SWAP - Semantic Web Access and Personalization Research Group

Events

Upcoming Events


RecSys 2018: ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
October 2-7, 2018 Vancouver, Canada

Activities of the SWAP group:


UMAP 2018: ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
July 8-11, 2018 Singapore

Activities of the SWAP group:







Past Events


RecSys 2017: ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
August 27-31, 2017 Como, Italy

Activities of the SWAP group:


UMAP 2017: ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
July 9-12, 2017 Bratislava, Czech Republic

Activities of the SWAP group:


Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation on User Modeling and Recommender Systems
July 17-20, 2017 Haifa, Israel

Activities of the SWAP group:

  • Keynote by Fedelucio Narducci. Title: Temporal Semantic Techniques for Content-based Recommender Systems.
  • Keynote by Pasquale Lops. Title: Generating Natural Language Explanations for Recommender Systems.
  • Keynote by Giovanni Semeraro. Title: An investigation on the serendipity problem in recommender systems.
  • Keynote by Cataldo Musto. Title: Recommender Systems based on Linked Open Data.

ESWC 2017 - Tutorial: Linked Open Data for Semantics-aware Recommender Systems
May 29, 2017 Portoroz, Slovenia

Activities of the SWAP group:

  • Co-organize the tutorial

CLiC-it 2016: Third Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
December 5-6, 2016 Naples, ITA

Activities of the SWAP group:

  • Co-chair the event

EVALITA 2016: Evaluation of NLP and Speech Tools for Italian
December 7, 2016 Naples, ITA

Activities of the SWAP group:


RecSys 2016: ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
September 15-19, 2016 Boston, USA

Activities of the SWAP group:


NLDB 2016: 21st International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems
22-24 June 2016, at the University of Salford, MediaCityUK Campus

SWAP group presented the paper: Learning to Rank Entity Relatedness through Embedding-Based Features.


UMAP 2016: ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
July 13-17, 2016 Halifax, Canada

Activities of the SWAP group:


FinRec 2016: 2nd International Workshop on Personalization and Recommender Systems in Financial Services
June 16, 2016 Bari, Italy

SWAP group organized the event.


ECIR 2016: 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval
March 20-23, 2016 Padua, Italy

SWAP group presented the paper Learning Word Embeddings from Wikipedia for Content-Based Recommender Systems by Cataldo Musto, Giovanni Semeraro, Marco de Gemmis, Pasquale Lops


RecSys 2015: ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
September 16-20, 2015 Vienna, Austria

Activities of the SWAP group:

  • PC Co-Chairs: Giovanni Semeraro and Jennifer Golbeck
  • Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems
  • Workshop on Emotions and Personality in Personalized Systems
  • Presentation of the poster Word Embedding techniques for Content-based Recommender Systems: an empirical evaluation
  • Presentation of the paper Automatic Selection of Linked Open Data features in Graph-based Recommender Systems at the 2nd Workshop on New Trends in Content-based Recommender Systems
  • Presentation of the paper Exploiting Regression Trees as User Models for Intent-Aware Multi-attribute Diversity at the 2nd Workshop on New Trends in Content-based Recommender Systems
  • Presentation of the paper A Multimodal Framework for Recognizing Emotional Feedback in Conversational Recommender Systems at the 3rd Workshop on Emotions and Personality in Personalized Systems
  • Presentation of the paper A General Architecture for an Emotion-aware Content-based Recommender System at the 3rd Workshop on Emotions and Personality in Personalized Systems

RecSoc 2015: Social and Semantic aspects of recommender systems
June 16-17, 2015, Haifa, Israel

  • Keynote by Pasquale Lops. Title: Semantics-aware Content-based Recommender Systems: the Big Picture.
  • Keynote by Giovanni Semeraro. Title: On Serendipity in Recommender Systems.

PEGOV 2015: 3rd International Workshop on PErsonalization in eGOVernment and Smart Cities: Smart Services for Smart Territories .
co-located with UMAP 2015 - July 2015, Dublin, Ireland.

