Francesca Zermiani

Institute of Educational Science, University of Stuttgart

+49 711 685-84365 University of Stuttgart, Geschwister-Scholl-Str. University of Stuttgart, Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 24D, 3.347  

Biography

Francesca Zermiani is a PhD student in the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS) since February 2021, jointly supervised with Jun.-Prof. Maria Wirzberger. Francesca holds a Bachelor’s degree in Language Studies from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy) and a Master’s degree in Cognitive Science from Lund University (Sweden). Her research interests include educational technologies, eye tracking and attentional processes, as well as attention disorders (ADHD). Besides, she worked as a research intern within the field of Computational Linguistics. Her current research focuses on investigating individual differences in resumption strategies. In particular, she is interested in developing eye-based techniques to support students in resuming interrupted tasks.

Publications

1. ‘Long nose’ and ‘naso lungo’: Establishing the need for retrodiction in computational models of word learning

   Francesca Zermiani, Atiqah Khaliq, Raquel Garrido Alhama

   Poster presented at Many Paths to Language (virtual MPaL), 2020.

   Links BibTeX Project

   Paper Access: https://www.mpi.nl/events/many-paths-language-mpal

   @inproceedings{zermiani20_mpal, title = {{\textquoteleft}Long nose{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}naso lungo{\textquoteright}: Establishing the need for retrodiction in computational models of word learning}, author = {Zermiani, Francesca and Khaliq, Atiqah and {Garrido Alhama}, Raquel}, year = {2020}, language = {English}, booktitle = {Poster presented at Many Paths to Language (virtual MPaL)}, url = {https://www.mpi.nl/events/many-paths-language-mpal} }