Researcher
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, IT), remote
I serve as a contract researcher at the Centro Interdisciplinare di Ricerche per la Computerizzazione dei Segni dell’Espressione.
Paolo Brasolin
- Email: paolo.brasolin@gmail.com
- ORCID: 0000-0003-2471-7797
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- LinkedIn: paolobrasolin
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Profile
I am a versatile individual with a penchant for learning, fueled by ambition and fierce curiosity. Programming is a vocation I embrace with the clear, logical mind forged by my scientific background. Born an individualist, I grew enamoured with the mutual empowerment of teamwork.
I care about people and processes as more than a means to an end. I relish and thrive on challenges. I’m driven by the impact of what I build, be it the generality of a theorem or the life improvements for a product’s users. In short, I don’t seek jobs; I seek purposeful missions I can align with.
Experience
Co-founder, CTO
AudioGiro S.r.l. (Padua, IT), full remote
I hold the technical leadership of the company. Our goal is turning tourists into explorers.
Researcher
Eurac Research (Bolzano, IT), hybrid remote
I served as a researcher in computational linguistics and advanced scientific programmer for the Language Technologies group at the Institute for Applied Linguistics. Some key achievements: - Designed and developed a ludic citizen science project, bringing the EU co-funded Zeit.Shift project to fruition. - Managed and reorganized the K8s cluster during a migration, providing a streamlined, more dependable infrastructure. - Improved internal processes with documentation and automation, unblocking the publication of multiple frozen corpora. - Advised researchers and mentored PhD students from other groups on data analysis and visualization, and often implemented solutions as code, thus bolstering their research and improving data and code literacy at the institute.
Lead Developer
Leanbit S.r.l. (Padua, IT), hybrid remote
- Sharpened my management skills via coaching and practice, consulting with rotating teams for clients of disparate sizes.
- Delivered a GUI framework for a multinational now deploying it on field globally, marking a top success for our company.
- Mentored and paired with new talents, accompanying our agile-principled company as it grew to double the workforce.
- Refined tooling and reduced developer friction, strengthening the company foundations during a transition to SaaS.
Consultant, Typesetter
Manning Publications Co. (New York, US), full remote
Manning is a publisher specializing in technical literature, with an extensive catalogue of 2000+ titles. Some key contributions: - Mediated demands of editors and authors using technical solutions, delivering two typeset books while noting pain points. - Suggested and executed improvements based on the above to the LaTeX publishing process, streamlining future iterations.
Consultant, OSS Maintainer
Ribose Group Inc. (Hong Kong, CN), full remote
Ribose builds Metanorma, an open-source framework and meta-standard for producing standardization documents. - Participated in drafting the AsciiRFC specification, submitted to IETF as the cornerstone of the meta-standard framework. - Implemented and maintained LaTeX/AsciiDoc conversion tools, enabling LaTeX as an authoring format for Metanorma. - Implemented and maintained Asciidoctor extensions, enabling usage of Bib(La)TeX in Metanorma and AsciiDoc in general.
Developer
Leanbit S.r.l. (Padua, IT), on-site
Lead Developer
Ideasmart (Padua, IT), hybrid remote
Programmer, Document Designer
freelance, full remote
Private STEM tutor
freelance, on-site
Education
Midlands Graduate School 2023
University of Birmingham
HoTTEST Summer School 2022
Western University
Corso di Teoria delle Categorie
Progetto ItaCa
Resonance Leader coaching path
euXilia s.r.l, Padua (IT)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
AWS Training and Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
AWS Training and Certification
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
AWS Training and Certification
Master’s Degree in Theoretical Physics
University of Padua
Bachelor’s Degree in Physics
University of Padua
Service
- Technical volunteer for the colocated ICALP, LiCS and FSCD conferences in 2024.
- Co-author of the upcoming LaTeX template for the Compositionality journal in 2023.
- Organising committee member for the Learner Corpus Research Graduate Conference 2023.
- Technical organiser for the One school, many languages (project SMS 2.0) conference in 2023.
