SWAP - Semantic Web Access and Personalization Research Group

Leo Iaquinta
Research Fellow

University of Bari "Aldo Moro"
Department of Computer Science
Via E.Orabona, 4 - 70126 BARI, Italy

Phone: +39 080 5442298
Fax: +39 080 5443196
e-mail: iaquinta___AT___di.uniba.it





Research Interests and Activities | Short Curriculum | Publications | Courses | Links



Main Research Interests

Intelligent Information Access and Personalization

  • Recommender Systems
  • Information Filtering
  • Hybrid Recommendation Strategies
  • Machine Learning Techniques for Recommender Systems
  • User Modeling and Profiling



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Short CV

  • JANUARY 2007 - Start the Ph.D. Course in Computer Science at Department of Computer Science, University of Bari, under the supervision of Prof. Giovanni Semeraro.
  • APRIL 2006 - Laurea Degree in Computer Science from University of Bari. Thesis title: ″Analisi, Progettazione e Sviluppo di Componenti per la Gestione di Contenuti XML″.

Summer Schools

  • BiSS 2008: 14th Bertinoro international Spring School. Bertinoro (Forlì-Cesena), Italy. 3-14 March 2008.
  • ESSR 2007: 6th European Summer School in Information Retrieval. Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. 27—31 August 2007.



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Associations

  • BCS IRSG (British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group)
  • SIGLEX (the ACL special interest group on the lexicon)
  • ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)



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Publications

My publications on DBLP

International Journals

  • P. Basile, M. de Gemmis, A. Gentile, L. Iaquinta, P. Lops, and G. Semeraro. An Electronic Performance Support System Based on a Hybrid Content-Collaborative Recommender System. Neural Network World: International Journal on Neural and Mass-Parallel Computing and Information Systems, 17(6):529-541, 2007. ISSN 1210-0552.

Chapters in International Volumes

  • M. de Gemmis, L. Iaquinta, P. Lops, C. Musto, F. Narducci, G. Semeraro. Learning Preference Models in Recommender Systems. In E. Hüullermeier and J. Fuernkranz (editors), Preference Learning. Springer, 2009. To appear.
  • L. Iaquinta, M. de Gemmis, P. Lops, G. Semeraro, and P. Molino. Can a recommender system induce serendipitous encounters? In A. Lazinica (editor), E-Commerce, pages 1-17. IN-TECH, To appear. ISBN 978-953-7619-X-X.

International Conferences

  • P. Basile, M. de Gemmis, L. Iaquinta, P. Lops, C. Musto, F. Narducci, and G. Semeraro. Spiter: A module for recommending dynamic personalized museum tours. In 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2009, Milan, Italy, 15-18 September 2009, Main Conference Proceedings, pages 584-587. IEEE Computer Society, 2009. ISBN 978-0-7695-3801-3. DOI 10.1109/WI-IAT.2009.99.
  • L. Iaquinta, M. de Gemmis, P. Lops, and G. Semeraro. Recommendations toward serendipitous diversions. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2009), pages 1049-1054. IEEE Computer Society, 2009. ISBN 978-0-7695-3872-3. DOI 10.1109/ISDA.2009.215.
  • P. Basile, M. de Gemmis, A. Gentile, L. Iaquinta, P. Lops, and G. Semeraro. META - MultilanguagE Text Analyzer. In Proceedings of the Language and Speech Technnology Conference - LangTech 2008, Rome, Italy, February 28-29, pages 137-140. 2008.
  • A. L. Gentile, P. Basile, L. Iaquinta, and G. Semeraro. Lexical and semantic resources for nlp: From words to meanings. In I. Lovrek, R. J. Howlett, and L. C. Jain, editors, Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, 12th International Conference, KES 2008, Zagreb, Croatia, September 3-5, 2008, Proceedings, Part III, volume 5179 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 277-284. Springer, 2008. ISBN 978-3-540-85566-8. DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-85567-5 35.
  • L. Iaquinta, M. de Gemmis, P. Lops, G. Semeraro, M. Filannino, and P. Molino. Introducing serendipity in a content-based recommender system. In F. Xhafa, F. Herrera, A. Abraham, M. Köppen, and J. M. Benitez, editors, Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems HIS-2008, pages 168-173. IEEE Computer Society, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7695-3326-1. DOI 10.1109/HIS.2008.25.
  • L. Iaquinta, A. L. Gentile, P. Lops, M. de Gemmis, and G. Semeraro. A hybrid content-collaborative recommender system integrated into an electronic performance support system. In A. Koenig, M. Köppen, A. Abraham, and N. Kasabov, editors, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems HIS-2007, pages 47-52. IEEE Computer Society, 2007. ISBN 0-7695-2946-1. DOI 10.1109/HIS.2007.30.

International Workshops

  • M. de Gemmis, L. Iaquinta, P. Lops, C. Musto, F. Narducci, and G. Semeraro. Preference learning in recommender systems. In Proceedings of the ECML/PKDD 2009 Workshop on Preference Learning, pages 41-55. 2009.
  • P. Basile, M. de Gemmis, L. Iaquinta, A. Gentile, and P. Lops. Intelligent Digital Libraries: From Retrieval to Recommendation. In L. Aroyo, E. Hyvonen, and J. van Ossenbruggen, editors, Proceedings of Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web, International Workshop at 6th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC2007, pages 113-114. 2007.

National Conferences

  • P. Basile, M. Degemmis, A. L. Gentile, L. Iaquinta, P. Lops, and G. Semeraro. Semantic indexing of documents for semantic digital libraries. In M. Agosti, F. Esposito, and C. Thanos, editors, Post-proceedings of the Forth Italian Research Conference on Digital Library Systems, IRCDL 2008, Padova, Italy, 24-25 January 2008, pages 41-49. DELOS: an Association for Digital Libraries, 2008.

National Workshops

  • P. Basile, M. d. Gemmis, A. Gentile, L. Iaquinta, and P. Lops. The jump project: domain ontologies and linguistic knowledge @ work. In G. Semeraro, E. Di Sciascio, C. Morbidoni, and H. Stoermer, editors, SWAP 2007 - Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives, Proceedings of the 4rd Italian Semantic Web Workshop, Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita' degli Studi, Bari, Italy, 18-20 December, 2007, volume 314 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pages 61-70. CEUR-WS.org, 2007. ISBN 978-88-902981-1-0.
  • P. Basile, M. d. Gemmis, L. Iaquinta, A. Gentile, P. Lops, and G. Semeraro. Intelligent Digital Libraries: From Retrieval to Recommendation. In L. Bordoni, editor, Proceedings of the AI*IA 2007 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for the Cultural Heritage, Roma, Italy, pages 1-8. 2007.



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