Alessandra Zarcone

Alessandra Zarcone

Professor of Language Technologies and Cognitive Assistants

Technische Hochschule Augsburg

Chief Scientist

Fraunhofer IIS Erlangen

I am a computational linguist with a background in NLP and in psycholinguistics. I am interested in

  • data-centered AI: how we can improve data quality to train better models on language tasks
  • human-centered AI, that is how we can take humans (users, designers, crowdworkers and annotators) into account in all things AI to leverage their intuitions, to interact with them in a fair way and design better human-machine teamwork
Interests
  • NLP and Computational Linguistics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Voice Assistants
Education
  • PhD in NLP, 2014

    Universität Stuttgart

  • Diploma in Modern Philology & Linguistics, 2009

    Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

  • MA in Linguistics, 2009

    Università di Pisa

  • BSc in Digital Humanities, 2003

    Università di Pisa

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Technische Hochschule Augsburg
Professor of Language Technologies and Cognitive Assistants
March 2022 – Present Augsburg, Germany
 
 
 
 
 
Fraunhofer IIS
Chief Scientist
January 2023 – Present Erlangen, Germany
 
 
 
 
 
Fraunhofer IIS
Senior Scientist and Component Lead for Data Acquisition and Management
September 2020 – February 2022 Erlangen, Germany
 
 
 
 
 
Fraunhofer IIS
Research Associate
September 2018 – February 2022 Erlangen, Germany
 
 
 
 
 
Universität des Saarlandes
Postdoctoral Researcher
August 2014 – August 2018 Saarbrücken, Germany
 
 
 
 
 
Universität Stuttgart
PhD student and researcher
August 2009 – July 2014 Stuttgart, Germany

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