--- title: "Giovanni Semeraro — author profile and papers" description: "Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari Aldo Moro: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2014–2019), h-index 44 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giovanni-semeraro/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giovanni-semeraro/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Giovanni Semeraro # Giovanni Semeraro Giovanni Semeraro has 2 papers in our library, in 2014–2019, most of them on [Word sense disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/); often with [Pierpaolo Basile](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pierpaolo-basile/), [Valerio Basile](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/valerio-basile/). 2 papers in our library · 2014–2019 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5059814300) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6883-1853) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57944866) · [**h-index 44**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5059814300) · [609 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5059814300) · [10,492 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5059814300&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giovanni-semeraro/#papers) · [🔗 117 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giovanni-semeraro/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #3226](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/33/#star-3226) 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=Giovanni+Semeraro) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Giovanni+Semeraro) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Giovanni+Semeraro) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Giovanni+Semeraro) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Bari Aldo Moro** Bari · Italy 1992–2026 · 407 papersEmployment*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-bari-aldo-moro/) · [🎓**Universidade Federal Fluminense** Niterói · Brazil 1999–2020 · 19 papers](https://ror.org/02rjhbb08) · [🏛️**Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques** Paris · France 2016 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/0438wbg98) · [🎓**University of Turin** Turin · Italy 2009–2020 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-turin/) · [🏛️**Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico** Brasília · Brazil 2007–2013 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/03swz6y49) · [🎓**Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro** Rio de Janeiro · Brazil 2007–2013 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/03490as77) · [🎓**University of L'Aquila** L’Aquila · Italy 2002 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/01j9p1r26) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Word sense disambiguation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/polignano-2019-alberto-italian-bert-language-understanding/) · [**2014** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/basile-2014-enhanced-lesk-word-sense-disambiguation/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[AlBERTo: Italian BERT Language Understanding Model for NLP Challenging Tasks Based on Tweets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/polignano-2019-alberto-italian-bert-language-understanding/)** *(2019 · 228 citations)* Multilingual pre-trained encoders tend to underperform on individual languages, especially when the text style differs from books and encyclopedias. 2. **[An Enhanced Lesk Word Sense Disambiguation Algorithm through a Distributional Semantic Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/basile-2014-enhanced-lesk-word-sense-disambiguation/)** *(2014 · 174 citations)* The paper tackles knowledge-based, unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD). It revisits the Lesk family of methods, whose weakness is that sense definitions (glosses) and context only match when they share identical words. The authors combine the simplified Lesk variant, which disambiguates words one at a time… ## Also in our library 2 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Pierpaolo Basile](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pierpaolo-basile/) ×2 - [Valerio Basile](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/valerio-basile/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 117 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [15 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giovanni-semeraro/cited-by/).