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2002
PhD. in computational linguistics at the
University of Copenhagen.
Title of the
thesis: The Use and Resolution of Intersentential
Pronominal Anaphora in Danish Discourse
1992 M.Sc. in computer science (major) and film (minor) at the University of Copenhagen
Autumn 84 Stagiaire at the EU Commission (Bruxelles)
1982
M.A. degree summa cum laude in Modern Languages and
Literature at the University "La Sapienza" of
Rome (Scandinavian
Languages and Literature (Danish) and English)
1980-1982 Visiting student at the University of Copenhagen (Institute for Nordic Philology)
1992-
Employed at the Centre for Language Technology; 2004 Senior researcher
2001-04 Extern lector at IT University of Copenhagen
1989 -91 Tutor of first-year students at Copenhagen University (Computer Science)
1985-90 Teacher of Italian language and culture (evening classes at SFOF, AOF, FOF in Copenhagen and Selland)
1985-1989 Freelance translator Danish-Italian
1983-1984 Visiting researcher at University of Copenhagen (Institute of Nordic Philology)
Intersentential pronominal anaphora resolution; Multimodal communication; Dialogue systems; Corpus linguistics; Semantic Web and information extraction; Computational lexicography and evaluation of computational lexica; Grammar formalism and implementation (HSPG).
Workshop Multimodal Communication: from Human Behaviour to Computational Models, held in Odense May 2009 in conjunction with the 17th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics.
NoDaLiDa 2011 held in Riga, Latvia May 2011.
The 3rd Nordic Symposium on MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATION May 2011, Helsinki.
NordForsk Ph.D. school "Feedback, Communicative Gesturing, and Gazing", Helsinkis Universitet, May 2011.
CLARA Summer School "Semantic and Multimodal Annotation and Evaluation", Copenhagen August 2011.
IT and information search (in collaboration with colleagues from CST and the Department of Computer Science).
Language Technology II (Sprogteknologi II) (in collaboration with Patrizia Paggio from CST).
Cognitive Science II (Kognitionsforskning II) (in collaboration with Patrizia Paggio from CST).
PhD course: Corpus linguistics - the short-cut to linguistic evidence (with colleagues from CST).
Visiting teacher Ph.D. course: The Challenge of Multimodality for Corpus Linguistics, Odense, May 2008
Visiting teacher "CLARA Summer School in Advanced Resource Creation, Archiving and Usage" (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, 5-16 July 2010)
ESSLLI 2010: Empirically-based Multi-Modal Studies (with Patrizia Paggio)
CLARA Summer School "Semantic and Multimodal Annotation and Evaluation", Copenhagen August 2011 (with Jens Edlund, Department of Speech, Music and Hearing at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Sweden, Patrizia Paggio CST, Prezemek Lenkiewicz, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)
Costanza Navarretta. The Use and Resolution of Intersentential Pronominal Anaphora in Danish Discourse, Center for Language Technology and Department of General and Applied Linguistics, Copenhagen University, February 2002, 240 p.
P. Paggio and C. Navarretta. Feedback and gestural behaviour in a conversational corpus of Danish. In P. Paggio, E. Ahlsén, J. Allwood, K. Jokinen, C. Navarretta (Eds.) Proceedings of the 3rd Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication May 27-28, 2011, University of Helsinki, Finland, NEALT Proceedings Series vol. 15, 2011, pp. 33-39.
P. Paggio and C. Navarretta. Learning to classify the feedback function of head movements in a Danish Corpus of first encounters . In Proceedings of ICMI 2011 Workshop Multimodal Corpora for Machine Learning: Taking Stock and Road mapping the Future , Alicante, Spain November 2011, 8 pages.
C. Navarretta. Anaphora and gestures in multimodal communication. In Hendrickx, Branco, Lalitha Devi and Mitkov (Eds.) Proceedings of the 8th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC 2011), Faro, Portugal, Ediçoes Colibri, 2011 pp.171-181.
C. Navarretta. Annotating Non-verbal Behaviours in Informal Interactions. In A. Esposito, A. Vinciarelli, K. Vicsi, C. Pelachaud and A. Nijholt (Eds.) Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and Enactment: The Processing Issues, LNCS 6800, Springer Verlag, 2011, pp. 317-324.
