Marco Baroni:
Education and Academic/Professional History and Activities

• Education
• Work experience
• Institutional teaching
• Other activities
• Funded projects and scholarships
• Contact

• Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles, June 2000
  Dissertation Title: Distributional cues in morpheme discovery: A computational model and empirical evidence
  Dissertation Committee: Bruce Hayes (chair), Carson Schütze, Edward Stabler, Donca Steriade, Jody Kreiman
  
  
• M.A. in Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles. December 1997
  Thesis Title: The representation of prefixed forms in the Italian lexicon: Evidence from the distribution of intervocalic [s] and [z]
  Thesis Committee: Bruce Hayes (chair), Sun-Ah Jun, Carson Schütze, Donca Steriade
  
  
• Laurea in Linguistica ("110 e lode"), University of Padua, Italy, April 1995
  Thesis Title: La relazione tra struttura segmentale e costituenza moraica [The relation between segmental structure and moraic constituency]
  Thesis Co-Chairs: Alberto Mioni and Laura Vanelli

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• January 2019 - present
  Research professor
  Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA)
  Barcelona (Spain)
  ICREA website: https://www.icrea.cat/
  
  
• November 2016 - December 2021
  Research scientist and manager
  Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR)
  Paris (France)
  FAIR website: https://research.fb.com/category/facebook-ai-research-fair/
  
  
• November 2006 - November 2016
  Associate professor (tenured researcher until February 2013)
  Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC)
  Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI)
  Department of Cognitive and Education Sciences (DISCoF) (until 2012)
  School of Letters and Philosophy (until 2012)
  University of Trento
  CIMeC website: http://www.cimec.unitn.it
  
  
• October 2002 - October 2006
  Researcher (tenured position)
  Dipartimento di Studi Interdisciplinari su Traduzione, Lingue e Cultura (SITLEC)
  University of Bologna, Italy
  SITLEC website: http://www.sitlec.unibo.it
  
  
• September 2001 - August 2002
  Researcher (position funded by EU R&D project FASTY)
  Natural Language Processing Group
  Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI)
  Vienna, Austria
  ÖFAI NLP group website: http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/oefai/nlu/
  FASTY project website: http://www.fortec.tuwien.ac.at/reha.e/projects/fasty/fasty.html
  
  
• July 2000 - August 2001
  Computational Linguist
  Language Development Team / Core Technologies Team
  Conversay
  Redmond WA, USA
  Conversay website: http://www.conversay.com/
  
  
• January - December 1999
  Research Assistant to Prof. Pat Keating (position funded by NSF project KDI)
  Phonetics Laboratory
  Department of Linguistics
  University of California, Los Angeles
  Los Angeles CA, USA
  KDI project website: http://www.hei.org/research/projects/comneur/kdipage.htm
  
  
• Summer 1998
  Summer Research Intern
  Spoken Language Processes Laboratory
  House Ear Institute
  Los Angeles CA, USA
  

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• Fall 2007 - Spring 2015
  Co-instructor (coordinator until Winter 2014) of the Computational Linguistics (formerly: Text Processing) course
  International Cognitive Science Master, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento
  Philosophy and Informatics Master, School of Letters and Philosophy, University of Trento
  Master in Human Language Technologies and Interfaces, University of Trento (until Fall 2010)
  
  
• Fall 2009 - Fall 2014
  Computational Skills for Text Analysis (formerly: Perl Programming for Text Analysis)
  International Cognitive Science Master, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento
  Philosophy and Informatics Bachelor, School of Letters and Philosophy, University of Trento
  
  
• Fall 2008 - Winter 2012
  Statistics Practicum (formerly: Linear Models in R) module of the Computational and Statistical Methods for Data Modelling and Analysis course
  Doctoral Schools in Cognitive and Brain Sciences and Psychological Sciences and Education, University of Trento
  
  
• Winter 2011
  Coordinator of the Topic Seminar SeCS, Seminar on Computational Semantics
  Doctoral School in Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Trento
  
