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Heliana Mello studied at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, and the City University of New York. She is associate professor of English and Linguistics at UFMG. Her research has focused on language contact and change, second language acquisition, and corpus linguistics. She is currently co-coordinator of the C-ORAL-BRASIL corpus project and coordinates the LINDSEI-BR project (spoken English interlanguage by Brazilian learners).

Alessandro Panunzi studied at the University of Florence and the University of Turin. He is currently research fellow at the University of Florence, where he teaches Computational Linguistics. His main interests range from Semantics to Corpus Linguistics, Computational Linguistics and Italian Grammar. He worked in national and European projects dedicated to the establishment of Italian Language Resources at the LABLITA lab (University of Florence).

Tommaso Raso studied at the University of Naples and at UCLA. He was professor of Italian Linguistics at the University of Venice and is now professor of Linguistics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. His main interests in the past were Medieval Italian Philology and Professional Writing. In recent years his main interests have been Spontaneous Speech Corpus Linguistics and Speech Pragmatics.