Co-Chairs: Nikolaos Loutas, Fedelucio Narducci, Adegboyega Ojo, Matteo Palmonari, Cécile Paris, Giovanni Semeraro


DeCAT 2015: 1st International Workshop on Deep Content Analytics Techniques for Personalized and Intelligent Services
co-located with UMAP 2015 - July 2015, Dublin, Ireland.

Co-Chairs: Lora Aroyo, Geert-Jan Houben, Pasquale Lops, Cataldo Musto, Giovanni Semeraro

SWAP group will present the paper: Modeling Short-Term Preferences in Time-Aware Recommender Systems


WWW 2015: 24th International World Wide Web Conference
May 18-22, 2015, Florence, Italy

SWAP group presented the poster: A Recommender System for Connecting Patients to the Right Doctors in the HealthNet Social Network


DH 2015: 5th International Conference on Digital Health
May 18-20, 2015, Florence, Italy

SWAP group presented the poster: Towards a patient-centered medicine: the HealthNet Social Network


Microposts2015: 5th workshop on Making Sense of Microposts
May 18, 2015, Florence, Italy

SWAP group presented the poster: UNIBA: Exploiting a Distributional Semantic Model for Disambiguating and Linking Entities in Tweets


WDS4SC 2015: WWW 2015 Workshop on Web Data Science and Smart Cities
May 19, 2015, Florence, Italy

SWAP group presented the paper: Developing Smart Cities services through Semantic Analysis of Social Streams


FinRec 2015 - International Workshop on Personalization & Recommender Systems in Financial Services
April 16, 2015, Graz, Austria

SWAP group gave an invited talk:


Open Data Day 2015
Sabato 21 febbraio 2015
Aula Magna “Edoardo Orabona”, Politecnico di Bari


Safer Internet Day
February 10, 2015, Rome, Italy

SWAP group presented the results of the project The Italian Hate Map during the event organized for the 12th Safer Internet Day at Camera dei Deputati, in Rome.


La Mappa dell'Intolleranza - Conferenza Stampa
January 28, 2015, Rome, Italy

SWAP group presented the results of the project The Italian Hate Map at Sala Monumentale Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri.


AI*IA 2014: XIII AI*IA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence
December 10-12, 2014, Pisa, Italy

SWAP group organized the events:


AI*IA 2014: Special Track on AI for Society and Economy
December 12, 2014, Pisa, Italy

SWAP group presented the paper:


CLIC 2014: 1st Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
December 9-10, 2014, Pisa, Italy

SWAP group presented the papers:


DART 2014: 8th International Workshop on Information Filtering and Retrieval
December 10, 2014, Pisa, Italy

SWAP group presented the papers:


eMatching "share & grow": Big data e Internet delle cose: Una opportunità per le imprese IT
November 26, 2014, Milano, Italy

SWAP group attended the event and presented '“3 storie minime di tanti e grandi dati e di pochi e piccoli cervelli“


Presentazione eBook - Fattore C in Rete: competenze, conoscenze, consapevolezze
October 29, 2014, Senato della Repubblica, Sala Caduti di Nassiriya, Rome, Italy

SWAP group attended the event and contributed to the eBook by writing a chapter about the "Italian Hate Map" project"


RecSys 2014: ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
October 6-10, 2014 Foster City, CA, USA

Activities of the SWAP group:



Open Data e Cloud Computing - Opportunità di Business
September 15, 2014, Bari, Italy

SWAP group attended the event and Giovanni Semeraro gave a keynote talk.


