PERSONAL INFORMATION
TRAINING AND QUALIFICATON
Name
Debora Nozza
E-mail
[email protected]
Since December 2014 I am a PhD student in Computer Science at University of Milano-Bicocca.
My research topics are Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning and
Sentiment Analysis.
In July 2014, I obtained a Master’s Degree in Computer Science at the University of MilanoBicocca with the grade of 110/110 cum laude.
I personally scheduled my courses focusing on Data Analytics, Machine Learning and Data
Mining. The study period ended with the writing and discussion of the final thesis titled "Learning
representation for Sentiment Classification", performed at the Laboratoire d'Informatique de
Paris 6 (University Pierre and Marie Curie) in Paris.
In November 2011, I earned a three year university degree in Computer Science at the
University of Milano-Bicocca with the final grade of 102/110.
I followed the three year course “Methods and Models for Application – Finance and
Management”, the title of my thesis was “Experimenting techniques of constrained inference for
Information Extraction”.
In 2008 I gained a chartered accountant qualification in the field of Programming at “Istituto
tecnico commerciale statale E. Tosi” (Busto Arsizio -Italy) with the grade of 75/100.
GRANT
In 2013, I received two scholarship provided by the University of Milano-Bicocca for a research
period at the research laboratory LIP6 of Paris (France): one for the program “Erasmus
Placement” and one for the program “EXTRA plus international mobility” (with the contribution of
Assolombardo and co-financed by “Fondazione Cariplo”).
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
LANGUAGE
Flexibility and good spirit of adaptation; fluency, ability to communicate and coordinate; good
disposition at team working and experiencing new situations.
ITALIAN: perfect knowledge and ownership in written and spoken language
ENGLISH: good knowledge and ownership in written and spoken language
In 2006 I obtained the certification “Preliminary English Test” - B1 level
FRENCH: good knowledge in written and spoken language
GERMAN: school level
Curriculum Vitae di Debora Nozza
Pag. 1/3
IT SKILLS
Perfect knowledge of Office programs.
Base knowledge of programming languages and software:
Pascal, Visual Basic, Lisp, Prolog, R, SQL, Weka, Knime, C++.
Advanced knowledge of Python, JAVA, Matlab.
I completed with distinction two MOOC courses, issued by Coursera, of Computing for Data
Analysis and Statistical Inference of the Johns Hopkins University.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
SPORT ACTIVITY
I have been playing volleyball for several years in many different teams (among them Yamamay
Busto Arsizio), also joining B2 and C league championship.
When I was younger I had the opportunity to take part in a volleyball international tournament
with my team for three consecutive years.
OTHER COURSES
In 2010 I followed a 7 lessons medical aid course c/o Red Cross in Gallarate (Varese, Italy)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
The internship period of 6 months, aimed at the development and elaboration of my thesis
project, was performed at the Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (University Pierre and Marie
Curie) in Paris.
The research was aimed at identifying and extracting subjective information from unstructured
data, a process known as Sentiment Analysis. In particular, different representation models were
analysed for taking into account the possible relationships between users and contents
generated by them (social networks).
To achieve these goals, I have developed a new model, consequently implemented and tested
through the programming language Java and Python, under the coordination of Professor Enza
Messina and Professor Patrick Gallinari.
During this experience I have improved my ability to work in autonomy, fluency in different
languages (French and especially English) and adaptability.
As a conclusion of the studies for the bachelor’s degree, I attended a research internship at
“Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca”.
During the internship activity, I took part in a research project, whose aim was the development
and implementation of a JAVA program, coordinated by Professor Enza Messina, supervisor of
the course “Computational Methods”, and Elisabetta Fersini.
The same subject has been investigated also in my thesis entitled “Experimenting techniques of
constrained inference for Information Extraction”.
The research activity lasted 3 months and in that period I worked in a laboratory cooperating and
interacting with a working team and at the same time I directly related to my coordinator.
The experience ended creating a presentation of the achieved scores, which has been
presented during meetings with my project team.
PUBLICATIONS
D. Nozza, E. Fersini, E. Messina. “A Multi-View Sentiment Corpus”. In Proceedings of the 15th
Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Valencia,
Spain, April 3-6, 2017.
P. Manchanda, E. Fersini, D. Nozza, E. Messina, M. Palmonari. “Towards Adaptation of Named
Entity Classification”. In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing.
Marrakesh, Morocco, April 3-6, 2017.
F. M. Cecchini, E. Fersini, P. Manchanda, E. Messina, D. Nozza, M. Palmonari, C. Sas.
“UNIMIB@NEEL-IT: Named Entity Recognition and Linking of Italian
Tweets”. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop EVALITA. Naples, December 7th,
2016.
Curriculum Vitae di Debora Nozza
Pag. 2/3
D. Nozza, E. Fersini, E. Messina. “Unsupervised Irony Detection: A Probabilistic Model with
Word Embeddings”. In Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Knowledge
Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. Porto, November 10th, 2016.
(Best Paper Award)
D. Nozza, E. Fersini, E. Messina. “Deep Learning and Ensemble Methods for Domain
Adaptation”. In Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial
Intelligence. San Jose, CA, November 6th, 2016.
D. Nozza, D. Maccagnola, V. Guigue, E. Messina and P. Gallinari. “A latent representation
model for sentiment analysis in heterogeneous social networks”. In Proceedings of the 3rd
International on Modelling and Knowledge Management applications. Grenoble, September 2nd,
2014.
INTERESTS
OBJECTIVES
I assiduously read newspapers and article on the internet about my study field in order to study
in deep and renew my knowledge.
I am keen of puzzle and brain training activities.
My main interest is sport – I play volleyball with commitment and devotion, always pursuing the
objective of self-improvement but at the same time giving importance to the team and respecting
my trainer and my team mates.
I would like to enrich my experience, pursuing the objective of growing personally and
professionally. I am sincerely willing to face short or long term experience abroad, even
regarding skills and abilities I am not mastering yet but favourably disposed to learn.
I hereby authorize the use of my personal details solely for circulation within the company according to the Italian Legislative
Decree n. 196/2003.
Curriculum Vitae di Debora Nozza
Pag. 3/3