People
Members and guests of the lab
Paolo Torroni
Head of the Language Technologies Lab
Paolo obtained his PhD from the University of Bologna in 2002 and is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering since 2015. He has published over 150 refereed papers in diverse areas of artificial intelligence including multi-agent systems, computational logic, and natural language processing, with a special focus in argumentation mining. He has leading roles in several national and international research projects and scientific enterprises. In 2018 he was awarded the national scientific qualification as full professor. He is a Visiting Fellow of the European University Institute and the Director of the University of Bologna's International Masters Degree in Artificial Intelligence.
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Marco Lippi
Associate Professor at the University of Firenze
Marco obtained his PhD in 2010 with a thesis on statistical learning for relational and structured data which received a best PhD dissertation award. He has been a visiting scholar of Université Pierre & Marie Curie and Aalborg, and held research positions at the universities of Florence, Siena, Bologna, and Modena and Reggio-Emilia, where he became an associate professor in 2020. He is a visiting fellow of the European University Institute. He is an expert in machine learning and deep learning, with applications in many domains including natural language processing. He has a long-standing collaboration with members of the Language Technologies Lab through joint research projects and the co-supervision of PhD and master students.
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Andrea Galassi
Junior assistant professor
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Andrea is a Junior assistant professor (RTD-A) at the University of Bologna. He is involved in the Italian FAIR (Future Artificial Intelligence Research) project, regarding the development of scalable, transferable, neuro-symbolic machine learning techniques.
Andrea obtained his PhD from the University of Bologna in 2021 with a dissertation on the integration of deep neural networks and symbolic knowledge.
He spent research periods abroad at Stanford and Imperial College London. He is an expert in deep learning architectures for natural language processing.
He has worked as a Post-doc Research Fellow on the Humane-AI-Net ICT-48 European project on human-centric ethical AI, on the StairwAI ICT-49 project on the development of horizontal matchmaking services, and has covered the role of Adjunct Professor at the University of Bologna.
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- StairwAI
- HumaneAI
- Claudette
- FAIR
Federico Ruggeri
Post-doc Research Fellow
Federico obtained his PhD from the University of Bologna in 2022 with the thesis ''Towards Integrating Unstructured Knowledge in Natural Language Processing. During his PhD, he defined the notion of Unstructured Knowledge Integration (UKI) and investigated its applications in the fields of Legal Analytics and Argument Mining.
He holds the position of Postdoc Research Fellow at the Computer Science and Engineering Department (DISI) of the University of Bologna and mainly researches knowledge extraction and Neuro-symbolic solutions for UKI.
He is currently supervising two BI-REX national projects concerning integrating LLMs in industrial use cases.
In the past, he has participated in several national and international projects focusing on the definition of interpretable and efficient NLP systems.
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Eleonora Misino
Post-doc Research Fellow
Eleonora is a PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bologna.
Her research focuses on developing novel techniques to inject knowledge into data-driven models, with an emphasis on solutions based on logic rules and differential equations. She participated in several national and international projects focusing on improving the interpretability and fairness of AI systems.
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Eleonora Mancini
PhD Student
Eleonora Mancini obtained her M.S. degree in Artificial Intelligence from University of Bologna in 2021, with a dissertation on disruptive situations detection on public transports through Speech Emotion Recognition. Her research concerns artificial intelligence and in particular multimodal deep learning, natural language processing, image and speech Recognition. She is currently a PhD student of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of University of Bologna (DISI) - Language Technologies Lab, working on multimodal argument mining, explainability in multimodal natural language processing and vague clauses detection in privacy policies. In addition, she works as a teaching assistant at University of Bologna.
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Elena Palmieri
PhD Student
Elena graduated cum laude in Computer Engineering in 2021 and joined the lab as a research assistant with the LAILA project, a national PRIN project whose objective is to develop machine learning and natural language processing methods for legal analytics in the context of the Italian law. In 2023, she started a PhD in collaboration with Regione Emilia-Romagna focusing on zero-shot and few-shot text classification.
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Gianmarco Pappacoda
PhD Student
Gianmarco graduated cum laude in Artificial Intelligence in 2023 with a thesis on the integration of knowledge graphs in LLMs. His research interests involve LLMs, Knowledge Graphs, Knowledge Injection and Integration.
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Nicolò Donati
PhD Student
Nicolò Donati is a dedicated PhD student that joined the team in 2023. He holds a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence from the esteemed University of Bologna, where he also completed his Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering.
His academic journey has been marked by a profound commitment to the field of NLP. Nicolò's research interests primarily revolve around textual generation and retrieval augmented generation, the topic of his master thesis. Through his studies, he aims to contribute to the advancement of language processing techniques and their applications, exploring innovative ways to enhance the generation and retrieval of text.
As a driven scholar, Nicolò is passionate about leveraging the power of artificial intelligence to solve complex problems and push the boundaries of what is possible in the realm of language understanding and generation.
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Giulia Grundler
Research Assistant
Giulia graduated cum laude in Computer Engineering in 2021 and joined the lab as a research assistant with the ADELE project, a European DG JUSTICE project whose objective is to develop machine learning and natural language processing methods for multi-lingual legal analytics in the context of the European and national legal frameworks.
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Luca Bolognini
Research Assistant
Luca graduated cum laude in Artificial Intelligence in 2023 and joined the lab as a research assistant with a UNIBO project related to ONU's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Its objective is to develop NLP tools and methods to detect the presence of the SDGs in textual documentation.
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