LAURA GILDA PACCAGNELLA



Name: Laura Gilda PACCAGNELLA (born 1952.01.21 in Bergamo, Italy)
University : Padova
Department : Matematica Pura ed Applicata
Address : Via Trieste 63
City : 35121 Padova - ITALY
Telephone : + 39 - 049 827 1417
Fax : + 39 - 049 827 1204
Telephone : + 39 - 049 827 1417
e-mail : laurap@math.unipd.it

Education:

  • Doctor in Mathematics, University of Padova (1975).


    • Current positions:

  • Assistant Professor, in Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, University of Padova (since 1980).


    • Courses currently given :

  • at graduate level: Computer Science (since 1992);
  • at post-graduate level: Natural language Processing.


    • Fields of interest:

    Mathematics of Language, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation.

    Former positions and activities:

  • Research Fellow at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (1976-80);
  • Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles (1984);
  • Tenure at graduate level: Mathematical Analysis 1 (1979).


    • Major scientific memberships:

  • Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence;
  • Italian Mathematical Union;
  • Italian Association for Automatic Computation.


    • Books, scientific papers, articles, reviews:

    about pure and applied mathematics, machine translation.

    RECENT SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Selected books:

  • Fondamenti di informatica, Progetto, 1997, pgs. 329;
  • Esercizi di Calcolo Numerico e programmazione, with F. Meletti, F. Sartoretto, Progetto, 1981, pgs. 326.


    • Selected papers:

    Papers issued in specialized monographic volumes:

  • "Qualche applicazione matematica alle scienze del linguaggio" (with C. Minnaja), Epistemologia XVI, Special Issue, 1993, pgs. 215-240;
  • "An Example of Parallelism in reversing Multilingual Dictionaries" (with C. Minnaja), in "Computational Lexicology and Lexicography", Ling. Comp. VII, 1991, pgs. 139-145.


    • Papers issued in reviews or proceedings:

  • "Anaphora Resolution with Regard to Machine translation", Act. 15e Congr. Int. Cybernétique, in Press, Namur, 1998;
  • "Minimization of Effort in the Use of Anaphora", Cybernetica, XLI, 1, 1998, pgs. 57-65;
  • "Information Extraction: a Scheme Automatically Extracted from a School Text" (with C. Minnaja), Atti del Sesto Convegno AI*IA, Progetto, Padova, 1998, pgs. 32-36;
  • "Statistics for Anaphora Resolution in Italian", Proc. 3º Congr. SIMAI, 1996;

  • "Special Dictionaries for Machine Translation" (with C. Minnaja), Act. 14e Congr. Int. Cybernétique, Namur, 1995, pgs. 771-776;
  • "Traduzione automatica e intelligenza artificiale" (with C. Minnaja), Sistemi Intelligenti, V, 1, 1993, pgs. 85-119.
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