Alessandro Oltramari Trento (Trento) +39 0461 830198 (Rovereto) +39 0464 483605 (Mobile-phone) 338 9560585
Alessandro Oltramari (1976) graduated in Philosophy at the University of Padova in 2000. He is a Research Fellow at LOA and a Ph.D. student (2nd year) in Cognitive Science at the University of Trento. His scientific interests include Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Semantics, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Theory of Agents, Ontology of Cyberspace.
NEWS March-May 2005: Visiting Research Associate at Princeton University, Cognitive Science Lab 7-20 August 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland: Participant of the 17th European Summerschool in Logic, Language and Information, ESSLI 2005 14 October 2005, Jeju Island, South Korea: Co-chair of OntoLex 2005 - Ontologies and Lexical Resources, IJCNLP-05 Workshop 17-18 October 2005, Dubrovnik, Croatia: Participant of the conference "Converging and Diverging Tendencies in Cognitive Linguistics"
Selected Publications Prevot, L., Borgo S., Oltramari, A. Ontologies and their alignment with lexical resources. Forthcoming in   Proc. of OntoLex2005, Jeju Island, South Korea. Gangemi A., Guarino N., Masolo C., Oltramari, A. Sweetening WordNet with DOLCE. AI Magazine 24(3): Fall 2003, 13-24. Alessandro Oltramari, Stefano Borgo, Carola Catenacci, Roberta Ferrario, Aldo Gangemi, Nicola Guarino, Claudio Masolo, Domenico Pisanelli. Negoziati di significato. Sistemi Intelligenti, Anno XV, n.3/ dicembre 2003. Claudio Masolo, Alessandro Oltramari, Aldo Gangemi, Nicola Guarino, Laure Vieu 2003. La Prospettiva dell'Ontologia Applicata. Rivista di Estetica (22), 2003. Masolo C., Borgo S., Gangemi A., Guarino N., Oltramari, A., Schneider L,. WonderWeb Deliverable D17. The WonderWeb Library of Foundational Ontologies and the DOLCE ontology. Preliminary Report (ver. 2.0, 15-08-2002). Gangemi, A., Guarino, N., Oltramari A. 2001. Conceptual Analysis of Lexical Taxonomies: The Case of WordNet Top-Level.  Proc. of FOIS2001. Ferrario, R., Oltramari A. 2004. Towards a Computational Ontology of Mind  Proc. of FOIS2004, IOS Press.
Ph.D. courses: 2004 reports (comments are welcome!) Revising Chalmers' two-sided consciousness (Attention & Consciousness) Unfolding the mental: the role of cognitive structures (Cognitive Semantics) The cognitive dimensions of risk(Psychology of Decision)