Pasquale Lops Full Professor

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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)

Short CV

2023: Full professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Bari, Italy.

2004: Assistant professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Bari, Italy.

2005: PhD in Computer Science, University of Bari, Italy.

• Thesis: Hybrid Recommendation Techniques based on User Profiles

2004: July 2004-September 2004, research student at the Fraunhofer Integrated Publications and Informations Systems Institute, Darmstadt, Germany

2001: Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Bari, Italy

1997: Laurea degree in Computer Science, University of Bari, Italy

Organizing Committees

• Late-Breaking Results and Demos co-chair at 26th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2018), Singapore, June 2018;
• Program co-chair of the Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS), at the 11th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2017), Como, Italy, August 27-31, 2017;
• Area Chair on User Modelling for Recommender Systems at UMAP 2016, International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (Halifax, Canada, July 13-17, 2016);
• Program co-chair of the Workshop on New Trends in Content-based Recommender Systems (CBRecSys), at the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2016), Boston, USA, September 15-19, 2016;
• Program co-chair of the Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS), at the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2016), Boston, USA, September 15-19, 2016;
• Publicity co-chair of the 9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2015), Vienna, Austria, September 16-20, 2015;
• Program co-chair of the Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS), at the 9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2015), Vienna, Austria, September 16-20, 2015;
• Program co-chair of DeCAT 2015: 1st International Workshop on Deep Content Analytics Techniques for Personalized and Intelligent Services, at the 23rd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015), Dublin, Ireland, June 30, 2015;
• Program co-chair of the Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS), at the 8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2014), Foster City, Silicon Valley (USA), October 6, 2014;
• Workshop and Tutorial co-chair of the 21st International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2013), Rome, Italy, June 10-14, 2013;
• Program co-chair of the 14th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web 2013), Prague, Czech Republic, August 26-30, 2013;
• Program co-chair of the Workshop on Human Decision Making in Recommender Systems (Decisions), at the 7th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2013), Hong Kong, China, October 12-16, 2013;
• Program co-chair of the Workshop on Recommender Systems meet Big Data and Semantic Technologies, at the 7th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2013), Hong Kong, China, October 12-16, 2013;
• Program co-chair of the International Workshop on Recommender Systems meet Databases, at the 24th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2013), Prague, Czech Republic, August 26-29, 2013;
• Program co-chair of the 13th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web 2012), Wien, Austria, September 3-7, 2012;
• Program co-chair of the Workshop on Human Decision Making in Recommender Systems (Decisions), at the 6th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2012), Dublin, Ireland, September 9-13, 2012;
• Program co-chair of the International Workshop on Semantic and Adaptive Social Web (SASWeb), at the 20th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2012), Montreal, Canada, July 16-20, 2012;
• Program co-chair of the International Workshop on Semantic Technologies meet Recommender Systems & Big Data (SeRSy), at the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012), Boston, USA, November 11-15, 2012;
• Program co-chair of the International Workshop on Recommender Systems meet Databases, at the 23rd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2012), Wien, Austria, September 3-7, 2012;
• Program co-chair of the International Workshop on Semantic Personalized Information Management: Retrieval and Recommendation, at the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011), Bonn, Germany, October 23-27, 2011;
• Program co-chair of the International Workshop on Semantic Adaptive Social Web (SASWeb), at the 19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011), Girona, Spain, July 11-15, 2011;
• Program co-chair of the International Workshop on Decision Making and Recommendations Acceptance Issues in Recommender Systems (DEMRA), at the 19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011), Girona, Spain, July 11-15, 2011;
• Program co-chair of the International Workshop on Recommender Systems meet Databases, at the 22nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2011), Toulouse, France, August 29-September 2, 2011;
• Track Chair on Recommender Systems at EC-Web 2011, 12th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (Toulouse, France, 29 August-2 September, 2011);
• Track Chair on Recommender Systems at EC-Web 2010, 11th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (Bilbao, Spain, 30 August-3 September, 2010);
• Program co-chair of the International Workshop on Web 3.0: Merging Semantic Web and Social Web at the 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext 2009), Turin, Italy, June 29-July 1, 2009;
• 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;
• Local organizer of Intelligent Information Access (IIA) 2008. Cagliari, December 9-11, 2008;
• Local organizer of the 4th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP) 2007. Bari, December 18-20, 2007;
• Local organizer of the Convegno Italiano di Logica Computazionale (CILC) 2006. Bari, June 26-27, 2006;
• Co-organizer 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;
• Local organizer of the Workshop on Environments for Personalized Information Access (EPIA) at Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2004. Gallipoli, May 25-28, 2004.

