--- title: "Francesco Piccinno — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Francesco Piccinno: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2023), h-index 13 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-piccinno/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-piccinno/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Francesco Piccinno # Francesco Piccinno Francesco Piccinno has 2 papers in our library, in 2020–2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Semantic parsing & meaning representation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/); often with [Julian Eisenschlos](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julian-eisenschlos/), [Chenxi Pang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenxi-pang/), [Fangyu Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fangyu-liu/). 2 papers in our library · 2020–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5052308140) · [**h-index 13**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5052308140) · [38 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5052308140) · [2,095 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5052308140&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-piccinno/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 2,507 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-piccinno/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #2266](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/23/#star-2266) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Francesco+Piccinno) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Francesco+Piccinno) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Francesco+Piccinno) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Francesco+Piccinno) ## Affiliations [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2019–2022 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**University of Pisa** Pisa · Italy 2014–2021 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pisa/) · [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom 2022–2023 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 2022–2023 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) · [🏢**Google** Zurich · Switzerland 2022 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-switzerland/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Semantic parsing & meaning representation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper DePlot: One-shot visual language reasoning by plot-to-table translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2023-deplot-one-shot-visual-language/) · [**2020** 1 paper TaPas: Weakly Supervised Table Parsing via Pre-training](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/herzig-2020-tapas-weakly-supervised-table-parsing/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[TaPas: Weakly Supervised Table Parsing via Pre-training](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/herzig-2020-tapas-weakly-supervised-table-parsing/)** *(2020 · 845 citations)* Answering questions over tables is usually treated as semantic parsing: the question is converted into an executable logical form. 2. **[DePlot: One-shot visual language reasoning by plot-to-table translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2023-deplot-one-shot-visual-language/)** *(2023 · 121 citations)* Answering questions about charts and plots requires both precise extraction of the underlying values and multi-step numerical reasoning. ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[TaPas: Weakly Supervised Table Parsing via Pre-training](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/herzig-2020-tapas-weakly-supervised-table-parsing/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Jonathan Herzig, Pawel Krzysztof Nowak, Thomas Müller, et al.*2020 · 845 citations* 2. **[DePlot: One-shot visual language reasoning by plot-to-table translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2023-deplot-one-shot-visual-language/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Fangyu Liu, Julian Eisenschlos, Francesco Piccinno, et al.*2023 · 121 citations* 3. **[Revisiting Taxonomy Induction over Wikipedia](https://aclanthology.org/C16-1217/) Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers · original ↗ · no summary yet**Amit Gupta et al.*2016 · 26 citations* ## Co-authors here 12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Julian Eisenschlos](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julian-eisenschlos/) ×2 - [Chenxi Pang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenxi-pang/) - [Fangyu Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fangyu-liu/) - [Jonathan Herzig](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-herzig/) - [Kenton Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kenton-lee/) - [Mandar Joshi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mandar-joshi/) - [Nigel Collier](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nigel-collier/) - [Pawel Nowak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pawel-nowak/) - [Syrine Krichene](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/syrine-krichene/) - [Thomas Müller](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-muller/) - [Wenhu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenhu-chen/) - [Yasemin Altun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yasemin-altun/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2020/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2023/) - Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 2,507 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [186 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-piccinno/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026