Alan Ramponi

Welcome! I’m a postdoctoral researcher in computational linguistics and NLP at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, where I’m part of the Digital Humanities group.

My research focuses on language variation across many dimensions (e.g., non-standard varieties and dialects, domains, registers, 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.

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

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Oct 17, 2024 Invited seminar as part of the Linguistics seminar series at University of Padua, Italy :art:
Oct 10, 2024 Invited talk at the De bèlt um ins conference at Mòcheno Cultural Institute, Bersntol, Italy :mountain:
Sep 20, 2024 Variationist accepted at ACL 2024, and another paper accepted at EMNLP 2024 :tada:
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: