BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Date iCal//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.2// METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Eventi DIAG BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Paris BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221030T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220327T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.24911.field_data.0@www.corsodrupal.uniroma1.it DTSTAMP:20260403T200000Z CREATED:20220615T124648Z DESCRIPTION:The event aims at disseminating research\, fostering discussion as well as encouraging scientific contamination across perspectives of ne uro-symbolic processing of language.We will also take this opportunity to celebrate 10 years of BabelNet.The workshop is co-organized by Sapienza\, Babelscape and Accademia della Crusca. It is co-funded by the ERC\, the Eu ropean Language Grid and the AI Journal DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220704T083000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220705T174500 LAST-MODIFIED:20230406T061000Z LOCATION:DIAG - Via Ariosto\, 25 - Roma SUMMARY:Workshop on Ten Years of BabelNet and Multilingual Neurosymbolic Na tural Language Understanding - \n\n\n \n \n\n \n\n\nRoberto\n\n\nNavi gli \n\n \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nProfessore ordinario\n\n\npagina personale \n\nstanza: \n\nB119\n\ntelefono: \n\n+39 0677274109\n\nMember of: \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nBiografia: \n\n\n\nRoberto Navigli is a Full Professor i n the Department of Computer\, Control and Management Engineering at the S apienza University of Rome. From 2010 to 2017 he has held the position of Associate Professor and from 2007 to 2010 the position of Researcher in th e Department of Computer Science of the same university. He obtained his d egree in Computer Science from the 'Sapienza' University of Rome in 2001\, and went on to obtain his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the 'Sapienza' U niversity in 2007.His research lies in the area of Natural Language Proces sing\, with a particular focus on multinguality\, lexical semantics (Word Sense Disambiguation and induction)\, sentence-level semantics (Semantic R ole Labeling and Semantic Parsing)\, and innovative Large Language Models (LLMs)\, being the leader of the Minerva LLM project (https://nlp.uniroma1 .it/minerva) in the context of the Future AI Research Project (FAIR). He i s the creator of BabelNet (http://babelnet.org) and the co-founder of a su ccessul Sapienza spinoff company\, Babelscape (https://babelscape.com)\, w orking with several EU and Italian public bodies and international custome rs.GRANTS AND PROJECTS- Winner of two ERC Grants in 'computer science and informatics' (the MultiJEDI ERC Starting Grant 2010-2016 and the MOUSSE ER C Consolidator Grant 2017-2023\, for a total of around 3 million euros)- P I of PRIN 2017 and PRIN 2020 projects (overall 1.4 million euros).- Recipi ent of a Google Focused Research Award (around 300k$\, with DFKI Berlin)- Sapienza coordinator of ELEXIS project (2018-2022\, share: around 450000 e uros).- PI of the PerLIR PRIN 2017 project (2019-2022\, share: around 1000 00 euros)- Sapienza coordinator of the LIDER EU project (2013-2015\, share : around 90000 euros)PUBLICATIONSProf. Navigli published more than 250 pap ers in all top-tier conferences and journals in the field of NLP and AI\, including Computational Linguistics\, AI Journal (Elsevier)\, TACL\, ACM C omputing Surveys\, IEEE TPAMI\, >50 papers at ACL (top conference in NLP)\ , 16 at IJCAI\, 11 at AAAI (top conferences in AI)\, 29 at EMNLP\, 2 WWW a nd many others.HIGHLIGHTS- AAAI Fellow (2025)\, EurAI Fellow (2024)\, ELLI S Fellow (2024)\, ACL Fellow (2023)- His H-index is 74 and over 28000 cita tions according to Google Scholar.