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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
In 2022 she won an ERC grant for the project ABSTRACTION ERC-2021-STG-101039777, which aims to investigate how abstraction mechanisms work in thought, verbal language and creativity, both human and generated by artificial intelligence; Vice-PI and work unit coordinator of the national project PRIN 2022 'WEMB: Word Embeddings from Cognitive Linguistics to Language Engineering and Back'.
Research Experience
She was a Marie S. Curie research fellow at the University of Amsterdam (2015-2017), research associate at the University of Oxford (2017-2019). In 2019 she arrived in Bologna, Italy, as tenure-track.
Background
Linguist (cognitive and distributional semantics) at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Her research employs cross-disciplinary approaches, combining psycholinguistic experiments and computational modeling.
Miscellany
Developed a mobile app 'Word Ladders' (linguistic game for data collection, funded by ERC-2021-STG-101039777, intellectual property: UniBo).