Sandro Pezzelle
About me
Postdoc researcher at the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation, University of Amsterdam. My focus is on multimodal, cognitively-inspired computational models of language. As such, my work is at the intersection between Computational Linguistics, Computer Vision and Cognitive Science. I'm a proud member of the Dialogue Modelling Group led by Raquel Fernandez.
In 2018, I obtained a PhD in Cognitive and Brain Sciences, track Language, Interaction and Computation, at CIMeC, University of Trento, under the supervision of Raffaella Bernardi. During my PhD, I focused on the learning of quantity expressions from their use in multimodal contexts (see QUANTIT-CLIC).
In 2020, I'm co-Program Chair of EurNLP conference and co-Organizer of LANTERN workshop.
I’d define myself as an enthusiastic, "Let's try!" as my personal motto.
Besides academia, I'm co-founder and artistic director of indievano. I love writing stories.
News
- May 2020: The project Exploring Adaptation of Conversational Systems to Different Age Groups by Margot van der Goot, Raquel Fernandez and me has been funded by the RPA Human(e) AI!
- May 2020: Our abstract Asking questions with a big impact: Adapting to other interpretations of gradable adjectives has been accepted for poster presentation at CogSci2020!
- February 2020: I visited Gemma Boleda and the members of AMORE at UPF, Barcelona!
- December 2019: I am honored to be one of the Program Chairs of EurNLP2020 conference! Details soon!
- November 2019: I presented Is the Red Square Big? MALeViC: Modeling Adjectives Leveraging Visual Contexts at EMNLP-IJCNLP2019 (talk) and Big Generalizations with Small Data: Exploring the Role of Training Samples... at LANTERN2019 (poster) in Hong Kong!
- October 2019: I will be one of the Organizers of the LANTERN workshop co-located with COLING2020 in Barcelona!
- June 2019: Our paper Quantifiers in a Multimodal World... has been presented at CMCL co-located with NAACL-HLT2019!
- January 2019: I joined Raquel Fernandez's group at ILLC as a postdoc researcher!