at the University of Padova:
at the AIS San Marino:
at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu-Hermannstadt (RO)
Fields of interest:
Mathematics of Language, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, Planned Languages.
Academic memberships and activities:
Chairman of the International Scientific Institute "Ivo Lapenna", Wien (since its foundation in 1997);
Member of the Esperanto Academy, Rotterdam (since 1973; Director of its Literary Section 1996-2002);
Executive editor of The Prometeus Journal;
Member of the Editorial Staff of Grundlagenstudien aus Kybernetik und Geisteswissenschaft;
Referee for some international reviews and international congresses about computational linguistics, cybernetics and planned languages;
Member of the Organizing Committee of several scientific meetings; chair of sections in scientific meetings.
"Prize for Culture" of the Italian Prime Minister (1990);
Prize "Capestrano" of the President of Region Abruzzi (1995);
Prize "Pirlot" of the AIS San Marino for the best scientific work (1996);
Prize for scientific and teaching activity, University of Padova (1970-71,1971-72, 1972-73).
Former positions and activities:
Vice-Head of the Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Univ. Padova (1998-2001);
Member of the Scientific Board of the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa (1978-1994, Vice-President 1990-94);
Member of the Editorial Board of "Linguistica Computazionale" (1981-94);
Research Fellow at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (1963-68);
Teaching Assistant at the University of Pisa (1963-65), the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (1965-66), the University of Padova (1966-80);
Tenured Lecturer at the Naval Academy, Livorno (1965), at the University of Padova (1966-80), at the University of Trento (1972-73);
Associate Professor at AIS San Marino (1983-89);
Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute &State University (1983-84);
Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles(1984);
NATO Senior Scholarship (1984);
Advisor (for Mathematics) of the Commission for Cultural Exchanges between Italy and United States;
Guest lecturer at several European Universities, such as Nitra (SK),Polytechnic of Bjalistok (PL), Prague (CZ), Debrecen (H), Craiova (RO);
Member of the Executive Board of the World Organization of Young Esperantists (Vice-President, 1961-63; Secretary General, 1963-66);
Member of the Committee of the Universal Esperanto-Association (1965-78);
President of the Italian Association of Young Esperantists (1966-68);
Director of the Italian Esperanto Institute (1967-77).
Major scientific memberships:
Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (founder-member);
Italian Society for History of Mathematics (founder-member);
Association for Computational Linguistics;
European Association for Machine Translation;
Italian Society for Applied and Industrial Mathematics;
Mathematical Society of Kiev (UKR) (h.c.);
Universal Esperanto-Association;
Italian Esperanto-Federation (President of the Padova section).
Other major memberships:
Amnesty International, Italian Cancer Association, Alumni Scuola Normale Superiore, Italian Fulbright Association.
Books, scientific papers, articles, reviews:
nearly 150 about applied mathematics, computational linguistics, human and machine translation, planned languages, literary criticism in planned languages; some tens translations from English into Italian and from Latin, French, Italian and Italian dialects into Esperanto.
Selected books (since 1990):
Author:
Metodi Matematici per l'Ingegneria (2 volumes), Progetto, 1997-2002, pgs. 292+346.
Vocabolario Italiano-Esperanto, CoEdEs, 1996, pgs. 1448.
Matematica Due, Decibel-Zanichelli, 1994, pgs. viii+456.
Metodi matematici, CUD, 1993, pgs. 186.
Argomenti di Matematica per Ingegneria, Progetto, 1991, pgs. 270.
Editor:
AI*IA98, Atti del Sesto Convegno dell'Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale (with S. Badaloni), Progetto, 1998, pgs. 336.
The Costs of European Linguistic (non) Communication (scientific coordinator), ERA, 1997, pgs. 150.
Ja. O. Matvijiŝin: "La cultura e la scienza, con particolare riguardo alla matematica, nei rapporti tra Italia e Ucraina", Dip. Matematica Pura ed Appl., Univ. Padova, R. I. 21, 1991, pgs. 109.
Modellizzazioni Matematiche per le Scienze del Linguaggio, Dip.
Matematica Pura ed Appl., Univ. Padova, R. I. 25, 1990, pgs. 109.
Translations (mathematics)
R. Hilgers, Yashovardan (eds.): EG-Wörterbuch mathematischer Begriffe, Leuchturm-Verlag, 1980, pgs. 133-141.
Phillips, E. G. (transl. from English into Italian): Funzioni di una variabile complessa, Cremonese, 1967.
Selected papers (since 1990):
Papers issued in specialized monographic volumes:
"Machine Translation: an Aid, not a Solution", in R. Selten (ed.): "The Costs of European Linguistic (non) Communication", ERA, 1997, pgs. 67-75.
"Qualche applicazione matematica alle scienze del linguaggio" (with L. Paccagnella), Epistemologia XVI, Special Issue, 1993, pgs. 215-240.
"Lingua ed educazione matematica", in G. Pisent, L. Bottin (eds.): "Scuola e processi formativi", Progetto, 1992, pgs. 107-116.
"An Example of Parallelism in reversing Multilingual Dictionaries" (with L. Paccagnella), in "Computational Lexicology and Lexicography", Ling.Comp. VII, 1991, pgs. 139-145.