  
• Winter 2007 - Winter 2009
  Computational Lexicography lab of Humanities Computing course
  School of Letters and Philosophy, University of Trento
  
  
• Fall 2007 - Winter 2009
  Introduction to Perl for Text Processing (Humanities Computing module)
  School of Letters and Philosophy, University of Trento
  
  
• Winter 2009
  Co-coordinator and co-instructor of the the Topic Seminar SExIE, Seminar on Extreme Information Extraction
  Doctoral School in Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Trento
  
  
• Winter 2009
  Lexicography module of Applied Linguistics course
  School of Letters and Philosophy, University of Trento
  
  
• Winter 2008
  Lexical Semantics module of General Linguistics course
  School of Letters and Philosophy, University of Trento
  
  
• Fall 2007 - Winter 2008
  Co-coordinator and co-instructor of the Topic Seminar EviL, Evidence in Linguistics
  Doctoral School in Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Trento
  
  
• Winter 2007
  Introduction to Corpora module of Humanities Computing courses
  School of Letters and Philosophy, University of Trento
  
  
• Winter 2007
  Collocations module of Applied Linguistics course
  School of Letters and Philosophy, University of Trento
  
  
• Winter 2005 - Winter 2006
  Automated Acquisition of Lexicon and Terminology module of Terminology and Specialized Languages (I and II).
  SSLMIT, University of Bologna
  
  
• Winter 2004 - Fall 2005
  Computational Linguistics
  SSLMIT, University of Bologna
  
  
• Fall 2002 - Fall 2006
  Phonetics/Phonology/Morphology modules of General Linguistics course
  SSLMIT, University of Bologna
  
  
• Fall 1996 - Fall 1998
  Teaching Assistant for the courses Introduction to Linguistics, Experimental Phonetics and Introduction to General Phonetics
  Department of Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles

