About

Gabriela is a Research Fellow at the School of Cybernetics at the Australian National University and a researcher in the field Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics. As a recognition for her career, she was distinguished with the Woman in Science Career Award from Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization.

In the last 20 years Gabriela had worked in research centres and universities and participated in projects related to language technologies and machine learning for text processing. 

She is passionate about working in multidisciplinary teams and producing technology for social good: text simplification, language learning, text understanding for detecting mental health issues, Natural Language Processing for endangered languages, e-health, among others. Teaching, supervising and connecting with students is also a big part of her professional life.

In addition, Ferraro has also been an active participant in the scientific community. Currently, she is  a member of the Australasian Language Technology Association Committee and reviewer in several international conferences related to human language technologies.