Dr. Giuseppe G. A. Celano

I am an NLP researcher and DFG project leader at the Natural Language Processing Department of Leipzig University. My current work centers on computational analysis of linguistic data, especially from Ancient Greek and Latin. My research/life interests, however, span enormously: from treebanking and, more in general, mathematical and empirical linguistics to text encoding, programming languages (esp. functional ones), machine learning, parallel processing, logic, canon law, theory of sublime, hagiography (esp. mystics), and theology.

Postscriptum

My name is spelled Giuseppe and not Guiseppe: the ⟨i⟩ is part of the Italian digraph ⟨gi⟩, which is used to mean its pronunciation is [dʒ]. The ⟨i⟩ is therefore not pronounced: no, it is not 🙂. If this can help you remember, a similar phenomenon occurs for the word ciao. The ⟨i⟩ is not pronounced, but serves to mean that the preceding ⟨c⟩ has to be pronounced as [tʃ]. Without ⟨i⟩, ⟨c⟩ is pronounced as [k] (similarly to English cool) and ⟨g⟩ as [ɡ] (similarly to English good).