Curriculum Vitae Some of my passions: programming, research, literature, traveling, friendship, Italian-style coffee, green tea, hatha yoga.		Positions 2010-now Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Rome "La Sapienza". 2007-2010 Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Rome "La Sapienza". Education 2003-2006 Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Rome "La Sapienza" (winner of the AI*IA "Marco Cadoli" National Prize 2007 for the Best PhD Thesis in AI). 1996-2001 B.Sc+M.Sc. Degree in Computer Science (110/110 magna cum laude), University of Rome "La Sapienza". Languages Fluent in English and French; Italian mother tongue. Teaching He teaches Natural Language Processing (Elaborazione del Linguaggio Naturale) and Apprendimento Automatico (Machine Learning). He was a former teaching assistant in Architetture degli Elaboratori I, Programmazione II, and Metodi per l'Estrazione delle Informazioni dal Web. He recently gave a tutorial on Graph-Based Word Sense Disambiguation at the RANLP 2009 conference. 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 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. Interests His research focuses on Natural Language Processing, including Word Sense Disambiguation, Knowledge Acquisition, Ontology Learning, Semantic Information Retrieval, the Semantic Web and its applications. Publications Click here to access his publications on-line. Projects First Italian researcher to win an ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant in "computer science and informatics". The ERC (European Research Council) is an independent agency funding frontier research across Europe in all disciplines based on scientific excellence. Principal Investigator of national academic and industrial projects. Grants and Awards Winner of the What's up - Young Talent Prize 2010 for scientific research. Winner of a CASPUR HPC Grant 2010 and 2011. Short visit grant, Royal Society of Edinburgh (2008). Best PhD Thesis in Artificial Intelligence, 2007 AI*IA "Marco Cadoli" National Prize. International Activities Invited speaker at the 6th International Workshop on Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse (PAN'12), Rome, Italy, September 17-20, 2012: "Babelplagiarism: what can BabelNet do for cross-language plagiarism detection?". Invited speaker at the 3rd Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2012), Bari, Italy, January 26-27, 2012: "Semantic is beautiful: clustering and diversifying search results with graph-based Word Sense Induction". 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). Invited speaker at the 38th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM 2012): "Don't Take Shortcuts! Computational Lexical Semantics and The Turing Test". Keynote speaker at the 2011 Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2011): "Is It Just a Waste of Time? Word Sense Disambiguation for the Skeptic". Invited speaker at the AI*IA 2010 Workshop on Human Language Technologies for Italian Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Natural Language Engineering (Cambridge University Press, 2010-2012). 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". Track Chair of the 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2012), Lyon, France, April 16-20, 2012 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: IJCAI 2009 (the21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) Co-organizer of the AAAI 2010 workshop on Collaboratively-built Knowledge Sources and Artificial Intelligence, July 11, 2010 Instructor (with Simone Ponzetto) of a 5-day course on Word Sense Disambiguation and Induction at the European Summer School of Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2010). Executive board member of the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon (SIGLEX) (2007-2010) Tutorial instructor on Graph-Based Word Sense Disambiguation at the RANLP 2009 conference Co-organizer of two Semeval-2007 tasks: Coarse-grained English all-words (with Ken Litkowski) English Lexical substitution (with Diana McCarthy) Session Chair for several conferences and workshops, including EACL 2009, RANLP 2009, Semeval-2007 and Semeval-2010. Journal Referee Services Artificial Intelligence ACM Computing Surveys ACM Transactions on Information Systems ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing Computational Linguistics Computer Speech and Language Data & Knowledge Engineering Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery IEEE Intelligent Systems IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP) IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) Information Processing & Management Information Systems International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) Journal on Data Semantics Language Resources and Evaluation Natural Language Engineering Semantic Web Journal Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) Journal Program Committees AAAI 2012 (the 26th Conference on Artificial Intelligence) ACL 2012 (the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics) CICLING 2012 (13th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics) EACL 2012 (13th European Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics) EKAW 2012 (18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management) ESWC 2012 (Extended Semantic Web Conference) IIR 2012 (3rd Italian Information Retrieval Workshop) NAACL-HLT 2012 (North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies Conference) CICLING 2012 (the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics) ACL 2011 (the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics) AAAI 2011 (the 25th Conference on Artificial Intelligence) RANLP 2011 (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing) ESWC 2011 (Extended Semantic Web Conference) IJCNLP 2011 (the 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing) CICLING 2011 (the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics) CIKM 2011 (the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management) IEKA 2011 (Workshop on Information Extraction and Knowledge Acquisition) 24th FLAIRS (FLorida Artificial Intelligence Research Society) International Conference 2011 (Special Track: Applied Natural Language Processing) Language Resources and Evaluation Journal, Special Issue on Analysis of Short Texts on the Web ACL-HLT 5th Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-5) ACL-HLT Workshop on Relation Models of Semantics (RELMS 2011) EMNLP Workshop on Textual Inference (TextInfer 2011) EMNLP 2010 (Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing) COLING 2010 (the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics) NAACL-HLT 2010 (the 11th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics) EKAW 2010 (the 17th Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management) EMNLP 2009 (Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing) ACL-IJCNLP 2009 (the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics joint with the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing) RANLP 2009 (the 7th Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing). TextGraphs-4: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing joint with ACL/IJCNLP 2009 SEW-2009: Semantic Evaluations: Recent Achievements and Future Directions joint with NAACL-HLT 2009 EACL 2009 (the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics) 22th FLAIRS (FLorida Artificial Intelligence Research Society) International Conference 2009 (Special Track: Applied Natural Language Processing) EMNLP 2008 (Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing) ACL 2008 (the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics) OLP3 - 3rd Workshop on Ontology Learning and Population joint with ECAI 2008 (the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence) 21th FLAIRS (FLorida Artificial Intelligence Research Society) International Conference 2008 (Special Track: Applied Natural Language Processing) IJCNLP 2008 (the 3rd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing) RANLP 2007 (the 6th Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing). 22nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2007). EMNLP-CoNLL 2007 (Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing joint with Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning). ACL 2007 (the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics). Student Research Workshop at ACL 2007 (the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics). Workshop on Common Sense and Intelligent User Interfaces joint with the 2007 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2007). 20th FLAIRS (FLorida Artificial Intelligence Research Society) International Conference 2007 (Special Track: Trends in Natural Language Processing). EMNLP 2006 (Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing), Sydney, Australia, 22-23 July, 2006. COLING/ACL 2006 (the 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics joint with the 21th International Conference on Computational Linguistics), Sydney, Australia, 17-21 July, 2006. Student Research Workshop at EACL 2006 (the 11th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, European Chapter), Trento, Italy, April 3-7th, 2006. 19th FLAIRS (FLorida Artificial Intelligence Research Society) International Conference 2006 (Special Track: Trends in Natural Language Processing), Melbourne Beach, Florida, May 11-13, 2006. Workshop on Learning and Extending Lexical Ontologies by using Machine Learning Methods at ICML 2005, Bonn, Germany, August 7-11th, 2005.		Home Curriculum Publications Photos Contacts Students Fatti non foste a viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza Dante