Mr Jacopo Amidei

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Sept. 2004 - Apr. 2008: Bachelor in Philosophy, University of Siena, Italy 110/110 cum laude

Sept. 2008 - Sept. 2012: Master in Philosophy, University of Siena, Italy 110/110 cum laude

Nov. 2012 - June. 2017: Ph.D in Philosophy, Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS), Italy. 70/70 cum laude

Mar. 2016 - Oct. 2016: Traineeship, ExB, Leipzig, Germany

Oct. 2017 - present: Ph.D in Computational Linguistics, The Open University, School of Computing & Communications

Research interests

1) Evaluation methodologies for Natural Language Generation systems

2) Machine Learning

3) Automatic Question Generation

4) Natural Language Understanding

5) Philosophy of Language

Publications

• 2016

J. Amidei, D. Pianigiani, L. San Mauro, G. Simi and A. Sorbi, Trial and error mathematics I: Dialectical and quasidialectical systems, The review of symbolic logic, Volume 9, Number 2, Giugno 2016, pp. 299-324.

J. Amidei, D. Pianigiani, L. San Mauro and A. Sorbi, Trial and error mathematics II: Dialectical sets and quasidialectical sets, their degrees, and their distribution within the class of limit sets, The review of symbolic logic, Volume 9, Issue 4, December 2016, pp. 810-835.

J. Amidei and D. Pianigiani, Natura empirica della metamatematica: la filosofia della matematica di Roberto Magari, Matematica, Cultura e società – Rivista dell’Unione matematica Italiana, Serie I, Vol. I, Agosto 2016, pp. 145-159.

• 2018

J. Amidei, P. Piwek and A. Willis, Rethinking the Agreement in Human Evaluation Tasks, Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (20-26 Aug. 2018, Santa Fe, New Mexico), pp. 3318-3329.

J. Amidei, P. Piwek and A. Willis, Evaluation Methodologies in Automatic Question Generation 2013 - 1018, Proceedings of The 11th International Natural Language Generation Conference (5-8 November 2018, Tilburg, The Netherlands), pp 307–317.

J. Amidei, U. Andrews, D. Pianigiani, L. San Mauro and A. Sorbi, Trial and error mathematics: Dialectical systems and completions of theories, Journal of logic and computation, exy033.

• 2019

J. Amidei, P. Piwek and A. Willis, The use of rating and Likert scales in Natural Language Generation human evaluation tasks: A review and some recommendations, In Proceedings of The 12th International Natural Language Generation Conference, Tokyo, Japan, October 29 - November 1, 2019.

J. Amidei, P. Piwek and A. Willis, Agreement is overrated: A plea for correlation to assess human evaluation reliability, In Proceedings of The 12th International Natural Language Generation Conference, Tokyo, Japan, October 29 - November 1, 2019.

• To appear

J. Amidei, R. C. Ertola-Biraben and F. Montagna, Conservative Expansions of Substructural Logics, to appear in Hiroakira Ono on Algebra and substructural logics (ed. Nikolaos Galatos), Trends in Logic special issue, Springer.

Impact and engagement

Local Organizing committee: XXV meeting of the Italian Association of Logic and its Applications, 14 - 17 April 2014 Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy)

Publications

Journal articles

Trial and error mathematics: Dialectical systems and completions of theories (2019-01-23)
Amidei, Jacopo; Andrews, Uri; Pianigiani, Duccio; San Mauro, Luca and Sorbi, Andrea
Journal of Logic and Computation, 29(1) (pp. 157-184)

Conference items

Agreement is overrated: A plea for correlation to assess human evaluation reliability (2019)
Amidei, Jacopo; Piwek, Paul and Willis, Alistair
In : Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (29 Oct - 1 Nov 2019, Tokyo, Japan)

The use of rating and Likert scales in Natural Language Generation human evaluation tasks: A review and some recommendations (2019)
Amidei, Jacopo; Piwek, Paul and Willis, Alistair
In : Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (29 Oct - 1 Nov 2019, Tokyo, Japan)

Evaluation methodologies in Automatic Question Generation 2013-2018 (2018-11-06)
Amidei, Jacopo; Piwek, Paul and Willis, Alistair
In : Proceedings of The 11th International Natural Language Generation Conference (5-8 Nov 2018, Tilburg, The Netherlands) (pp. 307-317)

Rethinking the Agreement in Human Evaluation Tasks (2018)
Amidei, Jacopo; Piwek, Paul and Willis, Alistair
In : Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (20-26 Aug 2018, Santa Fe, New Mexico) (pp. 3318-3329)

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