Vivi Nastase

Vivi Nastase is a senior researcher affiliated with Fondazione Bruno Kessler and the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies. Her work focuses on Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Graphs, and Machine Learning, with particular emphasis on multilingual semantic analysis and linguistic structure extraction.

• Key research areas:
  • Semantic relations between nominals
  • Transformer-based sentence embeddings
  • Cross-lingual knowledge alignment
  • Linguistic generalization in neural models
  • Knowledge graph construction from Wikipedia

Recent publications analyze syntactic information in sentence embeddings and develop structured synthetic datasets like Blackbird Language Matrices for Italian/French benchmarks. She contributes to advancing FAIR digital objects and scholarly knowledge graph integration.