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Marco Aldo PICCOLINO-BONIFORTI

PhD Student in Language and Speech Technologies

Department of Linguistics
University of Cambridge
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge CB3 9DA
United Kingdom

map55cam.ac.uk
tel: +39 339 7044066
skype: mpiccolino
yahoo: marco_piccolino
MSN: mapblive.it
Gtalk: mapb81googlemail.com

At the moment I am in: Cambridge, UK

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Brief CV

I was born on October 15th, 1981 in Milan (Italy).
After completing a humanities-oriented high-school in Arona (Italy) I moved to Graz (Austria) where I studied General Linguistics and Classical Archeology at Karl-Franzens University (2000-2004). In the meanwhile I spent one year as an exchange student in Venice (Italy), where I studied mostly Computational Linguistics at Ca' Foscari University.
After starting a collaboration with the Computational Linguistics Lab (2004-2007), I joined the International PhD School in Language & Speech Technologies (2006-2007) at GRLMC, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona (Catalunya, Spain).
Since October 2007 I am a Marie Curie fellow in the Sound To Sense Research Training Nework and I am enrolled as a PhD student at Cambridge University, dept. of Linguistics. I am a member of Clare Hall.
My hometown is called Locatello, located in the Imagna Valley, Italy.

Research interests

My primary research interest is in linguistically-motivated computational models of spoken language. I am currently working on a computational model of human speech perception that incorporates a low level (auditory primal sketch) and a high level (hierarchical temporal memory) processing component. According to firthian prosodic analysis, in such a model phonetic detail is expected to play a role at various level in the linguistic hierarchy. (See my page at S2S for more details).
I have also worked on text-based natural language processing in several short-term projects. Relevant areas include part-of-speech tagging, syntactic parsing, anaphora resolution, semantic entailment.
Further on, I am developing a strong interest towards localized teaching materials for language and speech technologies. To this purpose I am planning to develop a multilingual lexicon of Speech and language processing (wanna help?).
All my research is motivated by a strong passion towards human languages and cognition in general.

Currently I am member of:

• International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
• ISCA - Student Advisory Committee board
• Associazione italiana di scienze della voce (AISV)
• British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP)
• Società di linguistica italiana (SLI)

Publications

2007

• Marco Aldo Piccolino Boniforti, Max Hadersbeck: The symbolic/statistical dichotomy: a new evaluation of parsing systems. In: Atti del XL Congresso Internazionale di Studi della Società di Linguistica Italiana, 2007.
• Rodolfo Delmonte, Antonella Bristot, Marco Aldo Piccolino Boniforti: VIT - Venice Italian Treebank: caratteristiche sintatticosemantiche e quantitative. In: Atti del XL Congresso Internazionale di Studi della Società di Linguistica Italiana, 2007.

2006

• Rodolfo Delmonte, Antonella Bristot, Marco Aldo Piccolino Boniforti, Sara Tonelli: Coping with semantic uncertainty with VENSES. In: Proceedings of the Challanges Workshop. The 2nd PASCAL Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge, 2006, 86-91
• Rodolfo Delmonte, Antonella Bristot, Marco Aldo Piccolino Boniforti, Sara Tonelli: Another Evaluation of Anaphora Resolution Algorithms and a Comparison with GETARUNS' Knowledge Rich Approach. In: Robust Methods in Analysis of Natural Language Data - ROMAND 2006 - 11th EACL, 2006, 3-10
• Rodolfo Delmonte, Sara Tonelli, Marco Aldo Piccolino Boniforti, Antonella Bristot: VENSES - A Linguistically-Based System for Semantic Evaluation. In: First PASCAL Machine Learning Challenges Workshop, Springer LNAI, 2006, 344-371

2005

• Rodolfo Delmonte, Sara Tonelli, Marco Aldo Piccolino Boniforti, Antonella Bristot, Emanuele Pianta: VENSES - A Linguistically-Based System for Semantic Evaluation, in RTE-Challenge Workshop Proceedings, Southampton, PASCAL - European Network of Excellence, 2005, pp. 49-52
• Rodolfo Delmonte, Antonella Bristot, Marco Aldo Piccolino Boniforti, Sara Tonelli: Modeling Conversational Styles in Italian by means of Overlaps, in AISV CD Proceedings, Padova, 2005, p. 11-29

Other

• Marco Aldo Piccolino Boniforti: Versione poetica, in La Scuola Classica di Cremona. Annuario dell'Associazione Ex Alunni del Liceo-ginnasio "Daniele Manin", Cremona, 2000, p. 42

Resources

Here are a couple of references to start with if one is interested in speech and language processing:

• Various authors, ISCA Student Website
  http://www.isca-students.org/
• Ward, S. and Loper, E., Natural Language Toolkit
  http://nltk.sourceforge.net/
• Blackburn, P. and Striegnitz, K. (2002), Natural Language Processing Techniques in Prolog
  http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~kris/nlp-with-prolog/html/
• Coleman, J. (2005), Introducing Speech and Language Processing, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  http://www.islp.org.uk/
• Jurafsky, D. and Martin, J. H. (2008), Speech and Language Processing : An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. 2nd Edition
  http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~martin/slp2.html
• Various authors, ACL Wiki
  http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/

People

• Sound To Sense
• Linguistics (Staff | PhD students), Cambridge
• Computational Linguistics Lab, Venice
• GRLMC, Tarragona

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