Alessandro Lenci - Biography#

Alessandro Lenci, PhD, is Full Professor in Linguistics at the University of Pisa, and the director of the Computational Linguistics Laboratory (CoLingLab) at the Dept. of Philology, Literature, and Linguistics. He has extensively published on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and cognitive science. His main research areas are distributional semantics and its applications in linguistic and cognitive research, computational lexical semantics, computational models of verb argument structure, tools and resources for NLP. He has been the co-organizer of workshops and conferences (e.g., The Dagstuhl Seminar on Computational Models of Semantics: Formal and Distributional Approaches to Meaning 11-15 November 2013), and has appeared in the program committee of several conferences (ACL, COLING, EMNLP, LREC, etc.). He was co-chair for the Computational Models of Human Language Acquisition and Processing area at EMNLP 2013, and co-chair for the Semantic Processing, Distributional Semantics and Compositional Semantics are at COLING 2014. He was co-organizer of the ACL 2016 and 2018 Workshops on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition. He was PC co-chair of *SEM 2018 and is local co-organizer of ACL 2019 in Florence. In 2020, he received the “10 year Test-of-Time-Award” by the Association for Computational Linguistics. Author of more than 250 publications featured in national and international journals and conference proceedings, he published the volume Distributional Semantics in 2023 with Cambridge University Press in the Studies in Natural Language Processing series. Since 2022, he has been included in Stanford University's “World’s Top 2% Scientists” ranking. Recent publications: http://colinglab.humnet.unipi.it/publications.