P. Paggio and C. Navarretta. Head Movements, Facial Expressions and Feedback in Danish First Encounters Interactions: A Culture-Specific Analysis. In Constantine Stephanidis (Ed.) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction- Users Diversity. 6th International Conference. UAHCI 2011, Held as Part of HCI International 2011 Orlando Florida,July 9-14 2011, LNCS 6766, Springer Verlag, pp. 583-590.
C. Navarretta, E. Ahlsén, J. Allwood, K. Jokinen, P. Paggio. Creating Comparable Multimodal Corpora for Nordic Languages. In Proceedings of the 18th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics. Riga, Latvia, May 11-13 2011, pp. 153-160.
C. Navarretta. Antecedent and referent types of abstract pronominal anaphora. In S. Dipper and H. Zinsmeister (eds.) Beyond Semantics: Corpus-based Investigations of Pragmatic and Discourse Phenomena. Proceedings of the DGFS Workshop, Göttingen, February 23-25 2011, pp. 99-110.
C. Navarretta and P. Paggio. Classification of Feedback Expressions in Multimodal Data. Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010), Uppsala, Sweden, Juli 11-16, 2010, pp. 318-324.
C. Navarretta. Stress, pauses, pronominal types and pronominal functions in Danish spoken data. In P.J.Henrichsen (ed.) Linguistic Research and Raw Sound. Copenhagen Studies in Language 40, Samfundslitteratur, 2010, pp.45-60.
C. Navarretta. Abstrakte diskursanaforer i eventyr fra det 19. århundrede - En komparativ analyse. In B. Maegaard og L. Schøsler (Eds). En Sneemand på syv måder - En indføring i sprogteknologiske og kontrastive problemstillinger og metoder Museum Tusculanusms Forlag - Copenhagen, 2010, pp. 153-171.
P. Paggio, J. Allwood, E. Ahlsén, K. Jokinen, C. Navarretta. The NOMCO multimodal Nordic resource - goals and characteristics. In Proceedings of LREC 2010, Malta, May 17-23, 2010, pp. 2968--2973.
C. Navarretta. The DAD parallel corpora and their uses. In Proceedings of LREC 2010, Malta, May 17-23 2010, pp. 705-712.
P. Paggio and C. Navarretta. Feedback in Head Gestures and Speech. In M. Kipp et al. (Eds.) Workshop Multimodal Corpora: Advances in Capturing, Coding and Analyzing Multimodality,Proceedings of LREC 2010, Malta, May 17, 2010, pp. 1-4.
C. Navarretta. Reusing contemporary language resources to PoS tag non-contemporary literary texts. In N. Nicolov, G. Angelova and R. Mitkov (Eds.) Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing V. Current issues in Linguistic Theory 309 . pp. 249-258. John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2009.
C. Navarretta. Automatic recognition of the function of third-person singular pronouns in texts and spoken data. In: S. Lalitha Devi, A. Branco and R. Mitkov (Eds.) Anaphora Processing and Applications. 7th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, DAARC 2009 Goa, India, November 5-6, 2009 Proceedings LNAI 5847. pp. 15-28. Springer Verlag Berlin/Heidelberg 2009.
C. Navarretta. Co-referential chains and discourse topic shifts in parallel and comparable corpora. Revista de Procesamiento de Lenguaje Natural, La Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN), 42:105-112, 2009.
C. Navarretta, P. Paggio, J. Allwood, E. Ahlsén, K. Yasuhiro (Eds.) Proceedings of Workshop Multimodal Communication: from Human Behaviour to Computational Models. University of Tartu Library, 2009. (NEALT Proceedings Series). Vol.6.
P. Paggio and C. Navarretta. Integration and representation issues in the annotation of multimodal data. In C. Navarretta, P. Paggio, J. Allwood, E. Alsén and Y. Katagiri (Eds.) Proceedings of the NODALIDA 2009 Workshop Multimodal Communication — from Human Behaviour to Computational Models. NEALT Proceedings Series. Vol. 6, 2009, 25-91.
C. Navarretta. Pronominal types and abstract reference in the Danish and Italian DAD Corpora. In C. Johansson (ed.) Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Anaphora Resolution (WAR II). NEALT Proceedings Series, Vol. 2, 2008, 63-71.
K. Jokinen, C. Navarretta and P. Paggio. Distinguishing the communicative functions of gestures. In A. Popescu-Belis and R. Stiefelhagen (Eds.) Proceedings of 5th Joint Workshop on Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction, Utrecht, September 2008, Springer, 38-49.
