Giulia Venturi - Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale

Curriculum vitae
Personal information
Giulia Venturi
via Santa Marta, 22 – Pisa, Italy
+39 050-3152847
[email protected]
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Gender Female | Date of birth 31 January 1982
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Extraction of linguistic and extra–linguistic knowledge from domain–specific corpora.
NLP–based analysis of the legal language with a specific view to the adaptation of NLP tools
to the legal language peculiarities.
NLP–based approaches to semantic processing of legal texts.
NLP–enabled readability assessment of texts across textual genres and domains.
NLP–enabled “linguistic profiling” of texts.
WORK EXPERIENCE
24 November 2014 - today
Research Grant
Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” (ILC) (Institute of Computational Linguistics) of the National Research Council (CNR) on the topic “Development of methodologies
and advanced techniques for assessing the linguistic complexity of the texts in view of the definition of controlled languages and methods for text simplification, with particular attention to
the analysis of specialized languages”, in the framework of the national project “Short writings,
linguistic simplification, social inclusion: models and applications (SCRIBE)”.
Supervision of Dr. Simonetta Montemagni.
1 November 2012 - 31 October
2014
1 July 2011 - 31 October 2012
Research Grant
Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” (ILC) (Institute of Computational Linguistics) of the National Research Council (CNR) for the “Legal Text Mining: building semantic
networks to support advanced queries in legal textual corpora (JURNET)” national Project.
Supervision of Dr. Simonetta Montemagni.
Research Grant
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa on the topic of “Law and Language: methods and techniques for linguistically formalizing the judicial dialogue amongst European courts”.
Supervision of Prof. Antonio Lazari.
1 April 2010 - 30 April 2011
Research Grant
Istituto di Ricerche sulle Attività Terziarie (IRAT) of the National Research Council (CNR) for
the “Migration” national Project on the topic of “Development of methodologies and techniques
for monitoring the linguistic competences in Italian of foreign students in the primary and secondary schools through advanced technologies in the field of computational linguistics”, as a
result of collaboration between the Istituto di Ricerche sulle Attività Terziarie and the Istituto di
Linguistica Computazionale (ILC) of the National Research Council (CNR).
Supervision of Dr. Simonetta Montemagni.
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1 April 2007 - 31 March 2010
Scholarship
Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale (ILC) of the National Research Council (CNR) on the
topic of “Methods and techniques for the automatic extraction of lexical–semantic information
from corpora of legal and biomedical texts, with a view to the acquisition of domain–specific
events”.
Supervision of Dr. Simonetta Montemagni.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1 September 2008 - 30 November
2008
Collaboration contract
Technical report “A comparative analysis of the existing morphosyntactic annotation schemes (PoS–
tagsets) for the Italian language”.
Department of Linguistics, University of Roma 3.
TEACHING EXPERIENCES
4 September 2014
Lecture
Title: ‘Natural Language Processing and Legal Knowledge Extraction’
Advanced module of the International Summer School LEX 2014. Managing lexical resources in the
semantic web
Faculty of Law, University of Bologna (Ravenna).
30 April 2014
Seminar
Title: ‘Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Extraction’
Departamento de Filología Francesa e Inglesa de la Universidad de Cádiz.
Series of lessons
February - March 2014
11 December 2013
Within the course of Dr. Simonetta Montemagni “Computational Linguistics II” (academic year 2013–
2014), master degree in “Linguistic Technologies (Tecnologie del linguaggio)”
University of Pisa.
Seminar
Title: ‘Oltre il contenuto tecnologie linguistico–computazionali per l’analisi della struttura linguistica del
testo’
Within the Seminario di Cultura Digitale
Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa.
Lecture
5 September 2013
Title: ‘Natural Language Processing and Legal Knowledge Extraction’
Advanced module of the International Summer School LEX 2013. Managing lexical resources in the
semantic web
Faculty of Law, University of Bologna (Ravenna).
Lecture
5-7 December 2012
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Title: ‘Computational Linguistics as bridge between the language of law and legal knowledge’
Within the course of Dr. Antonio Lazari “Introduction to European Private Comparative Law”
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa.
