Elena Not received her degree in Computer Science from the University of Udine. Since 1992 she has been a research scientist at the Cognitive and Communication Technologies Division at ITC-irst, now FBK. She has worked on several national and international research projects reflecting her interest in Intelligent User Interfaces, Recommender Systems, Adaptive Hypermedia and Natural Language Generation with particular focus on personalization, text planning, discourse structure, referring expressions generation, and integration with other modalities. She took active part in the research and development activities of many European funded projects in the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Framework.