Alberto Ciaramella (born 1947[1]) is an Italian computer engineer and scientist. He is notable for extensive pioneering contributions in the field of speech technologies and applied natural language processing, most of them at CSELT and Loquendo, with the amount of 40 papers and four patents.
Ciaramella obtained the Laurea in Electronic Engineering and the Post-Laurea in 1969 at La Sapienza University in Rome with prof. Antonio Ruberti as supervisor of his thesis. Then, he joined CSELT as a research engineer.
In 1975 he patented at CSELT one of the first architecture-independent bootstrap devices that allowed the Gruppi Speciali (the first electronic Italian telephone switch and the most advanced project in Italian in the seventies[2]) to start up by pushing a single button from a ROM memory in case of failure.[3]
During the 80s Ciaramella took part in some European projects (Esprit P26, SUNDIAL[4]) in the pioneering field of speech recognition and dialogue systems on many European languages, such as Italian, during which he proposed a method to evaluate the quality of the dialogue systems by comparing the meanings.[5][6]
In 1983 he co-authored one of the first international patents on speaker recognition,[7][8][9] a new research field at that time, applied commercially in a speech recognition software licensed by CSELT.
In 1990 he co-authored one of the first international patents of a real-time speech recognition system integrated in a microprocessor suitable for being used by a Telecommunication company:[10][11] the microprocessor was named RIPAC (Riconoscitore di Parlato Connesso - as stated in the patent description itself).[12][13]
Extensive research was conducted on the Hidden Markov Model aimed to speech recognition tasks, by using small such as big dictionaries and applied to many cases - e.g. the recognition of the children's voice, or browser navigation by voice.[14] Other contributions include test and proposals in international communication standards, such as VoiceXML.[15]
In 2001 the CSELT's voice technology group became Loquendo and Alberto Ciaramella became Competitive intelligence supervisor of the company.
In 2005 Ciaramella founded IntelliSemantic[16] at the Incubator of Politecnico di Torino, an innovative company that works in the field of Competitive Business Intelligence. Also within his present company, he continues the research in the field of the applied language technologies. In 2010 he co-authored a paper about his view about the application of the emerging "semantic" technologies to the patent analysis,[17] which became popular in the field of Patent Informatics, and took part in Topas European project[18] focused on patent summarization.
Bibliographyedit
Billi, R., Canavesio, F., Ciaramella, A., & Nebbia, L. (1994, September). Interactive voice technology at work: The CSELT experience. In Interactive Voice Technology for Telecommunications Applications, 1994., Second IEEE Workshop on (pp. 43–48). IEEE.
Pirani, Giancarlo, ed. Advanced algorithms and architectures for speech understanding. Vol. 1. Springer Science & Business Media, 2013. ISBN978-3-540-53402-0
Billi, Roberto, ed. Tecnologie vocali per l'interazione uomo-macchina. Nuovi servizi a portata di voce, CSELT, 1995, ISBN88-85404-09-X. (Italian)
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^. Archived from the original on 2016-04-30. Retrieved 2016-11-21.
^Alberto Ciaramella racconta il brevetto del boostrap dei computer concepito in CSELT, interview by Vittorio Pasteris of the Piemonte Museum of Computer Science
^Billi, Roberto, et al. "Interactive voice technology at work: The CSELT experience." Interactive Voice Technology for Telecommunications Applications, 1994, Second IEEE Workshop on. IEEE, 1994.
^Danieli, Morena, and Elisabetta Gerbino. "Metrics for evaluating dialogue strategies in a spoken language system." Proceedings of the 1995 AAAI spring symposium on Empirical Methods in Discourse Interpretation and Generation. Vol. 16. 1995.
^Cavazza, Michele, and Alberto Ciaramella. "Device for speaker's verification." U.S. Patent No. 4,752,958. 21 Jun. 1988.
^DeMori, Renato, and Ching Y. Suen, eds. New systems and architectures for automatic speech recognition and synthesis. Vol. 16. Springer Science & Business Media, 2012.
^Capizzi, Giuseppe N. "Digital speech synthesizer." The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 87.4 (1990): 1831-1831.
^Cecinati, R., Ciaramella, A., Licciardi, L., Paolini, M., Tasso, R., & Venuti, G. (1990). U.S. Patent No. 4,907,278. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
^Cecinati, R., Ciaramella, A., Licciardi, L., & Venuti, G. (1989). Implementation of a dynamic time warp integrated circuit for large vocabulary isolated and connected speech recognition. In First European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology.
^Cantoni, Virginio, Gabriele Falciasecca, and Giuseppe Pelosi, eds. Storia delle telecomunicazioni. Vol. 1. Firenze University Press, 2011.APA, (pag.394)
^(PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-11-28. Retrieved 2016-11-27.
^Baggia, P., Ciaramella, A., Clementino, D., Fissore, L., Gerbino, E., Giachin, E. P., ... & Rullent, C. (1991). A man-machine dialogue system for speech access to E-mail information using the telephone: implementation and first results. In Second European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology.
^"Tecnologia matura e finalmente aperta - Intervista ad Alberto Ciaramella", Computer World, November 2001
^Bonino, Dario, Alberto Ciaramella, and Fulvio Corno. "Review of the state-of-the-art in patent information and forthcoming evolutions in intelligent patent informatics." World Patent Information 32.1 (2010): 30-38.
^Brügmann, S., Bouayad-Agha, N., Burga, A., Carrascosa, S., Ciaramella, A., Ciaramella, M., ... & Müller, A. (2015). Towards content-oriented patent document processing: Intelligent patent analysis and summarization. World Patent Information, 40, 30-42.
