SWAP - Semantic Web Access and Personalization Research Group

Marco Polignano

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Bari Aldo Moro
Department of Computer Science
Via E.Orabona, 4 - 70126 BARI, Italy
Room 759, 7th Floor

Phone: +39 080 5442298
e-mail: marco.polignano[_AT_]uniba.it


https://www.linkedin.com/in/marco-polignano-a67a1a28/




Research Interests and Activities | Publications | Conferences | Teaching | European Experiences | Projects | Annexes | Datasets





Main Research Interests

Intelligent Information Access

  • Recommender Systems
  • Information Filtering
  • Hybrid Recommendation Strategies
  • Machine Learning Techniques for Recommender Systems

Personalization

  • Emotions detection and extraction
  • Personality as user profile feature
  • Sentiment Analysis and features extraction
  • User Modeling and Profiling

Publications

  • de Gemmis, M., Lops, P., Polignano, M.: Recommender Systems, Basics Of, pp. 1–13. Springer New York, New York, NY (2017), http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_110158-1
  • Marco Polignano, Fedelucio Narducci, Marco de Gemmis, Giovanni Semeraro: Do you feel blue? Detection of negative feeling from social media. AI*IA 2017 Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Springer International Publishing, 2017.
  • Marco Polignano, Pierpaolo Basile, Gaetano Rossiello, Marco De Gemmis and Giovanni Semeraro: Learning inclination to empathy from social media footprints. In Proceedings of UMAP '17, July 09-12, 2017, Bratislava, Slovakia. ACM ISBN 978-1-4503-4635-1/17/07 http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079639
  • Marco Polignano, Pierpaolo Basile, Gaetano Rossiello, Marco De Gemmis and Giovanni Semeraro: User's Social Media Profile as Predictor of Empathy. In Proceedings of UMAP'17 Adjunct, July 09-12, 2017, Bratislava, Slovakia © 2017 Association for Computing Machinery. ACM ISBN 978-1-4503-5067-9/17/07 http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3099023.3099103
  • Marco Polignano, Pierpaolo Basile, Gaetano Rossiello, Marco De Gemmis and Giovanni Semeraro: Empathic inclination from digital footprints. In Proceedings of the 8th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2017).
  • Fedelucio Narducci, Cataldo Musto, Marco Polignano, Marco de Gemmis, Pasquale Lops, Giovanni Semeraro: Recommending Doctors and Health Facilities in the HealthNet Social Network. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Social Media for Personalization and Search co-located with 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2017) - ISSN:1613-0073- Vol-1840 urn:nbn:de:0074-1840-0. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1840/
  • Polignano Marco: Affective aspects as uncertain variables in decisional processes. In Doctoral Consortium of AI*IA 2016. In CEUR Workshop Proceedings - ISSN:1613-0073- Vol-1769 urn:nbn:de:0074-1769-9. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1769/
  • Polignano Marco; Marco de Gemmis: Recommender Systems supporting Decision Making through Analysis of User Emotions and Personality. In Doctoral Consortium of AI*IA 2015. In CEUR Workshop Proceedings - ISSN:1613-0073. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1485/
  • Marco Polignano: The Influence of User's Emotions in Recommender Systems for Decision Making Processes. In Doctoral Consortium of CHItaly 2015. In CEUR Workshop Proceedings - ISSN:1613-0073 vol. 1462, pp.58-66, 2015 http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1462/
  • Marco Polignano: A Framework for Emotion-aware Recommender Systems supporting Decision Making. Proceedings of Future Directions of Information Access FDIA, Pages:12-15, 2015 http://ewic.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/55223
  • Fedelucio Narducci, Cataldo Musto, Marco Polignano, Marco de Gemmis, Pasquale Lops, Giovanni Semeraro: A Recommender System for Connecting Patients to the Right Doctors in the HealthNet Social Network. WWW (Companion Volume) Pages: 81 -82, 2015http://www.www2015.it/documents/proceedings/companion/p81.pdf
  • Cataldo Musto, Giovanni Semeraro, Marco Polignano: A comparison of Lexicon-based approaches for Sentiment Analysis of microblog posts. Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Information Filtering and Retrieval co-located with XIII AI*IA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, 2014 http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1314/dart2014-complete.pdf

Conferences

• 13th Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA) 2014. Pisa (Italia), 10 - 12 Dicembre 2014. Presentazione al Workshop MLDM. Scholarship offerta da AI*IA Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale

• Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA) 2015. Thessaloniki (Greece), 2 Settembre 2015. Presentazione a conferenza principale più poster. Scholarship offerta da ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR).

