Alan Ramponi

I am a senior researcher in natural language processing and machine learning at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, where I am part of the DH unit at the Center for Digital Society. My research lies at the intersection of computation, language, and society, and aims at studying, modeling, and generating human languages in their diverse social/linguistic/cultural contexts.

I am particularly interested in multilingual/cultural NLP, variation in language (dia/sociolects) and annotation (human subjectivity), and generalizability and transfer in NLP/ML. I also deeply care about ethics and bias in NLP. I received an outstanding paper award at EACL’21 and a young researcher award for my work on NLP for non-standard languages. Currently, I am also involved in EU projects on NLP for misinformation countering and argumentation analysis.

I organized the Workshop on Noisy and User-generated Text at NAACL’25, a Special Session on Linguistic Variation at EACL’23, and several shared tasks at international and national levels. I regularly serve as an area chair for multi/cross-lingual NLP tracks in top-tier NLP venues.

Previously, I was a visiting researcher in the NLPnorth group at the IT University of Copenhagen and in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Padua. I got my Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Trento in 2021. For more info, see my publications and CV.