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Lecture
13 September 2012
Title: ‘Ontology Learning in the legal domain. An introduction’
Advanced module of the International Summer School LEX 2012. Managing lexical resources in the
semantic web
Faculty of Law, University of Bologna (Ravenna).
Lecture
11 and 17 May 2012
Title: ‘Natural Language Processing and Law: methods, techniques and applications’
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa.
Seminar
18 May 2012
Title: ‘Natural Language Processing and Law: methods, techniques and applications’
Within the seminar Linguistic technologies and Law. Towards semantic queries in legal texts
Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell’Informazione Giuridica (ITTIG) (Institute of Legal Information Theory and
Techniques) of the National Research Council (CNR), Firenze.
Seminar
2 December 2010
Title: ‘Language and law: a computational linguistics perspective’
Within the seminar Legal Information and linguistic technologies
Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell’Informazione Giuridica (ITTIG) (Institute of Legal Information Theory and
Techniques) of the National Research Council (CNR), Firenze.
30 March 2007
Title: ‘Methods and techniques for the automatic extraction of lexical–semantic information from corpora of
legal texts belonging to the environmental domain. From the construction of a domain–specific TermBank
to the acquisition of classes of legal and environmental events’
Seminar
Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell’Informazione Giuridica (ITTIG) (Institute of Legal Information Theory and
Techniques) of the National Research Council (CNR), Firenze.
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
– Member of the Program Committee of the 10th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for
Building Educational Applications (NAACL 2015 Workshop).
– Member of the Program Committee of the Special Track on Rules and Human Language
Technology, hosted by the 8th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML 2014), Prague,
Czech Republic, August 18–22, 2014.
– Member of the Program Committee of the 9th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for
Building Educational Applications (ACL 2014 Workshop).
– Cultore della materia for the scientific disciplinary sector L/LIN01.
– Member of the ItaliaNLP Laboratory (www.italianlp.it) at the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” (ILC-CNR).
– Member of the Laboratory of Forensic Linguistics (Laboratorio di Linguistica Giudiziaria,
LALIGI) of the Univeristy of Firenze.
– Member of the Organizing Commitee of the 5th Workshop on Semantic Processing of Legal
Texts (SPLeT–2014), in conjunction with the 9th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2014), 27 May 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland.
– Member of the Program Committee of the Special Track on Translating between Human
Language and Formal Rules: Business, Law, and Government, hosted by the 7th International
Web Rule Symposium (RuleML 2013), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.,
July 11-13th, 2013.
– Member of the Organizing Commitee of the First Shared Task on Dependency Parsing of
Legal Texts, held during the 4th Workshop on Semantic Processing of Legal Texts (SPLeT–
2012).
– Member of the Program Committee of the 4th Workshop on Semantic Processing of Legal
Texts (SPLeT–2012), held in conjunction with the 8th Language Resources and Evaluation
Conference (LREC 2012), 27 May 2012, Istanbul.
– Member of the Organizing Commitee of the shared task Domain Adaptation for Dependency
Parsing, held during Evalita 2011 (Evaluation of NLP and Speech Tools for Italian).
– Member of the Organizing Commitee of the shared task Frame Labeling over Italian Texts
Task, held during Evalita 2011 (Evaluation of NLP and Speech Tools for Italian).
– Since 11 February 2011, Member of the Observatory for the quality of administrative acts.
PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC
PROJECTS
2013-2016
National project, PRIN 2010FWM3B4 – Area 10
Title: ‘SCRIBE – Short writings, Linguistic Simplification, Social inclusion: models and applications’
Project participants: Università di Tor Vergat;, Università “L’Orientale” di Napoli; Università Roma Tre;
Università di Pisa; Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” (ILC-CNR).
Prize project MIUR
2013-2014
Title: ‘The Administration of Justice in Italy: the case of neurogenetics and neuroscience, a multidisciplinary approach’
Project participants: Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” (ILC-CNR); Istituto di
Studi Giuridici Internazionali (ISGI-CNR); Istituto di Ricerche sulla Popolazione e le Politiche Sociali
(IRPPS-CNR); Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione (ISTC); Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche
dell’Informazione Giuridica (ITTIG-CNR)Department of Linguistics, University of Roma 3.