C. Navarretta and S. Olsen. Annotating abstract pronominal anaphora in the DAD project. In Proceedings of LREC-2008. May 28th-30th 2008, Marrakesh, Morocco, pages 7.
J. Allwood, L. Cerrato, K. Jokinen, C. Navarretta and P. Paggio. The MUMIN coding scheme for the annotation of feedback in multimodal corpora: a prerequisite for behavior simulation. In Language Resources and Evaluation. Special Issue. J.-C. Martin, P. Paggio, P. Kuehnlein, R. Stiefelhagen, F. Pianesi (Eds.) Multimodal Corpora for Modeling Human Multimodal Behavior, Volume 41, Nr. 3-4:273-287, 2007, Springer, www.springerlink.com.
B.S. Pedersen, P. Paggio og C. Navarretta. 2007. Sprogteknologiske ressourcer til informationssøgning. In: M. L. Nielsen (ed.) Dansk Biblioteksforskning - Tidsskrift for informations- og kulturformidling Nr.2, 3.årgang, 5-18.
C. Navarretta. Semi-automatic construction of training data for tagging non-contemporary literary texts. In: G. Angelova, K. Bontcheva, R. Mitkov, N. Nicolov, N. Nikolov (Eds.) Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2007), 27-29 September 2007, Borovits, Bulgarien, 411-417.
C. Navarretta. A contrastive analysis of abstract anaphora in Danish, English and Italian. In: A. Branco, T. McEnery, R. Mitkov and F. Silva (Eds.) Proceedings of DAARC 2007 - 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphora Resolution Colloquium, March, 2007, Centro de Linguistica da Universidade do Porto, 103-109.
C. Navarretta. Diskursanaforer i den danske sprogteknologiske analyse. In: A. Braasch, C. Navarretta, S. Nimb, S. Olsen, P. Paggio, B.S. Pedersen og J. Wedekind (Eds.): Sprogteknologi i dansk perspektiv, C.A. Reitzels Forlag, København, 2006, 249-268.
A. Braasch, C. Navarretta, S. Nimb, S. Olsen, P. Paggio, B.S. Pedersen & J. Wedekind (Eds.): Sprogteknologi i dansk perspektiv, C.A. Reitzels Forlag, København, 2006.
C. Navarretta, B.S. Pedersen, D.H. Hansen. Language technology in knowledge organization systems. In: New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia - Special Issue: D. Tudhope and M.Lykke Nelsen (Eds.) Knowledge Organization Systems and Services 12:1, 2006, Taylor and Francis, 29-49.
J. Allwood, L. Cerrato, K. Jokinen, C. Navarretta and P. Paggio. A Coding Scheme for the Annotation of Feedback, Turn Management and Sequencing Phenomena. In Proceedings of Workshop Multimodal Corpora: from Multimodal Behaviour Theories to Usable Models held in conjunction with LREC 2006. Genova, 38-42.
B. Maegaard, L. Offersgaard, L. Henriksen, H. Jansen, X. Lepetit, C. Navarretta, C. Povlsen. The MULINCO corpus and corpus platform. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation , Genova, 2006. p 2148-2153.
B. Maegaard, L. Offersgaard, K. Farø, X. Lepetit, C. Navarretta, J. Pedersen and C. Povlsen. MULINCO - Korpusplatform til sprog- og oversættelsesstudier. In S. Hvid Maribo, O. Lauridsen (Eds.) Tidsskrift for Universiteternes efter- og videreuddannelse nr. 7, 2006.
J. Allwood , L. Cerrato, K. Jokinen , C. Navarretta, and P. Paggio. The MUMIN annotation scheme for feedback, turn management and sequencing.In: J. Allwood, B. Dorriots & Shirley Nicholson (Eds.):Proceedings of the Second Nordic Conference on Multimodal Communication April 7-8, 2005, Göteborg, Sweden, Gothenburg Papers in Theoretical Linguistics 92, 2006, 91-107.
C. Navarretta. Combining Information Structure and Centering-based Models of Salience for Resolving Danish Intersentential Pronominal Anaphora. In: A. Branco, T. McEnery and R. Mitkov (Eds.) Anaphora Processing. Linguistic, cognitive and computational modeling. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2005, 329-350.
B.S. Pedersen,C. Navarretta, and D.H. Hansen. Anchoring Knowledge Organisation Systems to Language. In: B.N. Madsen and H.E. Thomsen (Eds.) Terminology and Content Develpment - Proceedings of 7th International Conference On Terminology and Knowledge Engineering, Copenhagen, 2005, 419-431.
