He holds a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. degree in Computer science from this university. His main interests are in the domain of summarisation and sentiment analysis. From 2009 until 2012 he joined the team at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy, to work on Europe Media Monitor. Building media monitoring solutions brought other topics of interest, like news clustering, categorisation or named entity recognition. To achieve high multilinguality his aim is to limit dependency on a particular language or building multilingual resources. He has been actively involved in the Multiling community, which organizes summarisation evaluation campaigns. In 2013, he received Marie Curie funding with the MediaGist project.