Alessandro Lenci#
| Membership Number: | 7072 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Affiliated section(s): | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | https://people.unipi.it/alessandro_lenci/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-5790-4308 |
| X: | @AlexLenci1966 |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/AlexLenci |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexlenci1966/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 - present Full professor in Linguistics, University of Pisa, Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics.
- 2011 - 2020 Associate professor in Linguistics, University of Pisa, Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics.
- 2015 - 2017 Adjunct professor in Computational Linguistics, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.
- 2002 - 2011 Research assistant in Linguistics, University of Pisa, Department of Linguistics.
- 1996 - 1997 Acting professor in Italian Philology, University of Helsinki (Finland), Department of Romance Languages.
Fields of Scholarship
- Computational linguistics
- Event semantics (Aspect and Aktionsart)
- Distributional semantics
- Lexical semantics
- Computational modelling of human semantic memory and language processing
- Natural language processing
- Argument structure
Honours and Awards
- 2020 - 2010 Year Test-of-Time Award assigned by the Association for Computational Linguistics for the paper “Distributional Memory”, appeared on Computational Linguistics (2010)
