The 7th edition of SwissText took place in Lugano from 8 to 10 June 2022.
SwissText is an annual conference that brings together text analytics experts from industry and academia. It is organised by the Swiss Association for Natural Language Processing (SwissNLP) in collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), the Data Innovation Alliance as well as the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW).
Thanks to all our wonderful participants!
Important information:
- The videos for most talks have been published. You can find them on the YouTube Channel of SwissText or on this website by clicking here.
- The conference proceedings will be soon available …
Impressions
Keynote Speakers
Biography: Marco Passarotti is Full Professor of Computational Linguistics at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy), where he is Director of the CIRCSE Research Centre, which he co-founded in 2009. His main research interests deal with building, using and disseminating linguistic resources and natural language processing tools for Latin. A former pupil of one of the pioneers of humanities computing, father Roberto Busa SJ, since 2006 he has headed the Index Thomisticus Treebank project, which continues the legacy of Busa’s work on the opera omnia of Thomas Aquinas. He is the principal investigator of the LiLa project, an ERC-Consolidator Grant (2018-2023), which aims to build a Linked Data Knowledge Base of linguistic resources and natural language processing tools for Latin.
Biography: Enrique Alfonseca is a research scientist at Google where he leads a team working on applied deep learning for Document Understanding on the web. Since 2007 he has held several positions in ads targeting, search quality ranking and natural language processing, both in Google Research and in engineering departments. Before that he was a postdoc at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (2005-2006), and obtained his Ph.D. in the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and the University of York.
Biography: Raul Rodriguez-Esteban is Senior Principal Scientist at Roche Pharmaceuticals in Basel, Switzerland, where he works on natural language processing, machine learning and real-world data applied to pharmaceutical R&D. Previously, he worked in pharmaceutical R&D at Boehringer Ingelheim and Pfizer. He completed his PhD in machine learning applied to text mining at the laboratory of Andrey Rzhetsky at Columbia University. He was a winner of the Bio-IT World Innovative Practices Award in 2020.
Meet the Organizers
Swisstext is organised jointly by the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) with the support of the Swiss Innovation Agency (Innosuisse) and several industrial sponsors.
- General Chairs: Roberto Mastropietro (SUPSI), Mark Cieliebak Mark (ZHAW)
- Program Chair: Fabio Rinaldi (IDSIA USI/SUPSI)
- Workshops Chair: Daniele Puccinelli (SUPSI)
Organizing Committee
- SUPSI: Roberto Mastropietro, Daniele Puccinelli, Fabio Rinaldi, Vani Kanjirangat, Oscar W Lithgow Serrano, Mariangela Ferracini
- ZHAW: Mark Cieliebak, Manuela Hürlimann, Sarah Ebling
- FHNW: Fernando Benites
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Code of Conduct
SwissText 2021 adopts the code of conduct of the SwissNLP association which is itself based on the ACM code of conduct.