• 14th Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA) 2015. Ferrara (Italia), 23 - 25 September 2015. Presentazione a Doctoral Symposium più poster. Scholarship offerta da AI*IA Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale

• Computer Human Interaction Italy (CHItaly) 2015. Roma (Italia), 28-30 Settembre 2015. Presentazione a Doctoral Symposium.

• 15th Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA) 2016. Genova (Italia), 28 - 1 Novembre 2016. Presentazione al Doctoral Symposium. Scholarship offerta da AI*IA Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale

• 8th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2017). Lugano (Switzerland), 5 - 7 Giugno 2017.

• User Modeling and Personalization (UMAP 2017) - International Conference. Bratislava (Slovakia), 9 - 12 Luglio 2017. Main Conference and HUM 2017 Workshop: HOLISTIC USER MODELING

• 11th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2017) - International Conference. Como (Italy), 27th-31st August 2017. Main Conference.

Summer Schools

• BigDat 2017, 3rd International Winter School on Big Data, Bari, Italy, February 13-17, 2017

• ESSIR 2015: Dott. Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Dott. Symeon Papadopoulos, Dott.ssa Theodora Tsikrika, Dott. Stefanos Vrochidis: “10th European Summer School in Information Retrieval ESSIR 2015”, Thessaloniki (Greece), 31 Agosto - 4 Settembre 2015

Teaching

•Supporto alla didattica per Laboratorio di Informatica 2014/2015, Corso di Laurea in Informatica e Tecnologie per la produzione del software. Docente: Dr. Fabio Calefato

•Supporto alla didattica per Laboratorio di Informatica 2014/2015, Corso di Laurea in Informatica. Docente: Prof. Fabio Abbattista

European Experiences

  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions

SEO-DWARF (Semantic EO Data Web Alert and Retrieval Framework)

Research Fellowship Programme: Planetek Hellas, Athens Greece - http://www.planetek.gr/

Collaboration in the European Horizon 2020, Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions - Research Fellowship Programme, project SEO-DWARF (Semantic EO Data Web Alert and Retrieval Framework): Programme/Call: H2020 — H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 Proposal: 691071.

Development of the Retrieval algorithm based on a structured semantic knowledge-base for dealing with earth observation images obtained from the COPERNICUS earth monitoring project https://seo-dwarf.eu/

Projects

  • MAIVISTO: Massive Adaptive Internet VIdeo STreaming using the clOud: Bando MIUR Start up (D.D 436 del 13 Marzo 2013) – Linea 1 Big Data. Design and implementation of a multimedia recommender system with innovative strategies for overcoming the Cold-Start problem. 
   Partners: Quavlive, Polithecnic of Bari, Uniba, ARS, I-Cube
  • Digital Services Ecosystem DSE: PON03PE_00136_1, ICT/Tecnologie per Smart Communities. Design and implementation of a recommender system for services used as support tools during the software implementation.
  • HealthNet:Recommender system and back office for HealthNet (The Health Social network), "Apulian ICT Living Labs" P.O. FESR PUGLIA 2007-2013 - Asse I - Linea di Intervento 1.4 - Azio-ne 1.4.2. - A.D. n. 307 del 31.07.2012.
  • PARSECO: Recommender systems and back office for Web Portal realized to increase the recycling of used domestic oils, "Apulian ICT Living Labs" P.O. FESR PUGLIA 2007-2013 - Asse I - Linea di Intervento 1.4 - Azio-ne 1.4.2. - A.D. n. 307 del 31.07.2012.

Annexes

Please cite:

Released Datasets

  • Emotion-driven Opinion Mining, 400k categorized news, 1.3M general social media messages: http://bit.ly/2AftYeZ



Please cite:

@inproceedings{polignano2018emotion,
author={Polignano, Marco and Pierpaolo, Basile and De Gemmis, Marco and Semeraro, Giovanni},
title={An Emotion-driven Approach for Aspect-based Opinion Mining},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop},
editor = {Nicola Tonellotto and Luca Becchetti and Marko Tkal{\v{c}}i{\v{c}}},
volume={2140},
year={2018},
url={http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2140/}
}

Research Interests and Activities | Publications | Conferences | Teaching | European Experiences | Projects | Annexes | Datasets