Malvina Nissim graduated in Linguistics from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1998. She received a Ph.D in Linguistics from the University of Pavia, Italy, in 2002. From November 2001 until January 2006 she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, in the U.K. Her interests are in information extraction and knowledge acquisition, computational semantics, and discourse processing, using both statistical and symbolic techniques.