Alessandra Zarcone

Alessandra Zarcone

Professor of Language Technologies and Cognitive Assistants

Technische Hochschule Augsburg

Chief Scientist

Fraunhofer IIS Erlangen

Biography

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 machine learning 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 make the best of their intuitions and to interact with them in a fair way
Interests
  • NLP and Computational Linguistics
  • Voice Assistants
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Artificial Intelligence
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

CV

 
 
 
 
 
Technische Hochschule Augsburg
Professor of Language Technologies and Cognitive Assistants
Mar 2022 – Present Augsburg, Germany
 
 
 
 
 
Fraunhofer IIS
Chief Scientist
Jan 2023 – Present Erlangen, Germany
 
 
 
 
 
Fraunhofer IIS
Senior Scientist and Component Lead for Data Acquisition and Management
Sep 2020 – Feb 2022 Erlangen, Germany
 
 
 
 
 
Fraunhofer IIS
Research Associate
Sep 2018 – Feb 2022 Erlangen, Germany
 
 
 
 
 
Universität des Saarlandes
Postdoctoral Researcher
Aug 2014 – Aug 2018 Saarbrücken, Germany
 
 
 
 
 
Universität Stuttgart
PhD student and researcher
Aug 2009 – Jul 2014 Stuttgart, Germany

Contact

  • Alessandra (dot) Zarcone (at) hs-augsburg (dot) de