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• Please see the Lectures and Presentations section of my Publications and Presentations page for list of invited and keynote talks
• Doctoral student supervision: Federico Boschetti (2009), Amaç Herdagdelen (2010, UniTN best dissertation award), Gerhard Kremer (2010), Elia Bruni (2013), Eva Maria Vecchi (co-supervision, 2013), German Kruszewski (2016), Angeliki Lazaridou (2016), Nghia The Pham (2016), Rahma Chaabouni (co-supervision, 2021), Roberto Dessi (in progress), Mateo Mahaut (in progress), Nathanael Carraz Rakotonirina (in progress), Olivier Ruest (co-supervision, in progress)
• External examiner of PhD candidates: Diana Passino (University of Padua, 2002), Simona Colombo (University of Turin, 2007), Jan Pomikalek (Masaryk University Brno, 2011), Kateryna Tymoshenko (ICT School, University of Trento, 2012), Paul Nulty (University College, Dublin, 2013), Elias Iosif (Technical University of Crete, 2013), Lorenzo Dell'Arciprete (University of Rome Tor Vergata, 2013), Paolo Annesi (University of Rome Tor Vergata, 2013), Gozde Ozbal (ICT School, University of Trento, 2013), Dieu-Thu Le (ICT School, University of Trento, 2014), Aliaksei Severyn (ICT School, University of Trento, 2015), Ali Orkan Bayer (ICT School, University of Trento, 2015), Abdellah Fourtassi (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, 2015), Phong Le (Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, 2016), Manaal Faruqui (Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2016), Douwe Kiela (Faculty of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambdrige, 2016), Felix Hill (Faculty of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambdrige, 2016), Ryan Lowe (Computer Science, McGill University, 2020), Andrea (Daniela) Mihai (Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, 2022), Karim Lasri (Ecole Normale Superieure and PSL, Paris/CoLing Lab, University of Pisa, 2023), Róbert Csordás (IDSIA, Università della Svizzera Italiana, 2023)
• Editorial board member of the Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017-present
• Editorial board member of Computational Linguistics, 2014-2016
• Co-taught tutorial on Emergent Language-Based Coordination In Deep Multi-Agent Systems at EMNLP 2022
• Information officer of SIGSEM, the Special Interest Group on Semantics of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013-2022
• External tenure track evaluator for the University of Washington (Seattle, USA), 2023
• External habilitation evaluator for University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III), 2022
• External promotion evaluator for the University of Leeds (UK), 2022
• Member of the ERC Consolidator Grant SH4 Panel (The Human Mind and Its Complexity), 2019, 2021
• Area chair of ICLR 2021 (Ninth International Conference on Learning Representations), May 2021
• Coordinated Birds-of-a-Feather and Group Mentoring sessions as part of the DI initiatives at EACL 2021 (16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics), April 2021
• External tenure track evaluator for McGill University (Montreal, Canada), 2020
• Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP area co-chair at ACL 2020 (Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics), July 2020
• Organized the Language Emergence, Information Theory and All That Workshop, Barcelona (Spain), February 2020
• Co-organized the Lorentz Workshop on Compositionality in Brains and Machines, Leiden (the Netherlands), August 2019
• Co-organized the FAIR Understanding Human and Machine Intelligence Workshop, New York, May 2019
• Co-organized the Machine Intelligence Workshop at NIPS, Barcelona, December 2016
• Organizer of the CLIC Research Colloquium series, 2010-2015
• Coordinator of the Language and Multimodal Interaction track of the Cognitive Science Master program at the University of Trento, 2012-2014
• Co-organizer and coordinator of the BA and MA majors in Philosophy and Informatics of the Philosophy program at the University of Trento, 2009-2013
• Semantics area co-chair at EMNLP 2015 (Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing), September 2015
• External evaluator of Marco Turchi's tenure track at FBK (Trento), 2013-2015
• Co-taught tutorial on A practical introduction to distributional semantics (slides) at the Symposium on Semantic Text Processing, Bar-Ilan University, November 2014
• Visiting fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, October 2014
• Ca-taught mini-course on Composition in Distributional Semantics at ESSLLI 2014 (see the COMPOSES project page for the slides), Tübingen, August 2014
• Co-organized SemEval-2014 Task 1 (Evaluation of compositional distributional semantic models on full sentences through semantic relatedness and textual entailment)
• Tutorial co-chair of EACL 2014
• Cognitive Modeling area co-chair for CLIC.it (First Italian Computational Linguistics Conference), December 2014
• Co-taught tutorial on Visual Features for Linguist (slides) at ACL 2013
• Program co-chair of *SEM 2013 (Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics), June 2013
• Gave seminar A success story in research funding in the Crash Course on Research Funding of the University of Trento, May 2012
• Gave tutorial on Compositionality in Distributional Semantics at EACL 2012 (see the COMPOSES project page for the slides), Avignon, April 2012
• Student mentor at EACL 2012
• Semantic Models area chair for *SEM 2012 (First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics), June 2012
• Prepared shared evaluation task for GEMS 2011: GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics, July 2011
• Taught mini-course on Distributional Semantics as part of the ADT-TM school of the MEMOTEF Department, La Sapienza University, Rome, January 2011
• My team participated in the EVALITA 2009 Lexical Substitution track
• Taught mini-course on Distributional Semantics at the GLIF center of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, June 2009
• In program committee of ESSLLI 2009, Bordeaux, July 2009
• Taught at the TRIPLE Winter School on The lexicon: analysis methods, models and applications, January 2009
• Co-organizer of the ESSLLI 2008 Distributional Lexical Semantics Workshop, Hamburg, August 2008
• Co-taught mini-course on Statistical programming in R for computational linguists at the Computational Linguistics Fall School of the German Linguistics Association, University of Potsdam, September 2007
• My team participated in the EVALITA 2007 initiative in the POS Tagging track: our system was a close second in the evaluation
• Co-organizer of the Contextual Information in Semantic Space Models workshop at Context 07, Roskilde University, August 2007
