Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita' di Torino, Corso Svizzera 185,
10149 Torino (Italy)
Email: lesmo@di.unito.it
Phone: +39-011-67067-08
Fax: +39-011-751603
He earned a Laurea degree in Computer Science from the University of Torino in 1974.
He is currently Full Professor at the Computer Science Department .
He is the Contact Person of the Natural Language Processing Group of the Computer Science Department .
His main interests are on NLP and involve dependency syntax, parsing, psycholinguistic models, pragmatics and plan recognition, lexical semantics, development of linguistic resources.
He is vice-director of the Center of Cognitive Science of the University and Polytechnic of Torino.
He is a founding member of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA) , and he is member of the Working Group on Natural Language Processing.
He is member of the Association for Computational Linguistics and of the Cognitive Science Society.
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