Giorgio Satta

Giorgio Satta is a Full Professor at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Padua in 1990. His career includes research positions at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento) and the University of Pennsylvania (IRCS).

Research Focus: His work centers on computational linguistics and formal language theory, with emphasis on:

• Parsing algorithms (CCG, TAG, LCFRS)
• Computational complexity of grammar formalisms
• Probabilistic language modeling
• Dependency parsing and synchronization techniques

Professional Service: He chaired the European Chapter of the ACL (2009-10), served on editorial boards for Computational Linguistics, Transactions of the ACL, and co-chaired ACL-2001/IWPT-2001.

Teaching: Current courses include Automata, Languages, and Computation and Natural Language Processing (2024-25).