Invited Talks and Tutorials

• A look behind the curtains of semantics-aware techniques for user modelling and recommender systems, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin (Italy), September 22, 2017.
• Recent Developments of Content-Based Recommender Systems, ACM Summer School on Recommender Systems, Bolzano (Italy), August 25, 2017.
• Generating Natural Language Explanations for Recommender Systems, Keynote at the Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation on User Modeling and Recommender Systems, Haifa, Israel, July 18, 2017.
• Semantics-Aware Techniques for Social Media Analysis, User Modeling, and Recommender Systems, Tutorial at 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), 9-12 July 2017 - Bratislava.
• Beyond TFIDF, Coursera Interview for the Introduction to Recommender Systems: Non-Personalized and Content-Based specialization, Recommender Systems course, January 2017.
• Semantics-Aware Techniques for Social Media Analysis, User Modeling, and Recommender Systems, Tutorial at 24th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), 13-17 July 2016 - Halifax, Canada. (slides available on Slideshare).
• Semantics-aware Content-based Recommender Systems: the Big Picture, Keynote at RecSoc 2015: Social and Semantic aspects of recommender systems - A workshop on advances in recommender systems, Haifa, Israel, June 16-17, 2015.
• Semantics-aware Content-based Recommender Systems: the Big Picture, Keynote at the 1st Workshop on New Trends in Content-Based Recommender Systems, in conjunction with the ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems, Foster City, Silicon Valley (USA), October 6, 2014 (slides available on Slideshare).
• Semantics-aware Recommender Systems, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples (Italy), November 25, 2013.
• Machine (Learn/Read)ing for Knowledge Infusion in Small Brains from Big Data, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica Automatica Gestionale, Università Sapienza, Rome (Italy), June 13, 2012.
• Big Data, Small Brains: Deep Content Analytics for Better Recommendations and Human-Computer Decision Making, Distretto Produttivo dell’Informatica, Gruppo di Lavoro su Business Process Management, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, 7 Giugno 2012.
• Big Data, Small Brains: Deep Content Analytics for Better Recommendations, Dipartimento di Informatica e Automazione, Università degli Studi Roma 3, Rome (Italy), January 9, 2012.
• Information Retrieval and Information Filtering: two battlefields for NLP techniques, University of Basque Country, San Sebastian (Spain), May 6, 2011.
• Tecnologie del linguaggio a supporto dei Sistemi per l’Accesso Intelligente all’Informazione orientati ai contenuti, Forum per il Trattamento Automatico della Lingua (TAL 2010), Rome, October 29, 2010.
• Document Indexing based on Word Sense Disambiguation, WordNet and Wikipedia, Workshop on Natural Language Processing, AI*IA 2008, Cagliari (Italy), September 11, 2008.
• Accesso Intelligente all’Informazione, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica ed Elettronica dell’Università degli Studi di Cagliari, April 8, 2008.

Editorial Boards

• Member of the Editorial Board of the Frontiers in Robotics and AI (Computational Intelligence)
• Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS)
• User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI). Guest editor, special issue on Recommender Systems based on Rich Item Descriptions.
• ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (ACM TiiS). Guest editor, special issue on Human Decision Making and Recommender Systems.
• ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST). Guest editor, special issue on Semantic Adaptive Social Web (SASWeb).