Publications
- Litta, E., Passarotti, M., Moretti, G., Brasolin, P., Mambrini, F., Basile, V., Bosco, C., Fabio, A. D., Palma, E. D., Giovannetti, E., Marchi, S., Bellandi, A., and Sciolette, F. (2025, September 25). Linking CompL-it to the LiITA Knowledge Base. Proceedings of the Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-It 2025). https://clic2025.unica.it/pre-proceedings/
- Litta, E., Passarotti, M. C., Basile, V., Bosco, C., Fabio, A. D., and Brasolin, P. (2025). LiITA: a Knowledge Base of Interoperable Resources for Italian. In M. Alam, A. Tchechmedjiev, J. Gracia, D. Gromann, M. P. di Buono, J. Monti, and M. Ionov (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge. Unior Press. https://aclanthology.org/2025.ldk-1.14/
- Litta, E., Passarotti, M. C., Basile, V., Bosco, C., Fabio, A. D., and Brasolin, P. (2025, September 10). LiITA: a Knowledge Base of Interoperable Resources for Italian [Conference presentation]. http://2025.ldk-conf.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/LDK_LiITA.pdf
- Litta, E., Passarotti, M., Brasolin, P., Basile, V., Bosco, C., and Fabio, A. D. (2025, June 11). LiITA, una Knowledge Base di risorse interconnesse per l’italiano [Conference presentation].
- Litta, E., Passarotti, M., Brasolin, P., Basile, V., Bosco, C., and Fabio, A. D. (2025). LiITA, una Knowledge Base di risorse interconnesse per l’italiano. In S. Rebora, M. Rospocher, and S. Bazzaco (Eds.), Diversità, Equità e Inclusione: Sfide e Opportunità per l’Informatica Umanistica nell’Era dell’Intelligenza Artificiale, Proceedings del XIV Convegno Annuale AIUCD2025. AIUCD. https://doi.org/10.6092/unibo/amsacta/8380
- Spina, S., Brasolin, P., and Franzini, G. H. (2025). Detecting emerging vocabulary in a large corpus of Italian tweets. Research in Corpus Linguistics, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.32714/ricl.13.01.07
- Litta, E., Passarotti, M., Brasolin, P., Moretti, G., Basile, V., Di Fabio, A., and Bosco, C. (2024). The Lemma Bank of the LiITA Knowledge Base of Interoperable Resources for Italian. In F. Dell’Orletta, A. Lenci, S. Montemagni, and R. Sprugnoli (Eds.), Proceedings of the Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024) (Vol. 3878). CEUR. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3878/#60_main_long
- Litta, E., Passarotti, M., Brasolin, P., Moretti, G., Basile, V., Di Fabio, A., and Bosco, C. (2024, December 6). The Lemma Bank of the LiITA Knowledge Base of Interoperable Resources for Italian [Conference presentation].
- Franzini, G. H., Brasolin, P., and Spina, S. (2024). Uncovering the spread of lexical innovation in Italian tweets. In A. Di Silvestro and D. Spampinato (Eds.), Me.Te. Digitali. Mediterraneo in rete tra testi e contesti, Proceedings del XIII Convegno Annuale AIUCD2024. AIUCD. https://doi.org/10.6092/unibo/amsacta/7927
- Brasolin, P., and Bienati, A. (2024). Complexity or complexities? A simulation study on lexical complexity in expert and learner texts through the lens of information theory. https://zenodo.org/records/13840944
- Brasolin, P., and Bienati, A. (2024). Complexity or complexities? A simulation study on lexical complexity in expert and learner texts through the lens of information theory [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13840226
- Brasolin, P., and Bienati, A. (2024, September 26). Complexity or complexities? A simulation study on lexical complexity in expert and learner texts through the lens of information theory. https://zenodo.org/records/13840191
- Brasolin, P., and Bienati, A. (2024). Complexity or complexities? A simulation study on lexical complexity in expert and learner texts through the lens of information theory. https://zenodo.org/records/13840216
- Bienati, A., Brasolin, P., and Cominetti, F. (2024, September 19). Il potere in parole povere: un’analisi diacronica corpus-based sulla semplificazione dell’italiano politico repubblicano. https://zenodo.org/records/13762863
