Roberto Navigli Explained

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Workplaces:Sapienza University of Rome
Thesis Title:Structural Semantic Interconnections: a Knowledge-Based WSD Algorithm, its Evaluation and Applications
Thesis Year:2007
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Roberto Navigli (born 1978) is an Italian computer scientist and Professor in the Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering "Antonio Ruberti" at the Sapienza University of Rome,[1] where he is also the Director of the Sapienza NLP Group.[2] His research focuses on Artificial Intelligence, specifically on enabling computers to understand and represent meaning across hundreds of languages, making significant contributions to various fields within Natural Language Processing, including Word Sense Disambiguation, Entity Linking, Semantic Role Labeling and semantic parsing. He created BabelNet, a multilingual knowledge graph that brings together knowledge from resources including WordNet, Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikidata. At the core of his research lies the goal of making semantic representations of words and sentences independent of the language in which they are written. More recently, he has focused on Large Language Models, leading the Minerva LLM project,[3] [4] the first Italian effort for pretraining a LLM from scratch.[5]

Education

Navigli obtained his Master of Science degree in Computer Science in 2001 at Sapienza University of Rome, followed, in 2007, by a PhD from the same institution, under the supervision of Paola Velardi.[6] Navigli's doctoral thesis focused on devising and evaluating an innovative knowledge-based algorithm for Word Sense Disambiguation, named Structural Semantic Interconnections.[7]

Career and research

During and after his doctorate, Navigli was a Visiting Research Fellow and Visiting Professor[8] of the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, working with Prof. Mirella Lapata, the University of Sussex, invited by Dr. Diana McCarthy, the University of Wolverhampton with Prof. Ruslan Mitkov, and the Center for Advanced Studies of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, invited by Prof. .[9] He then obtained academic positions as researcher, and later Associate and Full Professor, at the Sapienza University of Rome, where he established the Sapienza NLP group.[10] Between 2017 and 2023, Navigli served as a member of the ERC Starting Grant panel for Computer Science and Informatics (PE6).[11]

Navigli was granted a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant[12] to fund his work on the creation of BabelNet and multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation, most notably Babelfy, and a subsequent ERC Consolidator Grant[13] to work on sentence-level, language-independent semantic representations, leading to the BabelNet Meaning Representation and its semantic parser, with the goal of creating 'the DNA of language'.[14] These two grants, amounting to overall 2.9M€, have been highlighted among the 15 projects through which the ERC transformed science.[15]

In 2016, Navigli founded Babelscape,[16] a successful university spinoff company, focused on multilingual neuro-symbolic Natural Language Understanding.[17]

Awards

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Official DIAG Sapienza Page. it-IT. 2024-11-03.
  2. Web site: Sapienza NLP Page. it-IT. 2024-11-03.
  3. Web site: Minerva. 2024-11-03. en.
  4. Web site: Minerva 7B, l’IA generativa italiana è diventata grande. 26 November 2024. it-IT. 2024-11-28.
  5. Web site: Ecco Minerva, la prima famiglia di LLM addestrati da zero in italiano. 23 April 2024 . it-IT. 2024-11-03.
  6. Web site: Roberto Navigli's institutional page - Publications.
  7. Navigli. Roberto. Velardi. Paola. 2005. Structural Semantic Interconnections: A Knowledge-Based Approach to Word Sense Disambiguation. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 27. 7. 1075–1086. 10.1109/TPAMI.2005.149. 16013755 . 2024-11-03.
  8. Web site: Roberto Navigli's institutional page - CV.
  9. Web site: Visiting fellow. 2024-11-03.
  10. Web site: Sapienza NLP page.
  11. Web site: ERC Starting Grant Panels 2023. 2024-11-03., Web site: ERC Starting Grant Panels 2021. 2024-11-03., Web site: ERC Starting Grant Panels 2019. 2024-11-03., Web site: ERC Starting Grant Panels 2017. 2024-11-03.
  12. Web site: MultiJEDI on CORDIS. CORDIS. 2024-08-24. en.
  13. Web site: MOUSSE. CORDIS. 2024-08-24. en.
  14. Web site: Project breaks new grounds in AI to create 'DNA of language'.
  15. News: How the ERC transformed science. 2024-08-24. en.
  16. Web site: Babelscape - about.
  17. Web site: Dalla ricerca arriva l'IA tutta made in Italy. 24 October 2024 . 2024-11-06. it-IT.
  18. Web site: Current EurAI Fellows.
  19. Web site: EurAI Fellow motivation on X. 2024-11-03.
  20. Web site: Fellows & Scholars of the ELLIS Society - Natural Language Processing. 2024-12-04.
  21. Web site: ACL 2024 best paper awards.
  22. Web site: Current ACL Fellows.
  23. Web site: AIJ Awards: List of Current and Previous Winners.
  24. Web site: ACL 2023 best paper awards.
  25. Web site: Sapienza DIAG ACL 2022 best resource paper announcement.
  26. Web site: NAACL 2021 best paper awards. 2 June 2021 .
  27. Web site: META Prize page. http://web.archive.org/web/20230306212333/http://www.meta-net.eu/meta-prize . 2023-03-06 .
  28. Web site: Marco Somalvico awards page.
  29. Web site: Marco Cadoli awards page.

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