Monday, May 25, 2015
09.45 — 10.00: Opening Remarks (Domenico Dato, Tiscali SpA, Raffaele Perego, ISTI-CNR)
10.00 — 10.45: Welcome Talk: Renato Soru (Chairman and CEO, Tiscali SpA)
(Chair: Paolo Boldi, Università di Milano)
10.45 — 11.15: Coffee Break
Session 1 (Chair: Franco Maria Nardini, ISTI-CNR)
11.15 — 11.40: Giuseppe Attardi, Vittoria Cozza and Daniele Sartiano. Annotation and Extraction of Relations from Italian Medical Records. [Long paper, PDF, Slides]
11.40 — 12.05: Andrea Esuli, Alejandro Moreo Fernández and Fabrizio Sebastiani. A Comparison of Distributional Semantics Models for Polylingual Text Classification. [Long paper, PDF, Slides]
12.05 — 12.25: Tommaso Di Noia, Vito Claudio Ostuni, Jessica Rosati, Paolo Tomeo and Eugenio Di Sciascio. Adaptive Diversity in Recommender Systems. [Extended abstract, PDF, Slides]
12.25 — 12.45: Nicola Ferro and Gianmaria Silvello. CLEF 2000 – 2014: Lessons Learnt from Ad Hoc Retrieval. [Extended abstract, PDF, Slides]
12.45 — 13.50: Lunch
Session 2 (Chair: Gabriella Pasi, Università di Milano Bicocca)
13.50 — 14.15: Roberto Basili, Paolo Annesi, Giuseppe Castellucci and Danilo Croce. A Compositional Perspective in Convolution Kernels. [Long paper, PDF, Slides]
14.15 — 14.40: Giuseppe Castellucci, Danilo Croce and Roberto Basili. Acquiring an Italian Polarity Lexicon through Distributional Methods. [Long paper, PDF, Slides]
14.40 — 15.00: Giacomo Berardi, Andrea Esuli and Diego Marcheggiani. Word Embeddings Go to Italy: a Comparison of Models and Training Datasets. [Short paper, PDF, Slides]
15.00 — 15.20: Marco Ferrante, Nicola Ferro and Maria Maistro. Markov Precision: Modelling User Behaviour over Rank and Time. [Extended abstract, PDF, Slides]
15.20 — 15.40: Antonio Uva and Alessandro Moschitti. Automatic Feature Engineering for Italian Question Answering Systems. [Extended abstract, PDF, Slides]
15.40 — 16.00: Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio and Gianmaria Silvello. A graphical view of distance between rankings: The Point and Area measures. [Extended abstract, PDF, Slides]
16.00 — 16.30: Coffee Break
Session 3 (Chair: Nicola Ferro, Università di Padova)
16.30 — 16:55: Stefania Marrara and Gabriella Pasi. A Flexible Tool for Cross-Collection Patent Search. [Long paper, PDF, Slides]
16.55 — 17:15: Andrea Esuli and Tiziano Fagni. ProcessFast, a Java framework for development of concurrent and distributed applications. [Extended abstract, PDF, Slides]
17.15 — 17.35: Gabriele Capannini, Domenico Dato, Claudio Lucchese, Monica Mori, Franco Maria Nardini, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego and Nicola Tonellotto. QuickRank: a C++ Suite of Learning to Rank Algorithms. [Short paper, PDF, Slides]
17.35 — 17.55: Giacomo Berardi, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales and Fabrizio Silvestri. Distributed Word Embeddings on Data Streams. [Extended abstract, PDF, Slides]
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
09.00 — 10.00: Invited Talk: “On the Use of Word Embeddings in Query Rewriting for Sponsored Search“. Fabrizio Silvestri, Yahoo! Research, London.
(Chair: Domenico Dato, Tiscali SpA)
10.00 — 10.30: Coffee Break
Session 4 (Chair: Roberto Basili, Università di Tor Vergata)
10.30 — 10.55: Mauro Coletto, Claudio Lucchese, Salvatore Orlando and Raffaele Perego. Electoral Predictions with Twitter: a Machine-Learning approach. [Long paper, PDF, Slides]
10.55 — 11.20: Paolo Boldi, Corrado Monti, Massimo Santini and Sebastiano Vigna. Liquid FM: Recommending Music through Viscous Democracy. [Long paper, PDF, Slides]
11.20 — 11.40: Salvatore Romeo, Dino Ienco and Andrea Tagarelli. Multilingual document classification via transductive learning. [Extended abstract, PDF, Slides]
11:40 — 12.00: Igo Brilhante, Jose Antonio Macedo, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego and Chiara Renso. Scaling up the Mining of Semantically-enriched Trajectories: TripBuilder at the World Level. [Extended abstract, PDF, Slides]
12.00 — 12:20: Azad Abad and Alessandro Moschitti. Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction using Tree Kernels. [Short paper, PDF, Slides]
12:20 — 13.40: Lunch
Session 5 (Chair: Fabio Crestani, Università della Svizzera Italiana)
13.40 — 14.05: Diego Ceccarelli, Alberto De Francesco, Raffaele Perego, Marco Segala, Nicola Tonellotto and Salvatore Trani. Entity Linking on Philosophical Documents. [Long paper, PDF, Slides]
14.05 — 14.30: Giuseppe Attardi. Representation of Word Sentiment, Idioms and Senses. [Long paper, PDF, Slides]
14.30 — 14.55: Giuliano Armano, Francesca Fanni and Alessandro Giuliani. Analysis of Term Roles Along Taxonomy Nodes by Adopting Discriminant and Characteristic Capabilities. [Long paper, PDF, Slides]
14.55 — 15.15: Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio. Geometric Perspectives of the BM25. [Extended abstract, PDF, Slides]
15.15 — 15:35: Matteo Catena and Nicola Tonellotto. A Study on Query Energy Consumption in Web Search Engines. [Extended abstract, PDF, Slides]
15.35 — 15.55: Cristina Ioana Muntean and Franco Maria Nardini. Gamification in Information Retrieval: State of the art, Challenges and Opportunities. [Extended abstract, PDF, Slides]
15.55 — 16:15: Giuseppe Amato, Paolo Bolettieri, Fabrizio Falchi, Fausto Rabitti and Lucia Vadicamo. Visual Recognition in the EAGLE Project. [Extended abstract, PDF, Slides]
16.15 — 16.30: Closing Remarks (Domenico Dato, Tiscali SpA; Raffaele Perego, ISTI-CNR)