Regional project, POR CRO FSE 2007-2013 (Asse IV - Capitale Umano)
1 November 2012 - 31 October
2014
Title: ‘Legal Text Mining: building semantic networks to support advanced queries in legal textual corpora
(JURNET)’
Project partners: Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” (ILC-CNR); Istituto di Teoria e
Tecniche dell’Informazione Giuridica (ITTIG-CNR); Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa); European Center
for Law, Science and New Technologies (ECLT) - Università degli Studi di Pavia.
National Project
1 April 2010 - 28 February 2011
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Title: ‘Migrazioni’, code IC.P10, departmental project of the department of Cultural Identity of the National
Research Council (CNR), Line 1 “Linguistic differences and integration difficulties”, Line 1.4 “Advanced
technologies and cultural–linguistic integration in the school”.
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2008 - 2009
National Project
Title: ‘Design and development of advanced functionalities for semantic annotation of legislative texts
integrated in the NIR Editor and aimed at legal text consolidation’
Project participants: Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale (ILC-CNR) and Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche
dell’Informazione Giuridica (ITTIG-CNR).
European Project, eParticipation project n. 200601024
1 April 2007 - 30 June 2008
Title: ‘DALOS (Drafting Legislation with Ontology–based Support’, WP3 “Text–to–Knowledge Extraction
and Connection to the Ontology’
Project participants: Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale (ILC-CNR) (coordinator); Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield - USFD; Autonomous University of Barcelona - IDT–UAB; Leiden
University; European University Institute; The Leibniz Center for Law University of Amsterdam (UvA);
Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament.
1 April 2007 - 31 March 2009
Title: ‘BOOTSTREP (Bootstrapping of Ontologies and Terminologies Strategic Research Project’, WP4
“Bio–Events’
Project participants: Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell’Informazione Giuridica (ITTIG-CNR)(coordinator);
Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale (ILC-CNR); School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester; European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge.
European Project, FP6 n. 028099
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
2008-2011
Ph.D. degree in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Linguistic Engineering
Thesis Title: ‘Lingua e Diritto: una prospettiva linguistico–computazionale (Language and law: a computational linguistics perspective)’
University of Torino (Italy)
Supervisor: Prof. Mario Squartini
Members of examination committee: Prof. Mario Squartini, Dr. Simonetta Montemagni, Prof. Mirko
Tavoni, Prof. Antonio Lazari.
Master degree in Italian Language and Literature
2004-2006
Thesis Title: ‘L’ambiente, le norme, il computer. Uno studio linguistico–computazionale per la creazione di
ontologie giuridiche in materia ambientale (The environment, the norms, the computer. A computational–
linguistics study for the creation of legal ontologies in the environmental domain)’
University of Pisa (Italy)
Mark: 110/110 cum laude
Supervisors: Prof. Mirko Tavoni, Dr. Simonetta Montemagni, Prof. Alessandro Lenci.
Bachelor degree in Literature
2001-2004
Thesis Title: ‘L’ambiente, le norme, il computer. Uno studio linguistico–computazionale per la creazione di
ontologie giuridiche in materia ambientale (The environment, the norms, the computer. A computational–
linguistics study for the creation of legal ontologies in the environmental domain)’
University of Pisa (Italy)
Mark: 110/110 cum laude
Supervisors: Prof. Mirko Tavoni, Dr. Simonetta Montemagni, Prof. Alessandro Lenci.
PERSONAL SKILLS
Mother tongue(s)
Other language(s)
Italian
Understanding
Listening
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Reading
Speaking
Spoken
interaction
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Spoken
production
Writing
English
French
B2
B2
B2
B2
B2
A3
A3
A3
A3
A3
Levels: A1/A2: Basic user - B1/B2: Independent user - C1/C2: Proficient user
Common European Framework of Reference (CEF) level
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