Academic Service

Leadership

• Technical Lead, Semantic Analytics Group (SAG), University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (since 2008).
• Steering Committee Member, AILC – Italian Association for Computational Linguistics (2022–2025).

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Conference Organization

• Chair
  • NL4AI Workshop 2021 – AIxIA.
  • NL4AI Workshop 2020 – AIxIA.
  • EVALITA 2020 – Italy’s main NLP evaluation campaign.
  • NL4AI Workshop 2018 – AIxIA.
  • NL4AI Workshop 2017 – AIxIA.
• Task Organizer
  • ABSITA 2018 – Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis at EVALITA.
  • SENTIPOLC 2016 – Twitter Sentiment Analysis at EVALITA.
• Organizing Committee Member
  • StarSem 2025 – Publication Chair.
  • EMNLP 2024 – Publication Chair.
  • EACL 2024 – Publication Chair.
  • CLiC-it 2024 – Publication Chair.
  • CLiC-it 2024 – Special Track Organizer (“Calamita” track on LLM evaluation).
  • AIxIA 2023 – Workshops & Tutorials Chair.
  • EACL 2023 – Demo Track Chair.
  • NAACL 2022 – Publication Chair.
  • ACL 2022 – Publication Chair.
  • CLiC-it 2021 – Track Co-chair (Vision, Robotics, Multimodality).
  • CLiC-it 2017 – Local Organizing Committee Head.
  • Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2014) – Local Organizing Committee Head.

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Program Committee Membership

• Reviewer for major conferences
  • AAAI (since 2015).
  • ACL (since 2013).
  • NAACL (since 2012).
  • EACL (since 2014).
  • IJCAI (since 2013).
  • ECAI (since 2015).
  • COLING (since 2014).
  • EMNLP (since 2012).
  • CONLL (since 2015).
  • IJCNLP (since 2013).
  • LREC (since 2014).
  • StarSem (since 2015).
  • SIGIR Workshop on Semantic Matching (since 2014).
  • RO-MAN (since 2019).
  • ESWC (since 2015).
  • NLDB (since 2022).
  • CLiC-it (since 2014).
  • IIR (since 2014).

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Editorial Roles

• Editorial Board, Transactions of the ACL (TACL) (since 2018).
• Head of Editorial Office, Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics.
• Guest Editor, Sensors – Special Issue on Deep Learning for Healthcare (2022).

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Journal Reviewing

• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS).
• IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (TAC).
• Transactions of the ACL (TACL).
• Information Retrieval Journal.
• PLOS ONE.
• Knowledge-Based Systems.
• Pattern Recognition Letters.
• Expert Systems with Applications.
• Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience.
• Information Processing & Management.
• Intelligent Service Robotics.
• Language Resources and Evaluation.
• Journal of Web Semantics.
• Applied Ontology.
• MDPI Algorithms.
• MDPI Information.
• Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal.
• Computers and Electrical Engineering.
• Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics.