Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data

Last name Pallotta

First name Vincenzo

Date of birth 12th of July 1966

Nationality Italian

Address Rue des Savoises, 19

1205 Geneva

Phone +41-(0)76-365 13 58

E-mail  Vincenzo.Pallotta@unifr.ch

URL http://diuf.unifr.ch/people/pallotta

Education

Ongoing:

“Habilitation” Thesis in Computer Science. University of Fribourg. Expected in 2010.

Earned Degrees:

2002 Ph.D. (Docteur ès Science) in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne (EPFL). Ph.D. Thesis entitled "Cognitive Language Engineering: towards robust human-computer interaction" under the direction of Prof. Giovanni Coray. (Annex 1).

1997 M.Sc. (Laurea Summa Cum Laude) in Computer sciente from University of Pisa. Thesis entitled "Integrazione della programmazione logica e della logica dei fluenti" under the supervision of Prof. Franco Turini. (Annex 2)

1989 Professional Certificate as Analyst Programmer from SELCODATA Srl. (Annex 4)

1988 High school Degree in Education from "Istituto Magistrale, Teramo".

1985 High school Degree in Science from "Liceo Scientifico A. Einstein, Teramo".

Schools Attended:

1998 - 2002 Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne (EPFL).

1994 ERASMUS exchange student (6 months) at the Computer Science Department of the Linköping University (Sweden).

1991 - 1997 Undergraduate student at the Computer Science Faculty of the University of Pisa. (Annex 3).

1981-1985 High School "Liceo Scientifico A. Einstein, Teramo".

Professional Experiences

Academic:

Since Nov. 2005 University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

Senior Research Associate and Lecturer at the Faculty of Science, Department of Computer Science.

· Principal investigator in the SNF project “uMove” (Annex 12)

Sep.2002 - Aug.2005: EPFL, Senior Researcher, Switzerland.

Swiss National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) project on Interactive Multimodal Information Management (IM2).

· Member of Multimodal Dialogue Management research group.

· Responsible of the sub-project on Dialogue Ontologies

Aug. - Nov.2005: Stanford University, CA, USA.

Visiting Scholar at the Center of Studies in Language and Information (CSLI). (Annex 10).

· Participation to the DARPA CALO project

· Customization of the NOMOS annotation tool for annotation of meeting discussion records.

Apr. - Aug. 2005: EPFL, School of Computer and Communication Sciences  (I&C), Switzerland.

Research Associate at the Global Computing Center

Faculty member ("chargé de cours") (Annex 7).

Jan.2004 - Mar.2005: International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley, CA, USA.

Visiting Scholar.

· Work on modeling and analysis of meeting discussions for retrieval, browsing and summarization.

Jan - Dec 2004: University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.

Visiting Scholar at the Department of Linguistics.

Aug.2002 - Jan.2004: EPFL, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Switzerland.

Senior Researcher.

· WP’s Project manager and scientific investigator in the European FP5 project INSPIRE (Infotainment management with Speech Interaction via REmote microphones and telephone interfaces).

Feb. 2001: University of Venice, Institute of Language Sciences, Italy.

Visiting researcher.

· Collaboration with Prof. Rodolfo Delmonte on Robust Deep Linguistic Parsing with GETARUN.

Aug.1998 - Jan.2004: EPFL, Theoretical Computer Science Lab., Switzerland

Research Assistant and Lecturer (Annexe 5, 7).

· Research in three Swiss national research projects (ROTA, ISIS, HERALD, IM2). Ph.D. thesis on Human-Computer Interaction.

· Member and Swiss contact node of the ESPRIT Network of Excellence COMPULOG

· Taught undergraduate courses in Foundations of Programming Languages and Language Engineering and post-graduate course in Language and Speech Engineering.

Jan. - Jul. 1998: University of Pisa, Computer Science Department, Italy.

Research Assistant.

· Involved in two national projects (coordinated by CNUCE/CNR), for the development of Data Mining and for Intelligent Knowledge Discovery tools within Deductive Databases.

1996 - 1997: University of Pisa, Faculty of Political Sciences, Italy.

Consultant.

· Involved in a research project financed by "Commissione Rettorale per la Storia dell'Università" (Academic Senate Committee for the History of University) on the Statistical Processing of Historical Data of the University of Pisa.

