Marco Baroni:
Education and Academic/Professional History

Education

• Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles, June 2000
  Dissertation Title: Distributional cues in morpheme discovery: A computational model and empirical evidence
  Dissertation Committee: Bruce Hayes (chair), Carson Schütze, Edward Stabler, Donca Steriade, Jody Kreiman
  
  
• M.A. in Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles. December 1997
  Thesis Title: The representation of prefixed forms in the Italian lexicon: Evidence from the distribution of intervocalic [s] and [z]
  Thesis Committee: Bruce Hayes (chair), Sun-Ah Jun, Carson Schütze, Donca Steriade
  
  
• Laurea in Linguistica ("110 e lode"), University of Padua, Italy, April 1995
  Thesis Title: La relazione tra struttura segmentale e costituenza moraica [The relation between segmental structure and moraic constituency]
  Thesis Co-Chairs: Alberto Mioni and Laura Vanelli

Work Experience

• November 2006 - present
  Researcher (tenured position)
  Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC)
  Deparment of Cognitive and Education Sciences (DISCoF)
  School of Letters and Philosophy
  Università di Trento
  CIMeC website: http://www.cimec.unitn.it
  
  
• October 2002 - October 2006
  Researcher (tenured position)
  Dipartimento di Studi Interdisciplinari su Traduzione, Lingue e Cultura (SITLEC)
  Università di Bologna (Sede di Forlì), Italy
  SITLEC website: http://www.sitlec.unibo.it
  
  
• September 2001 - August 2002
  Researcher (position funded by EU R&D project FASTY)
  Natural Language Processing Group
  Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI)
  Vienna, Austria
  ÖFAI NLP group website: http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/oefai/nlu/
  FASTY project website: http://www.fortec.tuwien.ac.at/reha.e/projects/fasty/fasty.html
  
  
• July 2000 - August 2001
  Computational Linguist
  Language Development Team / Core Technologies Team
  Conversay
  Redmond WA, USA
  Conversay website: http://www.conversay.com/
  
  
• January - December 1999
  Research Assistant to Prof. Pat Keating (position funded by NSF project KDI)
  Phonetics Laboratory
  Department of Linguistics
  University of California, Los Angeles
  Los Angeles CA, USA
  KDI project website: http://www.hei.org/research/projects/comneur/kdipage.htm
  
  
• Summer 1998
  Summer Research Intern
  Spoken Language Processes Laboratory
  House Ear Institute
  Los Angeles CA, USA
  

Teaching

• Fall 2008 - Present
  Linear Models in R module of the Computational and Statistical Methods for Data modelling and Analysis course
  Doctoral Schools in Cognitive and Brain Sciences and Psychological Sciences and Education, University of Trento
  
  
• Fall 2007 - Present
  Coordinator and co-instructor of the Text Processing I course
  Philosophy and Informatics Master, School of Letters and Philosophy, University of Trento
  International Cognitive Science Master, School of Cognitive Science, University of Trento
  Master in Human Language Technologies and Interfaces, University of Trento
  
  
• Fall 2009 - Present
  Perl Programming for Text Analysis, Part II of Informatica per le Discipline Umanistiche e Linguistiche
  Philosophy and Informatics Bachelor, School of Letters and Philosophy, University of Trento
  
  
• Winter 2007 - Winter 2009
  Computational Lexicography lab of Humanities Computing course
  School of Letters and Philosophy, University of Trento
  
  
• Fall 2007 - Winter 2009
  Introduction to Perl for Text Processing (Humanities Computing module)
  School of Letters and Philosophy, University of Trento
  
  
• Winter 2009
  Co-coordinator and co-instructor of the the Topic Seminar SExIE, Seminar on Extreme Information Extraction
  Doctoral School in Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Trento
  
  
• Winter 2009
  Lexicography module of Applied Linguistics course
  School of Letters and Philosophy, University of Trento
  
  
• Winter 2008
  Lexical Semantics module of General Linguistics course
  School of Letters and Philosophy, University of Trento
  
  
• Fall 2007 - Winter 2008
  Co-coordinator and co-instructor of the Topic Seminar EviL, Evidence in Linguistics
  Doctoral School in Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Trento
  
  
• Winter 2007
  Introduction to Corpora module of Humanities Computing courses
  School of Letters and Philosophy, University of Trento
  
  
• Winter 2007
  Collocations module of Applied Linguistics course
  School of Letters and Philosophy, University of Trento
  
  
• Winter 2005 - Winter 2006
  Automated Acquisition of Lexicon and Terminology module of Terminology and Specialized Languages (I and II).
  SSLMIT, Università di Bologna
  
  
• Winter 2004 - Fall 2005
  Computational Linguistics
  SSLMIT, Università di Bologna
  
  
• Fall 2002 - Fall 2006
  Phonetics/Phonology/Morphology modules of General Linguistics course
  SSLMIT, Università di Bologna
  
  
• Fall 1996 - Fall 1998
  Teaching Assistant for the courses Introduction to Linguistics, Experimental Phonetics and Introduction to General Phonetics
  Department of Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles

