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I'm a senior researcher at the Centre for Language Technology in Copenhagen.

Personal data: born in Rome (Italy) in 1959, educated at the University of Rome and the University of Copenhagen. In Denmark since 1982. Married, two daughters. Employed at CST since 1987.

Areas of interest: grammar formalisms, treatment of ambiguity in language analysis, machine translation, information structure, evaluation of NLP systems, grammar checking, multimodality. For more details, including a complete publication list, you can click on my CV.

Projects

Verbal and bodily communication (Verbal og kropslig kommunikation).

Information structure in the Danish language

MUMIN (Multimodal Communication and Multimodal Interfaces)

MOSES (Modular and Scalable Environment for the Semantic WEB)

OntoQuery

Staging of Virtual 3D Spaces

SCARRIE (Grammar and spelling checking for the Scandinavian languages)

TEMAA (A Testbed Study of Evaluation Methodologies: Authoring Aids)

Information structure in Machine Translation (PhD project)

Teaching

Cognition studies II (Kognitionsforskning II) (in collaboration with Costanza Navarretta).

Language technology I (Sprogteknologi I) (in collaboration with colleagues from CST and the Department of Computer Science).

Language technology II (Sprogteknologi II) (in collaboration with Costanza Navarretta from CST).

Supervision of Master's theses (Specialevejledning).

Selected publications

Kipp, M., Martin, J.-C., Paggio, P., Heylen, D. (Eds.) (2009) From Models of Natural Interaction to Systems and Applications . Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science Subseries: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 5509

Paggio, P. (2009) The information structure of Danish grammar constructions. In Nordic Journal of Linguistics. 32(1), 137-164. Cambridge University Press. PDF

Paggio, P., D. H. Haltrup and L. Offersgaard (2009) Ontology-based question-answering with feature structures. In Anders Søgaard and Petter Haugereid (eds.) Typed Feature Structure Grammars, pp.159-173. Peter Lang Publishing Group. PDF Abstract

Jokinen, K., C. Navarretta & P.Paggio (2008) Distinguishing the communicative functions of gestures. In Proceedings of the 5th Joint Workshop on Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction, 8-10 September 2008, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Springer LNCS 5237, pp. 38-49.

Allwood, J., L. Cerrato, K. Jokinen, C. Navarretta & P. Paggio (2007) The MUMIN Coding Scheme for the Annotation of Feedback, Turn Management and Sequencing. In J. C. Martin et al. (eds) Multimodal Corpora for Modelling Human Multimodal Behaviour. Special issue of Language Resources and Evaluation. Springer. Vol.41, no.3-4, pp.273287.

Paggio, P. (2006) Information Structure and Pauses in a Corpus of Spoken Danish. In Conference Companion of the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Trento, Italy, April 2006, pp. 191-194.

Paggio, P. (2005) Representing Information Structure in a Formal Grammar of Danish. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS2005). Kitakyushu, Japan. June 13-14.

Paggio, P. and Jongejan, B. (2005) Multimodal Communication in Virtual Environments Communicating with the Staging virtual farm. In O. Stock and M. Zancanaro (eds) Multimodal Intelligent Information Presentation, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp.27-47. ISBN: 1-4020-3051-7.

Atzeni, Paolo, Roberto Basili, Dorte H. Hansen, Paolo Missier, Patrizia Paggio, Maria Teresa Pazienza, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto (2004) Ontology-Based Question Answering in a Federation of University Sites: The MOSES Case Study. Applications of Natural Language to Data Bases (NLDB) 2004: pp. 413-420. ISSN: 0302-9743.

Pedersen, B. S. and Paggio, P. (2004) A Danish Semantic Lexicon and its Application in Content-based Querying. Nordic Journal of Linguistics, Vol.27, No.1, pp.97-126.

Andersen, T., P. A. Jensen, J. F. Nilsson, P. Paggio, B. S. Pedersen & H. E. Thomsen (2004): Content-based text querying with ontological descriptors. Data & Knowledge Engineering 48, pp. 199-219.