COLING 2014: 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
August 23-29, 2014, Dublin, Ireland

SWAP group presented the paper:

SemEval-2014: Semantic Evaluation Exercises (Co-located with COLING and *Sem)

SWAP group presented the paper:


UMAP 2014: User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
July 7-11, 2014 Aalborg, Denmark

SWAP group presented the paper:

  • Combining Distributional Semantics and Entity Linking for Context-aware Content-based Recommendation

SWAP group organized the following workshop:


ESWC 2014: Extended Semantic Web Conference
May 25-29, 2014 Creete, Greece

SWAP group participated and was awarded for the best performing approach for task "Top-N recommendation from binary user feedback" of the "SemWebEval Linked Open Data-enabled Recommender Systems Challenge"


Open Data Day 2014
February 22, 2014 Bari, Italy

SWAP group participated and presented the project Italian Hate Map


AIxIA 2013: XIII Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
December 4-6, 2013 Turin, Italy

SWAP group presented the papers:

  • Supervised Learning and Distributional Semantic Models for Super-Sense Tagging
  • A Virtual Player for "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" based on Question Answering

RecSys 2013: ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
October 12-16, 2013 Hong Kong, China

SWAP group co-organized the following workshops:


EC-WEB 2013: 14th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies
August 26-30, 2013 Prague, Czech Republic

SWAP group co-organized the event.


DEXA 2013: 24th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
August 26-29, 2013 Prague, Czech Republic

SWAP group co-organized the following workshop:


Smart Companies and Artificial Intelligence
May 14, 2013 Florence Italy

SWAP group organized the event.


UMAP 2013: User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
June 10-14, 2013 Rome, Italy

SWAP group co-organized the event.


EMPIRE: 1st workshop on Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services
June 10, 2013 Rome, Italy, in conjunction with UMAP.

SWAP group organized the event.


Il Primo Open Data Day Italiano
February 23, 2013 Bari, Italy

SWAP group co-organized the event.


IIR 2013: 4th Italian Information Retrieval workshop (IIR 2013)
January 16-17, 2013 Pisa, Italy

SWAP group co-chaired the event.


ISWC 2012: Internation Semantic Web Conference
November 11-15, 2012 Boston, USA

SWAP group organized the following workshop:


RecSys 2012: ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
September 9-13, 2012 Dublin, Ireland

SWAP group organized the following workshop:


ICSC 2012: 6th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing
September 19-21, 2012 Palermo, Italy

SWAP group presented the papers:

  • Exploiting Distributional Semantic Models in Question Answering
  • A Study on Compositional Semantics of Words in Distributional Spaces

EC-WEB 2012: 13th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies
September 3-7, 2012 Wien, Austria

SWAP group co-organized the event.


DEXA 2012: 23rd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
September 3-7, 2012 Vienna, Austria

SWAP group co-organized the following workshop:Recommender Systems meet Databases (RSmeetDBs).


UMAP 2012: User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
July 16-20, 2012 Montreal, Canada

SWAP group organized the following workshop:

and presented the paper Enhanced Semantic TV-Show Representation for Personalized Electronic Program Guides at the Industrial Track


AI*IA 2012 Symposium on Artificial Intelligence
June 14-16, 2012 Rome, Italy

SWAP group organized/gave the following workshop/talks:


SemEval 2012 Semantic Evaluation Exercises
June 7-8, 2012 Montreal, Canada

SWAP group presented the paper:


IIR 2012: 3rd Italian Information Retrieval workshop (IIR 2012)
January 26-27, 2012 Bari, Italy

SWAP group is organizing the event.


Big Data, Small Brains: Deep Content Analytics for Better Recommendations
January 9, 2012, Roma 3 University, Rome (Italy)

Invited talk by Giovanni Semeraro, Pasquale Lops, Marco de Gemmis


Internet, Memoria e Futuro - The Semantic Way
November 24, 2011 Povo di Trento, Italy

SWAP group participated to the panel The future of semantic technologies.


BANCHE E ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
November 15, 2011 Milan, Italy

SWAP group participated to the event with the talk Tecnologie Semantiche per la gestione della conoscenza e l'accesso intelligente all'informazione: Natural Browsing e QuestionCube.


RecSys 2011: 5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
October 23-27, 2011 Chicago, USA

SWAP group presented the paper Leveraging the LinkedIn Social Network Data for Extracting Content-based User Profiles.


