Hi, I'm Elio.

I am a PhD Student in Artificial Intelligence, program organized by the University of Pisa. While the PhD programme is organized by the University of Pisa, I work at the University of Bari. My main research interests are on multimodal and multilingual models.

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Email elio.musacchio@uniba.it
Office Lacam Laboratory, 4th Floor, Department of Computer Science University of Bari

News

  • December 2025 Paper "Extending Large Language Models to multimodality for non-English Languages" published in CVIU.
  • October 2025 Paper on Visual Word Sense Disambiguation presented at ECAI 2025.

Research Areas

Multimodality

Developing methods to make Large Language Models capable of understanding and/or generating multiple modalities (e.g., vision-language).

Multilinguality

Developing methods to make Large Language Models more capable in non-English languages.

Selected Publications

2025 Extending Large Language Models to multimodality for non-English languages
E. Musacchio, L. Siciliani, P. Basile and G. Semeraro
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
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2025 Assessing and Improving the Multilingual Visual Word Sense Disambiguation Ability of Vision-Language Model
E. Musacchio, L. Siciliani, P. Basile and G. Semeraro
28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2025)
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Teaching

Multimodal NLP and Large Vision-Language Models

Fall 2025

Presentation on Multimodal NLP and Large Vision-Language Models for the Semantics in Intelligent Information Access Master Course (University of Bari).

Slides (PDF)