Curriculum vitae Personal information via Santa Marta, 22 Pisa, Italy +39 050-3152847 giulia.venturi@ilc.cnr.it linkedin.com/pub/giulia-venturi/32/379/604 Gender Female Date of birth 31 January 1982 RESEARCH INTERESTS Extraction of linguistic and extra linguistic knowledge from domain specific corpora. NLP based analysis of the legal language with a specific view to the adaptation of NLP tools to the legal language peculiarities. NLP based approaches to semantic processing of legal texts. NLP enabled readability assessment of texts across textual genres and domains. NLP enabled linguistic profiling of texts. WORK EXPERIENCE 24 November 2014 - today Research Grant Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale Antonio Zampolli (ILC) (Institute of Computational Linguistics) of the National Research Council (CNR) on the topic Development of methodologies and advanced techniques for assessing the linguistic complexity of the texts in view of the definition of controlled languages and methods for text simplification, with particular attention to the analysis of specialized languages, in the framework of the national project Short writings, linguistic simplification, social inclusion: models and applications (SCRIBE). 1 November 2012-31 October 2014 Research Grant Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale Antonio Zampolli (ILC) (Institute of Computational Linguistics) of the National Research Council (CNR) for the Legal Text Mining: building semantic networks to support advanced queries in legal textual corpora (JURNET) national Project. 1 July 2011-31 October 2012 Research Grant 1 April 2010-30 April 2011 Research Grant Scuola Superiore Sant Anna of Pisa on the topic of Law and Language: methods and techniques for linguistically formalizing the judicial dialogue amongst European courts. Supervision of Prof. Antonio Lazari. Istituto di Ricerche sulle Attività Terziarie (IRAT) of the National Research Council (CNR) for the Migration national Project on the topic of Development of methodologies and techniques for monitoring the linguistic competences in Italian of foreign students in the primary and secondary schools through advanced technologies in the field of computational linguistics, as a result of collaboration between the Istituto di Ricerche sulle Attività Terziarie and the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale (ILC) of the National Research Council (CNR). Page 1 / 6 - Curriculum vitæ of
1 April 2007-31 March 2010 Scholarship Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale (ILC) of the National Research Council (CNR) on the topic of Methods and techniques for the automatic extraction of lexical semantic information from corpora of legal and biomedical texts, with a view to the acquisition of domain specific events. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1 September 2008-30 November 2008 Collaboration contract Technical report A comparative analysis of the existing morphosyntactic annotation schemes (PoS tagsets) for the Italian language. Department of Linguistics, University of Roma 3. TEACHING EXPERIENCES 4 September 2014 Title: Natural Language Processing and Legal Knowledge Extraction Advanced module of the International Summer School LEX 2014. Managing lexical resources in the semantic web Faculty of Law, University of Bologna (Ravenna). 30 April 2014 Seminar Title: Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Extraction Departamento de Filología Francesa e Inglesa de la Universidad de Cádiz. February - March 2014 Series of lessons Within the course of Dr. Simonetta Montemagni Computational Linguistics II (academic year 2013 2014), master degree in Linguistic Technologies (Tecnologie del linguaggio) University of Pisa. 11 December 2013 Seminar Title: Oltre il contenuto tecnologie linguistico computazionali per l analisi della struttura linguistica del testo Within the Seminario di Cultura Digitale Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa. 5 September 2013 Title: Natural Language Processing and Legal Knowledge Extraction Advanced module of the International Summer School LEX 2013. Managing lexical resources in the semantic web Faculty of Law, University of Bologna (Ravenna). 5-7 December 2012 Title: Computational Linguistics as bridge between the language of law and legal knowledge Within the course of Dr. Antonio Lazari Introduction to European Private Comparative Law Scuola Superiore Sant Anna of Pisa. Page 2 / 6 - Curriculum vitæ of
13 September 2012 Title: Ontology Learning in the legal domain. An introduction Advanced module of the International Summer School LEX 2012. Managing lexical resources in the semantic web Faculty of Law, University of Bologna (Ravenna). 11 and 17 May 2012 Title: Natural Language Processing and Law: methods, techniques and applications Scuola Superiore Sant Anna of Pisa. 18 May 2012 Seminar Title: Natural Language Processing and Law: methods, techniques and applications Within the seminar Linguistic technologies and Law. Towards semantic queries in legal texts Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell Informazione Giuridica (ITTIG) (Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques) of the National Research Council (CNR), Firenze. 2 December 2010 Seminar Title: Language and law: a computational linguistics perspective Within the seminar Legal Information and linguistic technologies Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell Informazione Giuridica (ITTIG) (Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques) of the National Research Council (CNR), Firenze. 30 March 2007 Seminar Title: Methods and techniques for the automatic extraction of lexical semantic information from corpora of legal texts belonging to the environmental domain. From the construction of a domain specific TermBank to the acquisition of classes of legal and environmental events Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell Informazione Giuridica (ITTIG) (Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques) of the National Research Council (CNR), Firenze. Page 3 / 6 - Curriculum vitæ of
