--- title: "Pierpaolo Basile — author profile and papers" description: "Pierpaolo Basile, University of Bari Aldo Moro: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2014–2019), h-index 23 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pierpaolo-basile/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pierpaolo-basile/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Pierpaolo Basile # Pierpaolo Basile Pierpaolo Basile 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 [Giovanni Semeraro](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giovanni-semeraro/), [Valerio Basile](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/valerio-basile/). 2 papers in our library · 2014–2019 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5070784701) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0545-1105) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59150854) · [**h-index 23**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5070784701) · [274 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5070784701) · [2,395 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5070784701&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pierpaolo-basile/#papers) · [🔗 118 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pierpaolo-basile/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #3228](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/33/#star-3228) 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=Pierpaolo+Basile) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Pierpaolo+Basile) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Pierpaolo+Basile) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Pierpaolo+Basile) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Bari Aldo Moro** Bari · Italy 2000–2026 · 165 papersEducation 2000–2005Education 2005–2009Employment 2009–2013Employment 2013–2016Employment 2016–2018Employment 2018–2021*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-bari-aldo-moro/) · [🎓**University of Turin** Turin · Italy 2017–2021 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-turin/) · [🎓**University of Groningen** Groningen · Netherlands 2017–2021 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-groningen/) · [🎓**University of Naples Federico II** Naples · Italy 2015–2017 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/05290cv24) 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. ## 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 3 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. - [Giovanni Semeraro](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giovanni-semeraro/) ×2 - [Valerio Basile](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/valerio-basile/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 118 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [16 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pierpaolo-basile/cited-by/).