1) Bernardo Magnini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler – Trento)

Bernardo Magnini is a senior researcher and head of the Natural Language Processing research group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Trento. His work focuses on artificial intelligence and computational linguistics, with over 300 scientific publications in the field. He has taught at the Universities of Trento, Bolzano, and Pavia and is a founding member of the Italian Association for Computational Linguistics (AILC), serving as its President from 2015 to 2022.

2) Stefano Manfredi (French National Centre for Scientific Research)

Stefano Manfredi is a research fellow and laboratory director (since 2024) at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (SeDyL, UMR8202). His research focuses on language contact, pidgin and creole languages, typological and historical dialectology of Arabic, and corpus linguistics. Most of his publications deal with Arabic-based creoles and Sudanic Arabic dialects. He recently published a grammar of Juba Arabic (2017, Peeters) and co-edited a collective volume on language contact involving Arabic (2018, John Benjamins).

3) Yaron Matras (Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics)

Professor Yaron Matras is a linguist interested in multilingualism and minority languages. Until 2020, he was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Mancheste and was a British Academy Wolfson Professorial Fellow. He is a leading international authority on contact linguistics, language documentation, and the linguistics of Romani, Domari, and Kurdish, and is the founder of the Multilingual Manchester research unit that specializes in research and public engagement on urban multilingualism and language diversity. His books include Language Contact, Volumes 1 & 2 (Cambridge University Press, 2009/2020) and Romani (Cambridge University Press, 2002). His most recent book, Speech and the city: Multilingualism, decoloniality and the civic university is due to appear with Cambridge University Press in the spring of 2024.

4) Caterina Mauri (Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna)

Caterina Mauri is an associate professor at the University of Bologna. She coordinated the creation and publication of the KIParla corpus, a freely available corpus of Spoken Italian, encompassing 2,3M tokens. She works on spoken language, linguistic typology, semantics/pragmatics and language change. In recent years she has been working with a converging evidence methodology, which integrates the study of cross-linguistic variation, based on large samples of languages, with the study of intra-linguistic variation, based on the analysis of mostly spoken language corpora, in light of a theoretical view that sees grammar emerging from discourse.

5) Pavel Ozerov (Innsbruck Universität)

Pavel Ozerov is a professor at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He specializes in the intersection of pragmatics, Interactional Linguistics, information structuring, multimodality, and syntax in typologically diverse languages. To this end, he has developed methods and corpora for the study of pragmatics in naturally occurring multimodal speech. In addition, he works on the documentation and description of Trans-Himalayan languages of the Indo-Burmese border, with a project on grammar of the Anal Naga language of India. He received his PhD for a study of Information Structure in colloquial Burmese (La Trobe University, 2015), developing the multifactorial information management approach to the study of Information Structure.

6) Ludovica Pannitto (Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna)

Ludovica Pannitto is an NLP Lab Manager at LILEC’s Laboratorio Sperimentale (University of Bologna), where she supports research in linguistics, translation, and digital humanities. She obtained her PhD in Linguistics from CIMeC – University of Trento, under the supervision of Aurélie Herbelot. Her research focuses on the design and development of corpora and other language resources, computational construction grammar, and Natural Language Processing. She is also a trained Italian Sign Language (LIS) interpreter.