SWAP - Semantic Web Access and Personalization Research Group

Pierpaolo Basile
Research Assistant

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: basilepp___AT___di.uniba.it



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Main Research Interests

Natural Language Processing

  • Statistical methods for Natural Language Processing
  • Word Sense Disambiguation

Intelligent Information Access

  • Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval
  • Information Filtering
  • Recommender Systems
  • Machine Learning Techniques for Recommender Systems

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Short CV

  • MAY 2009 - Receive the Ph.D. in Computer Science form University of Bari. Ph.D. thesis title: "Word Sense Disambiguation and Intelligent Information Access"
  • From MAY 2008 to JULY 2008 - Summer Internship at the University of Basque Country (IXA research group). Research topic: combination of unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation algorithms.
  • NOVEMBER 2005 - Start the Ph.D. in Computer Science at University of Bari. My supervisor is Prof. Giovanni Semeraro.
  • JULY 2005 - Receive the degree in Computer Science from University of Bari. Thesis title: "JIGSAW: a Word Sense Disambiguation algorithm."

Summer schools:

  • WebBar 2007: 3rd BiCi International PhD School on Advanced Retrieval and Web Mining. Varenna (Como), Italy. 27-31 August, 2007.
  • ESSLLI 2006: 18th European Summer School in. Logic, Language and Information. University of Malaga. 31 July - 11 August, 2006.

Participation to evaluation campaigns:

  • EVALITA (Evaluation of NLP and Speech Tools for Italian) 2009 - Lexical Substitution Task
  • CLEF-2009 - Ad-hoc Robust WSD Task
  • CLEF-2008 - Ad-hoc Robust WSD Task
  • EVALITA (Evaluation of NLP and Speech Tools for Italian) 2007 - All-Word Task
  • SemEval-1 - Evaluating WSD on Cross-Language Information Retrieval



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Member of the Program Committee

  • EC-Web 2009 (10th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies, Linz, Austria, 31 August-4 September, 2009)



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Events Co-organizer



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Associations

  • AI*IA (Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale);
  • SIGLEX (the ACL special interest group on the lexicon).



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Publications

My publications on DBLP

International Journals

  • P. Basile, A. Caputo, M. de Gemmis, A. Gentile, P. Lops, and G. Semeraro. Improving ranked keyword search with SENSE: SEmantic N-levels Search Engine. Communications of SIWN (formerly: System and Information Sciences Notes), 5:39-45, August 2008. ISSN 1757-4439 (Print) 1757-4447 (CD-ROM).
  • 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.
  • G. Semeraro, M. Degemmis, P. Lops, and P. Basile. Mining Semantically Indexed Documents for Intelligent User Profiling. Kuenstliche Intelligenz, 21(3):9-15, 2007. ISSN 0933-1875.

National Journals

  • P Basile, M de Gemmis, P Lops, G Semeraro (2009) Tutti pazzi per la ’Ghigliottina’, anche i computer. MEDIA DUEMILA 267. 61-64 Giugno 2009, ISSN 0393-0599
  • P. Basile, G. Semeraro. JIGSAW: an Algorithm for Word Sense Disambiguation. Rivista dell'Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale, IV(2) [53-54]. ISSN 1724-8035.

Chapters in International Volumes

  • G. Semeraro, P. Basile, M. de Gemmis, and P. Lops. User Profiles for Personalizing Digital Libraries. In Y.-L. Theng, S. Foo, D. G. H. Lian, and J.-C. Na, editors, Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries: Design, Development and Impact. Idea Group Inc., 2008. To appear.

