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Francesco De Toni is a linguist and Research Fellow at the Institute for Communication Health Care at the Australian National University. He holds a PhD from the University of Western Australia, with his thesis focusing on Italian Spanish historical linguistics. His doctoral research examined the role of language in maintaining personal and political friendships through letter writing in colonial Australia. In 2020, he was awarded the Marie-Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship at Stockholm University for the ELICIT project, which investigates the evolution of linguistic emotional expressions in Italian over a 250-year period, emphasizing the contributions of both intralinguistic and extralinguistic determinants of linguistic change. In 2021, he led the HEAL'D project on health communication, working closely with researchers across various schools to explore the role of emotions in health-related communication in Australia, aiming to improve healthcare quality and well-being within diverse communities. He was also a core collaborator in the BigScience research workshop, contributing to the development of accessible machine-learning models in Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. His research interests encompass pragmatics, language and health, emotional language, computational linguistics, and language change.
Institute Communication Health Care, Australian National University • Canberra, ACT, Australia
Conducting research on the impact of communication on health literacy and health outcomes.
Western Australian Department of Health • Australia
Leading the implementation of voice-to-text digital scribes for clinical documentation.
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