· Co-author together with Dott. Danilo Barsanti of a book, published by the Pisa University Press.

1996 - 1997: University of Pisa, CISIAU (Computer Center for Humanistic Faculties), Italy.

Consultant.

· Mainly teaching assistantship and tutoring.

Enterprise:

1989 - 1991: Studio Proteo Snc., Teramo, Italy

IT Consultant and Technical Instructor. (Annexe 6)

· Thaught courses for Professional Certification (“formazione professionale”).

· Responsible of the design, development, and management of several business management applications.

1986 - 1989: SELCODATA Srl (IBM agent), Teramo, Italy.

Analyst Programmer and System Manager Consultant.

· Development of business applications (COBOL, Clipper, C), System Management (MS-DOS, Unix/Xenix) and Database Management (Oracle, DB2, DbaseIV).

1988 - 1989: Italian Army, Mountain Force (Alpini), Italy.

· Military service accomplished as "Information Systems Expert", Military Ski Instructor and Human Resources Manager.

Artistic:

1981 - 1992: Member of several jazz combos as guitarist.

2004: Composer of an original soundtrack for a short movie directed by Beatrice Kobow at the University of Berkeley.

2004 - : MIDI and Digital Audio Recording.

Languages:

• Italian: native language
• English: fluent
• French: fluent
• Romanian: fluent
• German: good (high-school level)

Qualifications:

2002: Eligibility as “Professor in Logic and Language” from the University of Lausanne. (Annex 8).

2001: Java Advanced Programming Certificate from EPFL.

1991: Eligibility as “Data Center System Manager” from Computer Services Center, University of Perugia, Italy. (Annex 9)

1991: Successfully selected for a job by EtnoTeam SpA in Rome as Analyst Programmer, but he declined the offer.

1989: Analyst Programmer Certification from SELCODATA Srl. (IBM Systems Agent), Italy.

Technical Skills

Fields: Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, Interaction Design and Usability, Social Media and Web 2.0, Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Representation, Human-Language Technology, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Information Systems, CSCW and Groupware, Computational Logics, Multi-Agent Systems, Multimedia and Web Design, Information Retrieval and Semantic Web, Computer Music and Digital Audio.

Operating Systems: Mac OS-X, Windows, Unix (Solaris, Linux, SCO-Xenix), IBM-370 (VM, MVS, DOS).

Programming: Java (J2SE, J2ME, J2EE), Ajax, C/C++, PROLOG, Lisp (CLOS), Pascal, COBOL, Clipper, ML.

Development Environments: Eclipse, J2EE (including JINI), Adobe FLEX and AIR, JACK Java Agents, Jena2 (RDF/OWL/SWRL)

Modeling Tools: UML (Rational Rose), OWL (Protégé), OWL-S, Compendium.

DataBases: MySQL, MS Access, LDL++ (DATALOG), Oracle PL-SQL.

Project and Workflow Management:

MS Projects, HERMES, BaseCamp (web), TIBCO iProcess Suite, Intalio.

Main transferable competencies

Requirement Analysis, Leadership skills, Design, Reporting (synthesis), Evaluating, Organizing and Managing

Achievements and Awards

Honours

• 2002: Inclusion in the Marquis Who’s Who in the World biography collection
• 1997: Laurea Summa cum Laude in Computer Science, University of Pisa. (Annex 2).

Grants

• 2007: Swiss National Fund for Scientific Research (SNF) grant for individual research Division II: project uMove. (Annex 12)
• 2005: Swiss National Fund for Scientific Research (SNF) grant for Short-Term academic visits financing 2.5 months visit to CSLI, University of Stanford. (Annex 10).
• 2004: Swiss National Fund for Scientific Research (SNF) grant for Advanced Researchers awarded in the framework of the (IM)2 National Competence Center in Research financing one year visit at the International Computer Science Institute, in Berkeley.