- General Chair of ACL 2025- Program Co- Chair of ACL-IJCNLP 2021- Action Editor of TACL (2021-).- Associate Editor of the Artificial Intelligence Journal (2013-2020).- Board member of Comp utational Linguistics (2011-2013).- Program chair of *SEM 2016 and ESWC 20 18.- Senior Area Chair of IJCAI 2021\, IJCAI-ECAI 2022- Area Chair of AAAI 2023\, 2022\, 2021\, IJCAI-PRICAI 2020\, ECAI 2020\, AAAI 2019\, ACL 2019 \, IJCAI 2018- Senior PC member of IJCAI 2023\, AAAI 2020\, IJCAI 2019\, A AAI 2018\, AAAI 2017\, IJCAI 2011\, IJCAI 2009- Program Co-chair of CLiC-i t 2019- Area chair of ACL 2018\, WWW 2012\, ACL 2010\, *SEM 2013.- He is a regular member of the PCs of the major Conferences on Computational Lingu istics and Natural Language Processing (ACL\, EACL\, EMNLP)PRIZES AND ACKN OWLEDGMENTS- Winner of outstanding paper awards at ACL 2024\, ACL 2023\, N AACL 2021- Winner of the best resource paper award at ACL 2022- The 2 ERC projects selected among the ൗ ways in which the ERC transformed science'.- Winner of the 2023 Prominent Paper Award of the Artificial Intelligence J ournal (Elsevier).- Winner of the 2017 Prominent Paper Award of the Artifi cial Intelligence Journal (Elsevier).- Winner of the META prize 2015\, 'aw arded on an annual basis to outstanding products or services supporting th e European Multilingual Information Society'.- Winner of the 2013 'Marco S omalvico AI*IA Biennial Prize' awarded to the best young Italian researche r in Artificial Intelligence\, who has provided a significant\, highly-inn ovative personal contribution to the field of AI.- Winner of the 2007 'Mar co Cadoli AI*IA Prize' for the best doctoral thesis in Artificial Intellig ence.TALKS AS KEYNOTE/INVITED SPEAKER- Keynote speaker at The 18th ACM Int ernational Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)\, Hannover\, 20 -24 March 2025- Invited speaker at the 39th Italian Conference on Computat ional Logic\, Rome\, 28 June 2024- Invited speaker at the 22nd IEEE/WIC In ternational Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technolog y\, Venice\, 26-29 October 2023- Invited speaker at the Fourth Iberoameric an and Third Indo-American Conference Knowledge Graph and Semantic Web Con ference (KGSWC)\, Madrid\, 21-23 November 2022- Invited speaker in the AIx IA Spotlight Seminars on AI\, Fall 2022- Invited speaker at the 2022 Confe rence of European Statistics Stakeholders (CESS)\, Rome\, 20-22 October 20 22- Invited speaker at the Multilingual Digital Terminology Today conferen ce\, Padua\, 16-17 June 2022- Invited speaker at the International Confere nce on Computational Linguistics and Natural LanguageProcessing (CLNLP)\, Seoul\, South\, 2020- Invited speaker at the 5th SwissText & 16th KONVENS (SwissText+KONVENS 2020)\, Zurich\, Switzerland\, 2020- Invited Speaker at the Applied Machine Learning Days (AMLD) at EPFL\, Lausanne\, Switzerland \, 2020- Invited Speaker at Convegno  dell’Associazione  per  l’Informatic a  Umanistica  e  la  Cultura  Digitale (AIUCD)\, Milan\, Italy\, 2020- In vited Speaker at Artificial Intelligence Symposium organized by the Europe an Academy of Science 2019- Invited Speaker at the European Research Counc il\, Brussels\, Belgium\, 20 September 2019.- Invited Speaker at EduIA - F irst Italian Conference on Education and AI\, Roma Tre\, 2018- Invited Spe aker at TranslatingEurope\, Istituto di Alti Studi SSML Carlo Bo\, 2018- K eynote Speaker at the Conference on Chinese  Knowledge  Graph  and  Semant ic  Computing  (CCKS)\, Tianjin\, China\, 2018- Invited Speaker in the Ear ly Career Spotlight track at IJCAI-ECAI 2018\, Stockholm\, Sweden\, 2018- Keynote Speaker at the International  Conference  on  Statistical  Analysi s  of  Textual  Data  (JADT)\,Rome\, Italy\, 2018- Keynote speaker at the 39th conference on Translating and the Computer\, London\, UK\, 16-17 Nove mber 2017.