Valerio Basile

Important Facts

Valerio Basile is one of the most prominent researchers in Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence in Italy.

He is one of the top 2% most cited authors worldwide according to the Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators (Elsevier).

Valerio Basile is the founder of Data Perspectivism and a pioneer of Perspectivist NLP, author of the Perspectivist Data Manifesto and chair of the international Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to Natural Language Processing.

He has senior roles in scientific journals (e.g., Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research) and international top conferences (ACL, EMNLP).

He is the author of more than 70 peer-reviewed publications and has been cited over 9,000 times (Google Scholar). He created and contributed to widely used language resources and tools, including HateBERT (over one million downloads), HurtLex (a multilingual lexicon of hate/offensive words), TWITA and Sentix (Italian Twitter and sentiment resources), and tools such as KnEWS and Litescale.

Detailed Bio

Valerio Basile is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Turin, Italy, where he works in the Content-Centered Computing group within the Department of Computer Science. His research focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP), with particular expertise in data perspectivism, computational semantics, hate speech and abusive language detection, and sentiment analysis.

Education and Career

Valerio Basile received his PhD in 2015 from the University of Groningen (Center for Language and Cognition), with a thesis on natural language generation. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Wimmics team at Inria Sophia Antipolis, France, contributing to the European AI and robotics project ALOOF. He subsequently joined the University of Turin, where he now holds the position of Associate Professor.

Research

Basile’s research spans several areas of NLP and computational linguistics, including:

  • Data perspectivism — modeling disagreement and diverse perspectives in human-annotated data, rather than reconciling them into a single “gold standard”
  • Hate speech and abusive language detection — including multilingual detection of hate speech against immigrants and women
  • Computational semantics and semantic parsing
  • Natural language generation
  • Sentiment analysis, particularly on social media
  • Commonsense knowledge and semantic web technologies He is the author of more than 70 peer-reviewed publications and has been cited over 9,000 times (Google Scholar). He created and contributed to widely used language resources and tools, including HurtLex (a multilingual lexicon of hate/offensive words), TWITA and Sentix (Italian Twitter and sentiment resources), and tools such as KnEWS and Litescale.

He has served on the organizing and program committees of major NLP venues (including SemEval, EMNLP, and CLiC-it) and as a reviewer for international journals. He has participated in several national and European research projects on NLP and AI.

Affiliation

  • Institution: University of Turin, Department of Computer Science
  • Group: Content-Centered Computing
  • Location: Turin, Italy
  • Homepage: https://valeriobasile.github.io/
  • Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Q03ktAIAAAAJ
  • GitHub: https://github.com/valeriobasile Last updated: August 2026