![]() This course assumes a non-technical audience. Students learn to design an NLP tool to address a specific problem (choose the data, pre-process it, extract the relevant information, evaluate the system and improve on it). The master course in Natural Language Processing for the DSS master focuses on core NLP problems and tools and how they are used to develop end-to-end applications such as language generation, text classification and machine translation are reviewed. I published my research in journals such as PLoS One and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition and presented my work at international and national conferences, including the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. I mostly program in Python and R, but did some stuff in Matlab some time ago. In doing this, I've used a variety of statistical and machine learning methods, including Generalized Linear Mixed Models, Generalized Additive Mixed Models, perceptron-line neural networks, LSTMs, Naive Bayes classification, Linear Discriminant Analysis, random forests and kNN algorithms. I've worked a lot with distributional semantic models: I've used these models to study how semantic representations developed by congenitally blind and sighted people differ (or not), how children combine linguistic and visual inputs to ground concept learning, and how word forms map onto their meaning representations. Outside of the office I like cooking, playing volleyball, improvising on stage, cycling on the hills around my home town, enjoying a book, a concert, a movie or a play. My interests also include cognitive science and multimodality. I also do work on sequence modelling in more data scienc-y applications, such as user intent prediction from clickstream data. With a study on this topic I won the best student presentation award at the 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon in 2018. I work on computational models of language learning, particularly investigating how the relation between how a word sounds and its meaning may help children learn language. Now I live and work in Tilburg in the Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence. ![]() Italian by origin, I've lived and studied in Trento and Groningen, got my PhD in Antwerp and spent a couple of months in Tübingen as a visiting research. ![]()
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