Hello World

some years have passed, though

Hi 👋 My name is Andrea Pedrotti and I am a PhD Student in Computer Science at the University of Pisa. I am also a research fellow at the Institute of Information Science and Technologies of the National Council of Research (ISTI-CNR) where I am a member of AI4Text group at the Artificial Intelligence for Media and Humanities laboratory (AIMH).

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 Univeristy, 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@phd.unipi.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 (ICRL24)
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”