• Invited visiting scholar at the National Institute for Japanese Language, Tokyo, Japan, July-August 2007
• Co-coordinator of the CLEANEVAL shared task on automated cleaning of Web data, 2007
• Co-organizer of the LCT Colloquia of the Universities of Bolzano and Trento
• Secretary of SIGWAC, the Special Interest Group on Web as Corpus of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2007-2009
• Co-taught mini-course on Counting words: an introduction to lexical statistics at ESSLLI 2006, Malaga, August 2006
• Taught mini-course Morphology and corpora: the case of quantitative productivity at the University of Granada, May 2006
• Co-organizer of workshop on The Web as Corpus, EACL 2006, Trento, April 2006
• Co-taught intensive mini-course Statistical Methods for Corpus Exploitation at EURAC, Bolzano, October 2005
• Co-organizer of workshop on The Web as Corpus, Corpus Linguistics 2005, Birmingham (http://sslmit.unibo.it/~baroni/web_as_corpus_cl05.html), July 2005
• Visiting scholar at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI), Vienna, Austria, May-August 2005
• Taught mini-course Statistics for Corpus Linguistics, SITLEC, Forlì, April-May 2005
• Co-coordinator of the WaCky project (http://wacky.sslmit.unibo.it/)
• Co-organized workshop on The Web as Corpus, SSLMIT/SITLEC, January 2005
• Administrator of the site http://e-learning.sslmit.unibo.it/, 2003-2006
• Secretary of the entrance exam committee, SSLMIT, September 2003, September 2004, September 2005.
• Co-organized and co-taught intensive mini-course A Practical Introduction to Corpus Work, Bertinoro University Center, October 2003
• Co-coordinated the CORAL (CORpora e Apprendimento Linguistico) e-learning project (http://www.e-learning.sslmit.unibo.it/COR/)
• Helped organizing the Interdepartmental Workshop on Science and Common Sense, University of Padua, May 1995
• Reviewer for: CVPR (2023), EMNLP (2007, 2010, best reviewer award, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2022, 2023), WiNLP (2017-2020, 2022, 2023), Isogloss (2023), Polity Press (2023), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (2022), Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (2022), Cognition (2021), Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2021), NAACL (2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2021 as member of the best-paper award committee), European Research Council (ERC) Starting and Consolidator Grants (2012, 2018, 2020), ACL (2008, 2009, 2011-2018), ICLR (2016-2018), Learning in Humans and Machines Workshop (L2HM) (2018), Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (in standing committee of reviewers, 2012-2017), NIPS (2017), Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (2012, 2014, 2017), Natural Language Engineering (2009-2010, 2017), Evaluating General Artificial Intelligence Workshop (2017), Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP, University of Gothenburg) (2017), Israel Science Foundation (2016, 2017), RepEval: Workshop on Evaluating Vector Space Representations for NLP (2016, 2017), British Academy (2017), ICML (2016), Computational Linguistics (2011, 2013-2016), European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants (2016), ESSLLI DSALT Workshop (2016), CLIC-it (2016), CONLL (2014, 2015), Heller Research Fellowship in Computer Science (Cambridge) (2015), Journal of Memory and Language (2015), EMNLP Vision and Language Workshop (VL15) (2015), Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality Workshop (2014-2015), NAACL Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (2015), Workshop on Multimodal Semantics for Robotic Systems (MuSRobS) (2015), CHIST-ERA (European Coordinated Research on Long-term Challenges in Information and Communication Sciences & Technologies ERA-Net) (2015), IWCS (2011, 2013, 2015), NetWordS Word Knowledge and Word Usage Conference (2015), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) Vici scheme (2015), Italian Ministry of Education and Research SIR projects (2014), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (2014), COLING (2008, 2010, 2014), EACL (2008, 2014), *SEM (2014), EACL Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition/Learning/Loss Workshop (2009, 2012, 2014), EACL Student Workshop (2014), SIGIR Workshop on Semantic Matching in Information Retrieval (2014), Towards a Formal Distributional Semantics Workshop at IWCS (2013), V&L Net (EPSRC Network on Vision and Language) (2013), Behavior Research Methods (2012, 2013), Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL) (2006, 2008, 2011, 2013), Generative Lexicon (2009, 2013), AI Communications (2013), Cognitive Science (2011, 2012), Language and Linguistics Compass (2012), Brian Informatics (2012), ACL Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing and Semantic Processing of Morphologically Rich Languages (2012), Linguistic Evidence (2012), Italian Ministry of Education and Research (PRIN projects) (2012), Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research System (ANVUR) (2012), Bar-Ilan University (2012), Journal of the Royal Society Interface (2011, 2012), Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) (2011, 2012), IJCNLP (2008, 2011), Geometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics (GEMS) Workshop (2009-2011), Distributional Semantics and Compositionality (DISCO) Workshop (2011), Language Resources and Evaluation Journal (2007-2008, 2011), ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing (2010), Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition (Springer book, 2010), Bolzano's Province Research Office (2010), SemEval (2010), ESSLLI Compositionality and Distributional Semantic Models Workshop (2010), NAACL Computational Neurolinguistics Workshop (2010), CogSci Distributional Semantics beyond Concrete Concepts Workshop (2009), RANLP Workshop on NLP Methods and Corpora in Translation, Lexicography, and Language Learning (2009), IEEE Intelligent Systems (2008), Human Judgments in Computational Linguistics Workshop at COLING (2008), LREC (2008, 2010), the ESSLLI Student Workshop (2008), Italian Journal of Linguistics (2008), Cognitive Linguistics (2008), the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) (2007), Europhysics Letters (2007), Artificial Intelligence Journal (2007), WAC3 Workshop (2007), the US National Science Foundation (NSF) (2005-2007), Morphology (2007), AMML Workshop at RANLP 2007 (2007), Web Genres Colloquim at Corpus Linguistics 2007 (2007), Corpus linguistics: An international handbook (2006), Languages in Contrast (2006), Journal of the International Phonetic Association (2002, 2003), Phonetica (2001), Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2000), Journal of Phonetics (1998)

