Giuseppe Attardi
Professor at Università di Pisa
Tuscany, Italy
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Top SchoolGiuseppe Attardi is a professor and technology leader based in Tuscany with over 25 years in academia and 12 years of software-focused experience bridging research and production systems. He directs distributed computing and storage efforts at Consortium GARR while serving on Italy’s national AI Task Force, applying deep expertise to make computers interact at human levels. A serial founder and former research consultant (including Yahoo! Research and MIT visits), he blends entrepreneurial grit with long-term academic stewardship at Università di Pisa. He is also an active open-source contributor—known for refining the widely used WikiExtractor to Python 3 compatibility and robust JSON output—demonstrating hands-on skill in back-end tooling that supports large-scale text research.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Scuola Normale Superiorelaurea, laurea at Università di Pisa
Spanish
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Github Skills (13)
file-handling10
character-encoding10
templater10
template-engine10
python10
text-processing10
debug9
command-line-interface9
http-client6
configurations6
routes6
symfony6
java6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
attardi/wikiextractor
Mar 2015 - Mar 2022
A tool for extracting plain text from Wikipedia dumps
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 68 commits, 43 PRs in 7 years
Contributions summary:Giuseppe primarily focused on refining the WikiExtractor tool, making it compatible with Python 3. Their contributions include modifying code for Python 3 compatibility, such as handling character encoding, updating version numbers, and integrating the `html.escape` function. Furthermore, they fixed a bug related to template loading, including a fix to load templates when the input is stdin. They also improved the extraction process by handling encoding issues and adding the `--json` option to the tool.
pythonwikipediaplainplain-textdumps
Unipisa/diaparser
Oct 2020 - Apr 2021
Direct Attentive Dependency Parser
Contributions:5 releases, 31 commits, 79 pushes in 6 months
nlpdependency-parsersemantic-parsingdirectparser
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