Barbara Plank Postdoc DISI, University of Trento, Italy E-mail:

I'm a postdoc researcher in the project LiMoSiNe, at DISI, University of Trento, Italy working with Alessandro Moschitti (iKernels group).

I've just moved to the University of Trento, thus this site is still under construction.

Previously, I was a PhD candidate (AiO/promovendus) at Alfa-informatica (Informatiekunde), Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG), Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, RUG), the Netherlands, working with Gertjan van Noord on domain adaptation for parsing.

Events

• December 8, 2011: Thesis defense in Groningen.
• Going to ACL 2011 in Portland, Orlando -- Second paper with Daniel de Kok and Gertjan van Noord got accepted!
• Autumn 2010: List of genre-annotated WSJ files (updated) (cf. Webber, 2009: "Genre distinctions for discourse in the Penn Treebank")
• July 2010: We organized an ACL 2010 workshop on Domain Adaptation for NLP (DANLP)
• June 19, 2009: Khalil Sima'an in Groningen, CLCG colloqium
• January 12-16, 2009 at RUG: MaxEnt tutorial by Rob Malouf
• The 19th edition of CLIN (Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands) will be held in Groningen on Thursday, January 22, 2009, in conjunction with the 7th edition of TLT
• International Workshop TLT 7 (Treebank and Linguistic Theories), Groningen January 23 and 24, 2009.
• May 15, 2008: LCT PhD student's day in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Short Bio

• Ph.D. candidate, Faculty of Arts,
  University of Groningen
  September 2007 - October 2011
• MSc European Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies (EM-LCT). First year: University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy), Second year: University of Amsterdam (UvA, The Netherlands) (2007).
• BSc, Computer Science, University of Bozen-Bolzano (2005).

Contact

Barbara Plank
University of Trento
DISI, Building Povo 0
Via Sommarive 14
38123 Povo, Trento (TN), Italy

Tel.: +39 0461 28 3985

Email: barbara (dot) plank (at) disi (dot) unitn (dot) it