Roberto Navigli is a full professor of Natural Language Processing in the Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering at the Sapienza University of Rome, the head of the Sapienza NLP Group, an ACL Fellow, a EurAI Fellow and an ELLIS Fellow. In 2007 he received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from "La Sapienza" (recipient of the Marco Cadoli 2007 AI*IA prize for the Best Ph.D. Thesis in AI). In 2013 he received the Marco Somalvico AI*IA prize, awarded to the best young Italian researcher in AI, who has provided a significant, highly-innovative personal contribution in AI.
He is the creator of BabelNet, the largest multilingual encyclopedic computational dictionary, winner of the 2017 prominent paper award of the Artificial Intelligence Journal and the META prize, and covered by the Guardian and Time Magazine. Also winner of the 2023 prominent paper award of the AI Journal for NASARI.
He has received two prestigious grants from the European Research Council (ERC): MOUSSE, a 1.5M euro Consolidator Grant (2017-2022), and MultiJEDI, a 1.3M euro Starting Grant. These grants have been highlighted (out of 10,000) among the 15 projects through which the ERC transformed science.
He is a member of the steering committee of the CINI National Laboratory on Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems.
He leads the Minerva family project, the first pretrained LLM in Italian and co-leads the Transversal Project on current and next-generation Large Language Multimodal Models in the FAIR (Future Artificial Intelligence Research) project (2022-2025), a huge (115M!) Next-Generation EU project aimed at advancing AI research in Italy.
Co-founder of Babelscape, an innovative research company focusing on multilingual Natural Language Understanding. Check out SemanticPaths, our multilingual semantic search engine customizable to all domains and verticals. Babelscape is one of the most prolific EU companies in cutting-edge NLP research.
General Chair of ACL 2025, Program Co-Chair of ACL-IJCNLP 2021, Action Editor for ACL Rolling Review (ARR), Action Editor for the Transactions of the ACL, Associate Editor of the Artificial Intelligence Journal (2013-2020), Chair of the AI Journal Awards Committee (2021-2022), Advisory Board Member (2022-) of the new Natural Language Processing Journal.
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.
You shall know a word by the company it keeps.
La semplicità è la sofisticazione suprema.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Chi ha paura muore ogni giorno
