--- title: "Nicola De Cao — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Nicola De Cao: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2019–2020), h-index 18 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicola-de-cao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicola-de-cao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Nicola De Cao # Nicola De Cao Nicola De Cao has 2 papers in our library, in 2019–2020, most of them on [Named entity recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Aleksandra Piktus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aleksandra-piktus/), [Angela Fan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/angela-fan/), [Fabio Petroni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fabio-petroni/). 2 papers in our library · 2019–2020 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5075219217) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2121-9485) · [**h-index 18**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5075219217) · [43 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5075219217) · [2,927 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5075219217&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicola-de-cao/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 3,826 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicola-de-cao/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #2549](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/26/#star-2549) 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=Nicola+De+Cao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Nicola+De+Cao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Nicola+De+Cao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Nicola+De+Cao) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Amsterdam** Amsterdam · Netherlands 2018–2022 · 16 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-amsterdam/) · [🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 2019–2022 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) · [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom 2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) · [🎓**University of Copenhagen** Copenhagen · Denmark 2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-copenhagen/) · [🎓**University of Pisa** Pisa · Italy 2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pisa/) 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. ## 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.[Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Named entity recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2020** 1 paper KILT: a Benchmark for Knowledge Intensive Language Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/petroni-2020-kilt-benchmark-knowledge-intensive-language/) ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper Question Answering by Reasoning Across Documents with Graph Convolutional Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cao-2019-question-answering-reasoning-across-documents/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[KILT: a Benchmark for Knowledge Intensive Language Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/petroni-2020-kilt-benchmark-knowledge-intensive-language/)** *(2020 · 665 citations)* Benchmarks for knowledge-heavy NLP tasks, such as open-domain QA, fact verification and entity linking, have each used their own Wikipedia version or corpus, file format and evaluation scripts. 2. **[Question Answering by Reasoning Across Documents with Graph Convolutional Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cao-2019-question-answering-reasoning-across-documents/)** *(2019 · 136 citations)* Most reading comprehension systems answer questions from a single document or paragraph. This paper targets multi-hop question answering, where the answer can only be reached by chaining evidence spread over several documents. The authors propose Entity-GCN and evaluate it on the WikiHop dataset (built from WIKIPEDIA… ## 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. **[KILT: a Benchmark for Knowledge Intensive Language Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/petroni-2020-kilt-benchmark-knowledge-intensive-language/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Fabio Petroni, Aleksandra Piktus, Angela Fan, et al.*2020 · 665 citations* 2. **[Multilingual Autoregressive Entity Linking](https://aclanthology.org/2022.tacl-1.16/) Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics · original ↗ · no summary yet**Nicola De Cao et al.*2022 · 153 citations* 3. **[Question Answering by Reasoning Across Documents with Graph Convolutional Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cao-2019-question-answering-reasoning-across-documents/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Nicola De Cao, Wilker Aziz, Ivan Titov*2019 · 136 citations* ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Aleksandra Piktus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aleksandra-piktus/) - [Angela Fan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/angela-fan/) - [Fabio Petroni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fabio-petroni/) - [Ivan Titov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ivan-titov/) - [James Thorne](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-thorne/) - [Jean Maillard](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jean-maillard/) - [Patrick Lewis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/patrick-lewis/) - [Tim Rocktäschel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tim-rocktaschel/) - [Vladimir Karpukhin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vladimir-karpukhin/) - [Wilker Aziz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wilker-aziz/) - [Yacine Jernite](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yacine-jernite/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/) ×2: [NAACL 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2020/), [NAACL 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2019/) - Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 3,826 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [277 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicola-de-cao/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026