Direttore Tecnico Superiore della Polizia di Stato

Italian National Police

Biography

I am a forensic psychologist of the Italian National Police. I carried out criminal analysis for cases of homicide.

During the PhD, I applied NLP methods for deception detection. Afterwards I dealt with technological innovation for Open Source INTelligence at the Ministry of Interior.

From 2018 to 2022 I was on leave as attending a postdoc at the Bocconi Univeristy, where I applied Deep Learning methods for social sciences.

After the postdoc I came back to the Italian National Police, where I carry out activites implying the use of NLP methods for security.

Interests

Natural Language Processing
Deep Learning
Computational Social Science

Education

PhD in Cognitive and Brain Sciences - Language, Interaction and Computation, 2012
Center for Mind/Brain Sciences - CIMeC, University of Trento
II degree Master in Theories/Methods for Criminal Investigations - TEMInCri, 2006
Sapienza - University of Rome
MSc in Psycology, 1998
University of Bologna

News

Deception detection, new paper at EACL2021!

BERTective, or detective BERT: Language Models and Contextual Information for Deception Detection

Last updated on Feb 2, 2021 1 min read

Deception detection, new paper at EACL2021!

Election pledges, new paper at Findings of ACL2021!

We will Reduce Taxes - Identifying Election Pledges with Language Models

Last updated on May 6, 2021 1 min read

Election pledges, new paper at Findings of ACL2021!

Soft-labels, new paper at NAACL2021!

Beyond Black & White: Leveraging Annotator Disagreement via Soft-Label Multi-Task Learning

Last updated on Mar 12, 2021 1 min read

Experience

PostDoc

Bocconi University

Jan 2018 – Mar 2021 Milan

Applying Deep Learning methods for Social Sciences

Dealing with geolocation, age and gender prediction, deception detection, bias

Chief Technical Director Psychologist

Italian Home Office - Department of Public Security

Jan 2013 – Mar 2018 Rome

Chief of the Technical Secretariat of the Committee for Innovation and Standardization of ICT Systems (ComISSIT).

Supporting the activities of research and technological innovation of the Department of Public Security

PhD

Center for Mind/Brain Sciences - CIMeC, University of Trento

Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 Trento

PhD in computational linguistics

Applying Machine Learning methods for deception detection in Court cases

Chief Technical Director Psychologist

Central Anticrime Directorate of Italian National Police

Jan 2003 – Jan 2013 Rome

Assigned to the Forensic Science Police Service

Performing criminal analysis through crime scene analysis, information analysis and behavioral analysis mainly on bloody murders and suspect deaths

Agent

Italian National Police Headquarters

Jul 1998 – Dec 2002 Turin, Bologna

Surveillance, patrol and public order

Publications

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(2021). BERTective: Language Models and Contextual Information for Deception Detection. Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

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(2020). "You Sound Just Like Your Father" Commercial Machine Translation Systems Include Stylistic Biases. Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

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(2020). A Case for Soft Loss Functions. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing.

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(2020). Fake opinion detection: how similar are crowdsourced datasets to real data?. Language Resources and Evaluation.

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(2020). Helpful or Hierarchical? Predicting the Communicative Strategies of Chat Participants, and their Impact on Success. Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Findings.

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