J. Allwood, L. Cerrato, L. Dybkær, K. Jokinen, C. Navarretta and P. Paggio (2005). The MUMIN multimodal coding scheme, in Henrik Holmboe (ed) Nordisk Sprogteknologi 2005. Museum Tusculanums Forlag. Copenhagen, 129-156.
C. Navarretta. The Main Reference Mechanisms of Danish Demonstrative Pronominal Anaphors. In: In: A. Branco, T. McEnery and Rusland Mitkov (Eds.) Proceedings of DAARC 2004 - 5th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphora Resolution Colloquium, September, 2004, Ediçoes Colibri, 115-120.
C. Navarretta. Resolving Individual and Abstract Anaphora in Texts and Dialogues. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference of Computational Linguistics, COLING-2004, Geneva, Switzerland, 233-239.
C. Navarretta. An Algorithm for Resolving Danish Individual and Abstract Anaphora. In Proceedings of Reference Resolution and Its Applications Workshop at ACL, 2004, Barcelona, Spain, 95-102.
C. Navarretta, B. Sandford Pedersen, D. Haltrup Hansen. Human Language Technology Elements in a Knowledge Organisation System -The VID project. In Proceedings of LREC-2004, vol.1:75-78.
B. Sandford Pedersen , C. Navarretta, L. Henriksen. Building Business Ontologies with Language Technology Techniques - The VID project. In Proceeding of ONTOLEX Workshop in conjunction with LREC 2004. 30-35.
C. Navarretta. Demonstrative and personal pronominal anaphors: their different reference mechanisms, NoDaLiDa 2003, 30.-31. maj 2003, Reykjavik, Iceland.
C. Navarretta. Combining information structure and centering-based models of salience for resolving intersentential pronominal anaphora. In: A. Branco, T. McEnery and Rusland Mitkov (Eds.) Proceedings of DAARC 2002 - 4h Discourse Anaphora and Anaphora Resolution Colloquium Lisbon, September 18-20, 2002, Ediçoes Colibri, 135-140.
C. Navarretta. Semi-automatic Identification of Danish Discourse Deictics. In: V. Matoušek, P. Mautner, R. Moucek, K. Taušer (Eds.) Text, Speech and Dialogue. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference TSD 2001, Zelezná Ruda, Czech Republic, September 2001. Lectures Notes in Computer Science; vol: 2166, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, 396-402.
C. Navarretta. Identifying Situation Reference in Danish. Extended abstracts of the 13th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics, NoDaLiDa '01 Uppsala University, May 21-22 2001 (5p.)
C. Navarretta. Exploiting Recent Research on Dialogue to Model Verbal Communication in Staging. In: L. Qvortrup (Ed.) Virtual Interaction: Interaction in Virtual Inhabited 3D Worlds, Springer-Verlag, 2000, 250-267.
C. Navarretta. Abstract Anaphora Resolution in Danish. In: L. Dybkjær, K. Hasida and D. Traum (Eds.): Proceedings of 1st SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue - Held in conjunction with The 38th Annual Meeting of the ACL, 7-8 October 2000, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, 56-65.
C. Navarretta. Centering-Based Anaphora Resolution in Danish Dialogues. In: P.Sojka, I. Kopecek, K. Pala (Eds.) Text, Speech and Dialogue - Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Text, Speech, Dialogue - TSD 2000, Brno, Czech Republic, September 13-16, 2000, Springer-Verlag, 345-350.
C. Navarretta. Anaphora Resolution in Danish Dialogues. In: ESSLLI 2000, Student Session, Birmingham, 167-177.
C. Navarretta. Semantic Clustering of Adjectives and Verbs Based on Syntactic Patterns. In: Torbjørn Nordgård (Ed.) Proceedings of the 12th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics, NoDaLiDa 1999, Trondheim 2000, 124-132.
C. Navarretta and A. Neville. An HPSG Marking Analysis of Danish Determiners and Clausal Adverbials. In: Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics, NoDaLiDa 1998, Copenhagen 1998, 57-67.
C. Navarretta. Encoding Danish Verbs in the PAROLE Model. In: R. Mitkov, N. Nicolov & N. Nikolov (Eds.) Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, 1997, 359-363.