"La metodologia delle catastrofi negli studi di fonetica", in E. Magno Caldognetto, F. Ferrero (eds.): "Trattamento del segnale vocale ed elaborazione statistica dei dati", Atti Assoc. It. Acustica, XVIII, 1991, pgs. 133-147.
Papers issued in reviews or proceedings:
"Anaphora with relative pronouns: An Algorithm for Italian and Esperanto. Part II (with L. Paccagnella), Grundlagenstudien aus Kybernetik und Geisteswissenschaft, 43, 3, Sept. 2002, pgs. 115-124.
"Anaphora with relative pronouns: An Algorithm for Italian and Esperanto. Part I (with L. Paccagnella), Grundlagenstudien aus Kybernetik und Geisteswissenschaft, 43, 2, Juni 2002, pgs. 51-61.
"Etimologia in una lingua pianificata", Language Problems and Language Planning, 26, 1, 2002, pgs. 69-75.
"The Language of Computers: between Culture and exact Science", The Prometeus Journal, 2001, n.1, pag.1-9.
"Gerolamo Cardano e l'insegnamento dell'aritmetica (nel 500° anniversario della nascita)", Grundlagenstudien aus Kybernetik und Geisteswissenschaft, 42, 4, Dezember 2001, pgs. 166-180.
"Diritto alla lingua e ... alla scienza", Cadmo, VIII, n. 3 (24), 2000, pgs. 113-115.
"A Part-of-Speech Tagger for Esperanto oriented to MT" (with L. G. Paccagnella), International Conference "MT 2000 - Machine Translation and multilingual Applications in the new Millennium", Exeter, 2000, pgs. 13.1-13.5.
"Sigmund Freud kaj la naskiĝo de la psikanalizo" (Sigmund Freud and the Birth of Psychoanalysis), Acta Sanmarinensia Academiae Internationalis Scientiarum, V, 4, 2000, pgs. 89-148.
"Statistika analizo de la paroladoj de Ivo Lapenna" (Statistical Analysis about Speeches by Ivo Lapenna), Grundlagenstudien aus Kybernetik und Geisteswissenschaft, 41, 2, Juni 2000, pgs. 83-90.
"Information Extraction: a Scheme Automatically extracted from a School Text" (with L. G. Paccagnella), in S. Badaloni, C. Minnaja (eds.): AI*IA98, Atti del Sesto Convegno dell'Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale, Progetto, Padova, 1998, pgs. 32-36.
"Lingvproblemoj en Eŭropo: ekspertizo pri la kostoj de nekomunikado - Language Problems in Europe: an Expertise about the Costs of non-Communication", Act. 15e Congr. Int. Cybernétique, Namur, 1998, pgs. 695-700.
"Standartoj por la aŭtomata etikedado de la parolelementoj - Standards for automatic Part-of-Speech Tagging", Act. 15e Congr. Int. Cybernétique, Namur, 1998, pgs. 745-750.
"Ambiguity and Hypergraphs", Cybernetica, 41, 1, 1998, pgs. 49-56.
"Machine Translation in the European Union", Proc. 3° Congr. SIMAI, 1996.
"Automatic Schematization of School Texts", Act. 14e Congr. Int. Cybernétique, Namur, 1995, pgs. 782-786.
"Special Dictionaries for Machine Translation" (with L. Paccagnella), Act. 14e Congr. Int. Cybernétique, Namur, 1995, pgs. 771-776.
"Traduzione automatica e intelligenza artificiale" (with L. Paccagnella), Sistemi Intelligenti, V, 1, 1993, pgs. 85-119.
Reviews to (since 1990):
E. Coelho: "Teaching and Learning in Multicultural Schools: An Integrated Approach", Language Problems and Language Planning, 24, 2, 2000, pgs.201-204.
R. Köhler and B. R. Rieger: "Contributions to Quantitative Linguistics", Computational Linguistics, 20, 1, 1994, pgs. 141-142.
R. Zepp: "Language and Mathematics Education", LanguageProblems and Language Planning, 18, 1, 1991, pgs. 88-90.
Selected literary translations (since 1990)
G. Cardano: Pri la noblo kaj utilo de ĉi arto kaj pri la malklaraj notacioj (from "De numeris", from Latin into Esperanto), Literatura Foiro,194, 2001, pgs. 291.
G. Leopardi: Dialogo de Modo kaj Morto (from Italian into Esperanto), Literatura Foiro, 187, 2000, pgs. 245-247.
G. Casanova: el "Historio de mia vivo" (from French into Esperanto), Literatura Foiro, 178, 1999, pgs. 80-86.
C. Pascarella: La malkovro de Ameriko (fifty sonnets from the Roman dialect into Esperanto, with R. Corsetti and G. Pisoni), LiteraturaFoiro, 140, 1992, pgs. 301-319.
Enlumas min senlimo (an Anthology of Italian Poetry of the last century translated into Esperanto) (ed.), Literatura Foiro, 1990, pgs. 272.
A. Beolco (Ruzante): Interparolo (from the Padua dialect of the 16thcentury into Esperanto), Edistudio, 1990.
C. Pavese: Poemoj (from Italian into Esperanto), LF-koop, 1982.
C. Goldoni: La gastejestrino (from Italian into Esperanto), Edistudio, 1981.
Selected literary books, essays or reviews (since 1990, in Esperanto):
1990: