PhD Student · University of Turin

Calogero Jerik
Scozzaro

I work at the intersection of natural language processing and human reading, combining eye-tracking data with language models. I also contribute to open Transformer models for Italian.

Human reading

Eye tracking in NLP

I use eye movements to study reading difficulty and differences between readers. My work includes reader embeddings for personalised reading-time prediction and CERVINO, an Italian eye-tracking dataset of legal texts.

Reader modelling
Language modelling

Transformer models

I am a co-first author of AlBERTurin, a fully open family of Italian encoders with modern architectures. My interests include pre-training, model evaluation, and perplexity-based classification.

AlBERTurin

EVALITA · 2026

Kenji-Endo: a BabyLM @EVALITA

Calogero Jerik Scozzaro, Matteo Rinaldi, Gianluca Mittone, Marco Antonio Stranisci

An Italian BabyLM evaluated on four tasks at EVALITA 2026.

2026

CLiC-it 2026 · Best Student Paper Award, Mention of Honor

Outstanding contribution to Italian NLP resources

For AlBERTurin.

  1. Mar – May 2026

    Visiting PhD Student

    Digital Linguistics · University of Zurich

    Department of Computational Linguistics, Switzerland

  2. Nov 2024 – Present

    PhD in Computer Science

    University of Turin, Italy · CCC group

  3. 2023 – 2024

    Research Fellow

    University of Turin & University of Aosta Valley

    Accessibility and readability of legal texts · Oct–Dec 2023 and May–Oct 2024

  4. Sep 2021 – Jul 2024

    MSc in Artificial Intelligence

    University of Turin · 109/110

  5. Sep 2018 – Nov 2021

    BSc in Computer Science

    University of Turin · 110/110 with honours

Let's connect

Interested in reading,
language, or models?

calogerojerik.scozzaro@unito.it