- Brasolin, P., and Bienati, A. (2024, June 24). Between order and disorder: an information-theoretic approach to linguistic complexity. https://zenodo.org/records/13128955
- Franzini, G. H., Spina, S., and Brasolin, P. (2024, May 28). Uncovering the spread of lexical innovation in Italian tweets. https://zenodo.org/records/14634189
- Franzini, G. H., and Brasolin, P. (2024). Ötzit! dataset [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10623727
- Spina, S., Brasolin, P., and Franzini, G. H. (2024). Breviloquia Italica dataset [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10620336
- Brasolin, P. (2024). Breviloquia Italica frustum visualization tool. Zenodo. https://zenodo.org/records/10620336
- Brasolin, P., Franzini, G. H., and Spina, S. (2023). “Ti blocco perché sei un trollazzo”. Lexical Innovation in Contemporary Italian in a Large Twitter Corpus. In F. Boschetti, G. E. Lebani, B. Magnini, and N. Novielli (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (Vol. 3596). CEUR. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3596/#paper12
- Brasolin, P., Franzini, G. H., and Spina, S. (2023, December 1). “Ti blocco perché sei un trollazzo”. Lexical innovation in contemporary Italian in a large Twitter corpus. https://zenodo.org/records/10276318
- Bienati, A., and Brasolin, P. (2023, November 28). Between order and disorder: an ecological view of lexical complexity measures. https://zenodo.org/records/10276248
- Franzini, G. H., Spina, S., and Brasolin, P. (2023). Breviloquia Italica annotations [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10009942
- Brasolin, P. (2023). Breviloquia Italica data pipeline. https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.8430341
- Brasolin, P. (2023). Ötzit! application. https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10623662
- Stemle, E. W., Tebaldini, M., Bonanni, F., Pellegrino, F., Brasolin, P., Franzini, G. H., Frey, J.-C., Lopopolo, O., and Spina, S. (2023). bot.zen at LangLearn: regressing towards interpretability (short paper). In M. Lai, S. Menini, M. Polignano, V. Russo, R. Sprugnoli, and G. Venturi (Eds.), Proceedings of the Eighth Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop (EVALITA 2023) (Vol. 3473). CEUR. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3473/#21
- Stemle, E. W., Tebaldini, M., Bonanni, F., Pellegrino, F., Brasolin, P., Franzini, G. H., Frey, J.-C., Lopopolo, O., and Spina, S. (2023, September 8). bot.zen at LangLearn: regressing towards interpretability (short paper) [Conference presentation].
- Walcher, J., Abel, A., Andresen, J., Brasolin, P., Dissertori, I., Eberwein, E., Franzini, G. H., Gstrein, S., Maritta, H., Kössler, C., Laner, B., Lyding, V., Pircher, K., and Stemle, E. (2023). On a digital journey into yesterday’s future: Zeit.shift – preserving Tyrol’s cultural text heritage. Proceedings of Austrian Citizen Science Conference 2022 — PoS(ACSC2022), 019. https://doi.org/10.22323/1.407.0019
- Franzini, G. H., Brasolin, P., Lyding, V., Stemle, E., Abel, A., and Andresen, J. (2022). Zeit.shift: driving citizens to Tyrolean historical newspapers. Proceedings of Engaging Citizen Science Conference 2022 — PoS(CitSci2022), 003. https://doi.org/10.22323/1.418.0003
- Franzini, G. H., Brasolin, P., Stemle, E. W., Lyding, V., Abel, A., Andresen, J., Pircher, K., Gstrein, S., Laner, B., Horwath, M., Walcher, J., and Kössler, C. (2022, June 3). Citizen Humanities in Tyrol: A case study on historical newspapers [Conference presentation]. https://hdl.handle.net/10863/24248
- Franzini, G. H., Stemle, E. W., Lyding, V., Abel, A., Andresen, J., Pircher, K., Gstrein, S., Laner, B., Walcher, J., Horwath, M., and Kössler, C. (2022). Citizen Humanities in Tyrol: A case study on historical newspapers. In F. Ciracì, G. Miglietta, and C. Gatto (Eds.), AIUCD 2022 - Proceedings. University of Bologna. https://doi.org/10.6092/UNIBO/AMSACTA/6848