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BabelNet: connecting knowledge across languages
As BabelNet 6 approaches, it is worth looking back at how a research project grew into a multilingual network that links dictionaries, encyclopedias and other knowledge resources across hundreds of languages. Today, BabelNet is engineered and maintained by Babelscape, which continues to pursue the goal that shaped the original research: connecting knowledge across languages through meaning.
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Bringing Urimalsaem to BabelNet: exploring LLM-based dictionary mapping
Lee Kwan-kyu (left), President of the National Institute of Korean Language, poses with Francesco Maria Tucci, CEO of Babelscape, and Roberto Navigli, the company’s head of research, during a MOU signing ceremony held at the institute in Seoul on Sept. 16. Courtesy of the National Institute of Korean Language
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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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Babelscape recognized as an Innovative SME in Italy, strengthening its commitment to research and innovation
Babelscape has been officially recognized as an Innovative SME (PMI innovativa) in Italy, confirming the company’s strong commitment to research, technological development, and innovation in the field of multilingual Natural Language Processing (NLP).
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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.
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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AI and Information: Babelscape at the Disclaimer event at Sapienza University of Rome
The event Disclaimer - Ultime avvertenze prima della rivoluzione recently stopped at Sapienza Università di Roma for a discussion dedicated to AI and Information.
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the way we communicate, access information, and interpret reality. The meeting at Sapienza focused precisely on this relationship: how AI is reshaping science communication, journalism, public discourse, and the responsibilities of those who inform society.