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After earning professional experience working in graphic designing, I decided to study European Languages and Literatures at the university of Naples “L’Orientale”, graduating in 2017 with my bachelor’s degree.
Attracted by the world of linguistic research I then moved to Bologna to further my studies. In 2020 I concluded a master's degree in Linguistics with a thesis in Computational Linguistics.
The interest for the multiple possibilities and applications of the subject opened up by a computational approach to linguistics pushed me to collaborate on the project “Italian FrameNet” and to make my master thesis about it. Once I completed my job on the project, I made up my mind to apply to the Master in Big Data Analytics & Social Mining in order to learn notions of computer science useful to the processing of linguistic data.

I am a philologist and translator of East Asian Languages (Japanese and Chinese), my are of interest is of course Natural Language Processing.
My higher education begun back in 2014, when I started my BA in Language culture and society of Asia and Mediterranean Africa at Ca'Foscari university of Venice. During my last year at Ca'Foscari, I was bestowed with the Monbukagakushō scholarship by the Japanese government, which allowed me to spend one year at Osaka University; there, I continued my research on pre-modern Japanese Literature. Finally, in 2019 I completed an MA in Japanese literature at SOAS University of London.
I started teaching myself Python programming and Data Science at the beginning of the pandemic and I immediatly fell in love with transformer NN and other language models, with their ability to solve natural language understanding and translation tasks. This is what convinced me to pursue a career in Data Science.

I was born in Sicily in 1994. Since I was a kid, I've always been strongly interested in maths. However, after getting my high-school diploma in a science-oriented institute, I moved to Bologna to follow another passion - that is, the study of history and political thought. A couple years later, in 2019, I obtained a master's degree in Global Studies at the history department of Bologna's Alma Mater.
After that, I traveled and worked abroad for one year, both in France and in Australia. When I got back home, I decided to enroll to the master to learn new skills that could help me fully realize my background and aspiratons.

After having completed my studies in humanities, with a bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature and a master’s degree in Euro-American Languages and Philologies, I decided to start studying Big Data because I was fascinated with how the huge mass of information available nowadays can be used and analysed. I am confident that my linguistic background and my experience in the philological research will be an added value and a resource in the interpretation of the complexities and problems that this kind of analysis inevitably entails. I am particularly interested in neural networks and natural language processing, which I am hoping to further study in its various application, especially in conversational analysis. I have also experience with illustration and storytelling, so I am well aware of the opportunities that a well-structured narration has.

I am a 27-year-old Sicilian with a Bachelor’s degree in Literature and a Master’s degree in Linguistics and cognitive studies. I have a passion for NLP, Open Data, and Machine Learning. In the last five years, I have covered responsibility roles in cultural associations, building up communication and team-work skills. I had the chance to participate in the Erasmus+ program twice, at the Universidad de Coimbra, in Portugal, and at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, in the Netherlands. I worked on computational and generative linguistics, obtaining academic publications in the latter. I am an enthusiast of innovation and Big Data world. I like challenges and problems and learning new ways to solve them. The learning of Python and more generally, the computational problem solving typical of informatic programming, shaded new lights on my way of thinking of both my previous studies in humanities and the new challenges that this society imposes to people and the companies.

Born in Rome in 1994. I studied Modern Literature at the University of Tor Vergata and I graduated in Modern Philology at La Sapienza (University of Rome) discussing a degree thesis on Robots in West literature. Always interested in the relationship between technological and humanistic skills, I decided to enroll in the master in Big Data Analytics and Social Mining to get 360-degress training and skill. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/gianluca-sperduti-b14364164

Paola Serrati' was born in 1988 in Lecce. She earned her master’s degree, with honors, in Comparative Modern Culture from the University of Turin. After some experiences in communications, she was the research manager of the "Sciascia and France" project, in association with the Arnoldo and Alberto Mondadori Foundation and Friends of Leonardo Sciascia Association. She’s specialized in creative writing, attending "Laura Lepri Scritture" courses at the Formentini Laboratory, in Milan. She has worked as a teacher of Literature and of the Italian for foreigners at high school and junior high school. She enrolled in Master of Big Data to develop her humanistic education with the skills and the innovative methods of Data Science.

I obtained both my Bachelor's and Master's degree at the University of Siena (2012), and completed a PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Pisa (2017). During my PhD, I have been visiting student at Universidad de Lisboa (2015) and at CUNY in New York (2016). Then, I obtained a position as Research Fellow at the University of Pisa (2017) and as Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Turin (2018-19). In recent years, I have started exploring issues in digital humanities. I believe that the changes generated by the digital revolution require the presence of scholars and professionals who know how to combine a scientific and IT preparation with a background in humanities

She was born in Messina, and she got her Master's Degree in Literary and Non-fiction Translation with a score of 110/110 with honours in 2016. In the same year, she attended the School of Advanced Technologies for Translators (SATT) at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler of Trento, where she achieved a certification of skills in the use of the CAT tool MateCAT. She has worked as an English teacher both in private language schools and in public schools as well. She has also held the role of Italian language assistant at the Modern Languages department of Cardiff University while working as a freelance translator for Translated. In 2017 she attended a 2nd level specialization course held at the University of Pisa on Big Data & Social Mining to integrate her linguistic knowledge with innovative tools, focusing her attention on computational analysis, digital texts processing, and Machine Learning.

She got a bachelor's degree in foreign languages and cultures and a master's degree in publishing and writing, specializing in investigative journalism. She has written for various newspapers and she regularely realized inquiries and reports for D, magazine of the newspaper La Repubblica. Working for the magazine on gender economics ingenere.it, data became something she refered to more and more assiduously. She then attended a data journalism summer school at the university of Trieste and a course on visual journalism at the university of Bolzano. Since 2015 she’s been working at Openpolis, a civic observatory that uses open data for transparency projects regarding institutions and public administrations. She delved into the aspects of narrative reporting and studied editing techniques, linguistic simplification and editorial desk obtaining a master in copy editing.
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