Alan Ramponi

Welcome! I’m a postdoctoral researcher in natural language processing (NLP) at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Italy, where I’m part of the DH research group.

Previously, I was a visiting researcher in the NLPnorth group at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. I earned my Ph.D. in NLP from the University of Trento, working as a research assistant at the Microsoft Research Cosbi centre. Prior to that, I completed my M.Sc. in computer science cum laude at the University of Trento.

My research focuses on language variation across many dimensions (e.g., languages, dialects, domains, social factors). I am interested in how NLP can contribute to the study of language variation, and how accounting for language variation can contribute to more robust, fair, and inclusive NLP.

news

Dec 14, 2023 Invited talk at the Technology meets Local Languages workshop in Parma, Italy :cheese:
Dec 8, 2023 Paper accepted to TACL (read it here!) presented at EMNLP 2023 in Singapore :palm_tree:
Nov 7, 2023 I co-organized the 7th edition of the NL4AI workshop, held this fall in Rome, Italy 🏛
Oct 6, 2023 Invited talk at the Multi* workshop on linguistic variation in Copenhagen, Denmark :bike:
Sep 8, 2023 I co-organized GeoLingIt :it: and HaSpeeDe3 :speech_balloon: shared tasks at Evalita 2023, Parma, Italy 🍽️
May 6, 2023 I led a BoF session and presented a VarDial paper at EACL 2023 in Dubrovnik, Croatia :ocean:
Jul 15, 2022 Two accepted papers (NAACL, SemEval) presented at NAACL 2022 in Seattle, USA :mountain:
Aug 10, 2021 I joined the DH research group at FBK as a postdoctoral researcher! :tada:
Jun 30, 2021 Finally, I’m Dr. Ramponi! :man_student: I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis :sparkles:
Apr 21, 2021 Our multitask learning toolkit Machamp received an outstanding paper award :trophy: at EACL 2021