Scholarships and Prizes

• 2002: Performance Prize issued by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.
• 1998: Selected for the final phase of the Andersen Consulting’s IT Swiss Student Competition in St. Moritz.
• 1998: Ph.D. scholarship at the International Graduate School in Computer Science at BRICS, Aarhus University (declined).
• 1998: Scholarship for the NATO International Summer School on Calculation System Design, Marktoberdorf, Germany.
• 1996: Scholarship awarded to the top 50 Italian students for attending the Residential Seminars on Information Technology organized by the IBM Italia Foundation Instruction Centre in Novedrate (CO, Italy), Sep. 1996. Topic covered: Business Processes Re-engineering, Total Quality Management. (Annex 11).
• 1994: ERASMUS Scholarship as a financial support to spend 6 months as an exchange student at the Department of Computer Science, University of Linköping, Sweden.
• 1992-1997: Scholarship awarded by the “Opera Universitaria della Provincia di Pisa”, as a financial support for the accomplishment of undergraduate studies at the University of Pisa.

Memberships

• ESPRIT-COMPULOG node contact person at EPFL (until 2001)
• Special Interest Group in Dialogue (SIGDIAL).
• ELSNET (European Language Society Network).
• Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL).
• AMI Collaboration@Work (EU IST Network)
• Mosaic Network (EU IST Network)
• Associazione Italiana di Logica e sue Applicazioni (AILA).
• ERCIM Workgroup on Semantic Web.
• REZONANCE Swiss Network

Continuing Education

Post-graduate courses

• Post-graduate course in Technology, Innovation and Leadership, EPFL, (Lausanne, CH), Feb.-June 2002.
• Post-graduate course on Tools for the design of Internet and PC applications, EPFL (Lausanne, CH), Jan-Dec 2000.
• Post-graduate course on Intelligent Agents, EPFL, (Lausanne, CH), Feb.-Oct. 1999.
• Graduate course on Intelligent Agents, EPFL (Lausanne, CH), Oct. 1998 – Dec. 1999.

Intensive courses

• Course on Advanced Programming Techniques in Java, EPFL, (Lausanne, CH), Dec. 2001 (1 week).
• IBM Residential Seminar on Information Technology organized by the IBM Italia Foundation Instruction Centre, Novedrate (CO, Italy), Sep. 1996. (topic covered: Total Quality Management, Business Processes Re-engineering, IT and Enterprise Resource Planning).
• International Symposium on Social interaction and knowledge acquisition in education: the Vygotskij’s psychological theory of learning, (Pisa, Italy), 10-11 May 1995.
• ORACLE overview, Datamat SpA, (Roma, Italy), November 1990.

Summer (and Spring) schools

• 3eme Cycle Romand Spring School on GRID and Peer-to-Peer Systems (Crans-Montana), March 2006.
• ESSLLI 15th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, (Vienna, AT) Aug. 2003.
• 6th EUROLAN Summer School on Semantic Web and Ontologies, (Bucharest, RO), August 2003.
• 3eme Cycle Romand Spring School on Web Information Retrieval (Champery, CH), March 2003.
• 3rd Summer Convention on Information Extraction, University of Roma TorVergata, (Frascati, Italia), 15-19 July, 2002.
• 5th EUROLAN Summer School on Human Language Technology, (Iasi, RO), 30 July - 11 Aug. 2001.
• The Third European Agent Systems Summer School on Multi-Agent Systems & Applications (ACAI-01) (Prague, CZ), 2-13 July 2001.
• 3eme Cycle Romand Spring School on Autonomous Creatures (Vilars, CH), 5-9 March 2001.
• ESSLLI 12th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, (Birmingham, UK) Aug. 2000.
• 3eme Cycle Romande Spring School on Agent Technology (Lenk, CH), 6-10 March 2000.
• Summer School in Logic organized by Italian Association of Logic and its Applications (AILA), (Cesena, Italy), Sep. 1999.
• ESSLLI 11th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, (Utrecht - NL), Aug. 1999.
• 4th EUROLAN Summer School on Human Language Technology, (Iasi - RO), July 1999.
• 3eme Cycle Romande Spring School on Advanced Data Bases (Anzère, CH), 1-5 March 1999.
• Summer School in Logic organized by Italian Association of Logic and its Applications (AILA), (Cesena, Italy), Sep. 1998.
• ESSLLI 10th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (Saarbruecken, D) Aug. 1998.
• International Summer School on Calculation System Design (NATO Science Committee Marktoberdorf) Aug. 1998.
• International Summer School on Cryptology and Data Security (BRICS - Aarhus), July 1998.
• Seminars on Logic and application in education, University of Rome III, Department of Philosophy, (Rome, Italy), 13-18 October 1997.
• Summer School in Mathematical Logic organized by Italian Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science (SILFS), (Cesena, Italy), Sep. 1997.

