Department of Information Engineering
University of Padua
via Gradenigo 6/A
I-35131 Padova, Italy
phone +39 049 827 7948
satta AT dei DOT unipd DOT it

My primary research interests are in natural language processing, particularly in natural language parsing and formal language models for natural language.  I am also interested in formal language theory.

I received a Ph.D. in computer science from University of Padua, Italy, in 1990.  Between 1990 and 1993 I first joined the Institute for Scientific and Technological Research, now Fondazione Bruno Kessler, in Trento, Italy, as a junior researcher, and later the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS) at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, as a post-doctoral fellow.  Since 1994, I am joining the Department of Information Engineering,  University of Padua,  Italy, where at present I am a full professor.

I have served as chair of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) for years 2009-10.  I have served in the editorial boards of Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Research on Language and Computation, Computational Linguistics, and Grammars.  I have been a member of the standing committee of the Formal Grammar conference.  In 2001 I have served as co-chair of the program committee of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2001) and as program committee chair of the 7th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT-2001). 

• Publications

• Teaching

• Invited talk on translation and complexity (pdf) presented at the NAACL-06 Workshop on Computationally Hard Problems in Speech and Language Processing, New York, 2006.

• Tutorial on tree adjoining grammar parsing (postcript) presented at the 7th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+7), Vancouver, Canada, 2004.

• Invited talk on parallel rewriting (powerpoint) presented at the 9th Conference on Formal Grammar (FG-04), Nancy, France, 2004.

• Invited talk on parsing techniques for lexicalized context-free grammars (powerpoint) presented at the 6th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT-2000), Trento, Italy, 2000.

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