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A bit of History: Alberto Ciaramella Biography (in Italian)
January 01, 1970
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Not to be confused with Alberto Caramella Alberto Ciaramella born 1947 1 is an Italian computer engineer and scientist He is notable for extensive pioneering contributions in the field of speech technologies and applied natural language processing most of them at CSELT and Loquendo with the amount of 40 papers and four patents Contents 1 Biography 2 Bibliography 3 References 4 External linksBiography editCiaramella obtained the Laurea in Electronic Engineering and the Post Laurea in 1969 at La Sapienza University in Rome with prof Antonio Ruberti as supervisor of his thesis Then he joined CSELT as a research engineer In 1975 he patented at CSELT one of the first architecture independent bootstrap devices that allowed the Gruppi Speciali the first electronic Italian telephone switch and the most advanced project in Italian in the seventies 2 to start up by pushing a single button from a ROM memory in case of failure 3 During the 80s Ciaramella took part in some European projects Esprit P26 SUNDIAL 4 in the pioneering field of speech recognition and dialogue systems on many European languages such as Italian during which he proposed a method to evaluate the quality of the dialogue systems by comparing the meanings 5 6 In 1983 he co authored one of the first international patents on speaker recognition 7 8 9 a new research field at that time applied commercially in a speech recognition software licensed by CSELT In 1990 he co authored one of the first international patents of a real time speech recognition system integrated in a microprocessor suitable for being used by a Telecommunication company 10 11 the microprocessor was named RIPAC Riconoscitore di Parlato Connesso as stated in the patent description itself 12 13 Extensive research was conducted on the Hidden Markov Model aimed to speech recognition tasks by using small such as big dictionaries and applied to many cases e g the recognition of the children s voice or browser navigation by voice 14 Other contributions include test and proposals in international communication standards such as VoiceXML 15 In 2001 the CSELT s voice technology group became Loquendo and Alberto Ciaramella became Competitive intelligence supervisor of the company In 2005 Ciaramella founded IntelliSemantic 16 at the Incubator of Politecnico di Torino an innovative company that works in the field of Competitive Business Intelligence Also within his present company he continues the research in the field of the applied language technologies In 2010 he co authored a paper about his view about the application of the emerging semantic technologies to the patent analysis 17 which became popular in the field of Patent Informatics and took part in Topas European project 18 focused on patent summarization Bibliography editBilli R Canavesio F Ciaramella A amp Nebbia L 1994 September Interactive voice technology at work The CSELT experience In Interactive Voice Technology for Telecommunications Applications 1994 Second IEEE Workshop on pp 43 48 IEEE Pirani Giancarlo ed Advanced algorithms and architectures for speech understanding Vol 1 Springer Science amp Business Media 2013 ISBN 978 3 540 53402 0 Billi Roberto ed Tecnologie vocali per l interazione uomo macchina Nuovi servizi a portata di voce CSELT 1995 ISBN 88 85404 09 X Italian References edit A little semantics goes a long way milanin com 2008 Archived from the original on 2016 04 30 Retrieved 2016 11 21 Luigi Bonavoglia CSELT Trent anni 1994 Ed STET Alberto Ciaramella racconta il brevetto del boostrap dei computer concepito in CSELT interview by Vittorio Pasteris of the Piemonte Museum of Computer Science Billi Roberto et al Interactive voice technology at work The CSELT experience Interactive Voice Technology for Telecommunications Applications 1994 Second IEEE Workshop on IEEE 1994 Danieli Morena and Elisabetta Gerbino Metrics for evaluating dialogue strategies in a spoken language system Proceedings of the 1995 AAAI spring symposium on Empirical Methods in Discourse Interpretation and Generation Vol 16 1995 Ciaramella Alberto A prototype performance evaluation report Sundial workpackage 8000 1993 Cavazza Michele and Alberto Ciaramella Device for speaker s verification U S Patent No 4 752 958 21 Jun 1988 DeMori Renato and Ching Y Suen eds New systems and architectures for automatic speech recognition and synthesis Vol 16 Springer Science amp Business Media 2012 Capizzi Giuseppe N Digital speech synthesizer The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 87 4 1990 1831 1831 Cecinati R Ciaramella A Licciardi L Paolini M Tasso R amp Venuti G 1990 U S Patent No 4 907 278 Washington DC U S Patent and Trademark Office Cecinati R Ciaramella A Licciardi L amp Venuti G 1989 Implementation of a dynamic time warp integrated circuit for large vocabulary isolated and connected speech recognition In First European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology Cantoni Virginio Gabriele Falciasecca and Giuseppe Pelosi eds Storia delle telecomunicazioni Vol 1 Firenze University Press 2011 APA pag 394 CSELT da 50 anni verso il futuro Telecom Italia PDF Archived from the original PDF on 2016 11 28 Retrieved 2016 11 27 Baggia P Ciaramella A Clementino D Fissore L Gerbino E Giachin E P amp Rullent C 1991 A man machine dialogue system for speech access to E mail information using the telephone implementation and first results In Second European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology Tecnologia matura e finalmente aperta Intervista ad Alberto Ciaramella Computer World November 2001 IntelliSemantic Bonino Dario Alberto Ciaramella and Fulvio Corno Review of the state of the art in patent information and forthcoming evolutions in intelligent patent informatics World Patent Information 32 1 2010 30 38 Brugmann S Bouayad Agha N Burga A Carrascosa S Ciaramella A Ciaramella M amp Muller A 2015 Towards content oriented patent document processing Intelligent patent analysis and summarization World Patent 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