Education
1994-97 PhD in Artificial Intelligence in Finance at the University of Durham, Department of Computer Science, Laboratory for Natural Language Engineering. Field of research: Natural Language Processing in Finance. Thesis: Financial Information Extraction Using Pre-Defined and User-Definable Templates in the Lolita System
1992-93 University of Maastricht, Holland Faculty of Economics and Business Administration ERASMUS exchange student financed by the European Commission
1989-1994 University of Trento Italy, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. Laurea (equivalent to a four-year B.Sc. plus M.Sc.) in Economics and Business Administration Dissertation in Computer Science: Design and Development of a Hypertextual Glossary. Marks: 103/110 (equivalent to 1st Class)
Publications
Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing in Finance
Information Extraction in Finance, Marco Costantino, Paolo Coletti, Wit-Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1-84564-146-7
The LOLITA User-Definable Template Interface, Marco Costantino, Journal of Computing and Information Technologhy, Volume 9, No. 1, 2001. PDF
Natural Language Processing and Expert System Techniques for Equity Derivatives Trading: The IE-Expert System, Marco Costantino, International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces, June 15-18 1999, Pula. PDF
IE-Expert: Integrating Natural Language Processing and Expert System Techniques For Real-Time Equity Derivatives Trading, Marco Costantino, The Journal of Computational Intelligence in Finance, Vol.7, No.2, pp.34-52, March 1999. PDF
Natural Language Processing and Information Extraction: Qualitative Analysis of Financial News Articles, Marco Costantino, Richard G. Morgan, Russell J. Collingham, Roberto Garigliano, in Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering (CIFEr '97), New York City, March 23-25, 1997. PDF
Financial Information Extraction using predefined and user definable Templates in the LOLITA system, Marco Costantino, PhD Thesis at University of Durham, 1997. PDF
Financial Information Extraction using pre-defined and user-definable Templates in the LOLITA System, Marco Costantino, Richard G. Morgan, Russell J. Collingham, CIT - Journal of Computing and Information Technology, Vol. 4, No. 4, December 1996, pages 241-255. PDF
Qualitative Information in Finance: Natural Language Processing and Information Extraction, Marco Costantino, Russell J. Collingham, Richard G. Morgan, in NeuroVe$t Journal, Vol. 4 No. 6, November 1996. PDF
Financial Information Extraction at the University of Durham, Marco Costantino, Russell J. Collingham, Richard G. Morgan, in Proceedings of the II International Meeting of Artificial Intelligence in Accounting, Finance and Tax , 27-28 September 1996, Huelva, Spain. PDF
Natural Language Processing in Finance, Marco Costantino, Russell J. Collingham, Richard G. Morgan, in The Magazine of Artificial Intelligence in Finance, Vol.2, No.4, January 1996. PDF
Information extraction in the LOLITA System using templates from financial news articles, Marco Costantino, Russell J. Collingham, Richarg G. Morgan, in Proceedings of the 18th International on Information Technology Interfaces, June 18-21 2006, Pula. PDF
University of Durham: Description of the LOLITA system used in MUC-6, Richard G. Morgan, Roberto Garigliano, P. Callaghan, S. Poria, M. Smith, A. Urbanowicz, Russel J. Collingham, Marco Costantino , C. Cooper and the LOLITA Group, in Proceedings of the Message Understanding Conference (MUC-6), 1995. PDF
Multimedia and hypertextual environments
Multi-user Hypertextual Didactic Glossaries, Luigi Colazzo and Marco Costantino, to appear in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 1999.
Improving Hypermedia applications using Natural Language Processing techniques, Luigi Colazzo and Marco Costantino, in Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications, February 10-12, 1997, Gold Coast, Australia
Using multi-user hypertextual glossaries in multimedia-based learning, Luigi Colazzo and Marco Costantino, in Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education 1996, September 30 - October 2, 1996, Lisbon. PDF
Introducing hypertextual glossaries in a multi-user didactic environment, Luigi Colazzo and Marco Costantino, in proceedings of ITI'96, June 18-21, Pula. PDF
From Traditional to Electronic Glossaries in a Didactic Hypertextual Environment, Luigi Colazzo and Marco Costantino, In Proceedings of the UK Toolbook User Conference 95, Bristol, November 1995. PDF
Glossari in Ambienti Didattici Ipertestuali, Luigi Colazzo and Marco Costantino. In Proceedings of AICA '95, Cagliari, September 1995, in Italian. PDF
Costruzione di un Glossario Ipertestuale, Marco Costantino, Master degree thesis at University of Trento, Italy, 1995. PDF
Introducing dictionaries in a hypertextual environment, Marco Costantino and Luigi Colazzo, First International Toolbook Virtual Conference - ITVC '96
References
Available upon request