Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua, Italy
Member of the IIIA Research Group
Principal Investigator of CENTRICO - Center of Studies for Computational Terminology
Where I focus my work
My research spans information retrieval, text analytics, evaluation, computational terminology, Bayesian machine learning, and digital humanities, with particular attention to technology-assisted review systems.
Methods for high-recall information retrieval, relevance assessment, review prioritization, stopping strategies, and human-in-the-loop search under limited assessment budgets.
Methods for extracting structured information from text, with particular attention to specialized and domain-specific language.
Computational methods for terminology, multilingual knowledge representation, FAIR terminology resources, knowledge graphs, and interoperable semantic data.
Bayesian methods for learning, estimation, uncertainty quantification, and decision making, particularly in settings with limited, incomplete, or costly observations.
Experimental and statistical evaluation of information retrieval, recommender, and AI systems, with emphasis on reliability, reproducibility, uncertainty, and meaningful performance assessment.
Computational approaches to humanities research, with particular interest in digital scholarly resources, research infrastructures, FAIR data, and interdisciplinary methods.
The latest projects I’ve been involved in
Generative Artificial Intelligence in Legal Translation
Generative AI
Legal Translation
Computational Terminology
Natural Language Processing
HetERogeneous sEmantic Data integratIon for the guT-bRain interplaY
Horizon Europe
Semantic Data Integration
Knowledge Representation
Biomedical Data
Italy’s National Biodiversity Future Center of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR).
Biodiversity
Marine Biodiversity
Research Infrastructures
PNRR
Migrating Commercial Law and Language (MICOLL): Rethinking lex mercatoria (11th–17th century)
Horizon 2020
ERC
Legal History
Digital Humanities
Courses I have recently taught or will be teaching soon
Latest news from what I write on LinkedIn
In September 2026, from Moday 13th to Wednesday 16th, Schloss Dagstuhl will host the seminar “Frontiers of Technology-Assisted Review Systems”, bringing together researchers…
The University of Padua has been selected to host Digital Humanities 2029 (DH2029). The announcement was made by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO)…
A new open-access paper, “A fragment-based model and annotation environment for discontinuous and overlapping terms”, presents a framework for representing complex…
Contact information
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