--- title: "Marco Basaldella · Amazon — author profile and papers" description: "Marco Basaldella, Amazon: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2024), h-index 9 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marco-basaldella/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marco-basaldella/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Marco Basaldella # Marco Basaldella Marco Basaldella has 2 papers in our library, in 2021–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Fangyu Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fangyu-liu/), [Nigel Collier](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nigel-collier/), [Caiqi Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/caiqi-zhang/). 2 papers in our library · 2021–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5088741264) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5060-0974) · [**h-index 9**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5088741264) · [26 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5088741264) · [592 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5088741264&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marco-basaldella/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 133 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marco-basaldella/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3925](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/40/#star-3925) 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=Marco+Basaldella) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Marco+Basaldella) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Marco+Basaldella) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Marco+Basaldella) ## Affiliations [🏢**Amazon** London · United Kingdom 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/02xey9634) · [🎓**University of Udine** Udine · Italy 2015–2018 · 12 papers](https://ror.org/05ht0mh31) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 2019–2021 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/) · [Molecular Biology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/molecular-biology/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marco-basaldella/year/2024/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marco-basaldella/year/2021/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Self-Alignment Pretraining for Biomedical Entity Representations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2021-self-alignment-pretraining-biomedical-entity/)** *(2021 · 437 citations)* The paper addresses a known weakness of biomedical masked language models such as PubMedBERT. They do not place different surface names of the same concept close together, which hurts medical entity linking (MEL). For example, Hydroxychloroquine, HCQ and Plaquenil should map to one concept. The authors propose… 2. **[LUQ: Long-text Uncertainty Quantification for LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2024-luq-long-text-uncertainty-quantification/)** *(2024 · 42 citations)* Most uncertainty quantification (UQ) work for LLMs targets very short answers, usually under ten words, and often needs access to logits. ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Fangyu Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fangyu-liu/) ×2 - [Nigel Collier](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nigel-collier/) ×2 - [Caiqi Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/caiqi-zhang/) - [Ehsan Shareghi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ehsan-shareghi/) - [Zaiqiao Meng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zaiqiao-meng/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2024/) - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [NAACL 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2021/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 133 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [16 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marco-basaldella/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026