Valerio Basile
Associate Editor
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolValerio Basile is an NLP researcher and computer scientist with 12+ years bridging academic research and practical software engineering, now serving as Associate Professor at the University of Turin and Associate Editor at the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. His work spans computational semantics, natural language generation, databases and web systems, built on a PhD from Groningen and postdoctoral experience at Inria and leading Italian universities. Comfortable shipping code and models as well as publishing theory, he has a track record of integrating NLP into legal informatics and advising industry through roles like Scientific Advisor at Very Important Puppets. A longtime advocate for Free and Open Source Software, he combines rigorous formal methods with pragmatic engineering—equally likely to sketch an ontology as to optimize a production database. Outside academia he’s into math, music and videogames, a detail that often surfaces in interdisciplinary collaborations and teaching.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master Degree Computer Science, Master Degree Computer Science at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di BolognaWeb Software developer Web Software developer training course, Web Software developer Web Software developer training course at Sintesi srl, Potenza (Italy)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of GroningenLogic Linguistics Computer Science, Logic Linguistics Computer Science at European Summer School of Logic Language and Information
English, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, French
Github Skills (60)
multilingual10
nltk10
record-linkage10
semantics10
twitter-api10
wordnet10
natural-language-processing10
nlp10
part-of-speech-tagger10
lexicon10
entity10
twitter9
java9
python9
semantic-parsing9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
valeriobasile/dlnlpcourse
May 2019 - Mar 2021
material for the lecture on Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing 2019
Contributions:15 commits, 6 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 10 months
nlpdeep-learninglanguage-processingmachine-learningnatural-language
valeriobasile/sentixR
Mar 2019 - Oct 2022
R package to perform sentiment analysis on Italian using sentix
Contributions:16 commits, 3 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 years 7 months
nlpr-packageitaliansentimentsentiment-analysis
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