Daniela Occhipinti

PhD at Fondazione Bruno Kessler and Univesity of Trento.

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Welcome to my personal page!

My name is Daniela and I am currently a PhD student in the Language and Dialogue Technologies (LanD) group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) in Trento, Italy. My PhD in Information Engineering and Computer Science is focused on Natural Language Processing and Generation. I hold a bachelor and a master’s degree in Digital Humanities from the University of Pisa, where I specialised in Language Technologies. My research centers on persona-based dialogue generation, exploring how dialogue agents can adapt to different speaker profiles to enhance conversational coherence and diversity.

News

Jul 28, 2025 Poster Presentation at ACL 2025 in Vienna
Jun 05, 2025 🚀 I am happy to announce that our paper When Harry Meets Superman: The Role of The Interlocutor in Persona-Based Dialogue Generation has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025! 🥳
Dec 04, 2024 Poster presentation at CLiC-it 2024
Aug 11, 2024 Poster presentation at ACL2024 in Bangkok
Jun 10, 2024 Poster presentation at NAACL2024 (virtual)

Main publications

  1. When Harry Meets Superman: The Role of The Interlocutor in Persona-Based Dialogue Generation
    Daniela Occhipinti, Marco Guerini, and Malvina Nissim
    In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), Jul 2025
  2. Fine-tuning with HED-IT: The impact of human post-editing for dialogical language models
    Daniela Occhipinti, Michele Marchi, Irene Mondella, and 4 more authors
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024, Aug 2024
  3. PRODIGy: a PROfile-based DIalogue Generation dataset
    Daniela Occhipinti, Serra Sinem Tekiroğlu, and Marco Guerini
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024, Jun 2024