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1205 Genève
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General Professional Information
I am a Computer Scientist interested broadly in the areas of Human Language Technology,  Human Machine Interaction and Artificial Intelligence. I have been actively working in this area since 1985.

M.Sc. degree (Laurea in Scienze dell'Informazione, summa cum laude) from the Computer Science Departement of the University of Pisa in 1997.

Ph.D.  degree (Docteur és Science) in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) in 2002.

Certifications: PRINCE2, ITIL v.3

Visiting Scholar at the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley in 2004-2005.

Visiting Scholar at the Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, 2004-2005.

Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), University of Stanford, 2005.

Lecturer and Senior Researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL)and member of the MEDIA group  and of the Center of Global Computing in the School of Information and Communication Sciences (I&C) at EPFL, 1998-2005.

Senior Researcher in the MDM group of the Swiss National Center of Competence IM2,  2002-2005.

Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Fribourg, Department of Computer Science, Pervasive Artificial Intelligence group, 2005- 2008

Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Geneva, Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, 2008 - 2009

Research Coordinator and Adjunct Professor in Business and Technology at the Webster University, Geneva, 2008 - now
Research Interests
  • Human Language Technology
    • Information Retrieval/Extraction
    • Question-Answering
    • Computational Linguistics
    • Language Engineering
    • Lexical Semantics
    • Robust Text Analysis
    • Computational Semantics and Pragmatics
    • Dialogue Systems
    • Argumentation Theory
  • Intelligent Agents
    • Ubiquitous Computing
    • Multi-Agent Systems
    • Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
  • Human-Computer Interaction
    • Kinetic User Interfaces
    • Context-awareness
    • Ubiquitous Computing
    • Multimodal Dialogue Management
    • Voice Browsing
    • Multimodal Web
  • Knowledge Representation in Artificial Intelligence
    • Reasoning about Action and Change
    • Logics of Knowledge and Belief
    • Multi-context logics
  • Computational Logic
    • Logic Programming
    • Metalogic
    • Constraint Programming
    • Deductive Databases
    • Semantic Web
  • Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
  • Semantics of Programming Languages
Research Projects
    • DATASIFT (Data Mining)
    • ROTA (RObust Text Analysis)
    • ISIS (Interaction through Speech with Information Servers)
    • HERALD (Hybrid Environment for Robust Analysis of Language Data (gzipped postscript)
    • INSPIRE (Infotainment management with speech interaction via remote-microphones and telephone intefaces).
    • IM2.MDM (Interactive Multimodal Interface Management, Multimodal Dialogue Management).
    • CALO (Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes).
    • ROMANCE FrameNet.
    • uMove (Interaction through motion with ubiquitous computing systems, Kinetic User Interfaces)
    • SumMeet (Abstractive Summarization of Meetings at Webster University, Geneva)
Ph.D. Thesis
  • CLE: Cognitive Language Engineering: towards Robust Human-Computer Interaction.
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