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Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum
Eva Maria Vecchi
Personal Information
Name Eva Maria
Surname Vecchi
Email evamaria.vecchi@ilc.cnr.it
Academic Experience
Qualifications
March 10, 2010
March 10, 2010
May 18, 2007
May 6, 2005
June 28, 2001
Upon the judgement of the aggregate Council of Study in Informatica Umanistica of
the University of Pisa, Eva Maria Vecchi is granted a diploma of Laurea Specialistica
in Informatica Umanistica (class 24 L / D) of the order of the Italian university by
decree of the President of the aggregate Council of Study in Informatica Umanistica
Prof. Vincenzo Ambriola (n. 0003537 of 10/03/2010).
Upon the judgement of the aggregate Council of Study in Informatica Umanistica of
the University of Pisa, Eva Maria Vecchi is granted a diploma of Laurea Triennale in
Informatica Umanistica (class 5) of the order of the Italian university by decree of the
President of the aggregate Council of Study in Informatica Umanistica Prof. Vincenzo
Ambriola (n. 0003532 of 10/03/2010).
Obtained the title "Master of Science” (MS) in Computational Linguistics at
Georgetown University, in Washington, DC, USA, with a grade of 132.6/144, and with
a Master's Research Paper entitled "Personal Names: Recognition of variants
Incorporating the understanding of possible variations”. Supervisor: prof. Markus
Dickinson.
Obtained the title “Bachelor of Arts” (BA) in Linguistics, with Minors in both
Mathematics and Italian, at the University of Colorado at Boulder (USA), with a
grade of 3.639/4.0. Named on the “Dean's List” in 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005.
Obtained a High School Diploma at Langley High School in McLean, VA, USA with
a grade of 3.102/4.0.
Additional Courses and Experience
a.y. 2003 – 2004
Study Abroad program through the Facoltà di Linguistica at the Università di Firenze.
Courses: Linguistica Italiana
Dialettologia Italiana
Letteratura Italiana Moderna e Contemporanea
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Scholarships and Grants
April 1, 2010 – September 20, 2010
October 1, 2009 – December 31, 2009
January 1, 2010 – March 31, 2010
May 15, 2008 – November 14, 2008
November 15, 2008 – September 30, 2009
Research Grant through the Istituto di Ricerche sulle Attività
Terziarie, (IRAT) for the “Migrazione” 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” under the supervision
of Dr. Simonetta Montemagni (as a result of collaboration
between the Istituto di Ricerche sulle Attività Terziarie and the
Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale).
Participated in the Line of Research “Design and development
of a tool for extracting and structuring knowledge from websites
of Italian culture through the use of linguistic and computational
technologies” as part of the FIRB project “Integrated services
platform for the semantic and multilingual access to Italian
cultural content on the web” (Year 2007 – Protocol:
RBNE07C4R9) coordinated by Prof. Marco Santagata of the
University of Pisa. This Line of Research belongs to the
Department of Computer Science at the University of Pisa.
Participants of the project: Department of Italian Studies at the
University of Pisa (coordinator); Department of Computer
Science at the University of Pisa; Department of Art History at
the University of Pisa; Department of Italian Studies and
Performance at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”;
Consortium ICoN – Italian Culture on the Net; General
Direction for Library Heritage and Cultural Institutes
(DGBLIC); CAP S.p.a.
Scholarship through the University of Pisa, Department of
Computer Science, entitled “Annotated corpus of the Italian
language”, under the supervision of prof. Giuseppe Attardi.
Professional Experience
2005 – 2007
The MITRE Corporation
McLean, VA (USA)
Contract as an Information Systems Engineer at The MITRE Corporation (a private
agency, sponsored by the government, which does research, analysis and development
of advanced technologies), under the direction of Dr. Philip S. Barry, in collaboration
with the Identity Matching Lab, TSA and TSC for analysis and the development of
Natural Language Processing (NLP).
2005 – 2006 Federation of America Scientists Washington, D.C. (USA)
Contract as a Research Assistant at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
within the program of Information Technologies under the project (Grant No. REC­
0427827) funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the direction of
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Dr. Stefan Gunther and Sachin Patil Development of a Question­Answering System
for a biomedical computer game, “Immune Attack”.
Languages
Italian
English
Spanish
French
Fluent
Fluent (Mother language)
Fluent (Mother language)
Basic knowledge
Programming Experience
Python
Perl
C++
SQLPlus
HTML
JavaScript
Advanced (Language Proficiency Examination)
Advanced (Language Proficiency Examination)
Advanced (Language Proficiency Examination)
Advanced
Advanced
Good
Participation in Scientific Projects
April 1, 2010 –
September 30, 2010
May 15, 2008 –
September 30, 2009
Project “Migrazione” (code IC.P10, departmental project of the department of
Cultural Identity) coordinated by G. Tullio. Project participants: Istituto di ricerche
sulla popolazione e le politiche sociali, Istituto di ricerche sulle attività terziarie,
Istituto di storia dell'Europa mediterranea, Istituto di studi giuridici internazionali,
Istituto di studi sulle società del mediterraneo, Istituto per il lessico intellettuale
europeo e storia delle idee, Istituto per la storia del pensiero filosofico e scientifico
moderno, Istituto per le tecnologie didattiche.
Project "Analysis of texts for the Semantic Web and Question Answering (SemaWiki,
conv. 119/06)" funded by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Pisa and coordinated by
prof. G. Attardi of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Pisa.
Project participants: Department of Computer Science at the University of Pisa
(coordinator); Department of Linguistics at the University of Pisa; Institute of
Computational Linguistics of the CNR in Pisa.
Duration: 2 years (1/10/2007­30/9/2009).
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Awards
December 1, 2009
December 1, 2009
First place in the Part­of­Speech Tagging (Open Task) competition of the campaign
of evaluation of NLP tools for the Italian language “Evaluation of NLP and Speech
Tools for Italian 2009 (EVALITA 2009)”.
http://evalita.fbk.eu/pos.html
Third place in the Part­of­Speech Tagging (Closed Task) competition of the campaign
of evaluation of NLP tools for the Italian language “Evaluation of NLP and Speech
Tools for Italian 2009 (EVALITA 2009)”.
http://evalita.fbk.eu/pos.html
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