Alan Ramponi

Welcome! I am a senior researcher at Fondazione Bruno Kessler where I am part of the DH group. My research focuses on natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) for studying, analyzing, and generating human languages in their diverse social/linguistic/cultural contexts. Broadly, I am interested in:

• Multilingual NLP: handling multiple languages, scripts, and cultural nuances
• Variability in language (dia/sociolects) and annotation (human subjectivity)
• Generalizability: dealing w/ data scarcity and domain shifts (transfer learning)
• Societal impact: ethics, bias, and fairness in NLP/ML (data, labels, and models)

My research is informed by linguistics and social sciences and work is cross-cutting (e.g., mis/disinformation countering, argument mining, computational dialectology).

⭐️ Feel free to contact me for theses or collaborations on these (or related) topics!

Previously, I was a visiting researcher in the NLPnorth group at the IT University of Copenhagen and got my Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Trento.