Michele Cafagna
NLP Data Scientist @Okra.ai
Leiden, The Netherlands
I’m Michele [miˈkɛːle], third-year Marie Curie PhD Fellow at the Institute of Linguistics & Language Technology at the University of Malta, 🇲🇹. My primary interests lie at the intersection of Computer Vision, Natural Language, Cognitive Sciences, and XAI.
I’m supervised by Prof. Albert Gatt and co-supervised by Prof. Kees van Deemter. I’m an Early Stage Researcher in the NL4XAI Project, which is part of the project Horizon2020 funded by the EU. I’ve been a Visiting Researcher at the University of Utrecht,🇳🇱 working on Multimodal Grounding and interning at the 🍊Orange Innovations Labs, Lannion, 🇫🇷.
Previously, I was a Machine Learning Research Scientist at Aptus.AI, a RegTech startup based in Pisa, 🇮🇹. I’ve been a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Language and Cognition of the University of Groeningen (CLCG), 🇳🇱 where I worked on my Master Thesis project on Natural Language Generation, I’ve also collaborated with the ItaliaNLP Lab at the Institute of Linguistics of the National Research Center (ILC-CNR) based in Pisa, 🇮🇹.
news
Mar 18, 2024 | Joined Okra.ai as NLP Data Scentist,🇳🇱 🎉 |
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Jan 16, 2024 | Our paper “ViLMA: A Zero-Shot Benchmark for Linguistic and Temporal Grounding in Video-Language Models” , accepted @ICLR 2024 , Vienna,🇦🇹 🎉 |
Oct 10, 2023 | Reviewer for COLING-LREC2024, Torino, 🇮🇹 |
Sep 11, 2023 | Presented the poster“HL Dataset: Visually-grounded Description of Scenes, Actions and Rationales” @INLG 2023 , Prague, 🇨🇿 |
Sep 4, 2023 | Our paper “Interpreting Vision and Language Generative Models with Semantic Visual Priors” published in @Frontiers in AI Journal |
Aug 6, 2023 | Reviewer for 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence ECAI 2023, Kraków, 🇵🇱 |
Jul 13, 2023 | Our paper “HL Dataset: Visually-grounded Description of Scenes, Actions and Rationales” , accepted @INLG 2023 , Prague, 🇨🇿 🎉 |
Jun 18, 2023 | Reviewer for MMNLG2023 co-located with INLG 2023, Prague, 🇨🇿 |
Jun 14, 2023 | Reviewer for EMNLP2023, Singapore, 🇸🇬 |
May 8, 2023 | Proud to be among the outstanding reviewers who served @EACL 2023, Dubrovnik, 🇭🇷 |