SWAP - Semantic Web Access and Personalization Research Group

Annalina Caputo

Research Fellow

University of Bari "Aldo Moro"
Department of Computer Science
Via E.Orabona, 4 - 70126 BARI, Italy
Phone: +39 080 5442298
e-mail: annalina.caputo___AT___uniba.it


"The universe is a labyrinth made of labyrinths. Each leads to another. And wherever we cannot go ourselves, we reach with mathematics."
Stanislaw Lem, Fiasco


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Main Research Interests

Intelligent Information Access

  • Text Representation and Information Retrieval
    • Semantic IR
    • Quantum IR
    • Cross-Language
  • Word Sense Disambiguation
  • Distributional semantic models

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Short CV

  • APRIL 2011 - Since April 2011 I've been a research fellow. My research topic concerns "Semantic Models for Intelligent Information Access".
  • JUNE 2011 - I received the Ph.D. in Computer Science at Department of Computer Science, University of Bari, under the supervision of Prof. Giovanni Semeraro. Thesis title: "Semantics and Information Retrieval: Models, Techniques and Applications".
  • MARCH 2010-JUNE 2010 - I visited the Department of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow under the supervision of Prof. Mounia Lalmas and Dr. Benjamin Piwowarski. This collaboration led to a definition of an algebra for information needs within the Quantum Information Retrieval framework.
  • OCTOBER 2007 - I received a Laurea Degree with full marks and honors in Computer Science from University of Bari. I discussed a thesis titled: ″SENSE – design and development of a Semantic Search Engine″.

Summer schools:

  • ESSIR 2009: European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR) 2009. University of Padua, Italy. Aug 31-Sep 4, 2009.
  • TrebleCLEF Summer School: TrebleCLEF Summer School on Multilingual Information Access. Santa Croce in Fossabanda, Pisa, Italy. June 15-19, 2009.
  • MLSS 2008: 10th Machine Learning Summer School 2008. Ile de Re, France. September 1-15, 2008.

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About me


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Tutoring

  • AVVISO [5 Settembre 2012]

Tutorato Linguaggi di Programmazione + Laboratorio (CdS Informatica)
Si comunica che le lezioni del secondo ciclo di tutorato avranno luogo i giorni:

  • 14 settembre 2012 dalle ore 10 alle ore 12
  • 21 settembre 2012 dalle ore 10 alle ore 13 in Aula A Piano Terra Dip. di Informatica.

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Associations

  • ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics)
  • SIGLEX (the ACL Special Interest Group on the Lexicon)
  • SIGSEM (the ACL Special Interest Group on Computational Semantics)

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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).

National and International Conference

  • P. Basile, A. Caputo, G. Semeraro. Analysing Word Meaning over Time by Exploiting Temporal Random Indexing, in Proceedings of the First Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CLiC-it 2014 & the Fourth International Workshop EVALITA 2014, Pisa, Italy, December 9-11, 2014, pp. 38-42. paper ***Best young paper award***
  • P. Basile, A. Caputo, G. Semeraro. Combining Distributional Semantic Models and Sense Distribution for Effective Italian Word Sense Disambiguation, in Proceedings of the First Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CLiC-it 2014 & the Fourth International Workshop EVALITA 2014, Pisa, Italy, December 9-11, 2014, pp. 38-42. paper
  • P. Basile, A. Caputo, G. Semeraro. An Enhanced Lesk Word Sense Disambiguation Algorithm through a Distributional Semantic Model, in Proceedings of COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, Dublin, Ireland, August 23-29, 2014, pp. 1591-1600. paper
  • A. Caputo, P. Basile, G. Semeraro. UNIBA-CORE: Combining Strategies for Semantic Textual Similarity, in Proceeding of the 2nd Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Volume 1: Proceedings of the Main Conference and the Shared Task: Semantic Textual Similarity, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June, 2013, pp. 169-175.
  • P. Basile, A. Caputo, and G. Semeraro. A Study on Compositional Semantics of Words in Distributional Spaces, in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC2012), Palermo, Italy, 19-21 September 2012. IEEE, ISBN 978-1-4673-4433-3. Slides
  • P. Molino, P. Basile, A. Caputo, P. Lops, and G. Semeraro. Exploiting Distributional Semantic Models in Question Answering, in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC2012), Palermo, Italy, 19-21 September 2012. IEEE, ISBN 978-1-4673-4433-3. Slides
  • P. Basile, A. Caputo, and G. Semeraro. Negation for Document Re-ranking in Ad-hoc Retrieval, in Giambattista Amati, and Fabio Crestani, editors, Advances in Information Retrieval Theory, Proceedings of the Third International Conference, ICTIR 2011, Bertinoro, Italy, September 12-14, 2011. LCNS 6931 Springer 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-23317-3. Slides
  • A. Caputo, P. Basile, and G. Semeraro. From fusion to re-ranking: a semantic approach, in Fabio Crestani, Stéphane Marchand-Maillet, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, Jacques Savoy, editors, Proceeding of the 33rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2010, Geneva, Switzerland, July 19-23, 2010. ACM 2010, ISBN 978-1-4503-0153-4. pdf
  • A. Caputo, P. Basile, and G. Semeraro. Boosting a Semantic Search Engine by Named Entities, in J. Rauch, Z. W. Ras, P. Berka, and T. Elomaa, editors, Proceeding of Foundations of Intelligent Systems: 18th International Symposium, ISMIS 2009, Prague, Czech Republic, September 14-17, 2009, volume 5722 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 241-250. Springer, 2009. ISBN 978-3-642-04124-2.

National and International Workshops

  • P. Basile, A. Caputo, G. Semeraro. UNIBA: Exploiting a Distributional Semantic Model for Disambiguating and Linking Entities in Tweets, in Proceedings, 5th Workshop on Making Sense of Microposts (\#Microposts2015): Big things come in small packages, Florence, Italy, May 18, 2015. paper
  • P. Basile, A. Caputo, G. Semeraro. UNIBA: Combining Distributional Semantic Models and Sense Distribution for Multilingual All-Words Sense Disambiguation and Entity Linking, in Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015), Denver, Colorado, June, 2015, pp. 360--364. paper
  • P. Basile, A. Caputo, G. Semeraro. Extending an Information Retrieval System through Time Event Extraction, in Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Information Filtering and Retrieval co-located with XIII AI*IA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2014), Pisa, Italy, December 10, 2014, pp. 36-47. paper
  • P. Basile, A. Caputo, G. Semeraro. UNIBA: Combining Distributional Semantic Models and Word Sense Disambiguation for Textual Similarity, in Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2014), Dublin, Ireland, August 23-24, 2014, pp. 748-753. paper
  • A. Caputo, P. Basile, G. Semeraro. UNIBA: Distributional Semantics for Textual Similarity. In *SEM 2012: The First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics -- Volume 1: Proceedings of the main conference and the shared task, and Volume 2: Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2012), Montreal, Canada, June 7-8, 2012, pp. 591--596, Association for Computational Linguistics. Online pdf.
  • P. Basile, A. Caputo, G. Semeraro. Orthogonal Negation for Document Re-ranking. In G. Amati, C. Carpineto, G. Semeraro, editors, Proceedings of the 3rd Italian Information Retrieval (IIR) Workshop, Bari, Italy, January 26-27, 2012, pp. 14-17, volume 835 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR-WS.org, 2012. ISSN 1613-0073. Online pdf.
  • P. Basile, A. Caputo, G. Semeraro. Encoding Syntactic Dependencies using Random Indexing and Wikipedia as a Corpus. In G. Amati, C. Carpineto, G. Semeraro, editors, Proceedings of the 3rd Italian Information Retrieval (IIR) Workshop, Bari, Italy, January 26-27, 2012, pp. 144-154, volume 835 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR-WS.org, 2012. ISSN 1613-0073. Online pdf.
  • P. Basile, A. Caputo, G. Semeraro. Encoding syntactic dependencies by vector permutation. In Proceedings of the GEMS 2011 Workshop on GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics, Edinburgh, UK, July, 2011, pp. 43-51, Association for Computational Linguistics. Online pdf.
  • A. Caputo, B. Piwowarski, M. Lalmas. A Query Algebra for Quantum Information Retrieval. In M. Melucci, S. Mizzaro and G. Pasi, editors, Proceedings of the 2nd Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR2011), Milan, Italy, January 27-28, 2011, volume 704 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR-WS.org, 2011. ISSN 1613-0073. Online pdf.
  • A. Caputo, P. Basile and G. Semeraro. From Terms to Concepts: A Revisited Approach to Local Context Analysis. In M. Melucci, S. Mizzaro and G. Pasi, editors, Proceedings of the 2nd Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR2011), Milan, Italy, January 27-28, 2011, volume 704 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR-WS.org, 2011. ISSN 1613-0073. Online pdf.
  • P. Basile, A. Caputo and G. Semeraro. Semantic Re-ranking in Ad-hoc Robust Retrieval. In M. Melucci, S. Mizzaro and G. Pasi, editors, Proceedings of the 2nd Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR2011), Milan, Italy, January 27-28, 2011, volume 704 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR-WS.org, 2011. ISSN 1613-0073. Online pdf.
  • P. Basile, A. Caputo and G. Semeraro. Semantic Vectors: an Information Retrieval Scenario. In M. Melucci, S. Mizzaro and G. Pasi, editors, Proceedings of the First Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR2010), Padua, Italy, January 27-28, 2010, volume 560 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR-WS.org, 2010. ISSN 1613-0073. Online pdf.
  • A. Caputo, P. Basile and G. Semeraro. Integrating Named Entities in a Semantic Search Engine. In M. Melucci, S. Mizzaro and G. Pasi, editors, Proceedings of the First Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR2010), Padua, Italy, January 27-28, 2010, volume 560 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR-WS.org, 2010. ISSN 1613-0073. Online pdf.
  • P. Basile, A. Caputo, and G. Semeraro. UNIBA-SENSE @ CLEF 2009: Robust WSD Task. In F. Borri, A. Nardi, and C. Peters, editors, Results of Cross-Language Evaluation Forum 2009 (CLEF2009), page 10. 2009. ISBN 978-88-88506-84-5. ISSN: 1818-8044.
  • P. Basile, A. Caputo, and G. Semeraro. Exploiting Disambiguation and Discrimination in Information Retrieval Systems. In Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops, Milan, Italy, 15-18 September 2009 , pp. 539-542. IEEE, 2009. ISBN 978-0-7695-3801-3.
  • A. Caputo, P. Basile, and G. Semeraro. Sense: Semantic N-levels Search Engine at CLEF2008 ad Hoc Robust-WSD Track. In C. Peters, T. Deselaers, N. Ferro, J. Gonzalo, G. J. F. Jones, M. Kurimo, T. Mandl, A. Peñas, and V. Petras, editors, Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access, 9th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2008, Aarhus, Denmark, September 17-19, 2008, Revised Selected Papers , volume 5706 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science , pp. 126-133. Springer, 2008. ISBN 978-3-642-04446-5.
  • 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. Online 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. Online pdf.
  • 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 pdf.

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Tools


SEmantic N-levels Search Engine


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Links

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Creativity resurgence (logos by me)



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