International Collections

  • P Basile, M de Gemmis, P Lops, G Semeraro (2009) OTTHO : On the Tip of my THOught In:Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, European Conference, ECML PKDD 2009, Bled, Slovenia, September 7-11, 2009, Proceedings, Part II, volume 5782 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edited by:Wray L Buntine, Marko Grobelnik, Dunja Mladenic, John Shawe-Taylor. 710-713 Berlin: Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-04173-0
  • P Lops, P Basile, M de Gemmis, G Semeraro (2009) “Language is the Skin of my Thought” : Integrating Wikipedia and AI to Support a Guillotine Player In:Proceedings of the XIth Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence Edited by:R. Serra. Berlin: Springer (To appear)
  • P Basile, M de Gemmis, L Iaquinta, P Lops, C Musto, F Narducci, G Semeraro (2009) SpIteR : a Module for Recommending Dynamic Personalized Museum Tours In:Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM Int’l Joint Conf. on Web Intelligence & Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2009) LOS ALAMITOS, CA – USA: IEEE Computer Society Press (To appear)
  • P. Basile, M. Degemmis, P. Lops, and G. Semeraro. Combining Knowledge-based Methods and Supervised Learning for Effective ItalianWord Sense Disambiguation. In J. Bos and R. Delmonte, editors, Semantics in Text Processing - STEP 2008 Conference Proceedings, volume 1 of Research in Computational Semantics, pages 5-16. College Publications, 2008. ISBN 978-1-904987-93-2.
  • P. Basile, M. Degemmis, A. L. Gentile, P. Lops, and G. Semeraro. The JIGSAW Algorithm for Word Sense Disambiguation and Semantic Indexing of Documents. In R. Basili and M. T. Pazienza, editors, AI*IA 2007: Artificial Intelligence and Human-Oriented Computing, 10th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Rome, Italy, September 10-13, 2007, Proceedings, volume 4733 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 314-325. Springer, 2007. ISBN 978-3-540-74781-9.
  • G. Semeraro, P. Basile, M. Degemmis, and P. Lops. Content-Based Recommendation Services for Personalized Digital Libraries. In C. Thanos, F. Borri, and L. Candela, editors, Digital Libraries: Research and Development, First International DELOS Conference, Pisa, Italy, February 13-14, 2007, Revised Selected Papers, volume 4877 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 77-86. Springer, 2007. ISBN 978-3-540-77087-9. ISSN 1818-8044.
  • M. Degemmis, P. Lops, and P. Basile. An intelligent personalized service for conference participants. In F. Esposito, Z. W. Ras, D. Malerba, and G. Semeraro, editors, Foundations of Intelligent Systems, 16th International Symposium, ISMIS 2006, Bari, Italy, September 27-29, 2006, Proceedings, volume 4203 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 707-712. Springer, 2006. ISBN 3-540-45764-X.
  • G. Semeraro, P. Basile, M. Degemmis, and P. Lops. Discovering User Profiles from Semantically Indexed Scientific Papers. In B. Berendt, A. Hotho, D. Mladenic, and G. Semeraro, editors, From Web to Social Web: Discovering and Deploying User and Content Profiles, Workshop on Web Mining, WebMine 2006, Berlin, Germany, eptember 18, 2006. Revised Selected and Invited Papers, volume 4737 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 61-81. Springer, 2006. ISBN 978-3-540-74950-9.

International Conferences

  • G Semeraro, P Lops, P Basile, M de Gemmis (2009) On the Tip of my Thought : Playing the Guillotine Game In:IJCAI 2009, Proceedings of the 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 1543-1548 Morgan Kaufmann
  • G Semeraro, P Lops, P Basile, M de Gemmis (2009) Knowledge Infusion into Content-based Recommender Systems In:Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2009, New York, USA, October 22-25, 2009 ACM (to appear)
  • 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, February 28-29, 2008, Rome, Italy, pages 137-140. 2008.
  • M. Degemmis, P. Lops, G. Semeraro, and P. Basile. Integrating tags in a semantic content-based recommender. In P. Pu, D. G. Bridge, B. Mobasher, and F. Ricci, editors, Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 23-25, 2008 , pages 163-170. ACM, 2008. ISBN 978-1-60558-093-7.
  • G. Semeraro, P. Basile, M. de Gemmis, and P. Lops. Intelligent Services for Personalized Digital Libraries. In DELOS Conference 2007 - Working Notes, Tirrenia, Pisa, pages 91-98. 2007. ISBN 2-912335-30-2.
  • G. Semeraro, M. Degemmis, P. Lops, and P. Basile. Combining Learning and Word Sense Disambiguation for Intelligent User Profiling. In M. M. Veloso, editor, IJCAI 2007, Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hyderabad, India, January 6-12, 2007 , pages 2856-2861. Morgan Kaufmann, 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 41-50. DELOS: an Association for Digital Libraries, 2008.
  • G. Semeraro, P. Lops, M. de Gemmis, P. Basile, and A. L. Gentile. Personalization in Digital Libraries: An Intelligent Service based on Semantic User Profiles. In M. Agosti, F. Esposito, and C. Thanos, editors, Post-proceedings of the Third Italian Research Conference on Digital Library Systems, IRCDL 2007, Padova, 29-30 January 2007 , pages 27-37. DELOS: a Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries, 2007.
  • G. Semeraro, M. Degemmis, P. Lops, and P. Basile. Intelligent Information Access by Exploiting Lexical Knowledge and Machine Learning. In M. Agosti and C. Thanos, editors, Post-proceedings of the Second Italian Research Conference on Digital Library Management Systems (IRCDL 2006), Padova, 27th January 2006 , pages 37-44. DELOS: a Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries, 2006. ISBN 2-912335-26-4.

