Emanuela Campisi
Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche, Università degli Studi di Catania, Italia
Emanuela Campisi è assegnista di ricerca presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche dell’Università di Catania (docente responsabile: prof. Marco Mazzone), dove è inoltre docente a contratto di Semiotica e di Teoria del Linguaggio. Ha conseguito il dottorato di ricerca in Filosofia del Linguaggio e della Mente presso l'Università degli Studi di Palermo con una tesi sull’intenzionalità dei gesti co-verbali. Dopo il dottorato, ha svolto attività di ricerca presso il Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen, Paesi Bassi), la Radboud University Nijmegen e lo Humanities Laboratory dell’Università di Lund (Svezia). I suoi interessi riguardano principalmente gli aspetti pragmatici delle interazioni comunicative, che indaga sia da una prospettiva teorica sia con la ricerca empirica, in contesti semi-sperimentali. Ha pubblicato articoli su riviste internazionali (es. Journal of Pragmatics; Philosophical Psychology), nonchè una monografia edita da Carocci Editore (Che cos'è la gestualità, 2018).
Mariapaola D'Imperio
Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University, USA
Mariapaola D’Imperio is currently Distinguished Professor at the Department of Linguistics and the Cognitive Science Center at Rutgers University and head of the Speech and Prosody Lab. She obtained a PhD in Linguistics at the Ohio State University in 2000 and then joined the CNRS in France in 2001. She then obtained a position as Professor of Phonetics, Phonology and Prosody at the Department of Linguistics at Aix Marseille University, and she has been since then head of the Prosody Group at the Laboratoire Parole et Langage and President of the Laboratory Phonology (from 2018 to 2020). She is also Associate Editor for the Journal of Phonetics (since 2016). Her research interests span from the prosody and intonational phonology of Romance languages, to prosody production, perception and processing in typical and atypical populations and intonation acquisition in preschoolers.
Julia Hirschberg
Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, USA
Julia Hirschberg is Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University (department chair from 2012-2018). She previously worked at Bell Laboratories and AT&T Labs on text-to-speech synthesis (TTs) and then created the first HCI Research Department. She has served on the ACL executive board, the ISCA board (2005-7 as president), the CRA-WP board, the NAACL executive board, the CRA Executive Board, the AAAI Council, and the IEEE SLTC. She was editor of Computational Linguistics and Speech Communication and is a fellow of AAAI, ISCA, ACL, ACM, and IEEE, and a member of the NAE, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. She received the IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award, the ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement and the ISCA Special Service Medal. She has worked for diversity for many years at AT&T and Columbia. She studies speech and NLP, currently TTS, false information on social media and its intent, multimodal humor and radicalization, and deceptive, trusted, emotional, and charismatic speech.
