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 part of the DREAM (Distributed dynamic REpresentations for diAlogue Management) ERC project and proud member of the Dialogue Modelling Group led by Raquel Fernández.
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 (moved to 2021) and co-Organizer of LANTERN, and member of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the Cognitive Science Society.
I'm an enthusiastic. "Let's try!" is my personal motto.
News
- October 2020: The paper Grounded and Ungrounded Referring Expressions in Human Dialogues... in collaboration with University of Trento has been accepted at CLiC-it 2020!
- September 2020: Two long papers from the DREAM group have been accepted at EMNLP2020!
- September 2020: The long paper Be Different to Be Better!... in collaboration with University of Trento has been accepted at Findings of EMNLP2020!
- August 2020: The deadline to submit your paper to LANTERN2020 has been extended to September, 11. Double submissions allowed!
- May 2020: The project Exploring Adaptation of Conversational Systems to Different Age Groups by Margot van der Goot, Raquel Fernández 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!