CURRICULUM VITAE ET STUDIORUM
PERSONAL DATA
Born 29th July 1976 in Bolzano
EDUCATION
December 2004 PhD in German Linguistics - Universities of Modena/Reggio Emilia (ITA) and Graz (AU)
PhD thesis: The German skills of Italian-speaking pupils of Bolzano and Trento. Evaluation and Comparison.
2000 Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures - University of Trento
First Language: English
Second Language: German
COMPLEMENTARY COURSES
Statistical Methods in Corpus Linguistics (EURAC) - September '05
Corpus Linguistics: an Introduction (EURAC) - July '05
Web Content Management (EURAC/Simurg MI) - March '04
Teaching Written Italian to University Students (University of Trento) - September - October '03
Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (EURAC/Centro Docimologico Verona) - March '03
Scientific Journalism (EURAC/SISSA Trieste) - April '02
An Introduction to Markup Languages (EURAC) - March '02
LANGUAGE SKILLS
COMPUTER SKILLS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Since June 2001 Researcher - EURAC
Since AY 2002/03 Teaching Assistant - University of Trento, Faculty of Letters
January - June 2001 Direction Assistant - IDEALNET GmbH
RESEACH FIELD AND CURRENT PROJECTS
COLLABORATIONS
Until May 2005: member of the research group for the elaboration of a language Portfolio for high school & university students (Richtlinien zur Erstellung eines kontinuierlichen Lehrplans als Brücke zwischen Schule und Universität) - University of Trento
PUBLICATIONS
Articles and papers
together with Felice, M. (2008): e-LIS: Electronic Bilingual Dictionary Italian Sign Language-Italian. In: Proceedings of the XIII EURALEX International Congress. (Barcelona, 15-19 July 2008).
together with Felice, M. (2008): e-LIS: Dizionario elettronico di base bilingue LIS-italiano. In: Atti del convegno Dizionari per alunni sordi. Roma: Istituto Statale dei Sordi (23 ottobre 2007).
(2007): La competenza del tedesco negli studenti di madrelingua italiana a Bolzano e a Trento. In: Comunicare Lingue Letterature, 7/2007. Il Mulino.
together with Knapp, Judith, Streiter, Oliver, Voltmer, Leonhard, Zielinski, Daniel and Streiter, Oliver: Image Assisted L2 Acquisition with Internet. In: Revista Signos. Estudios de Lingüística y Literatura (2005). Institute of Literature and the Language Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile).
together with Streiter, O., Voltmer, L., Knapp, J., Zielinski, D.: Image Assisted L2 Acquisition with Internet. Who's Afraid of the Animated Grey Wolf? In: Kinshuk, Sampson Demetrios G. and Isaías, Pedro (2004): Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age. Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference CELDA 2004. Lisbon: IADIS Press.
Le illustrazioni nei dizionari pedagogici. Gli esempi del Langenscheidts Großwörterbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache e del Wörterbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache de Gruyter. In: Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 2-3/2004.
La competenza del tedesco degli studenti italiani di scuola media inferiore e superiore di Trento e Bolzano. In: Atti del convegno internazionale Qualità nell'Apprendimento delle Lingue Straniere. Rovereto: 22-23 gennaio 2004. Trento: IPRASE del Trentino.
together with O. Streiter and J. Knapp: From Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) to Sign Language Processing: the Design of e-LIS, an Electronic Bilingual Dictionary of Italian Sign Language and Italian. In: Streiter, O. & Vettori, C. (2004): Representation and Processing of Sign Languages. From SignWriting to Image Processing. Information Techniques and their Implications for Teaching, Documentation and Communication. Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Post-conference workshop. Paris: ELRA.
Monographs
Vettori, C. (2006): Representation and Processing of Sign Languages. Lexicographic Matters and Didactic Scenarios. Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Post-conference workshop. Paris: ELRA.
Streiter, O. & Vettori, C. (2004): Representation and Processing of Sign Languages. From SignWriting to Image Processing. Information Techniques and their Implications for Teaching, Documentation and Communication. Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Post-conference workshop. Paris: ELRA.
Articles in ACADEMIA (Review of the European Academy of Bolzano)
Segni variabili. In: Academia, 46. Bolzano: Eurac.
Segni sul Web. In: Academia, 37. Eurac: Bolzano. 8-9.
Io, che parlo la lingua dei figli di un dio minore. Intervista a Nadia Carraro, interprete della lingua dei segni in Provincia di Bolzano. In: Academia, 31. Eurac: Bolzano. 10-11.
Conferences, workshops and more
16th July 2008: conference EURALEX International Congress (XIII ed.)
Barcelona
[paper presentation: e-LIS: Electronic Bilingual Dictionary Italian Sign Language-Italian]
15th February 2008: conference Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft in Italien
Università La Sapienza, Roma
[organisation of the workshop Erhebung und Bewertung von Sprachkenntnissen and presentation of the paper Die Kombination von Instrumenten im Hinblick auf eine möglichst aussagekräftige Erhebung und Bewertung von schriftsprachlichen kommunikativen und bildungsrelevanten L2-Kompetenzen (together with A. Abel)]
18th December 2007: participation at the ceremony for the twentieth anniversary of the European Social Fund with e-LIS as example of best practice.
23rd October 2007 (Rome): conference Dizionari per alunni sordi.
Istituto Statale dei Sordi
[invited speaker together with Mauro Felice: e-LIS: Dizionario elettronico di base bilingue LIS-italiano]
29-30th June 2007 (Bern): colloquium Deutsch als Zweitsprache in Dialektumgebung.
Karman Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
[together with Andrea Abel: Die Südtiroler SchülerInnen und die Zweitsprache: eine linguistische und sozialpsychologische Untersuchung]
14th January 2007 (Rovereto): Workshop on Sign Language Research.
CIMEC, University of Trento
[invited speaker together with Rosella Gennari: e-LIS and LODE: web tools for Deaf people]
28th May 2006 (Genoa): Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2006).
Post-conference Second Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages. Lexicographic matters and didactic scenarios. [organising and scientific committee]
22nd February 2006 (Bolzano): Public presentation of the results of the PhD research
30th May 2004 (Lisbon): Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2004).
Post-conference Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages. From SignWriting to Image Processing. [organising and scientific committee]
22-23rd January 2004 (Rovereto): international conference Qualità nell'Apprendimento delle Lingue Straniere.
IPRASE del Trentino
[invited speaker: La competenza del tedesco degli studenti italiani di scuola media inferiore e superiore di Trento e Bolzano]
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