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Il est de toute première instance que nous façonnions nos idées comme s'il s'agissait d'objets manufacturés.
Léo Ferré
You shall know a word by the company it keeps.
John R. Firth
Department of Computer Science at the Sapienza University of Rome and a member of the Linguistic Computing Laboratory . In 2007 he received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from "La Sapienza" (winner of the Marco Cadoli 2007 AI*IA national prizeMultiJEDI, a 1.3Meuro 5-year Starting Grant funded by the European Research Council , and the responsible person of the Sapienza unit in LIDER, an EU project on content analytics and language technologies .
Spotlight
Invited speaker at the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-IV) , at COLING 2014 , Dublin, Ireland, 23rd August 2014.
Keynote speaker at the 30th Spanish Conference on Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) , Girona, Spain, 17-19th September 2014.
Program co-chair of *SEM 2014: the Third Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics , Dublin, Ireland, 23-24th August 2014.
2013 recipient of the Marco Somalvico AI*IA prize
ACL 2013 paper nominated for best paper award ! Align, Disambiguate and Walk: A Unified Approach for Measuring Semantic Similarity . ACL 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Co-Principal Investigator (with Hans Uszkoreit and Feiyu Xu ) of a Google Focused Research Award on the topic of Natural Language Understanding . [Read the post]
Associate Editor (2013-2016) of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier). What a great honour !
Keynote speaker at the 10th International Conference on Terminology and Artificial Intelligence , Paris, France, October 28-30th, 2013: "What a beautiful multilingual world: BabelNet 2.0 & friends!"
Keynote speaker at the 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP) , Nagoya, Japan, October 14-18, 2013: "What a beautiful multilingual world: BabelNet 2.0 & friends!"
Keynote speaker at the Third Workshop on Data Extraction and Object Search (DEOS) , Oxford, UK, July 7-8, 2013: "What a beautiful multilingual world: BabelNet & friends!"
Keynote speaker at the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing) , Samos, Greece, March 24-30, 2013: BabelNet and OntoLearn Reloaded: two "juicy" perspectives on lexical knowledge acquisition.
Invited speaker at the 3rd Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web joint with ISWC 2012 , Boston, MA, November 11-15, 2012: "BabelNet goes to the (Multilingual) Semantic Web".
The first Italian researcher to win an ERC Starting Grant in "computer science and informatics" (and first ERC Starting Grant in Natural Language Processing!). The project (2011-2016), called Multilingual Joint word sensE DIsambiguation (MultiJEDI) , is focused on multilingual semantic processing .
Interests and Collaborations
His research interests lie in the field of Natural Language Processing , including: Word Sense Disambiguation and Induction , Ontology Learning , Knowledge Representation and Acquisition , Information Retrieval , the Semantic Web and its applications.DFKI, Berlin ; ILCC, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh ; Department of Informatics, University of Sussex ; Seminar für Computerlinguistik, University of Heidelberg , the Zanichelli dictionary publisher , Laboratory for Enterprise Knowledge and Systems, IASI-CNR .
Teaching
He currently teaches:
He was a former instructor in Machine Learning , and a teaching assistant in Architetture degli Elaboratori I , Programmazione II , and Metodi per l'Estrazione delle Informazioni dal Web .
He taught a 5-day course on "Graphs in Natural Language Processing" at the European Summer School of Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2011) , 1-12 August, 2011.
With Simone Ponzetto , he taught a 5-day course on "Word Sense Disambiguation and Induction " at the European Summer School of Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2010) , 9-13 August, 2010.
He gave a tutorial on Graph-Based Word Sense Disambiguation at the RANLP 2009 conference .
Activities
Area Chair of the 2013 Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2013) , Atlanta, USA, June 2013.
Publication chair of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2013)
CLEF 2013 Lab chair
Co-organizer of two Semeval-2013 tasks:
Track Chair of the 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2012) , Lyon, France, April 16-20, 2012.
Member of the Editorial Board (2011-2013) of Computational Linguistics (MIT Press).
Member of the Editorial Board of the Text, Speech and Language Technology book series (Springer)
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Natural Language Engineering (Cambridge University Press, 2010-2015).
Guest editor with Fabian M. Suchanek of a Special Issue of the Journal of Web Semantics
Guest editor (with Ed Hovy and Simone Ponzetto ) of a Special Issue of the Artificial Intelligence Journal on "Artificial Intelligence, Wikipedia and Semi-Structured Resources" .
Committee member of the *SEM 2013 Shared Task
Invited to the Dagstuhl Seminar on the Multilingual Semantic Web
Area Chair of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010) , Uppsala, Sweden, July 11-16, 2010.
Senior Program Committee (SPC) member of IJCAI 2011 (the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
Senior Program Committee (SPC) member of IJCAI 2009 (the 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
Co-organizer of the AAAI 2010 workshop on Collaboratively-built Knowledge Sources and Artificial Intelligence , July 11, 2010
Executive board member (2007-2010) of the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon (SIGLEX) .
Co-organizer of two Semeval-2007 tasks, the reference international WSD competition held in Prague in conjunction with ACL 2007 :
Recent Program Committees :
2014: CICLing , EACL , WWW
2013: *SEM (area chair) , ACL , CICLing , EMNLP , ESWC , IJCNLP , IWCS , LTC , NAACL , RANLP , SIGIR , TextGraphs-8 , WSDM , W3C Multilingual Web Workshop
2012: WWW (track chair) , AAAI , ACL , CICLING , COLING , EACL , EKAW , EMNLP-CoNLL (best reviewer award :-)) ESWC , IIR , IMRSMCA , LREC , MSW3 , NAACL-HLT
2011: IJCAI (senior) , AAAI , ACL , CICLING , CIKM , ESWC , FLAIRS , IEKA , IJCNLP , RANLP , RELMS , SSST-5 , TextInfer
2010: ACL (area chair) , EMNLP , COLING , NAACL-HLT , EKAW
2009: IJCAI (senior) , ACL-IJCNLP , EACL , EMNLP , FLAIRS , RANLP , TextGraphs-4 , SEW-2009
2008: ACL , EMNLP , FLAIRS , IJCNLP , OLP3
2007: ACL , EMNLP-CoNLL , RANLP , FLAIRS
2006: COLING-ACL , EMNLP , FLAIRS
A wordle of Roberto's research:
La semplicità è la sofisticazione suprema.
Leonardo
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing
Socrates
Chi ha paura muore ogni giorno
Paolo Borsellino
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