Roberto Navigli
Roberto Navigli studies multilingual natural-language processing and meaning. His work includes BabelNet, lexical ambiguity and sentence-level semantics. Navigli earned a Sapienza computer-science degree in 2001 and a doctorate in 2007. He was a researcher from 2007 to 2010 and an associate professor from 2010 to 2017. MultiJEDI is a multilingual-language project with the BabelNet resource for lexical ambiguity. The Babelscape spin-off was founded in 2016. MOUSSE began in 2017. MOUSSE aims to create neural, language-independent representations of sentence meaning.
- Now at
- Sapienza University of Rome and Babelscape
- Works
- 553
- Citations
- 18,857
- h-index
- 61
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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2001–2007
Sapienza education
Navigli earned a Sapienza computer-science degree in 2001 and a doctorate in 2007. He was a researcher from 2007 to 2010 and an associate professor from 2010 to 2017.
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2016
BabelNet and Babelscape
MultiJEDI is a multilingual-language project with the BabelNet resource for lexical ambiguity. The Babelscape spin-off was founded in 2016.
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2017
Sentence-level semantics
MOUSSE began in 2017. MOUSSE aims to create neural, language-independent representations of sentence meaning.
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As of October 2026
Language models and meaning
He leads the Minerva language-model project and researches word senses, semantic roles and semantic parsing.
Sources and credits
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