activities/news

September 2017. To attend Google's Natural Language Processing Summit in Zurich (25-27 September).

August 2017. Co-organizing two SemEval 2018 tasks: Hypernym Discovery and Emoji Prediction

August 2017. To attend ACL, CoNLL and SemEval in Vancouver, Canada.

June 2017. To attend Google's Machine Learning Summit in Zurich (12-14 June).

April 2017. I will give a talk on "Semantic Representations of Word Senses, Concepts and Entities and their Applications" at the University of Cambridge, UK.

April 2017. Two papers (one short and one long) accepted at ACL 2017. Joint works with Claudio Delli Bovi, Alessandro Raganato and Roberto Navigli, and Taher Pilehvar and Nigel Collier.

December 2016. Long paper accepted at EACL 2017: Word Sense Disambiguation: A Unified Evaluation Framework and Empirical Comparison. Joint work with Alessandro Raganato and Roberto Navigli.

November 2016. To co-organize the EACL 2017 Workshop on "Sense, Concept and Entity Representations and their Applications".

November 2016. Attended the EMNLP 2016 conference in Austin, Texas.

October 2016. To give a talk on "Semantic Representations of Word Senses, Concepts and Entities and their Applications" at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain).

September 2016. Long paper accepted at COLING 2016: Extending WordNet with Fine-Grained Collocational Information. Joint work with Luis Espinosa-Anke, Sara Rodríguez Fernández, Horacio Saggion and Leo Wanner.

August 2016. Attended a Google PhD Fellowship Summit at Google's Mountain View Campus, California.

July 2016. Long paper accepted at EMNLP 2016: Supervised Distributional Hypernym Discovery via Domain Adaptation. Joint work with Luis Espinosa-Anke, Claudio Delli Bovi and Horacio Saggion.

July 2016. Slides of our ACL 2016 Tutorial on "Semantic Representations of Word Senses and Concepts" already available online.

July 2016. Journal article titled "NASARI: Integrating Explicit Knowledge and Corpus Statistics for a Multilingual Representation of Concepts and Entities" accepted for publication in "Artificial Intelligence".

June 2016. To co-organize a SemEval 2017 task on Multilingual Word Similarity.

May 2016. I will give a tutorial at ACL 2016 about "Semantic Representations of Word Senses and Concepts" with Ignacio Iacobacci, Roberto Navigli and Taher Pilehvar.

May 2016. I will be serving in the Program Committee of COLING and ISWC 2016.

April 2016. I have been selected as one of the best reviewers in NAACL 2016.

March 2016. I have been awarded with a Google Doctoral Fellowship in Natural Language Processing.

January 2016. Paper accepted at LREC 2016: "A Large-Scale Multilingual Disambiguation of Glosses", joint work with Claudio Delli Bovi, Alessandro Raganato and Roberto Navigli. Corpus of disambiguated definitions freely available here.

January 2016. BabelNet 3.5 has been released. Check out the new BabelNet domains!

December 2015. I will be part of ACL and NAACL program committees (2016).

September 2016. I participated in the Google NLP PhD Summit in Zurich (23-26 September 2015).

July 2015. I participated in the ACL 2015 conference (Beijing, China, 27-29 July), where I presented two papers.