C. Navarretta. Methodologies for Knowledge Acquisition from NL Texts.In: S.L. Hansen and H. Wegener (Eds.) Topics in Knowledge-based NLP systems , Samfundslitteratur, Frederiksberg, 1994, 7-17.
A. Bech and C. Navarretta. MECKA: Methodologies for Constructing Knowledge Bases for NLP Systems. In: H. Albrechtsen and S. Ørnager (Eds.) Knowledge Organization and Quality Management - Proceeding of the Third International ISKO Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, number 4 in Advances in Knowledge Organization, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, June 1994. ISKO, Indeks Verlag, 147-153.
C. Navarretta and S. Olsen. The annotation of pronominal abstract anaphora in Danish texts and dialogues. DAD report 1. Centre for Language Technology, University of Copenhagen. January 2009.
K. Farøe, L. Henriksen, H. Jansen, S. Jansen, X. Lepetit, B. Maegaard, C. Navarretta, L. Offersgaard, C. Povlsen. Behovsanalyse. MULINCO-rapport 1. Københavns Universitet, 2005.
C. Navarretta. Statistiske metoder der kan understøtte opbygning af tekstbaserede ontologier. VID-rapport 7. CST. 2005.
B.S. Pedersen, C. Navarretta og D.H. Hansen. Ontologibaseret teksthåndtering - med sprogteknologi. VID-rapport 6. CST. 2005.
B. Jongejan, B.S. Pedersen og C. Navarretta. Automatisk Analyse af Zaccos og Ankiros tekstmateriale VID-rapport 3. CST. 2004.
B.S. Pedersen, C. Navarretta og D.H. Hansen. Ontologier og metadata i relation til søgning i tekster. VID-rapport 2. CST. 2003.
C. Navarretta. Behandling af dialog i Staging: første overvejelser. In: B. Maegaard, C. Povlsen, J. Wedekind (eds.) Datalingvistisk Forening Årsmøde 1999 Proceedings. CST Working Papers, Report no.3. 2000, s. 33-44.
C. Navarretta. Multimodal Dialog. Staging Workshop for Construction Team, d. 21.-22. januar 1999.
C. Navarretta. Dialogue Analysis and Management. Staging seminar, Rold Stor Kro, d. 21.-23. april 1999.
A. Braasch, C. Navarretta and N.H. Sørensen. Danish Lexicon Documentation. WP.3.3. LE-PAROLE report. 1998.
C. Navarretta. Danish Syntax Lexicon: Coding Manual for Adjectives. LE-PAROLE report. 1998.
C. Navarretta. Danish Syntax Lexicon: Coding Manual for Verbs. LE-PAROLE report. 1998.
N. Underwood and C. Navarretta. A draft manual for the validation of lexica: final report. ELDA Report. (Release 1.1) 1997.
N. Underwood and C. Navarretta. Towards a Standard for the Creation of Lexica. ELDA Report, 1997.
B. Music and C. Navarretta. Documentation of the Danish Lingware LSGRAM Deliverable E-D8-DK, July 1996.
C. Navarretta. Design of Syntax Implementation for Danish Phrase Structure and Predicate Argument Structure LSGRAM Deliverable E-D6-DK, 1995.
C. Navarretta and A. Mikheev. Final Report: Methodologies for Constructing Knowledge Bases for Natural Language Processing Systems, ET-12 Project, Report 8, 1994.
A. Mikheev and C. Navarretta. Towards Automation, ET-12 Project, Report 7, 1994.
A. Mikheev and C. Navarretta. Implementation Report, ET-12 Project, Report 6, 1994.
C. Navarretta and A. Mikheev. Evaluation of Existing Reusable Resources. ET-12 Project, Report 5. 1994.
C. Navarretta and A. Mikheev. Revised Methodology for Knowledge Engineering, ET-12 Project, Report 4, Final Version, 1994.
C. Navarretta and A. Mikheev. Methodology for Knowledge Engineering, ET-12 Project, Report 3, 1993.
A Bech., A. Mikheev, M.Moens and C. Navarretta. Typology for Information Contents. ET-12 Project, Report 2. 1993.
A. Bech, M. Moens, C. Navarretta. Strategies in NLP knowledge engineering. ET-12 Project, Report 1, 1993.
C. Navarretta. Strategier til opbygning af videnbaser. In: Bits & Bytes - Datalingvistisk foreningsårsmødet nr.3 Institut for Sprog og Kommunikation, Odense Universitet, Odense, 1993. s. 7-14.
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