Nicoletta Calzolari

Nicoletta Calzolari Zamorani is research associate and former Director at the Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli” of the Italian National Research Council (ILC-CNR).

She is also Honorary President (and former President) of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

Received an Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Copenhagen “for her significant contribution to the field of Computational Linguistics”.

Was awarded the title of “ACL Fellow” for “significant contributions to computational lexicography, and for the creation and dissemination of language resources” in the founding group of the ACL Fellows program.

She has played a central role in building international collaborative projects and platforms for LRs and LT at European and global levels, coordinating many international/European projects/strategic initiatives including but not limited to FLaReNet, EAGLES, ISLE, SIMPLE, ENABLER, etc.

Permanent member of ICCL (the International Committee on Computational Linguistics). Chair of ISO/TC 37/SC 4. Member of the Board of UNDL Foundation (Universal Networking Digital Language Foundation), of the International Advisory Committee of the Korean Emotion-based Dialogue Flagship Project, of the Advisory Board of the FET project ODYCCEUS (Opinion Dynamics and Cultural Conflict in European Spaces), of the Advisory Board of LIDER (Linked Data as an enabler of cross-media and multilingual content analytics for enterprises across Europe), of ISO/TC 37/AG 0. President of the PAROLE Association.

Former convenor of the ISO Lexicon WG, chair of the Scientific Board of CLARIN, vice-president of META-TRUST, chair of the Scientific Board of the ESFRI Research Infrastructure CLARIN, member of the ACL Exec, of the META-NET Council, of the ESFRI Social Sciences and Humanities Working Group, of the Steering Committee of the Centre of Excellence for Mathematical Modelling and Advanced Computing in Science and Engineering (CoE MMAC), and of many other International Committees and Advisory Boards (e.g., ELSNET, SENSEVAL, ECOR, SIGLEX).

General Chair of LREC (since 2004), of COLING 2016 and COLING-ACL-2006.

Co-Editor-in-chief of the Journal Language Resources and Evaluation, Springer. Member of journal editorial/advisory boards.

Invited speaker, member of program committees, organiser of many international conferences/workshops.

More than 400 publications.

See https://blog.linguistlist.org/fund-drive/featured-linguist-nicoletta-calzolari/ for more personal notes about me.

You can also download what she says about herself from here: Featured Linguist_ Nicoletta Calzolari – The LINGUIST List.pdf