Quick Links LCL Website BabelNet WCL SSI Il est de toute première instance que nous façonnions nos idées comme s'il s'agissait d'objets manufacturés. Je suis prêt à vous procurer les moules. Léo Ferré You shall know a word by the company it keeps. John R. Firth		Roberto Navigli is an associate professor in the 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 national prize for the Best Ph.D. Thesis in Artificial Intelligence). He is also a visiting professor at the University of Wolverhampton (UK). News 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". Track Chair of the 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2012), Lyon, France, April 16-20, 2012. A 5-minute video of our IJCAI 2011 paper ("A Graph-based Algorithm for Inducing Lexical Taxonomies from Scratch") is now available! 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". 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) Senior Program Committee (SPC) member of IJCAI 2011 (the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) 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) will focus on multilingual semantic processing. Interests and Collaborations His research interests lie in the field of Natural Language Processing, including: Word Sense Disambiguation, Ontology Learning, Knowledge Representation, Information Retrieval, the Semantic Web and its applications. He developed a knowledge-based WSD algorithm, called Structural Semantic Interconnections (SSI), available online: He has/had collaborations with many research institutes and universities, including: ILCC, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, UK Seminar für Computerlinguistik, University of Heidelberg Computer Science Department, Johns Hopkins University Zanichelli dictionary publisher Laboratory for Enterprise Knowledge and Systems, IASI-CNR Teaching He currently teaches: Natural Language Processing (in English ) Machine Learning (in English , from 2011-2012) Metodologie di Programmazione (in Italian , from 2011-2012) He was a former 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 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". Area Chair of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010), Uppsala, Sweden, July 11-16, 2010. 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). Senior Program Committee (SPC) member of IJCAI 2009 (the 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) Recent Program Committees (click here for an extended list): 2012: WWW 2012 (track chair), AAAI 2012, ACL 2012, CICLING 2012, EACL 2012, EKAW 2012, ESWC 2012, IIR 2012, LREC 2012, NAACL-HLT 2012 2011: IJCAI 2011 (senior), AAAI 2011, ACL 2011, CICLING 2011, CIKM 2011, ESWC 2011, FLAIRS 2011, IEKA-2011, IJCNLP 2011, RANLP 2011, RELMS 2011, SSST-5, TextInfer 2011 2010: ACL 2010 (area chair), EMNLP 2010, COLING 2010, NAACL-HLT 2010, EKAW 2010 2009: IJCAI 2009 (senior), ACL-IJCNLP 2009, EACL 2009, EMNLP 2009, FLAIRS 2009, RANLP 2009, TextGraphs-4, SEW-2009 2008: ACL 2008, EMNLP 2008, FLAIRS 2008, IJCNLP 2008, OLP3 2007: ACL 2007, EMNLP-CoNLL 2007, RANLP 2007, FLAIRS 2007 2006: COLING-ACL 2006, EMNLP 2006, FLAIRS 2006 Co-organizer of two Semeval-2007 tasks, the reference international WSD competition held in Prague in conjunction with ACL 2007: Coarse-grained English all-words (with Ken Litkowski) English Lexical substitution (with Diana McCarthy) A wordle of Roberto's research:		Home Curriculum Publications Photos Contacts Students La semplicità è la sofisticazione suprema. 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