National and International Workshops

  • P .Basile, A. Caputo and G. Semeraro. UNIBA-SENSE at CLEF 2008: SEmantic N-levels Search Engine, in Working notes for the CLEF 2008 Workshop, 2008.
  • P. Basile, F. Calefato, M. de Gemmis, P. Lops, G. Semeraro, M. Bux, C. Musto, and F. Narducci. Augmenting a Content-based Recommender System with Tags for Cultural Heritage Personalization. In L. Aroyo, T. Kuflik, O. Stock, and M. Zancanaro, editors, Proceedings of the Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2008) at the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH 2008), Hannover, Germany, pages 25-34. July 29, 2008.
  • P. Basile, F. Calefato, M. de Gemmis, P. Lops, G. Semeraro, M. Bux, C. Musto, and F. Narducci. Cultural Heritage Personalization using a Content-based Recommender System and Folksonomies. In G. Armano, M. Schaerf, and G. Semeraro, editors, Proceedings of the AI*IA 2008 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for the Cultural Heritage, Cagliari, Italy, pages 46-54. September 11, 2008.
  • P. Basile, A. Caputo, A. Gentile, M. de Gemmis, P. Lops, and G. Semeraro. Enhancing Semantic Search using N-Levels Document Representation. In S. Bloehdorn, M. Grobelnik, P. Mika, and T. Tran Duc, editors, Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Search (SemSearch 2008) at the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008), Tenerife, Spain, volume 334 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pages 29-43. June 2, 2008. ISSN 1613-0073. Online http://sunsite.informatik.rwthaachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-334/paper-03.pdf.
  • P. Basile, A. Caputo, A. Gentile, M. de Gemmis, P. Lops, and G. Semeraro. Improving retrieval experience exploiting semantic representation of documents. In SWAP 2008 - Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives, Proceedings of the 5th Italian Semantic Web Workshop, FAO-UN, Rome, Italy, 15-17 December, 2008 , CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR-WS.org, 2008. To appear.
  • P. Basile, M. de Gemmis, P. Lops, G. Semeraro, M. Bux, C. Musto, and F. Narducci. First: a content-based recommender system integrating tags for cultural heritage personalization. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Automated Solutions for Cross Media Content and Multi-channel Distribution (AXMEDIS 2008) - Workshop on Cultural heritage and Artificial Intelligence, Florence, Italy, 17-19 November, 2008.
  • M. de Gemmis, G. Semeraro, P. Lops, and P. Basile. A Retrieval Model for Personalized Searching Relying on Content-based User Profiles. In B. Mobasher, S. Anand, A. Kobsa, and D. Jannach, editors, Proceedings of the 6th AAAI Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization and Recommender Systems (ITWP 2008), pages 1-9. AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California, USA, July 13-17, 2008. ISBN 978-1-57735-374-4.
  • P. Basile, M. de 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. September 10, 2007.
  • P. Basile, M. de Gemmis, L. Iaquinta, A. L. Gentile, P. Lops, and G. Semeraro. Intelligent Digital Libraries: From Retrieval to Recommendation. In L. Aroyo, E. Hyvonen, and J. van Ossenbruggen, editors, Proceedings of the ISWC 2007 Workshop 9 on Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web, Busan, Korea, pages 113-114. November 12, 2007.
  • P. Basile, M. Degemmis, A. Gentile, P. Lops, and G. Semeraro. UNIBA: JIGSAW algorithm for Word Sense Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the 4th ACL 2007 International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval-2007), Prague, Czech Republic, pages 398-401. Association for Computational Linguistics, June 23-24, 2007.
  • P. Basile, M. de Gemmis, A. Gentile, L. Iaquinta, and P. Lops. The jump project: domain ontologies and linguistic knowledge @ work. In SWAP 2007 - Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives, Proceedings of the 4th Italian Semantic Web Workshop, Dipartimento di Informatica, Universitµa degli Studi, Bari, Italy, 18-20 December, 2007, CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR-WS.org, 2007.
  • M. Degemmis, P. Lops, G. Semeraro, and P. Basile. A Semantic Recommendation Service for Conference Participants. In V. Honavar, T. Finin, D. Caragea, D. Mladenic, and Y. Sure, editors, Proceedings of the IJCAI 2007 Workshop on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition (SWeCKA 2007), Hyderabad, India, pages 13-21. January 6-12, 2007.
  • M. Degemmis, P. Lops, P. Basile, and G. Semeraro. The Conference Participant Advisor Service in a Virtual Information and Knowledge Environment Framework. In P. Bouquet, R. Brunelli, J.-P. Chanod, C. Niederee, and H. Stoermer, editors, Proceedings of the ESWC 2006 Workshop on Mastering the Gap: From Information Extraction to Semantic Representation, Budva, Montenegro, volume 187 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. June 12, 2006. ISSN 1613-0073. Online http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-187/19.pdf.
  • G. Semeraro, P. Basile, M. Degemmis, and P. Lops. Discovering User Profiles from Papers by Using Word Sense Disambiguation. In B. Berendt, A. Hotho, D. Mladeni^c, and G. Semeraro, editors, Proceedings of the ECML/PKDD 2006 Workshop on Web Mining, Berlin, Germany, pages 68-79. September 18, 2006.
  • G. Semeraro, M. Degemmis, P. Lops, P. Basile, A. Gentile, and G. Fraccalvieri. Semantic Web Personalization in a Scientific Congress Scenario. In G. Tummarello, P. Bouquet, and O. Signore, editors, Proceedings of SWAP 2006, the 3rd Italian Semantic Web Workshop: Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives, Pisa, Italy, volume 201 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. December 18-20, 2006. ISSN 1613-0073. Online http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-201/13.pdf.



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