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SHORT BIO

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 currently collaborates with the ISTC-CNR (Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies), at the Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA) in Trento - mainly on the integration between semantic and linguistic technologies. He is a permanent member of the organising committee of the international workshop series "OntoLex" - Ontologies and Lexical Resources. He has been "Visiting Research Associate" at the Princeton University (USA) in 2005 and 2006, guest of the Laboratory of Cognitive Science (WordNet group). He participated to several national and international research project. He is author of about 40 scientific papers in the field of formal and applied ontology, computational linguistics, cognitive science, knowledge management. He has edited 2 books for major international publishers (one is in progress) and 3 books of workshop proceedings, has given about 10 invited talks. He has been member of the program committees of major international conferences in the fields of formal and applied ontology, linguistic resources and semantic technologies. 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)

AGENDA

  • 17-23 May 2010, presentation of 2 papers at LREC 2010 (Linguistic Resources and Evaluation), La Valletta (Malta)
  • 30 May-3 June 2010, presentation of 1 paper at ESWC 2010 (Extended Semantic Web Conference), Heraklion, Greece
  • 21-22 August 2010, co-organizer of OntoLex 2010 (6th Workshop on Ontologies and Lexical Resouces), Bejing, China

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