2026 Roberto Navigli: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	68	2049	1984	28	28	256	24401

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Roberto Navigli is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy. Their research spans primarily the field of Computer Science, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence as the main subfield. Other subfields include Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Management Science and Operations Research, Information Systems, and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

The core research topics addressed by Roberto Navigli include:

Topic Modeling
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Text Readability and Simplification
Semantic Web and Ontologies
Data Quality and Management
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Speech and dialogue systems

Recent scholarly work includes publications in major venues. Notable papers include:

"Biases in Large Language Models: Origins, Inventory, and Discussion" (2023), published in Journal of Data and Information Quality
"Knowledge Graphs" (2021), published in ACM Computing Surveys
"Knowledge Graphs" (2021), published in Synthesis Lectures on Data, Semantics and Knowledge
"One SPRING to Rule Them Both: Symmetric AMR Semantic Parsing and Generation without a Complex Pipeline" (2021), in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
"SensEmBERT: Context-Enhanced Sense Embeddings for Multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation" (2020), in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Roberto Navigli's publication record also includes a book titled "Knowledge Graphs" (2022), published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers.

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

Simone Conia
Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
Eva Blomqvist
Michael Cochez
Claudia d'Amato

Frequent publication venues for Navigli's research are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

The combined contributions reflect a focus on advancing the understanding and application of knowledge graphs, semantic technologies, and natural language processing methods within artificial intelligence research.

Best Publications

Word sense disambiguation: A survey

Roberto Navigli

2722
Citations
BabelNet: The automatic construction, evaluation and application of a wide-coverage multilingual semantic network

Roberto Navigli;Simone Paolo Ponzetto

1824
Citations
Knowledge Graphs

Aidan Hogan;Eva Blomqvist;Michael Cochez;Claudia d'Amato

1261
Citations
Entity Linking meets Word Sense Disambiguation: A Unified Approach

Andrea Moro;Alessandro Raganato;Roberto Navigli

984
Citations
BabelNet: Building a Very Large Multilingual Semantic Network

Roberto Navigli;Simone Paolo Ponzetto

685
Citations
Learning Domain Ontologies from Document Warehouses and Dedicated Web Sites

Roberto Navigli;Paola Velardi

608
Citations
Ontology learning and its application to automated terminology translation

R. Navigli;P. Velardi;A. Gangemi

566
Citations
Structural semantic interconnections: a knowledge-based approach to word sense disambiguation

R. Navigli;P. Velardi

516
Citations
A software engineering approach to ontology building

Antonio De Nicola;Michele Missikoff;Roberto Navigli

456
Citations
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021

Chengqing Zong;Fei Xia;Wenjie Li;Roberto Navigli

451
Citations
The English lexical substitution task

Diana McCarthy;Roberto Navigli

418
Citations
An Experimental Study of Graph Connectivity for Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation

R. Navigli;M. Lapata

393
Citations
SensEmbed: Learning Sense Embeddings for Word and Relational Similarity

Ignacio Iacobacci;Mohammad Taher Pilehvar;Roberto Navigli

347
Citations
Embeddings for word sense disambiguation: An evaluation study

Ignacio Iacobacci;Mohammad Taher Pilehvar;Roberto Navigli

332
Citations
Word Sense Disambiguation: A Unified Evaluation Framework and Empirical Comparison

Alessandro Raganato;Jose Camacho-Collados;Roberto Navigli

331
Citations
Biases in Large Language Models: Origins, Inventory, and Discussion

Unknown

287
Citations
An analysis of ontology-based query expansion strategies

Paola Velardi;R Navigli

278
Citations
GERBIL: General Entity Annotator Benchmarking Framework

Ricardo Usbeck;Michael Röder;Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo;Ciro Baron

271
Citations
SemEval-2007 Task 10: English Lexical Substitution Task

Diana McCarthy;Roberto Navigli

269
Citations
Knowledge-Rich Word Sense Disambiguation Rivaling Supervised Systems

Simone Paolo Ponzetto;Roberto Navigli

266
Citations
Structural semantic interconnection: a knowledge-based approach to Word Sense Disambiguation

Roberto Navigli;Paola Velardi

11
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Paola Velardi Sapienza University of Rome

Simone Paolo Ponzetto University of Mannheim

David Jurgens University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Diana McCarthy University of Cambridge

Aldo Gangemi University of Bologna

Mirella Lapata University of Edinburgh

Philipp Cimiano Bielefeld University

Eduard Hovy Carnegie Mellon University

Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo University of Paderborn

Horacio Saggion Pompeu Fabra University

External Links

Personal website of Roberto Navigli Google Scholar page

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