Stefano Menini

Senior Researcher

    Short bio

    After my bachelor's degree in Philosophy at the University of Verona, I moved towards a more computational approach to texts and I got a master's degree in Philosophy and Language at the University of Trento that, beside philosophy, gave me a background in Natural Language Processing and Logics. My master's thesis work was about modeling the meaning of determiners by using a distributional  semantic approach and it was carried out under the supervision of Marco Baroni. In September 2018  I obtained my Ph.D. in Information Technologies at the ICT Doctoral School of the University of Trento with a thesis on the classification of topic based agreement and disagreement in the political domain under the supervision of Sara Tonelli.

    In 2021 I worked at CELCT, a company that operated in the field of the evaluation of language and communication technologies, where I worked on corpora creation and annotation tasks for NLP.

    My areas of research cover the automatic detection of cyberbullying (CREEP Project), hatespeech (HATEMETER project) and language simplification (SIMPATICO project).

    Publications

    1. Munari, Federico; Leonardelli, Elisa; Menini, Stefano; Morais Righi, Herica; Sobrero, Maurizio; Tonelli, Sara; Toschi, Laura,
      Public research funding and science-based innovation: An analysis of ERC research grants, publications and patents,
      in «RESEARCH EVALUATION»,
      2024
    2. Akdemir, Kiymet; Hürriyetoğlu, Ali; Troncy, Raphaël; Paccosi, Teresa; Menini, Stefano; Zinnen, Mathias; Christlein, Vincent,
      Multimodal and Multilingual Understanding of Smells using VilBERT and mUNITER,
      Proceedings of MediaEval 2022 CEUR Workshop,
      2022
    3. Palmero Aprosio, Alessio; Menini, Stefano; Tonelli, Sara,
      BERToldo, the Historical BERT for Italian,
      Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages,
      2022
    4. Menini, Stefano; Paccosi, Teresa; Tekiroglu, Serra Sinem; Tonelli, Sara,
      Building a Multilingual Taxonomy of Olfactory Terms with Timestamps,
      Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference,
      European Language Resources Association,
      2022
      , pp. 4030-
      4039