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Member of the Program Committee of the 10th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (NAACL 2015 Workshop). Member of the Program Committee of the Special Track on Rules and Human Language Technology, hosted by the 8th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML 2014), Prague, Czech Republic, August 18 22, 2014. Member of the Program Committee of the 9th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (ACL 2014 Workshop). Cultore della materia for the scientific disciplinary sector L/LIN01. Member of the ItaliaNLP Laboratory (www.italianlp.it) at the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale Antonio Zampolli (ILC-CNR). Member of the Laboratory of Forensic Linguistics (Laboratorio di Linguistica Giudiziaria, LALIGI) of the Univeristy of Firenze. Member of the Organizing Commitee of the 5th Workshop on Semantic Processing of Legal Texts (SPLeT 2014), in conjunction with the 9th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2014), 27 May 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland. Member of the Program Committee of the Special Track on Translating between Human Language and Formal Rules: Business, Law, and Government, hosted by the 7th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML 2013), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., July 11-13th, 2013. Member of the Organizing Commitee of the First Shared Task on Dependency Parsing of Legal Texts, held during the 4th Workshop on Semantic Processing of Legal Texts (SPLeT 2012). Member of the Program Committee of the 4th Workshop on Semantic Processing of Legal Texts (SPLeT 2012), held in conjunction with the 8th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2012), 27 May 2012, Istanbul. Member of the Organizing Commitee of the shared task Domain Adaptation for Dependency Parsing, held during Evalita 2011 (Evaluation of NLP and Speech Tools for Italian). Member of the Organizing Commitee of the shared task Frame Labeling over Italian Texts Task, held during Evalita 2011 (Evaluation of NLP and Speech Tools for Italian). Since 11 February 2011, Member of the Observatory for the quality of administrative acts. PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS 2013-2016 National project, PRIN 2010FWM3B4 Area 10 Title: SCRIBE Short writings, Linguistic Simplification, Social inclusion: models and applications Project participants: Università di Tor Vergat;, Università L Orientale di Napoli; Università Roma Tre; Università di Pisa; Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale Antonio Zampolli (ILC-CNR). 2013-2014 Prize project MIUR Title: The Administration of Justice in Italy: the case of neurogenetics and neuroscience, a multidisciplinary approach Project participants: Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale Antonio Zampolli (ILC-CNR); Istituto di Studi Giuridici Internazionali (ISGI-CNR); Istituto di Ricerche sulla Popolazione e le Politiche Sociali (IRPPS-CNR); Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione (ISTC); Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell Informazione Giuridica (ITTIG-CNR)Department of Linguistics, University of Roma 3. 1 November 2012-31 October 2014 Regional project, POR CRO FSE 2007-2013 (Asse IV - Capitale Umano) Title: Legal Text Mining: building semantic networks to support advanced queries in legal textual corpora (JURNET) Project partners: Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale Antonio Zampolli (ILC-CNR); Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell Informazione Giuridica (ITTIG-CNR); Scuola Superiore Sant Anna (Pisa); European Center for Law, Science and New Technologies (ECLT) - Università degli Studi di Pavia. 1 April 2010-28 February 2011 National Project Title: Migrazioni, code IC.P10, departmental project of the department of Cultural Identity of the National Research Council (CNR), Line 1 Linguistic differences and integration difficulties, Line 1.4 Advanced technologies and cultural linguistic integration in the school. Page 4 / 6 - Curriculum vitæ of
2008-2009 National Project Title: Design and development of advanced functionalities for semantic annotation of legislative texts integrated in the NIR Editor and aimed at legal text consolidation Project participants: Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale (ILC-CNR) and Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell Informazione Giuridica (ITTIG-CNR). 1 April 2007-30 June 2008 European Project, eparticipation project n. 200601024 Title: DALOS (Drafting Legislation with Ontology based Support, WP3 Text to Knowledge Extraction and Connection to the Ontology Project participants: Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale (ILC-CNR) (coordinator); Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield - USFD; Autonomous University of Barcelona - IDT UAB; Leiden University; European University Institute; The Leibniz Center for Law University of Amsterdam (UvA); Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament. 1 April 2007-31 March 2009 European Project, FP6 n. 028099 Title: BOOTSTREP (Bootstrapping of Ontologies and Terminologies Strategic Research Project, WP4 Bio Events Project participants: Istituto di Teoria e Tecniche dell Informazione Giuridica (ITTIG-CNR)(coordinator); Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale (ILC-CNR); School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester; European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge. EDUCATION AND TRAINING 2008-2011 Ph.D. degree in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Linguistic Engineering Thesis Title: Lingua e Diritto: una prospettiva linguistico computazionale (Language and law: a computational linguistics perspective) University of Torino (Italy) Supervisor: Prof. Mario Squartini Members of examination committee: Prof. Mario Squartini, Dr. Simonetta Montemagni, Prof. Mirko Tavoni, Prof. Antonio Lazari. 2004-2006 Master degree in Italian Language and Literature Thesis Title: L ambiente, le norme, il computer. Uno studio linguistico computazionale per la creazione di ontologie giuridiche in materia ambientale (The environment, the norms, the computer. A computational linguistics study for the creation of legal ontologies in the environmental domain) University of Pisa (Italy) Mark: 110/110 cum laude Supervisors: Prof. Mirko Tavoni, Dr. Simonetta Montemagni, Prof. Alessandro Lenci. 2001-2004 Bachelor degree in Literature Thesis Title: L ambiente, le norme, il computer. Uno studio linguistico computazionale per la creazione di ontologie giuridiche in materia ambientale (The environment, the norms, the computer. A computational linguistics study for the creation of legal ontologies in the environmental domain) University of Pisa (Italy) Mark: 110/110 cum laude Supervisors: Prof. Mirko Tavoni, Dr. Simonetta Montemagni, Prof. Alessandro Lenci. PERSONAL SKILLS Mother tongue(s) Italian Other language(s) Understanding Speaking Writing Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production Page 5 / 6 - Curriculum vitæ of
English B2 B2 B2 B2 B2 French A3 A3 A3 A3 A3 Levels: A1/A2: Basic user - B1/B2: Independent user - C1/C2: Proficient user Common European Framework of Reference (CEF) level Page 6 / 6 - Curriculum vitæ of