Francesca Padovani
News
- from 30.03.2025 to 04.04.2025
ALPS Winter School in Aussois (French Alps)
I will attend the Speech and Natural Language Processing winter school in the Alps and present a poster on my current research. - 26/27.03.2025
HumanCLAIM Workshop Göttingen (Germany)
On the 26th and 27th of March I will attend the HumanCLAIM Workshop and I will present a poster 'What is the real benefit of using Child Directed Language for Language Modeling?' on my ongoing research - from April 2025
Joining the Organization Team of the Linguistics Lunch
From April 2025 onward I will be part of the organization of the CLCG Linguistics Lunches at the Faculty of Arts at RUG. This is a monthly event where two CLCG researchers give a short presentation on their work. The lunch is held every last Thursday of the month from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. - 13.03.2025
InCLoW Reading Group Presentation
I gave a presentation for my colleagues during a session of the internal InCLoW (Interpretable, Cognitively inspired, and Low-resource language modeling) Reading Group. I presented the paper 'Between Circuits and Chomsky: pre-pretraining on formal languages imparts linguistic biases' by Michael Y. Hu et al., 2025. You can find the slides here.
Hi! I am a first year PhD Student of the Computational Linguistic Group at the Center for Language and Cognition (CLCG), the University of Groningen (NL). My research is done under the supervision of Arianna Bisazza and the co-supervision of Yevgen Matusevych. The VIDI project I am working on, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), focuses on improving language modeling for (low-resource) morphologically rich languages, taking inspiration from child language acquisition insights.
My research experience has been quite diverse, in line with the hybrid nature of my education. I have a humanistic background, since did classical studies during my high school (learning Latin and Ancient Greek). I then completed my Bachelor's degree in Psychology at the University of Trieste (Italy) and carried out my undergraduate internship in the Language,Learning and Reading Lab of the Cognitive Neuroscience Unit at SISSA, led by Davide Crepaldi. I then pursued a Master's degree in Data Science at the University of Trento (Italy). For my Master thesis I spent 6 months in the Language group of the Computer Science Lab Sony in Paris, where I was supervised by Martina Galletti and Remi van Trijp as part of a project aimed at building a multimedia interface to support Italian children with Learning Disabilities during therapy with speech therapists.