Paolo Torroni

Paolo Torroni is an Associate Professor at the University of Bologna's Department of Computer Science - Science and Engineering since 2015. His research focuses on artificial intelligence, with emphasis on natural language processing, multi-agent systems, computational logics, and argumentation mining. He has authored over 180 scientific articles and directed the Language Technologies Lab, contributing to national and international projects. Since 2018, he holds full professor qualifications and has been a visiting fellow at the European University Institute.

Education: PhD in Electronic and Computer Engineering (2002) from the University of Bologna. He conducted research at Imperial College London (2000-2003) and held research grants until 2005.

Research Interests: His work spans AI applications in legal document analysis, privacy policies, healthcare diagnostics, and social good technologies. He develops tools like MARGOT for argument mining and CLAUDETTE for detecting unfair contract clauses. His recent studies include AI-driven chatbots for asylum seekers and explainable AI in Parkinson’s detection.

Grants & Projects: Involved in numerous projects, including GDPR privacy policy analysis and EU-funded initiatives. He coordinates the international master’s in Artificial Intelligence and teaches courses like Natural Language Processing and Real-Time Operating Systems.

Labs & Teams: Leads the Language Technologies Lab, collaborating with global research groups on multimodal argument mining, legal technologies, and ethical AI.