Management and Leadership

• Former leader of the research lab on Language Diversity in the KnowDive research group of the University of Trento;

• work package leader in the InteropEHRate H2020 project on the EU-wide interoperability of electronic health records (2019-2022);

• programme chair at the CONTEXT 2019 conference;

• work package leader and supervisory board member of the ESSENCE Marie Curie training network on diversity-aware Artificial Intelligence (2013-2018);

• project manager in healthcare data integration for NHS Scotland (2017);

• project manager on the Diversicon framework, a domain-aware lexical-semantic repository for semantic tools (2016);

• work package leader in the QROWD H2020 project (2017);

• project manager on multilingual open data integration at the University of Trento (2013-2016);

• lead developer of the SCROLL cross-lingual NLP framework and leader of the related collaborative research effort (from 2013 onwards).

Chairing and Organisation of Scientific Events

• CONTEXT 2019 international conference: Programme Chair;

• ICNLSP 2019: co-organiser; 

• the ESSENCE Taboo City Challenge Workshop at ​IJCAI 2017: co-organiser and PC member;

• the DIVERSITY Workshop at ECAI 2016: Programme Chair;

• Knowledge in Diversity Workshop (2014–2017): co-organiser, head of Organising Committee;

• the 1st ESSENCE Autumn School on Evolving Semantic Systems, Ischia, Italy 2014: co-organiser;

• EuroTeX 2006 European TeX conference, Debrecen, Hungary: co-organiser.

Reviews and Scientific Committee Memberships

• Associate Editor, Springer Nature Computer Science (2024-onwards).

• ECAI 2024: PC member;

• AI Communications (2024): reviewer; 

• NAACL ARR 2024: area chair / metareviewer;

• COLING/LREC 2024: programme committee member;

• ACL 2023 Demo Track: scientific committee member;

• Language Resources and Evaluation journal (2022, 2023): reviewer;

• Workshop on NLP Solutions for Under-Resourced Languages (NSURL 2022): scientific committee member;

• BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Majing journal (2022): reviewer;

• LREC 2022: scientific committee member;

• Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (2021): reviewer;

• ACL ARR 2021: reviewer;

• International Journal on Digital Libraries (2021): reviewer;

• Journal of Information Science (2021): reviewer;

• Semantic Web Journal (2021): reviewer;

• Journal of Data Semantics (2020): reviewer;

• Journal of Biomedical Semantics (2020): reviewer;

• Journal on Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (2020): reviewer;

• Journal of Applied Sciences (2020): reviewer;

• IJCAI 2020: PC member;

• LREC 2020: PC member;

• ECAI 2020: PC member;

• Semantic Web Journal (2019): reviewer;

• PAUC (Journal on Personal and Ubiquitous Computing): reviewer;

• IEEE ICSC 2020 (International Conference on Semantic Computing): PC member;

• the Knowledge Engineering Review (2019): reviewer;

• ISCRAM 2019: reviewer;

• IEEE ICSC 2019 (International Conference on Semantic Computing): PC member;

• Communications of the ACM (2018–2019): reviewer;

• ALLDATA 2018, The Fourth International Conference on Big Data, Small Data, Linked Data and Open Data: PC member;

• IEEE ICSC 2018 (International Conference on Semantic Computing): PC member;

• Semantic Web Journal (2017): reviewer;

• Journal of Biomedical Semantics (special issue, 2017): reviewer;

• The State of Open Data 2016: PC member;

• Document Numérique, 2006/3 (vol. 9): reviewer.

Invited Talks

• Invited talk at the EHTEL Webinar on Semantic Interoperability for Healthcare, Apr. 2022.

• Invited panelist at the EHTEL workshop Data Intermediaries, Nov. 2021;

• Invited to the Round-Table on Health Data Interoperability, organised by DigitalHealthEurope, 24 March 2021.

• Invited speaker at the 10th International Conference on Interoperability for Enterprise Systems and Applications, co-presenting the InteropEHRate project, November 2020.