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• ALiEN, ERC Advanced Grant, 2022-2027, PI
• COMPOSES, ERC Starting Grant, 2011-2016, PI
• LOVe, Marie Sklodowska-Curie project, 2015-2017, supervisor
• European Network on Integrating Vision and Language (iV&L Net), ICT COST Action, 2014-2018, Management Committee member and dissemination officer until 2015
• Web 2.0 as Corpus, Google Research Award, 2010-2013, PI
• Conceptual Representation in the Blind: Empirical Data and Computational Simulations, PRIN project, 2010-2012, PI
• PAISA', FIRB project, 2009-2011, PI
• LiveMemories, PAT project, 2008-2010, participant (contributed to proposal writing)
• LiMiNE, University of Bologna strategic programme, 2007-2009, external consultant (contributed to proposal writing)
• Invited Scholar Fellowship, the National Institute for Japanese Language, Tokyo, 2007
• CompoNet, PRIN project, 2006-2008, participant (contributed to proposal writing)
• Marco Polo Scholarship for a research period abroad, University of Bologna, 2005
• Chancellor Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles, 1995-2000
• Summer School Fellowship, San Marino Center for Semiotic and Cognitive Studies, 1995
• Education Abroad Program Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles, 1993-1994
• Summer School Fellowship, University of Bucharest, Romania, 1993

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Email address: mbaroni AT gmail com

Snail mail address: Marco Baroni, Departament de Traduccio i Ciencies del Llenguatge, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Roc Boronat 138, 08018 Barcelona, Spain.

Phone: +34 93 542 2244

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