Mr Jacopo Amidei

Professional biography

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.

•  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.

• 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, To appear 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, To appear in Proceedings of The 12th International Natural Language Generation Conference, Tokyo, Japan, October 29 - November 1, 2019.

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