Language classes

• 1998-1999: Advanced level courses in French at the EPFL Language Center, Lausanne.
• 1991-1997: Advanced level courses of English at the Interdepartmental Center for Language Education, University of Pisa.
• 1980-1985: German at high-school.
• 1978-1980: French at secondary school.

Supervised Student Projects

EPFL

Diploma Projects

• Matthieu Girardet, Gestion de dialogue cognitive, February 2003.
• Camille Weber, A software platform for partitioned representations in ViewFinder, March 2002.

Semester Projects

• David Jilli, « Sing it ! »Un système de recherche musicale par contenu, June 2003.
• Reza Etemad-Sajadi, Les Opérations Sémantiques de ViewFinder, February 2003.
• Olivier Moiroux, Vers le Web multimodal: faisabilité d’intégration de la parole dans la navigation sur web, June 2002.
• Richard Greset, Capability Brokering in Multi-Agent Systems, June 2001.
• Camille Weber, Mental State Management in Software Agent Design, June 2001.
• Leire Urcelay Letona, AgentBuilder-Prolog: Exemple d’encapsulation des applications Prolog dans des agents intelligents, March 2001.
• Marco Bonetti, JRCLIB – Une Librairie JAVA de communication inter-agent basée sur IRC, June 2000.
• Patrice Jaton, Agent based platform for developping IRC chat softbots, June 2000.

University of Fribourg

Ph.D. Thesis

• Pascal Bruegger, uMove: interaction through motion with ubiquitous computing sytems. Started July 2007.

Master

• Ridha Zarragoui, Ontologies for Context-based User Interfaces, ongoing (expected September 2007).
• Daniele Della Bruna, End-user customization for motion-aware applications, ongoing (expected October 2007).
• Pascal Bruegger, ubiGlide: An application for gliding activities based on motion-aware middleware architecture, ongoing (June 2007).

Term projects

• Timoteé Maret and Nicolas Martenet, iFridge (ubiShop), March 2007.
• Dominique Guinard and Pedro De Almeida, SmartBadge, March 2006.
• Kathrin Meyer and Martin Eric Ritz, Mobile Ticket Shop, March 2006.
• Pascal Bruegger and Otto Poveda, GPS Tracker, March 2006.
• Christophe Bovigny and Baris Ulucinar, Mobile rendez-vous protocol, March 2006.
• Mattia MINOTTI and Lucas CHARLES, iDJ, March 2006.

Selected Publications

Books

Barsanti D., Pallotta V., Pisanti P., Lauree dell'Università di Pisa 1737-1861, Centro Interdipartimentale di Servizi Informatici per l'Area Umanistica, I (2 volumes), Pisa, Università degli Studi di Pisa, 1995.

Edited Collections and Journal Issues

Pallotta V. and Menzel W. (Eds.). Proceedings of the ROMAND 2006 Workshop. April 3rd, 2006. Trento, Italy, Part of the European Chapter of Association of Computational Linguistics Conference (EACL), 2006.

Pallotta V. and Todirascu A. (Eds.), ROMAND 2004, Proceedings of the 3^rd international workshop on Robust Methods in Analysis of Natural Language Data, Part of COLING 2004 conference. August, 29^th 2004, Geneva, Switzerland.

Basili R. and Pallotta V. (Eds.), Proceedings of the ROMAND 2002 - 2nd International Workshop on Robust Methods in Analysis of Natural Language Data, July 17th 2002, Frascati (ROMA, Italy).

Ballim A. and Pallotta V. (Eds.), Special Issue on Robust Methods in Analysis of Natural Language Data, Natural Language Engineering Journal 8(2-3), June 2002.

Ballim A., Pallotta V. and Ghorbel H. (Eds.), Proceedings of the ROMAND 2002 - 2nd International Workshop on Robust Methods in Analysis of Natural Language Data. Part of the 7^th conference TALN 2000, EPFL, Lausanne 19-20 October 2000.

