Nicoletta Calzolari Zamorani

Nicoletta Calzolari Zamorani is Research Associate and former Director of Research and Director (2003-08) of the Institute of Computational Linguistics-CNR, Pisa.

Received an Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Copenhagen and awarded the title of “ACL Fellow” in the ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) Fellows founding group for “significant contributions to computational lexicography, and for the creation and dissemination of language resources”.

Coordinating many international, European (recently the EC FLaReNet Network), national projects/strategic initiatives.

President of ELRA (European Language Resources Association), Permanent member of ICCL, vice-president of META-TRUST, chair of ISO/TC 37/SC 4, committee member of ISO/TC 37/AG 0, former convenor of the ISO Lexicon WG, president of the PAROLE Association, former chair of the Scientific Board of CLARIN, former member of the ACL Exec, of the META-NET Council, of the ESFRI Social Sciences and Humanities Working Group, and of many International Committees and Advisory Boards (e.g., ELSNET, SENSEVAL, ECOR, SIGLEX).

General Chair of LREC (since 2004), of COLING 2016, and COLING-ACL-2006. Invited speaker, member of program committees, organiser of many international conferences/workshops.
Co-editor-in-chief of the Journal Language Resources and Evaluation, Springer. Member of journal editorial/advisory boards. More than 400 publications.