I am currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Systems, and Production in the University of Rome "Tor Vergata". I've been at the University of Milano-Bicocca as Researcher.
Recent activities
- Co-organizer of the workshop series Scritture Brevi
- Co-organizer of the TextInfer 2011: EmNLP Workshop on Applied Textual Inference
- Co-chair of the Learning by Reading in the Real World Workshop @ AIIA 2011
- Co-chair of the TextGraphs-6: 2011 ACL Workshop on Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing
- Co-chair of the TextGraphs-5: 2010 ACL Workshop on Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing
- Co-chair of the TextInfer 2009: ACL-IJNLP Workshop on Applied Textual Inference
Software
- CHAOS, a robust syntactic parser for English and for Italian
- ARTE, a machine learning model for textual entailment recognition
Datasets
- Twitter Redundancy Detection Corpus with Yahoo: we are still working to respect the new Twitter Term of Use
Reference: Zanzotto, F. M.; Pennacchiotti, M. & Tsioutsiouliklis, K. Linguistic Redundancy in Twitter, Proceedings of 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EmNLP), 2011, bibtex - English WIKI RTE Corpus: Textual Entailment Dataset based on Wikipidia Revisions
Reference: Zanzotto, F. M. & Pennacchiotti, M. Expanding textual entailment corpora from Wikipedia using co-training, Proceedings of the COLING-Workshop on The People's Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources, 2010, bibtex - Italian RTE Corpus: Textual Entailment Dataset for Italian prepared for Evalita 2009
Reference: Bos, J.; Zanzotto, F. M. & Pennacchiotti, M. Textual Entailment at EVALITA 2009, Proceedings of EVALITA 2009, 2009,
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