Chapters in Books and Edited Collections

Pallotta V., Bruegger P. and Hirsbrunner B., Kinetic User Interfaces: Physical Embodied Interaction with Mobile Pervasive Computing Systems. In Kouadri-Mostéfaoui, Maamar, Giaglis (eds.), Advances in Ubiquitous Computing: Future Paradigms and Directions, IDEA Group Publishing, to appear 2007.

Chappelier J.C., Rajman M. and Pallotta V., Chapter 3: Natural Language Processing, in Speech and Language Engineering, M. Dekker PPUR, 2007.

Rajman M. and Pallotta V., Drygailo A., Wherli, E., Bourlard, H., Chapter 6: Language and speech engineering applications, in Speech and Language Engineering, M. Dekker PPUR, 2007.

Journals

Pallotta V., A computational dialectics approach to meeting tracking and understanding, in Giacalone-Ramat, Rigotti, Rocci (eds.), Special issue on "Linguistics and new professions", Materiali Linguistici, Franco Angeli, October 2003.

Peer-reviewed Conferences and Workshops Proceedings

Pallotta V., Bruegger P., Maret T., Martenet N., Hirsbrunner B., Kinetic User Interfaces for Flexible Mobile Collaboration. To appear in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference and Exhibition on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies (NGMAST 2007), Cardiff, Wales, UK, 12 - 14 September 2007.

Pallotta V., Seretan V. and Ailomaa, M., User Requirements Analysis for Meeting Information Retrieval Based on Query Elicitation. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Association of Computational Linguistics, ACL 2007, Prague, 25 - 27 June 2007.

Pallotta V. and Hirsbrunner B. The Kinetic User Interface. In Timo Arnall, Nicolas Nova, Julian Bleecker (eds.), Proceedings of Workshop on Near Field Interaction: User-centered interactions with the Internet of Things. NordiCHI 2006, Oslo, 13 - 14 October 2006.

Pallotta V., Brocco A., Guinard D., Bruegger P., De Almeida P., RoamBlog: Outdoor and Indoor Geo-blogging Enhanced with Contextual Service Provisioning for Mobile Internet Users. In Proceedings of the IEEE-sponsored DART’06 International Workshop. 27 June 2006. Cagliari, Italy.

Pallotta V., Framing Arguments, Proceedings of the International Conference on Argumentation ISSA 2006, June 2006, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Portabella Clotet D., Pallotta V., Rajman, M., Systematic definition and assent to eContracts for Web Services. In Proceedings of the CoAla workshop on Contract Architectures and Languages, part of the 9th International conference EDOC 2005. 19-23 September 2005, Enschede, The Netherlands.

Pallotta V., Nieksraz J. and Purver M., Collaborative and Argumentative Models of Meeting Discussions. In Proceeding of CMNA-05 international workshop on Computational Models of Natural Arguments (part of IJCAI 2005). July, 30^th 2005, Edimburgh, UK.

Pallotta V., Lisowska A. and Marchand-Maillet S., Towards Meeting Information Systems: Meeting Knowledge Management. Proceeding of ICEIS 2004 international conference, 14-17 April, 2004, Porto, Portugal.

Pallotta V., Cognitive Dialogue Management, Proceedings of International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science, part of ICEIS 2004 conference, 13^th April, 2004, Porto, Portugal.

Möller S., Krebber J., Raake A., Smeele P., Rajman M., Melichar M., Pallotta V., Tsakou G., Kladis B., Vovos A., Hoonhout J., Schuchardt D., Fakotakis N., Potamitis I., INSPIRE: Evaluation of a Smart-Home System for Infotainment Management and Device Control. Procedings of the LREC 2004 international conference, 26-28 May 2004, Lisbon, Portugal.

Ruch P., Chichester C., Cohen G., Coray G., Ehrler F., Ghorbel H., Müller H., Pallotta V., Report on the TREC 2003 Experiment: Genomic Track, TREC 2003, TREC Notebook Paper, Gaithersburg, 17-21 November 2003.

Pallotta V. and Ballim A., Agent-Oriented Language Engineering for robust NLP, ESAW 2001 - 2nd International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents' World, 7 July, 2001, Prague, Czech Republic. (Springer LNAI 2203)

Ballim A. and Pallotta V., Weighted semantic parsing: a robust approach to interpretation of natural language queries , FQAS 2000 - Fourth International Conference on Flexible Query Answering System, October 25-28, 2000, Warsaw, Poland. (Springer LNCS Advances in Soft Computing).

