Working experience
February 2026 - ongoing: postdoc at FIS SAPIENCE, Symbols, preliteracy and code evolution (PI: Prof. Silvia Ferrara).
Education
November 2022 - April 2026: Doctorate in Culture letterarie e filologiche, University of Bologna. Thesis: Digital Linguistics Biomarkers of Coherence and Cohesion for Early Detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia. Supervisor: Prof. Gloria Gagliardi; co-supervisors: Prof. Fabio Tamburini, Prof. Dimitrios Kokkinakis (University of Gothenburg, Sweden).
2019-2021: Master's degree in Linguistics, University of Padova. Thesis: Il ruolo dei connettivi testuali nell'inferenza testuale: costruzione di un corpus di frasi italiane per valutare le prestazioni di modelli linguistici neurali a confronto con giudizi umani. Supervisor: Prof. Dominique Brunato; co-supervisor: Prof. Emanuela Sanfelici. Grade: 110L/110.
2016-2019: Bachelor's degree in Italian Studies, University of Padova. Thesis: La teoria delle descrizioni definite di B. Russell: aspetti semantici e sintattici. Supervisor: Prof. Vittorio Morato. Grade: 110L/110.
Other training activities
September 2024 - December 2024: visiting stay at Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Referent: Prof. Dimitrios Kokkinakis.
March 2024 - June 2024: visiting stay at CoBTeK (Cognition Behaviour Technology) Research Unit, Université Cȏte d'Azur; Memory Clinic and Research Centre, University Hospital Nice; Institut Claude Pompidou. Referent: Dr. Alexandra Kӧnig.
September 2023 - February 2024: visiting stay at ComPhys Lab (ILC-CNR, Istitut for Computational Linguistics "A. Zampolli"), Pisa. Referents: Dr. Vito Pirrelli, Dr. Claudia Marzi, Dr. Marcello Ferro.
Conferences
June 24-27 2025: ICPLA2025, 20th biennial conference of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association, University of Patras, Grece. Poster: The Impact of Primary Dysmenorrhea on Acoustic Features: A Case Study of Italian Vowels Production.
May 19, 2025: CLUB Day, Coherence Measures in the Speech of Cognitive Decline Subjects, University of Bologna.
December 4-6 2024: Clic-it2024, Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, Università di Pisa. Poster: Exploring the Use of Cohesive Devices in Dementia within an Elderly Italian Semi-spontaneous Speech Corpus, Giorgia Albertin & Elena Martinelli.
Novemeber 27-29 2024: SLTC2024, Swedish Language Technology COnference, University of Linköping, Sweden. Oral presentation: Defining Cohesion Features in the Study of Discourse Properties in Cognitive Impairment, Giorgia Albertin & Dimitrios Kokkinakis.
June 19-21 2024: CILC2024, VII International Congress of Clinical Linguistics, University of Salamanca, Spain. Oral presentations: Discourse Properties in Congitive Decline: a study on Coherence and Cohesion; Early detection of prodromal stages of cognitive impairment in the Italian elderly population using NLP and AI technologies: the ReMind project, Giorgia Albertin, Paolo Bongioanni, Cristina Dolciotti, Marcello Ferro, Gloria Gagliardi, Alessandro Lento, Claudia Marzi, Andrea Nadalini, Vito Pirrelli & Fabio Tamburini.
May 21 2024: RaPID-5@LREC-COLING 2024, Resources and ProcessIng of linguistic, para-linguistic and extra-linguistic Data from people with various forms of cognitive/psychiatric/developmental impairments, Lingotto Fiere Torino. Oral presentation: Cross-Lingual Examination of Language Features and Cognitive Scores From Free Speech, Hali Lindsay, Giorgia Albertin, Louisa Schwed, Nicklas Linz & Johannes Tröger.
April 20 2024: PNCRL11, 11th Novi Sad workshop on Psycholinguistic, neurolinguistic and clinical linguistic research, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. Oral presentation: Cohesion in cognitive decline: a study on a corpus of Italian elderly speakers.
February 1-3 2024: AISV2024, XX Convegno Nazionale Associazione Italiana Scienze della Voce - Voci, media e nuove tecnologie, Università di Torino. Poster: The impact of primary dysmenorrhea on young women's voice: proposal of an experimental protocol for an exploratory study, Giorgia Albertin & Gloria Gagliardi.
June 2022: Clic-it 2022, Eighth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca. Oral presentation: On the Role of Textual Connectives in Sentence Comprehension: A New Dataset for Italian, Giorgia Albertin, Alessio Miaschi & Dominique Brunato.
Seminars and lessons
March 17, 2026: Acoustic Correlates of Primary Dysmenorrhea: A Case Study on Vowels, Clinical Linguistics Seminars 2026, Università di Bologna.
March 13, 2025: Identifying the early stages of dementia through computational language analysis: 20 years of research on Italian, Gloria Gagliardi, Giorgia Albertin & Fabio Tamburini. Workshop "Biomarker Linguistici Digitali per lo Screening del Declino Cognitivo", Accademia delle Scienze di Bologna.
March 5, 2025: Reading Between the Lines: Digital Biomarkers of Discourse Properties for Cognitive Decline, LiVe Lunch, Department of Foreing Language and Literature, Universita degli Studi di Verona.
February 22, 2024: Analysis of Semantic and Textual Properties in Cognitive Decline Through the Extraction of Linguistic Biomarkers, Clinical Linguistics Seminars 2024, Università di Bologna.
December 20, 2023: Linguistic tools for the screening of cognitive decline, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Split (Croatia).
December 13, 2022: The Role of Textual Connectives in Understanding the Meaning of Sentences in Neural Language Models, CLUB-extra, Università di Bologna.
