CV
Academic CV of Daniela Occhipinti — NLP researcher at FBK specialising in persona-based dialogue generation and conversational AI.
My work sits at the intersection of language, people, and computation, and I focus on how conversational systems can model speaker identity, interlocutor dynamics, and evaluation in more meaningful ways. The sections below trace that path from early work in language technologies to my current research agenda in persona-based dialogue generation.
Basics
| Name | Daniela Occhipinti |
| Label | Researcher |
| docchipinti@fbk.eu | |
| Url | https://danie08.github.io/ |
| Summary | Researcher in Natural Language Generation. |
Education
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2021.11 - 2025.10 Trento, Italy
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2017.09 - 2020.04 Pisa, Italy
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2012.09 - 2016.11 Pisa, Italy
Work
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2025.11 - Present Trento, Italy
Researcher
Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Language and Dialogue Technologies Group
Research on persona-based dialogue generation and evaluation.
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2020.11 - 2021.10 -
2020.03 - 2020.10 -
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/
Awards
- 2020.12.17
1st place in all subtasks of TAG-it at EVALITA 2020
EVALITA 2020 — Evaluation of NLP and Speech Tools for Italian
The ItaliaNLP system ranked first in all subtasks of the TAG-it author profiling task at EVALITA 2020, competing against systems from multiple teams.
Certificates
| English Certificate B2 | ||
| IELTS Official | 2021-09-01 |
Publications
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2025.06.05 When Harry Meets Superman: The Role of The Interlocutor in Persona-Based Dialogue Generation
Association for Computational Linguistics
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)
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2024.08.01 Fine-tuning with HED-IT: The impact of human post-editing for dialogical language models
Association for Computational Linguistics
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.
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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.
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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 |