About me

Hi! I'm Elisa Bassignana, a PhD student at IT University of Copenhagen.
I work under the supervision of Prof. Barbara Plank and Dr. Rob van der Goot.
I am also affiliated with the Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS) in Munich.

I love subjects related to human-computer interaction, language
variation across domains, cats, mountains and Italy.

My research

    I work in the field of Natural Language Processing as a member of the NLP north research unit at ITU, and as an affiliated member of the MaiNLP research lab at LMU.
    My main focus is developing computation systems for Information Extraction with strong abilities to generalize over unseen data sources and label spaces. Specifically, I work on cross-domain Relation Extraction. Previously, I worked in the field of social NLP (hate speech and personality detection).

Resume

Current PhD Computer Science, IT University of Copenhagen
2020 Master Computer Science, University of Turin
2018 Bachelor Computer Science, University of Turin

Full resume can be found here.

Publications

[9] Elisa Bassignana, Filip Ginter, Sampo Pyysalo, Rob van der Goot, and Barbara Plank. Multi-CrossRE A Multi-Lingual Multi-Domain Dataset for Relation Extraction. In Proceedings of the 24rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa).
[8] Elisa Bassignana and Barbara Plank. CrossRE: A Cross-Domain Dataset for Relation Extraction. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022.
[7] Dennis Ulmer, Elisa Bassignana, Max Müller-Eberstein, Daniel Varab, Mike Zhang, Rob van der Goot, Christian Hardmeier, and Barbara Plank. Experimental Standards for Deep Learning in Natural Language Processing Research. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022.
[6] Elisa Bassignana, Max Müller-Eberstein, Mike Zhang, and and Barbara Plank. Evidence > Intuition: Transferability Estimation for Encoder Selection. In Proceedings of The 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022).
[5] Elisa Bassignana and Barbara Plank. What do You Mean by Relation Extraction? A Survey on Datasets and Study on Scientific Relation Classification. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop (SWR-ACL 2022).
[4] Dennis Ulmer, Elisa Bassignana, Max Müller-Eberstein, Daniel Varab, Mike Zhang, Christian Hardmeier, and Barbara Plank. Experimental Standards for Deep Learning Research: A Natural Language Processing Perspective. Machine Learning Evaluation Standards at ICLR 2022 (SMILES). Received Outstanding Paper Award.
[3] Elisa Bassignana, Malvina Nissim, Viviana Patti. Personal-ITY: A Novel YouTube-based Corpus for Personality Prediction in Italian. In Proceedings of the Seventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2020).
[2] Elisa Bassignana, Malvina Nissim, Viviana Patti. Matching Theory and Data with Personal-ITY: What a Corpus of Italian YouTube Comments Reveals About Personality. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Modeling of People's Opinions, Personality, and Emotion's in Social Media (PEOPLES 2020).
[1] Elisa Bassignana, Valerio Basile, Viviana Patti. Hurtlex: A Multilingual Lexicon of Words to Hurt. In Proceedings of the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2018).

Teaching

ITU, Spring 2023 Introduction to Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning (Lecturer)
LMU, Fall 2022 Vertiefung der Grundlagen der Computerlinguistik (Guest Lecturer)
ITU, Fall 2022 Seminars in Data Science (Lecturer and Examiner)
ITU, Spring 2022 Introduction to Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning (Lecturer and Senior TA)

Talks

  • Huawei Finland Research Center (November 2022)
  • Helsinki-NLP group (October, 2022)
  • GroNLP group (October, 2021)

Services

Awards

  • Outstanding Paper Award: 2,000 USD for an outstanding paper award at SMILES (workshop at ICLR 2022)
  • Student Volunteer Award: Free attendance to ACL 2022 (eq. 300 USD)
  • Pietro Torasso Award: Best M.Sc. thesis in AI at the University of Turin defended in 2020 (eq. 1,500 EUR)
  • Erasmus+ Scholarship: Sole recipient for an exchange semester at the University of Groningen (2020)

Contact details

Elisa Bassignana
ebassignana@gmail.com
elba@itu.dk
IT University of Copenhagen