual Similarity Algorithms”. Currently, he is a Researcher at Xerox Research Centre Europe, France.

Paramita Mirza, PhD in ICT, U. Trento, April 2016. Dissertation: “Extraction of Temporal and Causal Relations between Events”. Currently, she is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany.

Gozde Ozbal, PhD in ICT, U. Trento, November, 2013. Dissertation: “Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity for Real World Applications”. Currently, she is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Trento-RISE.

Alessio Palmero Aprosio, PhD in ICT, U. Milano, March, 2014. Dissertation: “Extending Linked Open Data resources exploiting Wikipedia as source of information”. Currently, he is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at FBK, DH research unit.

Md Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury, PhD in ICT, U. Trento, 10 April, 2013. Dissertation: “Improving the Effectiveness of Information Extraction from Biomedical Text”. Currently, he is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA.

Katerina Tymoshenko, PhD in ICT, U. Trento, 20 December, 2012. Dissertaion: A General Framework for Exploiting Background Knowledge in Natural Language Processing”. Currently post-doc at the IBM Center for Advanced Studies of Trento, Italy.

Gianluca Lebani, PhD in Cognitive and Brain Sciences, U. Trento, December 2012. Dissertation: “STaRS.sys Designing and Building a Commonsense-Knowledge Enriched WordNet for Therapeutic Purposes”. Currently he holds a post doctoral position at the Computational Liguistics (CoLing) Laboratory of the University of Pisa (Department of Philology, Literature, and Linguistics).

Yashar Mehdad, PhD in ICT, U. Trento, March 23, 2012. Dissertation: “Cross Lingual Textual Entailment and Applications”. Currently, he holds a post doctoral position in University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Elena Cabrio, PhD in ICT, U. Trento, April 18, 2011. Dissertation: “Component-based Textual Entailment: a Modular and Linguistically-motivated Framework for Semantic Inferences”. Currently, she holds a post doctoral position at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis Méditerranée, France.

Silvana Marianela Bernaola Biggio, former PhD student at U. Trento, she left in 2011 to join SKIL (Semantics & Knowledge Innovation Laboratory).

Daniele Pighin, PhD in ICT, U. Trento, May 26, 2010. Dissertation: “Greedy Feature Selection in Tree Kernel Spaces”. After a postdoc at UPC Barcelona he joined Google Inc. in Zurich, Switzerland.

Sara Tonelli, PhD in Language Sciences, U. Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, March 29, 2010. Dissertation: “Semi-automatic Techniques for Extending the FrameNet lexical database to New Languages”. 

Alessandro Valitutti, degree obtained: Doctorate in Cognitive Science and Education, U. Trento, December 2009. Dissertation: “Computational Production of Affective-Based Verbal Humorous Expressions”. Alessandro currently holds a post doctoral position at the Intelligent Virtual Environment laboratory, Teesside University (UK).

Bonaventura Coppola, degree obtained: Doctorate in ICT, U. Trento, April 2009. Dissertation: “Practical Frame Semantics for Natural Language Systems”. Bonaventura now works at the Semantic Analysis & Integration department at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York.

Octavian Popescu, degree obtained: Doctorate in ICT, U. Trento, April 2008. Dissertation: “Ontological Constraints in a Statistical Framework for Person Cross Document Coreference”.  He is currently a post-doc at FBK.

Alfio Gliozzo, degree obtained: Doctorate in ICT, U. Trento, Dec 2005. Dissertation: “Semantic Domains in Computational Linguistics”. After a period at at the Italian National Council of Research (CNR), Rome, he joined IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York.

Ernesto D’Avanzo, degree obtained: Doctorate in ICT, U. Trento, Dec 2005. Dissertation: “Using KeyPhrases for Text Mining: Applications and Evaluations”. Currently Ernesto is affiliated at the U of Salerno, Department of Communication Sciences.

Milen Kouylekov, degree obtained: Doctorate in ICT, U. Trento, Dec 2006. Dissertation: “Recognizing Textual Entailment with Tree Edit Distance: Application to Question Answering and Information Extraction”. After a post doctoral fellowship at FBK-irst, Milen moved to CELI Language and IT, Turin.