About me

I got my Ph.D. at the Linguistic Computing Laboratory of the Department of Computer Science at La Sapienza University of Rome, under the supervision of Prof. Roberto Navigli and Alessandro Mei (SystemLabs).
My thesis addresses Word Sense Disambiguation in multiple languages, a task in the the Computational Semantics area of NLP.

In my current role, I work as an NLP/ML Engineer at Apple AI/ML Siri department.

In my free time I play modern Jazz guitar, ride my bike, enjoy retrogames and build custom CPUs.

Publications

2025

Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report
Apple Inc.
We introduce two multilingual, multimodal foundation language models that power Apple Intelligence features across Apple devices and services.
Paper Website

2020

Personalized PageRank with Syntagmatic Information for Multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation
Federico Scozzafava, Marco Maru, Fabrizio Brignone, Giovanni Torrisi, Roberto Navigli.
Proc. of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2020: System Demonstrations. Seattle, US, July 5-10, 2020.
Paper Website
CluBERT: A Cluster-Based Approach for Learning Sense Distributions in Multiple Languages
Tommaso Pasini, Federico Scozzafava, Bianca Scarlini.
Proc. of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2020. Seattle, US, July 5-10, 2020.
Paper Website

2019

Challenging Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation with Lexical-Semantic Combinations
Federico Scozzafava, Marco Maru, Fabrizio Brignone, Giovanni Torrisi, Roberto Navigli.
Marco Maru, Federico Scozzafava, Federico Martelli, Roberto Navigli.
Proc. of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2019), Hong Kong, Hong Kong, November 3-7, 2019.
Paper Website

2018

BioPen - Fusing password choice and biometric interaction at presentation level
Maria De Marsico, Federico Ponzi, Federico Scozzafava, Genoveffa Tortora.
Pattern Recognition Letters, April 2018.
Paper

2015

Automatic Identification and Disambiguation of Concepts and Named Entities in the Multilingual Wikipedia
Federico Scozzafava, Alessandro Raganato, Andrea Moro and Roberto Navigli.
Proceedings of the 14th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2015), Ferrara, Italy, September 23-25th, 2015.
Paper Website

Projects

MK1 CPU


Programmable 8-bit CPU from scratch, out of basic series 74LS logic ICs.
GitHub
Reviews:
Hackaday Hackster InformaticaLab

Nixie Clock


Smart clock designed around the popular IN-14 Nixie tubes.
GitHub

InsideCode

My old (dismissed) personal blog in Italian:
insidecode.it