Roberto Navigli
About
Roberto Navigli is an Italian computer scientist and Professor in the Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering "Antonio Ruberti" at the Sapienza University of Rome, where he is also the Director of the Sapienza NLP Group. His research focuses on Artificial Intelligence, specifically on enabling computers to understand and represent meaning across hundreds of languages, making significant contributions to various fields within Natural Language Processing, including Word Sense Disambiguation, Entity Linking, Semantic Role Labeling and semantic parsing. He created BabelNet, a multilingual knowledge graph that brings together knowledge from resources including WordNet, Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikidata. At the core of his research lies the goal of making semantic representations of words and sentences independent of the language in which they are written. More recently, he has focused on Large Language Models, leading the Minerva LLM project, the first Italian effort for pretraining a LLM from scratch.