Other Activities

• My team participated in the EVALITA 2009 Lexical Substitution track
• Taught mini-course on Distributional Semantics at the GLIF center of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, June 2009
• In program committee of ESSLLI 2009, Bordeaux, July 2009
• Taught at the TRIPLE Winter School on The lexicon: analysis methods, models and applications, January 2009
• Co-organizer of the ESSLLI 2008 Distributional Lexical Semantics Workshop, Hamburg, August 2008
• Co-taught mini-course on Statistical programming in R for computational linguists at the Computational Linguistics Fall School of the German Linguistics Association, University of Potsdam, September 2007
• My team participated in the EVALITA 2007 initiative in the POS Tagging track: our system was a close second in the evaluation
• Co-organizer of the quantitative/computational curriculum of the Philosophy program of the University of Trento
• Co-organizer of the Contextual Information in Semantic Space Models workshop at Context 07, Roskilde University, August 2007
• Invited visiting scholar at the National Institute for Japanese Language, Tokyo, Japan, July-August 2007
• Co-coordinator of the CLEANEVAL shared task on automated cleaning of Web data
• Co-organizer of the LCT Colloquia of the Universities of Bolzano and Trento
• Secretary of SIGWAC, the Special Interest Group on Web as Corpus of the Association for Computational Linguistics
• Co-taught mini-course on Counting words: an introduction to lexical statistics at ESSLLI 2006, Malaga, August 2006
• Taught mini-course Morphology and corpora: the case of quantitative productivity at the University of Granada, May 2006
• Co-organizer of workshop on The Web as Corpus, EACL 2006, Trento, April 2006
• Co-taught intensive mini-course Statistical Methods for Corpus Exploitation at EURAC, Bolzano, October 2005
• Co-organizer of workshop on The Web as Corpus, Corpus Linguistics 2005, Birmingham (http://sslmit.unibo.it/~baroni/web_as_corpus_cl05.html), July 2005
• Visiting scholar at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI), Vienna, Austria, May-August 2005
• Taught mini-course Statistics for Corpus Linguistics, SITLEC, Forlì, April-May 2005
• Co-coordinator of the WaCky project (http://wacky.sslmit.unibo.it/)
• Co-organized workshop on The Web as Corpus, SSLMIT/SITLEC, January 2005
• Administrator of the site http://e-learning.sslmit.unibo.it/, 2003-2006
• Secretary of the entrance exam committee, SSLMIT, September 2003, September 2004, September 2005.
• Co-organized and co-taught intensive mini-course A Practical Introduction to Corpus Work, Bertinoro University Center, October 2003
• Co-coordinated the CORAL (CORpora e Apprendimento Linguistico) e-learning project (http://www.e-learning.sslmit.unibo.it/COR/)
• Helped organizing the Interdepartmental Workshop on Science and Common Sense, University of Padua, May 1995
• I contributed to the proposals of the following funded projects: PAISA' (FIRB project, 2009-2011), LiveMemories (PAT project, 2008-2010), CompoNet (PRIN project, 2006-2008), LiMiNE (University of Bologna strategic programme, 2007-2009)
• Reviewer for: Natural Language Engineering (2009), Generative Lexicon (2009), CogSci Distributional Semantics beyond Concrete Concepts Workshop (2009), ACL (2008-2009), EACL GEMS Workshop (2009), EACL Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition Workshop (2009), RANLP Workshop on NLP Methods and Corpora in Translation, Lexicography, and Language Learning (2009), EACL (2008), IEEE Intelligent Systems (2008), COLING (2008), Human Judgments in Computational Linguistics Workshop at COLING (2008), LREC (2008, 2010), IJCNLP (2008), the ESSLLI Student Workshop (2008), Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics 3 (QITL-3) (2008), Language Resources and Evaluation Journal (2007-2008), Italian Journal of Linguistics (2008), Cognitive Linguistics (2008), the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) (2007), Europhysics Letters (2007), Artificial Intelligence Journal (2007), WAC3 Workshop (2007), the US National Science Foundation (NSF) (2005-2007), Morphology (2007), EMNLP-CoNLL07 (2007), AMML Workshop at RANLP 2007 (2007), Web Genres Colloquim at Corpus Linguistics 2007 (2007), Corpus linguistics: An international handbook (2006), Languages in Contrast (2006), Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics 2 (QITL-2) (2006), Journal of the International Phonetic Association (2002, 2003), Phonetica (2001), Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2000), Journal of Phonetics (1998)

Honors and Scholarships

• Invited Scholar Fellowship, the National Institute for Japanese Language, Tokyo, 2007
• Marco Polo Scholarship for a research period abroad, University of Bologna, 2005
• Chancellor Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles, 1995-2000
• Summer School Fellowship, San Marino Center for Semiotic and Cognitive Studies, 1995
• Education Abroad Program Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles, 1993-1994
• Summer School Fellowship, University of Bucharest, Romania, 1993

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