- Invited speaker at the Conference on Computational Approaches to Diversity in Interaction and Meaning\, Venice\, Italy\, 7-9 October 201 7.- Invited speaker at the Language-Learning-Logic workshop\, London\, UK\ , 21 September 2017.- Keynote speaker at the 11th conference on Recent Adv ances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP)\, Varna\, Bulgaria\, 4-6 Sept ember 2017.- Keynote speaker at the 3rd International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Informal Text (NLPIT 2017)\, Rome\, Italy\, 3-5 Ju ne 2017.- Keynote speaker at the 1st Workshop on Sense\, Concept and Entit y Representations and their Applications\, Valencia\, Spain\, 4 April 2017 .- Keynote speaker at the AI Research Institute (AIRI) Inaugural Conferenc e\, South Korea\, 11 October 2016.- Invited speaker at the WebNLG 2016: 2n d International Workshop on Natural Language Generation and the Semantic W eb\, Edinburgh\, 6 September 2016.- Invited speaker at the DRONGO language festival 2015\, Utrecht\, 25-26 September 2015.- Invited speaker at the O xford Global Languages Symposium\, 24 September 2015.- Invited speaker at TALN 2015 -- 22ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Na turelles\, Caen\, 22-25 June 2015.- Invited speaker at DIALOGUE 2015 -- In ternational Conference on Computational Linguistics\, Moscow\, 27-30 June 2015.- Invited speaker at Multilingual Web Access (MWA) 2015 Workshop -- c olocated with WWW 2015\, Firenze\, 18-22 May 2015.- Invited speaker at the 5th Lisbon Machine Learning School (LxMLS)\, Lisbon\, Portugal\, 16-23 Ju ly 2015.- Invited speaker at the 11th Summer School on Ontology Engineerin g and the Semantic Web (SSSW)\, Bertinoro\, Italy\, 5-11 July 2015.- Invit ed speaker at the 4th eLex conference on Electronic Lexicography in the 21 st century: Linking lexical data in the digital age\, Herstmonceux Castle (UK)\, 11-13 August 2015.- Keynote speaker at the NLP & DBpedia 2014 Works hop\, at ISWC 2014\, Riva Del Garda\, Italy\, 19-20th October 2014.- Keyno te speaker at the 30th Spanish Conference on Natural Language Processing ( SEPLN)\, Girona\, Spain\, 17-19th September 2014- Keynote speaker at the 1 0th International Conference on Terminology and Artificial Intelligence\, Paris\, France\, October 28-30th\, 2013- Keynote speaker at the 6th Intern ational Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP)\, Nagoya\ , Japan\, October 14-18\, 2013- Invited speaker at the Workshop on Cogniti ve Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-IV)\, at COLING 2014\, Dublin\, Ireland \, 23rd August 2014.- Keynote speaker at the Third Workshop on Data Extrac tion and Object Search (DEOS)\, Oxford\, UK\, July 7-8\, 2013- Keynote spe aker at the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing a nd Computational Linguistics (CICLing)\, Samos\, Greece\, March 24-30\, 20 13- Invited speaker at the 3rd Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web j oint with ISWC 2012\, Boston\, MA\, November 11-15\, 2012BIBLIOMETRIC INDI CES (Google Scholar Feb 2025)H-index: 74Total number of citations: 28000+i -10 index: 190\n\n\nInteressi di ricerca: \n\n\n\nLarge Language Models (s ee the Minerva project https://nlp.uniroma1.it/minerva): pretraining\, ins truction tuning\, safety\, model distillation\, PEFT\, commonsense knowled ge\, reasoning\, etc.\n\n\nMultilingual Natural Language Understanding: Wo rd Sense Disambiguation\, Entity Linking\, Semantic Role Labeling\, Semant ic Parsing\, Summarization\, multilingual sentence representation.\n\n\nLa rge-scale lexical-semantic knowledge acquisition (e.g. BabelNet): knowledg e graph creation\, curation\, maintenance and update\; lexical-semantic re sources\, multilinguality.\n\n\nkeywords: \n\nMultilingualityNatural Langu age ProcessingNatural Language Understanding\n\nqualifica_rr: \n\nProfesso rs URL;TYPE=URI:http://www.corsodrupal.uniroma1.it/node/24911 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR