CV

Basics

Name Daniela Occhipinti
Label PhD Student
Email docchipinti@fbk.eu
Url https://danie08.github.io/
Summary PhD student in Natural Language Generation.

Education

  • 2021.11 - 2025.10

    Trento, Italy

    PhD
    University of Trento & Fondazione Bruno Kessler
    Persona Based neural models for Opinionated Dialogues
  • 2017.09 - 2020.04

    Pisa, Italy

    Master Degree
    University of Pisa
    Digital Humanities - Language Technologies
  • 2012.09 - 2016.11

    Pisa, Italy

    Bachelor Degree
    University of Pisa
    Digital Humanities

Work

  • 2020.11 - 2021.10
    NLP Engineer
    TopNetwork S.p.A
  • 2020.03 - 2020.10
    NLP Engineer
    Aptus.AI
  • 2018.11 - 2020.03
    Junior Researcher
    Live Srl - Synthema
    Involved in SPIRIT (Scalable privacy preserving intelligence analysis for resolving identities) - H2020-SEC-12-FCT-2016-2017 Project No. 786993, url: https://www.spirit-tools.com/

Certificates

English Certificate B2
IELTS Official 2021-09-01

Publications

  • 2025.06.05
    When Harry Meets Superman: The Role of The Interlocutor in Persona-Based Dialogue Generation
    Association for Computational Linguistics3
    Daniela Occhipinti, Marco Guerini, and Malvina Nissim. 2025. When Harry Meets Superman: The Role of The Interlocutor in Persona-Based Dialogue Generation. To appear: Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025)
  • 2024.08.01
    Fine-tuning with HED-IT: The impact of human post-editing for dialogical language models
    Association for Computational Linguistics3
    Daniela Occhipinti, Michele Marchi, Irene Mondella, Huiyuan Lai, Felice Dell’Orletta, Malvina Nissim, and Marco Guerini. 2024. Fine-tuning with HED-IT: The impact of human post-editing for dialogical language models. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024, pages 11892–11907, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
  • 2024.06.01
    PRODIGy: a PROfile-based DIalogue Generation dataset
    Association for Computational Linguistics
    Daniela Occhipinti, Serra Sinem Tekiroğlu, and Marco Guerini. 2024. PRODIGy: a PROfile-based DIalogue Generation dataset. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024, pages 3500–3514, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
  • 2020.12.17
    Italianlp@ tag-it: Umberto for author profiling at tag-it 2020
    EVALITA Evaluation of NLP and Speech Tools for Italian
    Daniela Occhipinti, Andrea Tesei, Maria Iacono, Carlo Aliprandi, and Lorenzo De Mattei

Skills

Computational Skills
Python
Natural Language Processing and Generation
HuggingFace, PyTorch
Containerization using Docker

Languages

Italian
Native speaker
English
Fluent

Interests

Natural Language Generation
Persona-Based Dialogue Generation
Dialogue Generation