Pierpaolo Basile
Associate Professor
Bari, Apulia, Italy
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Top SchoolPierpaolo Basile is an associate professor of Computer Science at the University of Bari Aldo Moro with over a decade of academic and entrepreneurial experience in natural language processing and semantic indexing. He holds a PhD focused on Word Sense Disambiguation and has led research on compositional distributional semantics, multilingual entity linking, and semantic document processing. As co-founder and CTO of QuestionCube and an early founder of startups like Zenfeed and Shearch, he bridges cutting-edge research with product-focused search and question-answering systems. His work blends deep IR/NLP expertise with practical R&D, routinely moving WSD and distributional models toward real-world applications. Based in Bari, Italy, he has also collaborated internationally (including a visiting stint at The Alan Turing Institute), reflecting a networked approach to research and innovation. A less obvious facet: he repeatedly cycles between teaching advanced courses on intelligent information access and shipping commercial systems, keeping both pedagogy and product development tightly coupled.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Student, Student at InnovAction Lab PugliaPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Bari
English, Italian
Github Skills (10)
temporal9
informatica8
indexing7
python6
wikipedia5
sparql3
question-answering3
dbpedia3
semantic-parsing3
database1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
pippokill/TAIR
Jul 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:46 commits, 19 pushes in 11 months
pippokill/dae
Jul 2019 - Jun 2021
Diachronic Analysis of Entities by Exploiting Wikipedia Page revisions
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 1 year 11 months
exploitingwikipedia-pagediachronicwikipediarevisions
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