PUBLICATIONS & PATENTS

I publish at top AI venues — and turn the results into products.

25 peer-reviewed papers across ACL, EMNLP, EAMT, ECAI, EVALITA, AI*IA, ESWC and the journal AI Communications; 3 inventions across 6 patent filings. Three research phases: automated reasoning (2008–2013), applied NLP (2016–2023), and LLMs, agentic AI and AI safety (2025–).

Google Scholar → DBLP → Semantic Scholar → OpenReview →
FLAGSHIP · 2026
ACL 2026 · INDUSTRY TRACK

Multi-Agent Orchestration for Terminology-Constrained Machine Translation in Industrial Localization

A deployed four-agent pipeline — analysis, translation, post-editing, review — with glossary injection. 99.4% terminology accuracy and the highest ChrF2++ across three language pairs, beating all 20 systems on the WMT25 terminology task. pp. 917–926.

Cited as related work by researchers at JPMorgan AI Research (Findings of EMNLP 2026) and Amazon (WMT 2026).

Read on ACL Anthology →JPMorgan citation →Amazon citation →
EAMT 2026

AIDA Agents: A Multi-Agent Translation Platform with Context-Aware Quality Control

With Piotr Peszynski. Translator → arbiter/rater → post-editor → re-rater, optional RAG, MQM-inspired explainable scoring; best on 10/11 WMT24++ pairs and 70–98% publication-ready on industrial data.

Read on ACL Anthology →
PANDORA @ EMNLP 2026

Auditing LLMs’ Hidden Political Stances via First-Order Logic

With Rakshit Naidu. Frontier models are trained not to take political sides in plain English. Ask the same question in first-order logic and, across four contested topics, commitment to one side rises from 21.7% to 48.2% on average; one leading provider went from 32% to 85%. Neutrality is a property of the phrasing.

Workshop page → (presented in Budapest)

LLMs, agentic AI & safety

2023–2026
Multi-Agent Orchestration for Terminology-Constrained MT in Industrial LocalizationACL 2026, Industry Track AIDA Agents: A Multi-Agent Translation Platform with Context-Aware Quality ControlEAMT 2026
Auditing LLMs’ Hidden Political Stances via First-Order LogicPANDORA @ EMNLP 2026; presented in Budapest; extended version under review
App2Check at EMit: Large Language Models for Multilabel Emotion ClassificationEVALITA 2023

Sentiment, emotion & aspect-based NLP

2016–2020 · App2Check / Tweet2Check / X2Check
App2Check @ ATE_ABSITA 2020 — winner of all three tasksEVALITA 2020 Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis: X2Check at ABSITA 2018EVALITA 2018 — top in Aspect Category Detection Irony Detection in Tweets: X2Check at IronITA 2018EVALITA 2018 Semantic Sentiment Analysis Challenge at ESWC 2017Springer CCIS 769 — challenge co-organizer Evaluating Industrial and Research Sentiment Analysis Engines on Multiple SourcesAI*IA 2017, Springer LNCS Tweet2Check evaluation at EVALITA SENTIPOLC 2016EVALITA 2016 App2Check Extension for Sentiment Analysis of Amazon Products ReviewsESWC 2016, Springer CCIS 641 — 2nd place
App2Check: a ML-based System for Sentiment Analysis of App Reviews in ItalianSIDEWAYS @ LREC 2016

Automated reasoning & optimization

2008–2013 · PhD line, with Giunchiglia, Maratea, O’Sullivan
Combining Approaches for Solving Satisfiability Problems with Qualitative PreferencesAI Communications (IOS Press) 26(4), 2013 Optimal Stopping Methods for Finding High-Quality Solutions to SAT Problems with PreferencesACM SAC 2011 — with Barry O’Sullivan, Cork 4C Solving Satisfiability Problems with PreferencesConstraints (Springer) 15(4), 2010 Automatic Generation of High-Quality Test Sets via CBMCVERIFY @ IJCAR 2010
Computing All Optimal Solutions in Satisfiability Problems with PreferencesCP 2008, Springer LNCS 5202
A New Approach for Solving Satisfiability Problems with Qualitative PreferencesECAI 2008, IOS Press PhD thesis — Automatic Generation of High-Quality Test Cases and Plans in Software Testing and Automated PlanningUniversity of Genoa, supervisor Prof. Enrico Giunchiglia · full text (PDF) →
Thesis (2004) — Latent Semantic Analysis for man-machine dialogue: LSAbotComputer Engineering thesis, University of Palermo — an LSA/SVD chatbot that selects the semantically best answer · Targa Under 30, inaugural Pier Giorgio Perotto Innovation Award 2005 · the story →
COMPETITION RESULTS · VERIFIABLE SOURCES
ATE_ABSITA 2020 — 1st in all three tasksF1 +0.142 (ATE) and +0.119 (ABSA) over the runner-up; RMSE −0.131 (SA).CEUR paper →Proceedings →
ABSITA 2018 — top in Aspect Category DetectionX2Check, EVALITA 2018.Paper →
IronITA 2018 — top of the unconstrained run3rd in the overall official ranking, 0.027 F1 from first.Paper →Task overview →
SENTIPOLC 2016 — 2nd in irony detection0.0068 from first; 2nd in polarity among unconstrained runs. ESWC 2016 challenge: 2nd (F = 0.871).Paper →Overview →ESWC →
INVENTIONS & PATENTS

Three inventions across six patent filings — two as solo inventor, three already issued.

Filed in multiple countries. I do not just build — I invent, protect it, and build the product that embodies it.

ISSUED · US 12,717,799 B2 · IT 102024000006643 · SOLO INVENTOR Optimization & Personalization of Search Results under Preferences and Mandatory Constraints US Patent 12,717,799 B2 — issued Aug 25, 2026 · Italian Patent 102024000006643 — granted Jul 1, 2026 · G06F A DAG-based engine that returns the mathematically optimal, explainable results under hard constraints and ranked preferences — for search ranking, RAG retrieval, recommendation, and AI agents. The PerfectFinder.ai engine. Google Patents →
PENDING · MULTIPLE COUNTRIES · SOLO INVENTOR Decentralized Verification of Authenticity & Integrity of Digital Content, with Automatic Detection of Similar Content Authority-free content provenance and tamper-evidence with near-duplicate detection — trust infrastructure for the generative-AI era. TrueFile.ai.
ISSUED · US + ITALY · App2Check S.r.l. System & Method for Extracting Information from Unstructured or Semi-Structured Textual Sources Builds a chatbot knowledge base from documents and FAQs by detecting “question” nodes with heuristics and a predictive model — the technology behind the EVA cognitive-chatbot platform. Google Patents →
Certificates, claims, and the technical depth of each invention — on the Patents page→