Gianluca LEBANI

Current Position

Research fellow at the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies of the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Research and Academic Experience

2018–19 | Lecturer, Department of Languages, Literature and Communication, Utrecht University, Utrecht.

2018 | Visiting Researcher, Computational Linguistics Laboratory, Department of Philology, Literature, and Linguistics, University of Pisa, Pisa.

2017 | Lecturer, Amsterdam University College, Amsterdam.

2013–17 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Computational Linguistics Laboratory, Department of Philology, Literature, and Linguistics, University of Pisa, Pisa.

2014–17 | Subject Expert and Teaching Assistant in Glottology and Linguistics, University of Pisa, Pisa.

2015–16 | Member of the TRIPLE research group, Roma Tre University, Roma.

2015 | Scientific Consultant, Lexicon Branding Inc., Sausalito, CA, USA.

2008 | Tagging for the Siena University Treebank, Interdisciplinary Center for Cognitive Studies of Language, University of Siena, Siena.

Education

2008-12 | Ph.D. in Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (University of Trento) and Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento.

2004-08 | M.Sc. degree in Linguistics, University of Siena, Siena

2000-04 | B.A. degree in Communication Science, University of Siena, Siena

2002-03 | Erasmus exchange student, Department of Linguistics, University of Genève, Genève

Teaching

2018-19 | Computational Linguistics (coordinator: F. Adriaans). BA Artificial Intelligence, Utrecht University

2018-19 | Introduction to Linguistics for AI (coordinator: R.W.F. Nouwen). BA Artificial Intelligence, Utrecht University

2018-19 | Language and Computation (coordinator: F. Adriaans). BA Linguistics, Utrecht University

2018-19 | Words in the Mind. BA Linguistics, Utrecht University

2018-19 | Machine Learning (coordinator: T. Deoskar). BA Artificial Intelligence, Utrecht University

2018-19 | Digital Methods in Linguistics. RMA Linguistics, Utrecht University

2017-18 | Text Mining & Collective Intelligence. Sciences Curriculum, Amsterdam University College

2016 | Introduzione all’Analisi Statistica dei Dati Linguistici (Introduction to the Statistical Analysis of Linguistic Data). Ph.D. School in Linguistics, Sapienza University of Rome and Roma Tre University

2014-15 | Laboratorio di R (Introductory Statistics with R Laboratory, part of the course of Applied Linguistics held by Alessandro Lenci). Master Program in Linguistics, University of Pisa

2013-14 | Lectures on WordNet and LexIt (lectures within the course of Applied Linguistics held by Alessandro Lenci). Master Program in Linguistics, University of Pisa

2014 | Esperimenti di analisi distribuzionale delle espansioni semantiche (Distributional Semantics Laboratory held with Alessandro Lenci). TRIPLE SIT Winter School, Rome

Supervision

2016 | Alice Coli (Master Degree in Linguistics, University of Pisa)

2016 | Gaia Bonucelli (Master Degree in Linguistics, University of Pisa)

2015 | Marco S. G. Senaldi (Master Degree in Linguistics, University of Pisa)

2013 | Veronica Viola (Master Degree in Linguistics, University of Pisa)

Editorial Activity

area chair: CLiC-it 2016 Track: “Cognitive modeling of language processing and psycholinguistics”

local organizer: First Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2014)

ad hoc reviewer: Behavior Research Methods, Cognitive Processing

conference reviewer: *SEM 2019, 2017; CogSci 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016; CLiC-it 2019, 2018, 2017, 2014; CONLL 2019; EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019; IWCS 2019; ACL 2018; COLING 2018, 2016, 2014; LREC 2018, 2016, 2014; EMNLP 2014

workshop reviewer: NAACL 2019 Workshop on “Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics”; ACL 2018/ACL 2016/EMNLP 2015/EACL 2014 Workshops on “Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning”, ESSLLI 2017 Student Session, COLING 2016 Workshop on “Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon”, EMNLP 2013 Workshop on “Computational Models of Human Language Acquisition and Processing”, ACL 2013 Student Research Workshop, ICWSM 2013 Workshop on “Computational Personality Recognition”, LREC 2010 Workshop “Semantic Relations. Theory and Practice”