Alessandro Suglia
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Skills
Machine Learning & Data Mining
- Weka
- TensorFlow
- PyTorch
- AllenNLP
- SPaCy
- RASA-NLU
- scikit-learn
Languages & Tools
- Java
- Python
- git
DBMS
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Amazon DynamoDB
- MongoDB
- Amazon Neptune
- Neo4j
Semantic Web Technologies
- SPARQL
- OWL
Projects
Alexa Prize Challenge 2018
Main member of the team 'Alana' responsible of NLU pipeline and several content-based bots.
Ask Me Any Rating: A Content-based Recommender System based on Recurrent Neural Networks
Code for the paper 'Ask Me Any Rating: A Content-based Recommender System based on Recurrent Neural Networks'
Contribution to the AllenNLP project
Integrated Dialog bAbI+ dataset in ParlAI
Iterative Multi-document Neural Attention for Multiple Answer Prediction
Code for the paper 'Iterative Multi-document Neural Attention for Multiple Answer Prediction'
Schema-aware Translating Embeddings model
Publications
Paper - CompGuessWhat?!: A Multi-task Evaluation Framework for Grounded Language Learning
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
July 2020
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Paper - Entertaining and Informative Open-domain Social Dialogue using Ontologies and Entity Linking
Conversational AI system classified 3rd place in the Amazon Alexa Prize Challenge 2018
November 2018
Paper - An automatic procedure for generating datasets for conversational recommender systems
Proceedings of Dynamic Search for Complex Tasks-8th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF
November 2017
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Paper - Converse-Et-Impera: Exploiting Deep Learning and Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Conversational Recommender Systems
AI*IA 2017 Advances in Artificial Intelligence
November 2017
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Paper - A deep architecture for content-based recommendations exploiting recurrent neural networks
Proceedings of the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
July 2017
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Paper - Iterative multi-document neural attention for multiple answer prediction
Deep Understanding and Reasoning: A challenge for Next-generation Intelligent Agents (URANIA) workshop, held in the context of the AI*IA 2016 conference
February 2017
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Experience
PhD Student
Edinburgh Centre for Robotics
Research project focused on Interactive Grounded Language Learning
September 2017 - Present
NLP Engineer
Alana AI
Responsible for the design and development of the Natural Language Understanding pipeline in the Alana Conversational AI platform.
June 2020 - Present
NLP Consultant
The AvantGarde Group
Design and development of an hierarchical text-classification model for financial documents written in Italian.
October 2019 - August 2020
ML/NLP Consultant
Plusimple S.r.l
Developed search engine and analytics platform for the Plusimple userbase.
March 2017 - September 2017
Education
University of Bari Aldo Moro
Bachelor of Computer Science (Full marks with Honors)
Computer Science
Thesis title: 'Content-based Recommender Systems based on Linked Open Data'
2011 - 2014
University of Bari Aldo Moro
Master of Computer Science (Full marks with Honors)
Knowledge Engineering and Machine Intelligence
Thesis title: 'Converse-Et-Impera: a Conversational Content-based Recommender System based on Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning'
2014 - 2017
Heriot-Watt University & University of Edinburgh
Master by Research (Full marks with Distinction)
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
2017 - 2018