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Francesco De Toni is a linguist affiliated with the International Space Centre and a researcher at the University of Western Australia. He completed his PhD at the University of Western Australia, focusing on Italian and Spanish historical linguistics and exploring how language maintains personal and political friendships through letter writing in colonial Australia. His postdoctoral project, funded by the Marie-Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellowship, investigates the evolution of emotional expression in the Italian language over the past 250 years. This work combines corpus linguistics and computational linguistics with theoretical approaches to pragmatics and systemic functional linguistics. Additionally, he leads projects on health communication, utilizing qualitative methods to improve health-related communication in various Australian communities. His research interests include pragmatics, healthcare communication, computational linguistics, language change, and the intersection of language and emotions. In the past, he has collaborated with researchers across multiple disciplines, contributing to significant projects like BigScience, which focuses on developing large-scale machine-learning models for natural language processing. De Toni has taught various courses on Italian studies and narrative medicine at UWA.
International Space Centre • Perth
Conducting research in various linguistic areas.
Australian National University • Canberra
Studying the impact of healthcare communication on health literacy and outcomes.
Western Australian Department of Health • Perth
Leading the implementation of voice-to-text digital scribes for clinical documentation.
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