He is the first Italian recipient of an ERC Starting Grant in computer science and informatics on multilingual word sense disambiguation (2011-2016), a co-PI of a Google Focused Research Award on Natural Language Understanding and a partner of the LIDER EU project. His research lies in the field of Natural Language Processing (including multilingual word sense disambiguation and induction, multilingual entity linking, large-scale knowledge acquisition, ontology learning from scratch, open information extraction and relation extraction).