NLU Project Leader – Harman Samsung                                                Milano, Italy             

Mar 2018 –current                                                            

Coordination of the NLU Team of Bixby, Samsung Voice Assistant, using an Agile approach in the daily tasks, maintenance and enhancement. Ensure that all the requirements are met for each release of a new component. 

NLP Engineer – Integris SpA                                                                              Pisa, Italy

Dec 2015 –Feb 2018                                        

–       Design and implementation of a semantic platform for Brand Reputation and a Medical Advisor platform, in Java from scratch: NLP, API, server deployment and release process. Development of both rule-based and Machine Learning components.  

European Project Manager – SyNTHEMA SRL                                                Pisa, Italy

Oct 2013 –Dec 2015                                     

Research and innovation at first, focusing on the development of algorithms that required Computational Sematic expertise, then coordination of the projects (partner side), making sure that all requirements were met: Deliverables, Dissemination Plan, DoW. Participation in the proposal of new Projects within H2020

MANAGEMENT
o Coordinate and assist design, development and testing activities giving visibility of the whole process
o Plan and schedule the activities within a release cycle
o Organize weekly meetings with the aim of checking the development status and discuss new possibilities
o Support the team with guidelines when needed
o Ensure that project schedule, scope and quality objectives are met
o Make sure that specifications are aligned with the project status
o Provide accurate release notes and specifications to management
o Coordinate communications among the development team and the other stakeholders
o Help the team in building a psychologically safe environment where they can express themselves, learn and grow 

NLP DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
o Linguistic Pipeline in Italian, English, Spanish, Portuguese
o Semantic Concept extractor on a medical Ontology
o Classifier of medical documents using FastText
o Functional Analysis of an Information Extraction module
o Managing of an RDF Semantic Knowledge Base
o Rule-based syntactic module
o Multiword extractor and Multiword suggester modules
o Rule-based classification module
o Sentiment Analysis module
o Module suggesting the most relevant syntactic structures in a collection of documents
o Vector representation of documents using Deeplearning4j and FastText

EDUCATION
MS in Language Technology University of Pisa, Italy
Sep 2009 – Oct 2013
Studies in Computational Linguistics, with particular focus on Distributional
Semantics, Information Extraction, Information Retrieval and Data Mining.
Master Thesis: Regular Polysemy. A distributional semantic approach.
110/100 with Honors

Erasmus Mundus MULTI National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Sep 2012 – Jul 2013
Scholarship with the scope of studying one year abroad at NTU and deepen into
Linguistic studies. I have learned more about Corpus Linguistics and the
computational approaches to it. I wrote my master thesis during this year with
professor Shu-Kai Hsieh, who was my co-supervisor.

Erasmus University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Jan 2012 – Jul 2012
A semester spent at the Sprogteknologi department under Professor Bolette
Pedersen. Deepen the studies in Machine Learning, Statistics and the Generative
Lexicon.

BS in Digital Humanities University of Pisa, Italy
Sep 2006 – Sep 2009
Interdisciplinary Studies focusing on Linguistics and Computer Science.
105/110

PAPERS
o G. Di Pietro, T. Petrolito. Voynich Manuscript: A Distributional
Morphological Study. 7th Annual International Conference on Languages
& Linguistics. 7-10 July 2014, Athens, Greece.
o G. Di Pietro, M. Raffaelli, C. Aliprandi, T. Soru, A. E. De Luca. Semantic
Crawling: An Approach based on Named Entity Recognition. Beijing,
China, August 18-19 2014. FOSINT-SI 2014.
o A. E. De Luca, G. Di Pietro, M. Raffaelli, D. Gazzè, M. N. La Polla, A.
Marchetti, M. Tesconi. CAPER: Crawling and analysing Facebook for
intelligence purposes. Beijing, China, August 17-20, 2014. ASONAM 2014.
o G. Di Pietro, S. Pupi, C. Aliprandi. Enti-it-UP A sentimenti Analysis system
based on OpeNER Cloud Services. LREC 2014, Reykjavík.
o Shu-Kai Hsieh, G. Di Pietro. Regular Polysemy of Derivational Semantics: A
Distributional Approach to Chinese ? and Italian ri. The 21st annual
conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL).
Taipei, Taiwan.
o S. Dei Rossi, G. Di Pietro, M. Simi. Description and Results of the SuperSense
Tagging Task, Proc. of Evalita 2011, in Evaluation of Natural Language and
Speech Tools for Italian, Magnini et al. (Eds), Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence 7689, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2013. ISSN 0302-9743.
o G. Attardi, S. Dei Rossi, G. Di Pietro, A. Lenci, S. Montemagni, M. Simi. A
Resource and Tool for Super-sense Tagging of Italian Texts. In: Proc. of
LREC 2010, Malta, vol. 1, p. 2242-2248, Valletta: European Language
Resources Association (ELRA), ISBN: 2-9517408-6-7, 2010.