Welcome to my academic homepage. I am a postdoctoral researcher working at RCEAL and the CLSB, at the University of Cambridge , where I work in the field of computational linguistics and natural language processing.

The research involves the construction of computational models of various kinds of linguistic phenomena, primarily to gain better understanding of how we use language but also to design computer systems that deal with language (e.g., a system that interprets speech or translates from one language to another).

I am mainly working on the computational modelling of spoken dialogue, and the induction of structure from symbolic sequential data. More recently, I am also studying the effect of ageing and brain damage on speech production, and I am integrating distributional information of language production in the experimental design and analyses of studies in the neuroscience of language and speech.

My Ph.D. was carried out at the department of Communication and Information Sciences at Tilburg University , and from May to July 2006 I was associated as research fellow to the Centre for Language Technology at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia).