Babelscape

Language generation, semantically grounded

2016

2026

Customers & Partners:

Adobe
ATEX
EUIPO
Oxford University Press
University of Florida

ChatMinerva: the first Italian LLM

Minerva is the first family of large language models pretrained from scratch in Italian, built on trillions of words from open-access Italian and English data. Initially developed by the Sapienza NLP group led by Professor Roberto Navigli, in collaboration with FAIR and powered by CINECA’s Leonardo supercomputer, it represents a new standard for high-performance, sovereign AI.

Designed as a truly open model in both data and architecture, Minerva combines strong linguistic alignment with scalable infrastructure. Now entering its next phase, Minerva is being further developed and industrialized by Babelscape into a robust, production-ready solution for sectors including Public Administration, healthcare, defense, culture and education.

Minerva has now evolved into ChatMinerva: a multimodal AI assistant with live web access, document and image understanding, ORC, voice interaction, and enhanced safety. It has been developed entirely in Italy, with full transparency and control over every stage of training and alignment.

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Large Language Models

Utilize state-of-the-art Large Language Models to generate human-like text, enhance language understanding, and automate content creation, all while ensuring scalability and adaptability across various languages and contexts.

Our LLMs integrate seamlessly into your systems, providing solutions that improve efficiency and foster creative problem-solving and guarantee factuality according to specific document and knowledge bases.

LLMs
RAG
Chatbots
Factuality
Fine-Tuning
Multilinguality
Summarization

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Text Analytics

Harness the power of Text Analytics to uncover deep insights and patterns from unstructured text, transforming data into actionable knowledge for improved decision-making and strategic planning.

Explore every facet of textual information, from sentiment analysis to trend detection, enabling a deeper connection with your audience and a sharper competitive edge.

Semantics
Word Sense Disambiguation
Entity Linking
Multilinguality
Keyword Extraction
Sentiment Analysis
Emotion Analysis

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Knowledge Graphs

Leverage Knowledge Graphs to create dynamic connections between data points, enabling complex queries and analyses that provide a comprehensive understanding of relationships and interdependencies.

Enable search, visualization and exploration of data relations, facilitating ecc. ecc.

In-House Knowledge Graph
Multilinguality
Relations Extraction
Entity Linking
Neuro-Symbolic

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Semantic Search

Enhance your search capabilities with Semantic Search, which uses the understanding of context and user intent to deliver precise and relevant search results, improving user experience and information retrieval efficiency.

Interconnect your data with our advanced semantic algorithms and transform the way information is discovered, making your searches smarter and more intuitive than ever before.

Semantic Search
Neuro-Symbolic
Multilinguality

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Find out how our solutions fit your needs

Where can we apply our technologies for you?
Each business is unique, which is why we customize our products to support your growth.

If you don’t see your industry listed, contact us to explore tailored solutions for you!

Publishing and media

Babelscape enhances media content management by processing multilingual newspaper articles and providing semantic tagging. This supports semantic search for users and assists journalists in annotating and linking their work across languages.

Pharmaceutical

We assist pharmaceutical companies in harnessing knowledge from diverse sources, facilitating competitor monitoring and insight gathering for product development and strategic initiatives.

Market Research

Discover consumer perceptions and market trends through our advanced analysis tools, which deliver precise insights across multiple languages, empowering your market research strategies.

Social Media

Social media platforms are rich with user opinions. Babelscape simplifies the extraction and summarization of multilingual content from these platforms, turning vast amounts of data into manageable and actionable insights.

Law, patents and trademarks

We provide specialized solutions for helping officials and consultants in the pre-registration process, by checking the validity of a trademark or patent. We also offer solutions for building law-specific semantic search engines.

Why Babelscape?

Multilinguality and Semantic Grounding

At Babelscape, we excel in delivering multilingual solutions that transcend the capabilities of traditional models by combining advanced large language models with our state-of-the-art multilingual knowledge graph, WordAtlas.

Our systems are designed to capture, interpret and interconnect a wide range of concepts, entities, relations and emotions.

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Performance beyond the state of the art

Babelscape sets new benchmarks in NLP performance, consistently delivering results that surpass the current state of the art.

Our innovative algorithms and continuous research efforts enable us to tackle complex language processing challenges more effectively, providing our clients with superior tools that stay ahead of technological advancements.

Secure data management

We prioritize the security and integrity of your data. Babelscape employs advanced encryption and rigorous data protection protocols to safeguard your information at every step of the processing chain.

This secure approach ensures that your data remains confidential, compliant, and shielded from vulnerabilities, providing you with a reliable foundation for data-driven decision-making.

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Babelscape is a proud sponsor of the top-tier conference in Natural Language Processing ACL 2025.

Research & Publications

Babelscape is committed to carrying out research and develop technological innovation at the highest level in the field of multilingual Natural Language Understanding with a strong emphasis on neuro-symbolic approaches which combine multilingual knowledge graphs with deep learning models.

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Out latest publications:

LLM

Raffaele Pisano, Roberto Navigli

Process Reward Models Meet Planning: Generating Precise and Scalable Datasets for Step-Level Rewards

Proceedings of ACL 2026

Roberto Navigli

Is Word Sense Disambiguation Dead in the LLM Era?

AAAI-26

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Research and Publications

Bridging Research and Industry: Highlights from ACL 2026 in San Diego

The 2026 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) has come to a close, this year hosted in San Diego, USA. Once again, the conference brought together researchers, engineers, and practitioners from across the NLP community to discuss the latest advances in language technology, and this edition, too, saw the participation of Prof. Roberto Navigli, the Sapienza NLP group, and Babelscape.

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Sapienza and Babelscape launch ChatMinerva

ChatMinerva is now live: a new evolution of Minerva Large Language Model.

ChatMinerva is a multimodal AI assistant designed to understand text, images, and documents, access the web in real time, and converse in Italian with greater reliability and safety. This is a research project developed entirely in Italy. It builds on an open, transparent, and fully controllable approach across every stage of development: from pretraining to fine-tuning, through to its safety and moderation mechanisms.

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A Decade of meaning: celebrating 10 years of Babelscape

March marks a significant milestone for us: this year, Babelscape turns ten. What started as a focus on language-independent semantics and multilinguality has grown into a company where research and innovation are the core intelligence behind everything we build.

As we celebrate this decade, we want to share a brief recap of the journey that brought us here: a path paved by scientific excellence and real-world impact.

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