• Invited speaker at the conference Frontiers in African Digital Research, University of Bayreuth, January 2020;

• Invited to present in the Journals track of ISWC 2017, on Language and Domain Aware Lightweight Ontology Matching, Vienna, Austria;

• invited talk on multilingual NLP for open data, UKC Workshop, Jilin University, Changchun, China, 2015.

Talks

• Presentation and demo of project results on semantic health data interoperability at the External Stakeholders’ Board Meeting of the InteropEHRate Project (online, 2022).

• Using Linguistic Typology to Enrich Multilingual Lexicons: the Case of Lexical Gaps in Kinship. LREC 2022 poster presentation.

• Language Diversity: Visible to Humans, Exploitable by Machines, ACL 2022 demo and poster presentation.

• A Database and Visualization of the Similarity of Contemporary Lexicons, TSD 2021, online poster presentation.

• MorphyNet: a Large Multilingual Database of Derivational and Inflectional Morphology, SIGMORPHON Workshop at ACL 2021, online presentation.

• Exploring the Language of Data, COLING 2020, online presentation.

• A Protocol for Research Data Sharing, open Midterm Workshop of the InteropEHRate project, October 2020.

• Cross-Border Medical Research using Multi-Layered and Distributed Knowledge, Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS) @ ECAI 2020, online presentation.

• Presented our progress on cross-border Electronic Health Record interoperability at the InteropEHRate project review, Luxembourg, February 2020.

• Talk on cross-border interoperability of electronic health records at the External Stakeholders’ Board Meeting of the InteropEHRate project, Berlin, November 2019.

• Poster presentation at ACL 2019, Florence, on CogNet: a Large-Scale Cognate Database.

• Presentation and demo of a cross-border, multilingual medical research data integration project at the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, London, November 2017.

• the 4th Knowledge in Diversity Workshop, Trento, Italy, 2017;

• Domain-Based Sense Disambiguation on Multilingual Structured Data, Workshop on Diversity Aware Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2016, The Hague, Netherlands;

• the 3rd Knowledge in Diversity Workshop, Trento, Italy, 2015;

• A Multilingual Ontology Matcher, the 15th Ontology Matching Workshop at ISWC 2015, Bethlehem, PA;

• Named Entity Recognition for Mongolian, 18th Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue (TSD 2015), Pilsen, Czech Republic, 2015;

• the 2nd Knowledge in Diversity Workshop, Trento, Italy, 2015;

• Semantic Matching, the 1st ESSENCE Workshop, Surgeons’ Hall, Edinburgh, UK, 2015;

• the 1st Knowledge in Diversity Workshop, Bangalore, India, 2014;

• Open-Belly Surgery upon Omega2, EuroTeX 2006, Debrecen, Hungary;

• Injecting Information into Atomic Units of Text, ACM Document Engineering, Bristol, UK, 2005;

• Adapting Omega to OpenType Fonts, International Conference of the TeX Users Group, Xanthi, Greece, 2004;

• Adapting DVIPS to OpenType, EuroTeX 2003, Brest, France.

Teaching and Student Supervision

• University-level teaching experience (in French and English) of software development and programming languages (C, PHP) and of electronic document technologies (XML, XSLT, TeX);

• organiser and author of a master-level university course on the C language (Télécom Bretagne, 2007);

• co-supervision of PhD students:

  • Hadi Khalilia (2021-),

  • Mingjie Tian (2019-2020),

  • Yang Chi (2019-2020),

  • Khuyagbaatar Batsuren (Marie Curie PhD, 2017-2019),

  • Mercedes Huertas Migueláñez (Marie Curie PhD, 2016-2018),

  • Francisco Juan Quesada Real (Marie Curie PhD, 2017-2020),

  • Zoljargal Munkjargal (2015);

• supervision of master students’ final projects (10 students).

Awards and Scholarships

• Scholarship of the Louis Leprince-Ringuet Foundation, 2002;

• Scholarship of the French State (one-year funding of living expenses for studying in France), 2001;

• 2nd prize at the Students’ National Scientific Competition, Hungary, 1999.