Alessandro Raganato

Alessandro Raganato is an Associate Professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca's Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication (DISCo), affiliated with the IKR3 Lab led by Gabriella Pasi. His research focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP), including multilingual lexical semantics, crosslingual NLP, and neural machine translation. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki's Language Technology Lab, contributing to the FoTran project under Jörg Tiedemann. He completed his PhD at Sapienza University of Rome under Roberto Navigli, working on multilingual lexical semantics within ERC-funded projects (MultiJEDI and MOUSSE). He is a member of the ELLIS Society, an EU AI network emphasizing fundamental science and societal impact.

Education:

• PhD in Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome (SapienzaNLP Lab)
• Postdoctoral Research, University of Helsinki (Language Technology Lab)

Research Interests:

• Developing crosslingual NLP systems
• Word sense disambiguation in multilingual contexts
• Optimizing neural machine translation architectures
• Evaluating large language models' reasoning capabilities

Key Research Trends (2023-2025):

• Advancing multilingual benchmarking (e.g., Mu-SHROOM task)
• Exploring diffusion models for concept blending
• Democratizing NMT via open-source tools like OPUS-MT
• Personalized search systems leveraging cognitive complexity metrics

Labs/Teams:

• IKR3 Lab (University of Milano-Bicocca)
• Language Technology Lab (University of Helsinki)
• ELLIS Society