I work in Natural Language Processing and its application to societally relevant problems. Besides my research activities I am particularly active in science communication and outreach, including to school children, especially towards an aware and responsible use of language technologies. I really enjoy public speaking, and once I got to give a TEDx talk. I was also invited by the European Council to give a plenary lecture on gender bias in Artificial Intelligence on International Women’s Day 2021. As a university professor I teach quite a bit, and I love it - proud to be elected as the 2016 University of Groningen Lecturer of the Year.
- I am the coordinator of the Sectorplan’s theme Humane AI at the University of Groningen
- I am a member of the ACL Ethics Committee
- I am a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Jantina Tammes School for Digital Society, Technology, and AI at the University of Groningen
- I am a member of the board of AILC, the Italian Association for Computational Linguistics
News and Recent Events
- “Women and Language Technology”: Keynote at Women in Data Science Belgium, Ghent, 17 May 2024. Slides are available here
- As a member of the UNL working group on AI I participated in a panel at the Digital Society conference in Utrecht on April 25th
- Watch Your Language! Interdisciplinary workshop at the Lorentz Center in Leiden, April 8-12 2024
- A year with ChatGPT: Everything you need to know! Info event organised by GroNLP and the Humane AI team, in collaboration with (hosted by) the Jantina Tammes School. (Slides available at the link.)
- The HAICu project is funded! I’m involved as co-applicant, and we are about to open a PhD position on it.
Past events
Some past events are listed here
Highlights
Book
I wrote a introductory book to Computational Linguistics (in Italian), together with Ludovica Pannitto, and with drawings by Myriam Nissim.
TEDx Talk
I gave a TEDx Talk on Language, Humans, and AI, and how machines might challenge our stereotypical thinking.
Podcast
The most rewarding conversation I had on ChatGPT, and especially its impact on education, was on this podcast episode.