Main Research Interests
- Intelligent Information Access (Recommender Systems, Information Filtering, Hybrid Recommendation Strategies)
- Information Retrieval (Natural Language Processing techniques, Personalized Retrieval)
- Semantic Web (Knowledge Representation, Ontologies)
Member of the Program Committee
- EC-Web 2009 (10th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies, Linz, Austria, 31 August-4 September, 2009)
- HIS 2008 (8th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Barcelona, Spain, September 10-12, 2008)
- KES 2008 (12th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems)
- (TUMAS-A) 2008 Towards User Modelling and Adaptive Systems for All: Web Intelligence & Intelligent Agent Technology in eLearning, nell’ambito della conferenza internazionale IEEE/WIC/ACM 2008 (Joint International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, Sydney, Australia, December 9-12, 2008)
- Web X.0 and Web mining workshop (WWM), nell’ambito della First International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (HCI 2009), Allahabad, India, January 19, 2009
- Wikis, Blogs, Bookmarking Tools - Mining theWeb 2.0, nell’ambito della conferenza internazionale ECML/PKDD 2008 (19th European Conference on Machine Learning & 12th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Antwerp, Belgium, September 15, 2008)
- Recommender Systems and Personalized Retrieval (RSPR 2008), nell’ambito della conferenza internazionale ICADIWT 2008 (1st IEEE International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information andWeb Technologies, Ostrava, Czech Republic. August 4-6, 2008)
- Engineered Applications of Semantic Web (SWEA), invited session at the International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2008)
- ECML-PKDD 2007 - 18th European Conference on Machine Learning and 11th European Conference on Principles and Practice on Knowledge Discovery in Databases
- HIS 2007 (7th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems and the 5th Conference on Neuro-Computing and Evolving Intelligence)
- Workshop on Web Mining 2.0 2007, in congiunzione con 18th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and Principles and 11th European Conference on Practice on Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD) 2007
- SWAP 2007 (4th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives)
- AC 2007 (IADIS International Conference Applied Computing)
- Engineered Applications of Semantic Web (SWEA), invited session at the International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2007)
- AC 2006 (IADIS International Conference Applied Computing)
- Workshop on Web Mining 2006 (WebMine), in congiunzione con 17th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and 10th Principles and Practice on Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD) 2006
- HIS 2006 (6th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems and the 4th Conference on Neuro-Computing and Evolving Intelligence)
Events Co-organizer
- Program Co-chair of the International Workshop on Recommender Systems and Personalized Retrieval (RSPR 2008) at the First IEEE International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2008), Ostrava, Czech Republic, August 4-6, 2008
- Intelligent Information Access (IIA) 2008. Cagliari, December 9-11, 2008. Role: local organizer
- 4th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP) 2007. Bari, December 18-20, 2007. Role: local organizer
- Convegno Italiano di Logica Computazionale (CILC) 2006. Bari, June 26-27, 2006. Role: local organizer
- Co-chair of the parallel session Future Directions in Personalization and Context-Aware Access, at UAHCI 2005, 3rd International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Las Vegas, USA, July 22-27, 2005
- Workshop on Environments for Personalized Information Access (EPIA) at Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2004. Gallipoli, May 25-28, 2004. Role: Local organizer
Referee
International Volumes and Journals
- Encyclopaedia of Digital Libraries, Edited by Yin-Leng Theng, Schubert Foo, Dion Goh Hoe Lian, and Jin-Cheon Na, School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
- IJMSO International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies
- DKE Data & Knowledge Engineering Journal
- Clare-Marie Karat, Jan Blom, and John Karat (Eds), Designing Personalized User Experiences for eCommerce, Kluwer Academic Publishers
- ACM TOIT ACM Transactions on Internet Technologies, Special Issue on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization
- IJEC International Journal of Electronic Commerce, special issue on Recommender Systems
International Conferences
- ECIR 2009 (European Conference on Information Retrieval)
- ECAI 2008 (European Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
- ECML-PKDD 2008 (European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases)
- ECIR 2008 (European Conference on Information Retrieval)
- RecSys 2008 (ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems)
- DaWaK 2008 (International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discoovery)
- IJCAI 2007 (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
- SIGIR 2007 (Poster and Demonstration Session alla International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval)
- ECIR 2007 (European Conference on Information Retrieval)
- KES 2007 (International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems)
- ECML-PKDD 2006 (European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases)
- ADMA 2006 (Advanced Data Mining and Applications)
- ISMIS 2006 (International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems)
- ECML-PKDD 2005 (European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases)
- IEA-AIE 2005 (International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems)
- SWAP 2005 (Sematic Web Application and Perspectives)
- ADMA 2005 (Advanced Data Mining and Applications)
- ECAI 2004 (European Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
- ECML-PKDD 2004 (European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases)
- ISMIS 2003 (International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems)
- AI*IA 2003 (Congresso Nazionale Associazione Italiana Intelligenza Artificiale)
- ICML 2002 (International Conference on Machine Learning)
- ECDL 2002 (European Conference on Digital Libraries)
- DAS 2002 (Document Analysis Systems)
Associations
- AAAI (The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)
- AI*IA (Associazione Italiana per l’Intelligenza Artificiale)
- AICA (Associazione Italiana per l’Informatica ed il Calcolo Automatico)
- SIGLEX (the ACL special interest group on the lexicon)