Marianna Marcella Bolognesi

Linguist (cognitive and distributional semantics) at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures.

She was a Marie S. Curie research fellow at the University of Amsterdam (2015-2017), research associate at the University of Oxford (2017-2019), and RtdB (tenure-track) at UniBo (2019-2022).

In 2022 she won an ERC grant for the project ABSTRACTION ERC-2021-STG-101039777,which aims to investigate how abstraction mechanisms work in thought, verbal language and creativity, both human and generated by artificial intelligence.

She is vice-PI and work unit coordinator of the national project PRIN 2022 "WEMB: Word Embeddings from Cognitive Linguistics to Language Engineering and Back", in collaboration with ISTI-CNR of Pisa, a project that aims to understand how vector representations of word meaning  (embeddings) reflect those in the minds of the speakers.

Her research employs cross-disciplinary approaches, combining psycholinguistic experiments and computational modeling.