In Memory of Emanuele Pianta’s Contribution to Computational Linguistics

Abstract

Almost eight years after his untimely death, the scientific contribution of Emanuele Pianta still appears significant to us, in particular for the variety of the topics he dealt with and for his capacity to move cross-disciplinarily between different areas of computational linguistics. Today, retracing the steps of Emanuele’s scientific carrier has the meaning of rediscovering an important part of the scientific challenges that the Italian research community has faced over a period of more than twenty years. In recognition of the role he played, the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics entitled to Emanuele Pianta the annual award assigned to the best master’s degree thesis in the context of Computational Linguistics, discussed in an Italian University.