Creator of BabelNet—the world’s largest multilingual encyclopedic computational dictionary, awarded the 2017 Prominent Paper Award by the Artificial Intelligence Journal and the META Prize; featured in The Guardian and Time Magazine
NASARI received the 2023 Prominent Paper Award from the Artificial Intelligence Journal
Recipient of the 2013 AI*IA Marco Somalvico Prize for outstanding innovative contributions by a young Italian AI researcher
ERC projects MOUSSE and MultiJEDI highlighted among the 15 transformative ERC projects (selected from 10,000)
General Chair of ACL 2025 and Program Co-Chair of ACL-IJCNLP 2021
Former Associate Editor of the Artificial Intelligence Journal (2013–2020) and Chair of its Awards Committee (2021–2022)
Current Action Editor for ACL Rolling Review (ARR) and Transactions of the ACL; Advisory Board Member of the Natural Language Processing Journal (since 2022)