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Research interests
I'm interested in computational modeling of language learning, in particular about non-arbitrary form-meaning mappings and their possible role in language learning, language processing and language eveolution. My research agenda revolves around investigating whether non-arbitrary mappings between how words sound and what they mean influence the way children learn language, the way people process and comprehend it, and the way languages evolved as communication systems to be easy to learn and convenient to process.
I'm also interested in using sequence modeling techniques to investigate data science questions in different domains, including but not limited to user intent prediction, educational paths, employment trajectories, and learning tasks.
Teaching
The master course in Natural Language Processingfor the DSS master focuses on core NLP problems and tools and how they are used to develop end-to-end applications such as language generation, text classification and machine translation are reviewed. Students learn to design an NLP tool to address a specific problem (choose the data, pre-process it, extract the relevant information, evaluate the system and improve on it). This course assumes a non-technical audience.
The bachelor course in Computational Linguisticsfor the CSAIprogram (3rd y) covers similar topics but focuses more on the algorithms and the solutions developed in the last decades, to provide students with the ability to implement these solutions. The relation between computational linguistics, cognitive science and AI is also investigated. The focus is more the applied and a rather technical audience is assumed.
I also teach the R practical sessions for theStatistics for CSAI II(CSAI bachelor, 2nd y)
Slides and materials for all courses are available upon request.
Education/Academic qualification
Linguistics and theory of literature, PhD, University of Antwerp
1 Nov 2014 → 28 Feb 2019
Other, Master’s Degree, University of Trento
Sep 2012 → 24 Sep 2014
Linguistics and theory of literature, Bachelor’s Degree, University of Trento
16 Sep 2009 → 18 Jul 2012
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Research Output 2015 2019
Children probably store short rather than frequent or predictable chunks: quantitative evidence from a corpus study
Grimm, R., Cassani, G., Gillis, S. & Daelemans, W., 30 Jan 2019, In : Frontiers in Psychology. 10, p. 1-19 19 p., 80.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
On the semantics of nonwords and their lexical categories
Cassani, G., Chuang, Y-Y. & Baayen, R. H., 2019, In : Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning Memory and Cognition.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
The bootstrapping toolbox: Which cues are more useful to learn lexical categories and why
Cassani, G., May 2019, 355 p.Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis › Scientific
Lexical category acquisition is facilitated by uncertainty in distributional co-occurrences
Cassani, G., Grimm, R., Daelemans, W. & Gillis, S., 2018, In : PLoS ONE. 13, 12, p. 1-36 36 p., e0209449.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Distributional learning and lexical category acquisition: what makes words easy to categorize?
Cassani, G., Grimm, R., Gillis, S. & Daelemans, W., Jul 2017, Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society, p. 216-221 6 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
Activities 2015 2019
Prediction is very hard, especially about conversion: Predicting user purchases from clickstream data in fashion e-commerce.
Giovanni Cassani (Speaker)Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Scientific
On the semantics of non-words and their lexical categories
Giovanni Cassani (Speaker), Yu-Ying Chuang (Speaker), R. Harald Baayen (Speaker)Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation › Scientific
Multimodal Distributional Semantics Models and conceptual representations in sensory deprived subjects
Giovanni Cassani (Speaker), Alessandro Lopopolo (Speaker)Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation › Scientific