ISWC 2011: International Semantic Web Conference
October 23-27, 2011 Bonn, Germany

SWAP group co-organized the following workshop:


AI*IA 2011: XIIth Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
September 15-17, 2011 Palermo, Italy

SWAP group presented the following papers:


DART 2011: 5th International Workshop on New Challenges in Distributed Information Filtering and Retrieval
September 17, 2011 Palermo, Italy

SWAP group co-organized the event.


ICTIR 2011: 3rd International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval
12-14 September, 2011, The University Centre of Bertinoro, Italy

SWAP group presented the paper Negation for document re-ranking in ad-hoc retrieval.


ECML/PKDD 2011: 21st European Conference on Machine Learning and 14th Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases
September 5-9, 2011, Athens, Greece

SWAP group presented the paper Lightweight Approach to the Cold Start Problem in the Video Lecture Recommendation at the Discovery Challenge Workshop.


DEXA 2011: 22nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
August 29-September 2, 2011 Toulouse, France

SWAP group organized the Recommender Systems meet Databases workshop.


EC-Web 2011: 12th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies
August 29-September 2, 2011 Toulouse, France

SWAP group organized the Recommender Systems track.


GEMS 2011: GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics
July 31, 2011, co-located with EMNLP 2011, Edinburgh, Scotland

SWAP group presented the paper Encoding syntactic dependencies by vector permutation
Online pdf


UMAP 2011: User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
July 11-15, 2011 Girona, Spain

SWAP group organized the following workshops:


Information Retrieval and Information Filtering: two battlefields for NLP techniques
May 6, 2011, University of Basque Country, San Sebastian (Spain)

Invited talk by Giovanni Semeraro, Marco de Gemmis, Pasquale Lops


IIR-2011: Italian Information Retrieval (IIR) Workshop
January 27-28, 2011, Milan, Italy

SWAP group presented the papers


AI*IA 2010: 11th AI*IA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence
December 1-3, 2010 Brescia, Italy

SWAP group participated to the:


TAL 2010: Il Trattamento Automatico della Lingua come motore per l'innovazione
October 28-29, 2010 Rome, Italy

SWAP group gave the talk Tecnologie del linguaggio e tecnologie della semantica.


RecSys 2010: 4th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
September 26-30, 2010 Barcelona, Spain

SWAP group presented the paper MARS: a MultilAnguage Recommneder Systems at the International Workshop on Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems.
Two PhD students presented their work at the Doctoral Symposium.


EC-WEB 2010: 11th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies
August 30-September 3, 2010 University of Deusto -- Bilbao, Spain

SWAP group has organized the event.


SWAP 2010: 6th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives
September 21-22, 2010 Bressanone-Brixen -- Italy

SWAP group has co-organized the event.


UMAP 2010: 18th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization
June 20-24, 2010 Big Island of Hawaii

Giovanni Semeraro gave an invited talk at the 8th Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization & Recommender Systems (ITWP'10), titled Content-based Recommender Systems: problems, challenges and current research directions


SemEval-2 Evaluation Exercises on Semantic Evaluation - ACL SigLex event
July 15-16, 2010, Uppsala, Sweden

SWAP group presented the following paper:

  • UBA: Using Automatic Translation and Wikipedia for Cross-Lingual Lexical Substitution

SIGIR 2010: 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference
July 19-23, 2010, Geneva, Switzerland

SWAP group presented the following poster:

  • From Fusion to Re-ranking: A Semantic Approach

SSSC 2010
IEEE Summer School on Semantic Computing, July 25-31, 2010 Berkeley (CA), United States

Cataldo Musto and Lucio Narducci attended the Summer School and were granted with the 1st place award for their contribution in the Student Project Work organized within the Summer School. Their work focused on the development of GeoMusic, a tool for the suggestion of geolocalized and personalized music playlists.



