Marco Guerini
Marco Guerini is a researcher in Computational Linguistics and head of the Language and Dialogue Technologies (LanD) group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK).
He works on persuasive communication, sentiment analysis, and social media. In recent years, his research has focused on the development of AI technologies to support counterspeech generation to fight online hate and misinformation. He graduated in Philosophy and received his Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technologies in 2006 from the University of Trento.
He is the author of several scientific publications, published in top-level conferences and international journals. His research work includes the coordination of EU-funded projects, the organization of workshops and shared tasks, and program committee membership at international conferences.
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March 30, 2026HATEDEMICS wraps up, opening new paths against hate and disinformationThe final conference of the HATEDEMICS project in Granada presented results and innovative tools developed by FBK to counter online hate speech and disinformation. ECLIPSE, a new project focused on personalized counter-narratives and broader impact, was also launched. -
April 23, 2024HatedemicsArtificial intelligence for countering online hate speech. European project coordinated by Trento's Fondazione Bruno Kessler to kick off -
May 6, 2023The biggest challenge for generative AI? Education!Held as part of Wired Next Fest Trentino 2023, "The Rules of the Perfect Algorithm," a diascussion between Marco Guerini, head of the FBK LanD research unit, and Lorenzo Cella, software engineer known to most as the creator of PizzaGpt. -
May 23, 2022“Can che ha bias non morde?”In the new episode of Radio FBK, an interesting conversation about the relationship between discriminations and technology. Protagonists of the dialogue, Luisa Bentivogli and Marco Guerini, respectively Researcher of the Machine Translation unit of the Digital Industry Centre and Head of the Language and Dialog Technologies Research Unit of the Digital Society Centre. -
November 25, 2021FBK for International Day for the Elimination of Violence against WomenA comment by ISIG historian Cecilia Nubola and a hint to some related research insights that, for example, employ ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE technologies to GENERATE COUNTER-NARRATIONS USEFUL TO FIGHT ONLINE HATE SPEECH -
September 13, 2020Generating Counter Narratives against Online Hate Speech: Data and StrategiesHow big is the hatespeech phenomenon online? What effects does it produce? How can we tackle it? What is the contribution of artificial intelligence? Marco Guerini and other researchers at FBK are pushing forward this knowledge frontier -
September 8, 2020Combating hate speech, preserving freedom of expressionNovel techniques against hate speech are ready to be exploited to generate counter narratives about the many dimensions of hate speech: right-wing extremism, islamophobia, racism, cyber hate against LGBTI+ community, ecc. Interview with Marco Guerini