Simonetta Montemagni

Simonetta Montemagni is the Interim Director and Research Manager at the Institute of Computational Linguistics (ILC) of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) in Pisa, leading the ItaliaNLP Lab. She specializes in computational linguistics and natural language processing, with a focus on corpus linguistics, dialectology, and NLP applications in education and legal domains. Her work includes developing machine-actionable resources such as the ParlaMint-IT corpus of parliamentary debates and advancing syntactic dependency treebank research. She has contributed to projects like the Great Dictionary of the Italian Language (GDLI) lemmarium, exploring quantitative trends in historical vocabulary networks and their educational implications. Montemagni’s research also addresses dialectometric studies of Tuscan dialects and the integration of NLP tools for improving readability assessments of health-related texts.

Her research interests span computational methods for analyzing language variation, including phonetic and lexical patterns, as well as text simplification and automated knowledge extraction from school documentation. She has edited conference proceedings for events like CLiC-it and EVALITA, highlighting her role in advancing the field through collaborative initiatives. Her contributions often involve cross-lingual and typological analyses, leveraging dependency treebanks and multilingual resources to study syntactic and semantic phenomena. Montemagni is deeply involved in building domain-specific corpora and tools, such as the BioLexicon for biomedical text mining and frameworks like Text-2-Knowledge (T2K) for semantic indexing.

Montemagni has collaborated on large-scale projects like the TrAVaSI initiative for historical Italian language resources and contributed to the MEG II experiment at CERN, though her primary focus remains linguistic research. She has pioneered the digitalization of dialectal resources such as the ALT-Web tool and explored the application of NLP in legal ontologies, educational settings, and sociological studies of language use.