Marco Aldo Piccolino Boniforti
ESR on Project 10 at the University of Cambridge, UK; working with Dennis Norris, Richard Ogden and Sarah Hawkins
Email: map55@cam.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.resegone.com/mapb
Research interests: Natural Language Processing, Automatic Speech Recognition, Prosody
I studied general linguistics - with computational linguistics and phonetics/phonology as my main topics - and classical archaeology at Karl-Franzens University in Graz (Austria) and Ca’ Foscari University in Venice (Italy), graduating in 2004 with a thesis about intonation and ASR. Since 2004 I have collaborated with the Computational Linguistics Lab at Ca’ Foscari (Prof. Rodolfo Delmonte) dealing with several topics in the field of natural language processing, mainly connected with symbolic parsing for natural languages. At Ca’ Foscari I have also run some practical sessions for the students of the class in computational linguistics (topics include Prolog programming, introduction to Linux for NLP, parsing systems, natural language generation, etc.).
In 2005 I joined the Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics at Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona (Spain) where I attended classes in NLP given by prominent researchers focussing on various applied topics.
Since September 2007 I have been working on S2S project 10 and I’m based in Cambridge. The main task is to extend an existing model of human speech perception by making use of phonetic detail in a hybrid episodic-abstract approach.
I have a strong interest in the study of languages in general, spanning from their computational treatment for real-world applications to theoretical aspects.
Currently I am member of ISCA and I serve as a board member for the ISCA Student Section. I am also a member of AISV (Associazione Italiana di Scienze della Voce) and SLI (Società Linguistica Italiana).
Involved in: » Project 10: Hybrid episodic-abstract computational modelling: HSP