Ballim A., Chappelier J-C., Rajman M. and Pallotta V.,  ISIS: Interaction through Speech with Information Systems, TSD 2000 - Third International Workshop on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE, September 13-16, 2000, Brno, Czech Republic. (Springer LNAI 1902).

Pallotta V., A meta-logical semantics for Features & Fluents based on compositional operators over normal logic programs, 1st International Conference on Computational Logic, July 24th-28th, 2000, London, UK. (Springer LNAI 1861).

Ballim A. and Pallotta V., The role of robust semantic analysis in spoken language dialogue systems, 3rd International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation, July 3-5, 2000, Bellagio, Italy.

Ballim A., Pallotta V., Robust parsing techniques for semantic analysis of natural language queries, in VEXTAL'99, November 22-24 1999, Venice - Italy.

Teaching Experience

Courses

• 2005-2007: Supervision of several Master projects at the University of Fribourg.
• 2007: Teaching Assistant and Lecturer at University of Fribourg, Faculty of Science, Dept. of Computer Science. Master’s Courses on Ubiquitous Computing (Prof. Hirsbrunner, Prof. Kropf) and Artificial Intelligence (Dr. Michèle Courant).
• 2006: Lecturer at University of Fribourg, Faculty of Science, Dept. of Computer Science. Master’s Course on Ubiquitous Computing (with Prof. Hirsbrunner).
• 1998-2004: Supervision of several Diploma projects at EPFL.
• 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006: Lecturer in the undergraduate course "Natural Language Processing" (Traitement Informatique des Donées Textuelles (TIDT)) given at the Computer Science Department, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne (I&C-EPFL).
• 2002: Lecturer in the post-graduate course "Language and Speech Engineering" given  at the Computer Science Department, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne (DI-EPFL).
• 2001: Lecturer in the undergraduate course "Foundation of programming languages" (Théorie des Langages de programmation/Fondements de la programmation) given by Prof. Martin Odersky at the Computer Science Department, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne (DI-EPFL).
• 2001: Lecturer in the post-graduate course "Language and Speech Engineering" given at the Computer Science Department, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne (DI-EPFL).
• 2001: Teaching Assistant in the undergraduate course "Multimedia Documents" (Documents Multimédia) given by Dr. Christine Vanoirbeek and Dr. Afzal Ballim at the Computer Science Department, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne (DI-EPFL).
• 2000: Lecturer in the undergraduate course "Foundation of programming languages" (Théorie des Langages de programmation/Fondements de la programmation) given by Prof. Giovanni Coray and Prof. Martin Odersky at the Computer Science Department, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne (DI-EPFL).
• 1999: Teaching Assistant in the undergraduate course "Foundation of programming languages" (Théorie des Langages de Programmation) given by Prof. Giovanni Coray at the Computer Science Department, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne (DI-EPFL).
• 1998: Teaching Assistant in the undergraduate course "Advance Database Systems" given by Dr. Fosca Giannotti  (senior researcher at CNUCE/CNR) at the Computer Science Faculty, University of Pisa.
• 1996: Teaching Assistant in the undergraduate courses "Basic Computer Science for Applications in Humanistic Areas (Elementi di Informatica)" and "Electronic Document Management (Informatica Documentale)" given by Prof. Maria Simi and Prof. Silvano Antonelli, at the Language and Literature Faculty, University of Pisa.
• 1991: Teaching Assistant in the course on Algorithms and Data Structures given by Prof. A. Bertossi, contributing to the content design and editing of the course reader.
• 1989–1991: Technical Instructor in several courses (Office Automation, Database Administration and Programming, Unix and C Programming, DataCenter Operator) for achieving "Certificate of Competency" (Formazione per la Qualifica Professionale) supported by (former) CEE and organized by the Abruzzo Regional Administration (Regione Abruzzo).

