Alberto Testoni

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation - University of Amsterdam and part of the Dialogue Modeling group (led by Raquel Fernández). I got my PhD in Computer Science from the IECS International Doctoral School at the University of Trento, working under the supervision of Raffaella Bernardi. Before that, I obtained an M.Sc. in Cognitive Science from CIMeC - University of Trento and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Bologna. My work lies at the intersection of various fields, including Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognitive Science. Specifically, my research focuses on developing more effective NLP systems inspired by human language use, especially in multimodal visually-grounded settings. Check out my full list of publications and feel free to get in touch!

News

  • June 2024: Two new preprints available!
  • May 2024: Two papers accepted at ACL 2024!
  • February-May 2024: I served as Area Chair for ACL 2024 and LREC-COLING 2024.
  • April-May 2024: Teaching assistant of the course Advanced Topics in Computational Semantics (UvA).
  • February 2024: New paper accepted at EACL 2024!
  • December 2023: New paper out in Cognitive Science!
  • November 2023: Invited talk at MPI - Nijmegen
  • Oct-Dec 2023: Guest lectures at UvA (Higher Cognitive Functions and NLP1)
  • April 2023: A discussion about my PhD thesis is featured in the Computer Vision News magazine (pages 12-13)
  • February 2023: I defended my PhD thesis and joined UvA-ILLC as a Postdoc!
  • October 2022: New paper accepted at NL4AI @ AI*IA!
  • September 2022: New papers accepted at COLING and (Dis)embodiment!
  • June 2022: New paper accepted at IJCOL!
  • June 2022: New paper accepted at INLG 2022!
  • April 2022: I started an internship at Amazon Alexa AI in Berlin.
  • January 2022: New paper out in Frontiers in Big Data!
  • August 2021: Check our new EMNLP 2021 paper!
  • July 2021: Check our new ACL-SRW and SpLU-RoboNLP papers!
  • March 2021: We got a Special Mention @ CLIC-it!
  • January 2021: Paper acceapted at EACL2021!
  • September 2020: Check out our latest publications (ALVR, SpLU, AI*IA, CLIC-it).
  • September 2019: I started my Ph.D.
  • July 2019: I got my Ms.C. in Cognitive Science.
  • July 2019: one paper accepted at SemDial2019.
  • February 2019: one paper accepted at CMCL2019 co-located with NAACL.
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