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Alessandro Oltramari(Vicenza, 1976) graduated in Philosophy of Science at the University of Padua in 2000 and received a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science and Education at the University of Trento in 2006. He has been a Research Fellow at CNR (National Research Council) since 2000. He works at ISTC-CNR (Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies) in the Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA) - ISTC-CNR unit in Trento - mainly on the integration between ontologies and linguistic technologies. He is a permanent member of the organising committee of the workshop series &#x0091OntoLex' - Ontologies and Lexical Resources (hosted by the international conferences on Lexical Resources and Evaluation - LREC - from 2004 to 2008). He has been &#x0091Visiting Research Associate' at the Princeton University (USA), guest of the Laboratory of Cognitive Science (WordNet group), for six months, in 2005 and 2006. He participated to several national and international research project, in the fields of Knowledge Engineering and ontologies. In particular, he actively collaborated to the following European projects: WonderWeb (Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web), IKF (Intelligent Knowledge Fusion), Metokis (Methodology and Tools Infrastructure for the Creation of Knowledge Units). He is currently participating to FIRB 2005 project TOCAI.IT (Tecnologie Orientate alla Conoscenza per Aggregazioni di Imprese su InTernet), focused on the use of semantic technologies in enterprises (see also: LOA projects). He has recently been member of the program committees of major international conferences in the fields of formal and applied ontology, linguistic resources and technologies, such as IJCAI, ECAI, FOIS, LREC, ESWC, etc.He is author of about thirty scientific papers in the field of formal and applied ontology, computational linguistics, philosophy of mind, cognitive semantics. From January to September 2007 he also collaborated with Cogito S.r.l., a satellite firm of Expert System, a leading international provider of semantic technologies. In march 2008 he started a collaboration (teaching & research) with TeSI laboratory (Technology and Systems of Firms), part of the Department of Management and Engineering (University of Padua).

RESEARCH ACTIVITY

    Hybrid (approach to) Semantics
  • based on cognitive linguistics and formal semantics
  • concerns Human Computer Interaction (studying the links between social networks and semantic networks, web services and human needs, domotics and ergonomics, etc. )
  • focuses on interfacing ontologies and computational lexical resources (how human meanings permeate ICT)

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