Edoardo Barba

Edoardo Barba is a full-time Researcher (RTDA) in the Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering (DIAG) at Sapienza University of Rome. He is a core member of the Sapienza NLP group led by Professor Roberto Navigli, focusing on Lexical Semantics, Entity Linking, and Word Sense Disambiguation. His recent work explores descriptive modeling applications in Language Modeling, Semantic Role Labeling, and Machine Translation. He co-founded Litus AI, an NLP-focused startup in Rome. Barba holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Sapienza University (2023), with a thesis on 'Descriptive Modeling: Capturing Semantics in Neural Models via Natural Language Descriptions'.

His research emphasizes innovative architectures like ReLiK (entity linking/relation extraction) and ExtEnD (extractive entity disambiguation), achieving state-of-the-art results. He has published extensively in top conferences like ACL, EMNLP, and IJCAI, focusing on semantic grounding, metric evaluation, and efficient NLP systems. His work on ConSeC (continuous sense comprehension) and DMLM (descriptive masked language modeling) highlights contributions to semantic understanding and knowledge-enhanced models.

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Barba collaborates on multilingual resources like MOSAICo and explores Italian-specific LLM optimizations. His research bridges theoretical advancements with practical applications in startups and open-source tools.