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Professor
Antonio Zampolli
Born(1937-07-20)20 July 1937
Belluno, Italy
Died22 August 2003(2003-08-22) (aged 66)
Pisa, Italy
NationalityItalian
Known forComputational linguistics
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Pisa

Antonio Zampolli together with Roberto Busa, is considered one of the pioneers of computational linguistics in Italy and internationally. In 1978 he founded the Institute of Computational Linguistics (ILC) in Pisa, one of the major research centers of the sector in Italy, and which now bears his name in his honour.[1] His main research interests were computational lexicology and lexicography, computer assisted language teaching, formal grammars and parsers, literary and linguistic textual analysis, machine translation, multimedia, multilingualism, quantitative linguistics, the reuse of lexical resources, standards for the processing of literary and linguistic data, the elaboration of the text.

Biography edit

Zampolli graduated in Classical Literature at the University of Padua in 1960 with a thesis on mathematical linguistics(Studies of linguistic statistics performed with IBM systems), he concentrated his research activity in the field of computational linguistics.

Zampolli worked with Father Roberto Busa S. J. at the Centro per l’Automazione dell’Analisi Linguistica (CAAL) of Gallarate (Milan), as the coordinator of the operations of electronic examination of the collected works by Saint Thomas Aquinas.

He became Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Pisa, in 1968 he founded and became Director of the Linguistics Division of the Centro Nazionale Universitario di Calcolo Elettronic (CNUCE) in Pisa (in 2002 this merged with .. to become Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione and in 1969 he started teaching Computational Linguistics (previously called Mathematical Linguistics) at Pisa University. In 1980 he founded the first Italian scientific institute entirely dedicated to research in the field of Computational Linguistics: the Institute for Computational Linguistics (ILC) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), which he directed until his death.[2]

He died in 2003, victim of a home fire.

In 2004 ELRA created a prize to honour the memory of Antonio Zampolli, he was its first president.

Research and works edit

Zampolli was particularly active in organising and directing meetings and conferences to establish new research paradigms, and producing reports of his research from them. His other publications dealt directly with the applications of computers to humanistic and literary research and the use of mathematical models in linguistics. His works covered:

  • Statistical surveys: compilation of lists, indexes or statistical research in general.
  • Processing of syntactic systems and language acquisition models.
  • Automatic processing of language content.
  • Automatic translation.
  • Computational lexicography and lexicology.
  • Computational philology. [3]

Bibliography edit

  • A. Zampolli, Linguistica, Matematica e Calcolatori: Convegno estiva international d'elaborazione elettronica di dati linguistici e letterare. 1st.(1970)
  • A. Zampolli, Linguistica matematica e calcolatori: atti, Vol. 28. LS Olschki, 1973

References edit

  1. ^ "Antonio Zampolli's biographical profile". ilc.cnr.it. Institute for Computational Linguistics «A. Zampolli». Retrieved 2019-03-09.
  2. ^ "Antonio Zampolli founder ILC". ilc.cnr.it. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
  3. ^ "Bibliografia sul trattamento automatico della lingua - Fondo Antonio Zampolli". biblos.cnr.it. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. Retrieved 2019-03-09.

http://eadh.org/antonio-zampolli

http://www.elra.info/en/lrec/elra-antonio-zampolli-prize/

https://adho.org/awards/antonio-zampolli-prize

https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/z/Zampolli:Antonio

https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Concordantiae_Senecanae.html?id=SYu6XKWNHNQC&redir_esc=y

http://ota.ox.ac.uk/desc/0695

https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Antonio-Zampolli/1858908

http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85206077/

http://www.mt-archive.info/LREC-2004-Zampolli.pdf

https://www.isca-speech.org/iscapad/iscapad.php?module=article&id=14673&back=p,238

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