Tutorials and Seminars

• Invited Seminar entitled "Framing Meetings" at International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, March 23, 2005.
• Invited Seminar on "Questions Answering in Meeting Information Systems" at the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, September 27, 2004.
• Invited Seminar at the Department of Linguistics, University of Geneva on "Logic and Cognition", December 2003.
• Guest Lecture in the course on Philosophy of Language at the University of Lausanne on “Logic and Cognition”, November 2003.
• Invited Seminar entitled "A new challenge for Human Language Technology: Interactive Multimodal Information Management" at the University of Zurich, 22 May 2003.
• Invited Seminar on "Multimodal Dialogue Management" at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne, 21 May 2003.
• Tutorial on Computational Dialogue Models at the EACL 03 conference in Budapest, 12 April 2003.
• Invited Seminar on "Logic and Cognition" at the University of Lausanne, 11 April 2003 (professorship test lecture).
• Invited Seminar at the International Conference on Linguistics and New Professions, Pavia-Lugano, 28-30 November 2002.
• Tutorial (joint with Christine Vanoirbeek) at CIDE 2000 entitled "Gestion de documents structurés".
• Tutorial at the Postgraduate course (NDIT/FPIT) "La gestion de documents multimédia" (M-XML.f) on "Computer Music and Sounds"; Computer Science Department, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne (DI-EPFL), 2000.
• Invited seminar (joint with Afzal Ballim and Christine Vanoirbeek) at Xerox Research Center Europe, Grenoble, 2000.
• Invited Seminar entitled "Towards Fluent Logic Programming" given at the Swiss Federal Institute of Lausanne (EPFL) DI-LITH, March 18^th, 1998.
• Departmental Seminar entitled "Computational Logic Tools for Robust Semantic Analysis" given at DI-LITH (EPFL), December 14^th, 1998.

Professional Duties

Reviewing and Editorial activities

• Guest Editor of the Special Issue on "Robust Methods on Analysis of Natural Language Data" of the Natural Language Engineering journal, 2002.
• Member of the Program Committee of CIDE International Conference.
• Member of the Program Committee of RECITAL 2001 International Conference
• Member of the Program Committee of the special session on Soft Computing & Emerging Systems of the SCI 2002 International Conference.
• Member of the Program Committee of DOCENG 2003 Conference.

• Member of the Scientific Committee of the Special Issue of the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM) Journal, on "Summarization and Information Extraction from Medical Documents", 2003.
• Member of the Scientific Committee of JELIA 2004 Conference.
• Member of the program committee of the EACL 2006 Student workshop.
• Member of the program committee of the 2007 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Coordination Track.
• Member of the reviewing committee of the book on Advances in Ubiquitous Computing: Future Paradigms and Directions, IDEA Publishers 2007.
• Member of the program committee of the IEEE’s ICC 2007 Computer and Communications Network Security Symposium.
• Member of the program committee of the International Workshop on Context Modeling and Management for Smart Environments part of IEEE’s ICDIM 2007.

Academic Events Organization

• Organizer of the ACSE 2006 Seminar on Autonomous Computing in Smart Environments for the “3eme Cycle Romand en Informatique”. Fribourg, November 2006.
• Program chair of ROMAND 2006 Workshop, part of the EACL 2006 conference, April 3^rd 2006,Trento, Italy.
• Program chair of the International workshop on Multilingual Lexical Semantics, part of the TALN 2006 conference, Loewen, April 2006, Belgium.
• Program chair of the ROMANCE FrameNet meeting at the EUROLAN 2005 summer school (25 July- 6 Agust, 2005), Cluij-Napoca, Romania.
• ROMAND2004 workshop held as part of COLING 2004 conference (29th August 2004, Geneva).
• Chair of the EUROSPEECH 2003 Special Session on Robust Methods in Analysis of Natural Language Dialogues, Geneva, 1-5 September 2003.
• Co-organizer and chair of the EUROLAN 2003 workshop on Ontologies and Information Extraction, Bucharest, August, 2003.
• Co-organizer and chair of the Open Day on Natural Language Processing for Multimodal Dialogue Management, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 21 May 2003.
• Co-organizer and chair at the ROMAND 2002 workshop, Frascati (Rome), Italy, 17th July 2002.
• Co-organizer and chair of the ROMAND 2000 workshop, part of TALN 2000 international conference, Lausanne, 19-20 October 2000.
• Co-organizer of the Open Day on Discourse Representation and Analysis, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, 22 May, 2001.
• Co-chair at the ESSLLI 2000 Student Session, Utrecht, 6-19 August 2000.