Scholar
Cristiano Chesi
Google Scholar ID: KhbFHZEAAAAJ
IUSS Pavia
Citations & Impact
Citations
832
H-index
13
i10-index
16
Publications
20
Co-authors
14
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Selected publications include books such as COnVERSA: Test di Comprensione delle Opposizioni morfo-sintattiche VERbali attraverso la ScritturA (2022), Special issue on directionality of phrase structure building (2013), and papers like Recurrent Networks Are (Linguistically) Better? An (Ongoing) Experiment on Small-LM Training on Child-Directed Speech in Italian (2024).
Research Experience
- He has developed an online 'Italian' > 'Italian Sign Language' Machine Translation service and an aligned, fully annotated corpus with a visual editing tool for semi-automatic tagging of new linguistic data (Centro Ricerche RAI, public broadcast television, Siena University Treebank). He also developed a demo parser for Italian (Phase-based Minimalist Parser) based on a grammatical framework dubbed 'Phase-based Minimalist Grammar' (PMG, Chesi 2007). A related project is called Top-Down Left-Right Grammars, which has recently evolved into Expectation-based Minimalist Grammars (e-MG, Chesi 2022, 23). Currently, he coordinates the T-GRA2L project: Testing GRAdeness and GRAmmaticality in Linguistics.
Education
- Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences from the University of Siena (2005) and researcher at the same university's CISCL (Interdepartmental Center for Cognitive Studies of Language) as a Computational Linguist.
Background
- He is an Associate Professor at the University School for Advanced Studies (IUSS Pavia) and has been the Director of NeTS (IUSS Laboratory for Neurolinguistics, Computational Linguistics, and Theoretical Syntax) since September 2016. His research areas include Computational Linguistics (grammatical formalisms, complexity theory, Parsing and Machine Translation), Language Acquisition, and Linguistic Disabilities (deafness, aphasia, and SLI). He has collaborated with the Microsoft Language Development Center (Lisbon); Marie Curie Fellowship in 2004 at City University of London; Erasmus professor at the University of Geneva; Visiting Scholar at MediaLab and the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT (Cambridge, MA); Visiting student at IRST (Institute for Scientific and Technological Research of Trento); Erasmus student at the University of Rennes II (France).
