Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Management

Development of language models based on symbolic, probabilistic and connectionist algorithms (neural networks) for Natural Language Processing tasks and for the extraction and representation of knowledge from texts

Digital Humanities

Development of models, methods and techniques for the preservation, intelligent use, linguistic study (diachronic, synchronic, comparative) and philological study of texts of historical and literary interest

(Bio-)Computational models of language usage

Development of (bio-)computational models of language use to study the processes governing comprehension, production, acquisition and variation of one or more languages, and the interactions between these processes

Language Resources, Standards and Research Infrastructures

Development and management of language and text resources; representation according to international standards that ensure their sharing, interoperability and long-term preservation in line with the principles of Open Science

The Cnr-Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” (CNR-ILC) is part of the Cnr-Dipartimento Scienze Umane e Sociali, Patrimonio Culturale of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and conducts research in the field of Computational Linguistics.

CNR-ILC is also involved in training, technology transfer and publishing activities.

Research groups and laboratories

ComPhys Lab

Basic research aimed at the development of computational models of language behaviour.

ItaliaNLP Lab

Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Knowledge Management through the development of language models based on probabilistic algorithms and neural networks.

CoPhi Lab

Models, methods and techniques for the preservation, intelligent use, linguistic and philological study of texts.

LaRI Group

Optimisation of the research in the field of Language Engineering and the language resource production cycle.

KLAB Group

Models, methodologies and tools for representation, construction, automatic text extraction, integration and use of lexical, terminological and ontological resources.

Tema Group

Methods and strategies oriented toward the recovery and enhancement of intangible cultural heritage. Developing of software systems for text analysis, text annotation, and semantically relevant information extraction and processing.

Infrastructures

CLARIN-IT, the Italian node of CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure), makes digital language resources available to scholars and researchers of all disciplines, in particular of the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH).

ILC4CLARIN is a Core Trust Seal certified (Type B) CLARIN Service Delivery Centre that provides language services and a repository for storage and preservation of data from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) community.

Projects

EPICA – Empowering Public Interest Communication with Argumentation

VocaBO – Vocabolario di Boccaccio online

BRAILLET – BRAILLET: a data-driven investigation into the cognitive demands of braille reading

Progetto RUT – Progetto RUT

H2IOSC – Humanities and cultural Heritage Italian Open Science Cloud

MIA – Manuscripta Italica Allographica – Manuscripta Italica Allographica

OWNW – Old Words for a New World: Translating Christianity to Baltic Pagans

Teaming-up – Teaming up with social artificial agents

LODE – The Language Of Dreams – The Language Of Dreams: the relationship between sleep mentation, neurophysiology, and neurological disorders

CASTOUR – Valorizzazione della castagna attraverso itinerari naturali e culturali sostenibili

PERYCLES – Participatory democracy that scales

FrIngE Project – The French in/of Italy: Code-MixiNG in Medieval Europe

RAISE – Robotics and AI for Socio-economic Empowerment

TESTO – Translating, Encoding, Sharing The Origins. From the Littera Florentina to an open-access Italian translation of Justinian's Digest

LuCET – LingUistic Complexity Evaluation in educaTion

Large Language Models for the European Union (LLMs4EU) – Large Language Models for the European Union

TALMUD – Babylonian Talmud Translation Project

CIP – Corpus of Italian language for Preschoolers – Corpus of Italian language for Preschoolers. Lexicon directed to Italian preschool children from 3 to 6 years collected from heterogeneous sources in Italian and Italian Sign Language

ECHOES – European Cloud for Heritage OpEn Science

GDLIplus – A New Resource for the History of Italian: The Corpus of the Quotes in the «Grande dizionario della lingua italiana»

EKEEL – Empowering Knowledge Extraction to Empower Learners

STARWARS – STormwAteR and WastewAteR networkS heterogeneous data AI-driven management

Fondamentalismi – Fondamentalismi

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News & Events

28 November 2025

14/01/2026 - 16/01/2026

Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Management

Digital Humanities

(Bio-)Computational models of language usage

Language Resources, Standards and Research Infrastructures

Research groups and laboratories

Infrastructures

Projects

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