Working Capital
July 13, 2010 Bari, Italy

Michele Filannino wins a national contest promoted by Telecom Italia. The project aims to endorse Italian innovation in the field of Web 2.0. Michele has presented the following project:

  • Fuzzy techniques for Natural language Processing video

IIR2010
January 27-28, 2010 Padova, Italy

SWAP group has presented the following papers:

  • Semantic Vectors: an Information Retrieval Scenario pdf
  • Integrating Named Entities in a Semantic Search Engine pdf
  • An IR-Based Approach to Tag Recommendation pdf
  • Natat in Cerebro: Intelligent Information Retrieval for "The Guillotine" Language Game pdf
  • Serendipitous Encounters along Dynamically Personalized Museum Tours pdf



AI*IA 2009
December 9-12, 2009 Reggio Emilia, Italy

SWAP group has presented the following papers:

  • Language is the Skin of my Thought: Integrating Wikipedia and AI to Support a Guillotine Player to the main conference
  • Content-based Recommendation Services for Personalized Fruition of Cultural Heritage to the Intelligent Cultural Heritage workshop
  • UNIBA @ EVALITA 2009 - Lexical Substitution Task to the EVALITA workshop



ISDA '09
November 30- December 2, 2009 Pisa, Italy

SWAP group has presented the following papers:

  • Content-based Filtering with Tags: the FIRSt System to the workshop on "Tags and Recommendations in Web 2.0"
  • Recommendations toward Serendipitous Diversions to the workshop on "Computational Intelligence for Personalization in Web Content and Service Delivery"



Festival della Creatività 2009
October 15-18, 2009 Florence, Italy

SWAP group has presented the system: OTTHO (On the Tip of my Thought).


3rd ACM Conference on Recommender Systems 2009
October 22-25, 2009 - New York, USA

SWAP group has presented the following papers:



CLEF 2009: Cross-Language Evaluation Forum 2009 Workshop
September 30-October 2009 Corfu, Greece

SWAP group participated to the CLEF 2009 Ad Hoc Track: Robust - WSD Task


ISMIS 2009: 18th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems
September 14-17 2009 - University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic

SWAP group participated to the Text Mining Session with the paper Boosting a Semantic Search Engine by Named Entities


ECML-PKDD 2009: European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases
September 7-11, 2009 - Bled, Slovenia

SWAP group participated to the:


EC-Web 2009: International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies
31 August - 4 September 2009 - Linz, Austria

SWAP group has organized the Recommender Systems track and has presented the paper Content-based Personalization Services Integrating Folksonomies.


ESSIR 2009: European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR) 2009
31 August - 4 September 2009 - University of Padua, Italy


International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09)
July 11-17, 2009 - Pasadena, California USA.

SWAP group has presented the paper: On the Tip of my Thought: Playing the Guillotine Game.


Hypertext 2009 - Workshop on Web 3.0: Merging Semantic Web and Social Web
June 29-July 1, 2009 - Turin, Italy

SWAP group has organized the First Workshop on Web 3.0: Merging Semantic Web and Social Web


TrebleCLEF Summer School on Multilingual Information Access
June 15-19, 2009 - Pisa, Italy


Information mining: una nuova corsa alla conoscenza strategica
April 27, 2009 - Rome, Italy

SWAP group has presented the talk Intelligent Information Filtering



SWAP 2008: Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives
December 15-17, 2008 - Rome, Italy


IIA 2008: Intelligent Information Access
December 9-11, 2008 - Cagliari, Italy


CLEF 2008: Cross Language Evaluation Forum:

September 17-19, 2008 - Aarhus, Denmark


KES 2008: International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems
September 3-5, 2008 - Zagabria, Croazia


ICADIWT 2008: IEEE International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies
August 4-6, 2008 - Technical University of Ostrava (Czech Republic)
SWAP group has organized the First Workshop on Recommender Systems and Personalized Retrieval


AAAI 2008: AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
July 13–17, 2008 - Chicago, Illinois, USA


SemSearch08: Semantic Search 2008 Workshop
June 2nd, 2008 - Tenerife, Spain


SWAP 2007: Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives

December 18-20, 2007 - Bari, Italy


CILC 2006: Convegno Italiano di Logica Computazionale
June 26-27, 2006 - Bari, Italy