Hello World

some years have passed, though

Hi 👋 My name is Andrea Pedrotti and I am currently a Post-Doc at the Institute of Information Science and Technologies of the National Council of Research (ISTI-CNR). Here, I am a member of AI4Text group in the Artificial Intelligence for Media and Humanities laboratory (AIMH). I have obtained my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, with the thesis Heterogeneous Transfer Learning in Natural Language Processing.

My primary interests lie in representation learning, both at large and small scale, with a particular interests in heterogeneous transfer learning, I like playing with different domains such as languages and perceptual modalities within multimodal and multilingual settings.

I have received my master’s degree in Digital Humanities at the University of Pisa with a thesis on Cross-Lingual Text-Classification, supervised by Dr. Fabrizio Sebastiani and Dr. Alejandro Moreo.

During 2022, I have spent a few months at the HD NLP Group of Heidelberg University under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Anette Frank working on the assessment of Video-and-Language Models.

In 2023, I have visited the Language Technology Lab at Cambridge University, where I have worked on the interplay between multi-language and multi-modal models together with Dr. Ivan Vulić.

For any question, feel free to drop me an email at andrea.pedrotti@isti.cnr.it 🙃

Publications

ViLMA: A Zero-Shot Benchmark for Linguistic and Temporal Grounding in Video-Language Models Ilker Kesen, Andrea Pedrotti, Moustafa Dogan et al. 2023. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR24)
Generalized Funnelling: Ensemble Learning and Heterogeneous Document Embeddings for Cross-Lingual Text Classification. Alejandro Moreo, Andrea Pedrotti, and Fabrizio Sebastiani. 2022. ACM Transactions on Information Systems 41 (TOIS)
Heterogeneous Document Embeddings for Cross-Lingual Text Classification Alejandro Moreo, Andrea Pedrotti, and Fabrizio Sebastiani. 2021. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC21)

Talks & Seminars

First CNR-DFKI workshop on AI Technologies where I have represented the AI4Text group talking about our current research directions and discussed the future scenarios of the NLP field.

Seminar Series Cambridge, “ViLMA: A Zero-Shot Benchmark for Linguistic and Temporal Grounding in Video-Language Models”

Colloquium Talk Heidelberg, “What’s In An Action? A benchmark for Video-and-Language models through the lens of change-of-state verbs”