September 16
- 14:15-14:30 Welcome
- Gaudenzio Meneghesso (Director of DEI) (tbc)
- Massimo Melucci, Stefano Mizzaro, Gabriella Pasi (Conference co-chairs)
- Emanuele Di Buccio (Program co-chair)
- 14:30-15:30 Invited Talk
- Chair: Maristella Agosti
- The Evaluation Campaigns: Past, Present and Future. Donna Harman (NIST). Abstract and bio.
- 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
- 16:00-18:00 Evaluation
- Chair: Maurizio Atzori
- A Progressive Visual Analytics Tool for Incremental Experimental Evaluation. Fabio Giachelle and Gianmaria Silvello
- Bias and Fairness in Effectiveness Evaluation by Means of Network Analysis and Mixture Models. Kevin Roitero, Stefano Mizzaro and Michael Soprano
- Exploring Relevance in Microblog Search. Divi Galih Putri and Gabriella Pasi
- Scales of Evaluation Measures: From Theory to Experimentation. Marco Ferrante, Nicola Ferro, Eleonora Losiouk and Silvia Pontarollo
September 17
- 9:30-10:30 Invited Talk
- Chair: Fabio Crestani
- The Roots and the Tree of Information Retrieval in Italy. Maristella Agosti (U. Padova). Abstract and bio.
- 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
- 11:00-13:00 Domain-Specific Applications
- Chair: Gabriella Pasi
- Discovering Latent Depression Patterns in Online Social Media. Esteban Andrés Ríssola, David Losada and Fabio Crestani
- Knowledge Enhanced Representations for Clinical Decision Support. Stefano Marchesin and Maristella Agosti
- Intelligent Surfing across Tourism-related information: the SiMoO Experience. Danilo Croce, Valerio Basile and Roberto Basili
- A Study on a Mixed Stopping Strategy for Total Recall Tasks. Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio
- 13:00-14:00 Lunch
- 14:00-15:30 Efficiency of Search and Ranking
- Chair: Stefano Mizzaro
- About Optimal Graph Index Compression Techniques. Antonio Cruciani, Daniele Pasquini, Giambattista Amati and Paola Vocca
- Compressed Indexes for Fast Search of Semantic Data. Giulio Ermanno Pibiri, Raffaele Perego and Rossano Venturini
- Approximate Filtering of Search Results Sorted by Attribute. Franco Maria Nardini, Roberto Trani and Rossano Venturini
- 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
- 16:00-18:00 Artificial Intelligence, Semantics, and Dialog
- Chair: Roberto Basili
- Distributional Representation of Words for Small Corpora using Pre-training Techniques. Pierpaolo Basile, Lucia Siciliani, Gaetano Rossiello and Pasquale Lops
- OKgraph: Unsupervised Structured Data Extraction from Plain Text. Maurizio Atzori, Simone Balloccu, Andrea Bellanti, Emanuele Mameli and Stefano Raimondo Usai
- SPARQL/T A query language with SPARQL’s syntax for semantic mining of textual complaints. Bruno Quintavalle and Salvatore Orlando
- Virtual Document-based Methods for Keyword Search on RDF Graphs. Dennis Dosso and Gianmaria Silvello
September 18
- 9:30-10:30 Invited Talk
- Chair: Maristella Agosti
- From Traditional IR to Broader IR. Fausto Rabitti (ISTI-CNR). Abstract and bio.
- 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
- 11:00-12:30 Content Analysis, Recommendation and Classification/1
- Chair: Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio
- Media Monitoring using News Recommenders. Francesco Barile, Francesco Ricci, Marko Tkalcic, Bernardo Magnini, Roberto Zanoli, Alberto Lavelli and Manuela Speranza
- Semantic interpretability of latent factors for recommendation. Vito Walter Anelli, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Azzurra Ragone and Claudio Pomo
- Auditing Deep Learning processes through Kernel-based Explanatory Models. Danilo Croce, Daniele Rossini and Roberto Basili
- 12:30-13:30 Lunch
- 13:30-14:30 Content Analysis, Recommendation and Classification/2
- Chair: Emanuele Di Buccio
- Feature Selection for Emotion Classification. Alberto Purpura, Chiara Masiero, Gianmaria Silvello and Gian Antonio Susto
- Quantum-inspired Multimodal Representation. Qiuchi Li
- 14:30-14:35 Closing
- Massimo Melucci