Nicola Cancedda

Area Manager, Cross-Language Technologies.

Research Interests

Statistical Learning applied to Natural Language Processing and Textual Information Access. More specifically:

• Kernel- and margin-based methods (originally as a participant in the KerMIT EU project)
• Learning with structured output
• Document categorisation and filtering (see participation in TREC 2002)
• Statistical Machine Translation
• Cross-Language Information Retrieval
• Multilingual terminology extraction
• Feature projection through word-aligned bilingual corpora

Currently member of the Steering Committee of the PASCAL EU Network of Excellence on "Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning".

Publications

Before Year 2000

• Fabio Ciravegna and Nicola Cancedda: "Integrating Shallow and Linguistic Techniques for Information Extraction from Text", in G.Soda and M.Gori, editors, Topics in Artificial Intelligence. Proceedings of the fourth congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence , Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, n. 992, Springer Verlag, 1995.
• Nicola Cancedda, Gjertrud Kamstrup, Emanuele Pianta and Ettore Pietrosanti:"SAX: Generating Hypertexts from SADT Models" in Proceedings of the International Workhop on Natural Language and Databases (NLDB'97) . Vancouver, Canada, 1997.
• Nicola Cancedda, Gjertrud Kamstrup, Emanuele Pianta and Ettore Pietrosanti: "A Hybrid Approach to Hypertext Generation", In M.Lenzerini, editor (AI*IA '97): Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Proceedings of the fifth congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence . Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, n. 1321. Springer Verlag, 1997.
• Nicola Cancedda: "Text Generation from MUC Templates", In Proceedings of the 7th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (EWNLG'99). June 13-14, 1999, Tolouse, France.
• Nicola Cancedda: "Text Generation from Message Understanding Conference Templates", PhD Dissertation, Computer and Systems Science Department, University of Rome "La Sapienza", 1999.

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