Giacomo Frisoni
PhD Student @ University of Bologna | Natural Language Understanding, Neuro-Symbolic AI
giacomo.frisoni[at]unibo.it
"Become Who You Are"
Iâm a third-year PhD Student at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DISI), University of Bologna, Italy.
đŻ I investigate how to combine language models and structured knowledge for Natural Language Processing and Understanding (NLP/NLU). My research interests comprise semantic parsing, graph representation and similarity learning, knowledge injection, retrieval-enhanced language modeling, and joint text-graph reasoning. I presented several original papers to international journals and peer-reviewed conferencesâincluding top-tier venues like EMNLP, AAAI, and COLING, winning two Best Paper Awards. My contributions cover many real-world tasks, from open-domain question answering to document summarization.
𧏠In September 2016, I discovered to suffer from a rare disease called âEsophageal Achalasia.â Since then, I have dedicated myself to merging my skills and patient-centered experience to build innovative data analysis solutions for research advancement in Health domains.
In 2020, I was among the worldwide selected program attendees at the Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School. In the same year, I received the con.Scienze Award for writing one of the ten best Italian scientific research works during the masterâs thesis. In SeptemberâDecember 2022, I was a visiting postgraduate researcher at the University of Glasgow, School of Computing Science, Scotland. Since 2022, I have been an HuggingFace and Streamlit Student Ambassador.
I belong to a research group led by Prof. Gianluca Moro. Together with my colleagues, we design and develop state-of-the-art NLP solutions pursuing a vision focused on concretizing the much-desired birth of a new generation of artificial understanding, learning, explicit knowledge representation, and reasoning.
While technology is important, itâs what we do with it that truly matters. âMuhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Language is at the heart of human intelligence. It therefore is and must be at the heart of our efforts to build artificial intelligence. No sophisticated AI can exist without mastery of language. âRob Towes, Language Is The Next Great Frontier In AI, Forbes
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. âMarcel Proust
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel. âClaude Bernard
selected publications
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A Survey on Event Extraction for Natural Language Understanding: Riding the Biomedical Literature WaveIEEE Access, 2021
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Unsupervised Event Graph Representation and Similarity Learning on Biomedical LiteratureSensors, 2021
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NLG-Metricverse: An End-to-End Library for Evaluating Natural Language GenerationIn COLING, 2022
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BioReader: a Retrieval-Enhanced Text-to-Text Transformer for Biomedical LiteratureIn EMNLP, 2022
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Cogito Ergo Summ: Abstractive Summarization of Biomedical Papers via Semantic Parsing Graphs and Consistency RewardsIn AAAI, 2023