Program Committees

• WWW 2018, 2017 (World Wide Web Conference);
• UMAP 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014 (International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization);
• SAC 2018, 2017, 2014 (ACM Symposium on Applied Computing);
• CIKM 2016 (ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management);
• IUI 2017, 2016 (International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Senior Program Committee);
• SOAP@UMAP 2016 (International Workshop on Surprise, Opposition, and Obstruction in Adaptive and Personalized Systems);
• IUI 2015, 2014 (International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces);
• FinRec 2016, 2015 (International Workshop on Personalization and Recommender Systems in Financial Services);
• SocInf@IJCAI 2015 (International Workshop on Social Influence Analysis);
• CBRecSys@RecSys 2015, 2014 (International Workshop on New Trends in Content-based Recommender Systems);
• RecSys 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014 (ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Senior Program Committee);
• UMAP 2014 Doctoral Consortium;
• HT 2015, 2014 (ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media);
• AVI 2014 (ACM Advanced Visual Interfaces);
• ESWC 2015, 2014 Challenge on Linked Open Data-enabled Recommender Systems;
• LREC 2014 (International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation);
• EMPIRE@UMAP2014 (Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services);
• LLUM@UMAP2014 (Lifelong User Modeling);
• LiUD@UMAP2014 (Linking User Data);
• SNOW@WWW 2016, 2014 (Social News on the Web)
• RecSys 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 (ACM Conference on Recommender Systems);
• RecSys 2012 Doctoral Symposium;
• ISMIS 2012, 2011 (International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems);
• DART 2012, 2011 (International Workshop on New Challenges in Distributed Information Filtering and Retrieval);
• HSI 2010 (Session: Accessing, Structuring, Analyzing and Adapting Information in Web 2.0), (IEEE International Conference on Human System Interaction);
• PICom 2009 (IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing);
• ISDA 2009 (Session S1: Computational Intelligence for Personalization in Web Content and Service Delivery), (International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications);
• EC-Web 2009 (International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies);
• ICADIWT 2009 (International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies);
• HIS 2008, 2007, 2006 (International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems);
• KES 2008 (International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems);
• ECML-PKDD 2007 (European Conference on Machine Learning and 11^{th} European Conference on Principles and Practice on Knowledge Discovery in Databases);
• AC 2007, 2006 (IADIS International Conference Applied Computing);
• SPIM 2013, 2012, 2011 (Semantic Personalized Information Management);
• Personalized Knowledge Modeling with Big (Usage & Context) Data 2012, nell’ambito della International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptiation and Personalization (UMAP);
• Human Decision Making in Recommender Systems (Decisions) 2012, nell’ambito della ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys);
• IIR 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 (Italian Information Retrieval Workshop);
• CaRR 2014, 2012, 2011 (International Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation);
• HetRec 2011 (International workshop on Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems), nell’ambito della conferenza internazionale ACM Recommender Systems (RecSys);
• CAMRa 2011 (Challenge on Context-Aware Movie Recommendation), nell’ambito della conferenza internazionale ACM Recommender Systems (RecSys);
• SASWeb 2010 (International Workshop on Adaptation in Social and Semantic Web), nell’ambito della International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptiation and Personalization (UMAP);
• Towards User Modelling and Adaptive Systems for All (TUMAS-A) 2008: 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);
• Web X.0 and Web mining workshop (WWM), nell’ambito della First International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (HCI 2009);
• International Workshop on Wikis, Blogs, Bookmarking Tools - Mining the Web 2.0, nell’ambito della conferenza internazionale ECML/PKDD 2008 ($19^{th}$ European Conference on Machine Learning \& $12^{th}$ European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases);
• International Workshop on ``Recommender Systems and Personalized Retrieval (RSPR 2008), nell’ambito della conferenza internazionale ICADIWT 2008 ($1^{st}$ IEEE International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies);
• Engineered Applications of Semantic Web (SWEA), invited session at the International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2008);
• Workshop on Web Mining 2.0 2007, in congiunzione con $18^{th}$ European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and Principles and $11^{th}$ European Conference on Practice on Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD) 2007;
• Engineered Applications of Semantic Web (SWEA), invited session at the International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2007);
• SWAP 2007 (Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives);
• Workshop on Web Mining 2006 (WebMine), in congiunzione con $17^{th}$ European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and $10^{th}$ Principles and Practice on Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD) 2006.

Reviewing Committees

International Volumes and Journals

• ACM Transactions on the Information Systems (2017)
• Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Elsevier (2017)
• International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (2017)
• ACM Transactions on the Web (2016)
• Computer Science Review, Elsevier (2015)
• Knowledge-Based Systems, Elsevier (2015)
• International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (2015)
• ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (2014), Special issue on Recommender System Benchmarking;
• The Computer Journal, Oxford Journals (2014)
• Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley (2014)
• International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Elsevier (2013, 2009)
• Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier (2013, 2012)
• ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (2012), Special issue on Human Decision Making and Recommender Systems
• Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Springer (2013, 2012)
• ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (2011), Special issue on Personalization and Persuasion;
• Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier (2011);
• ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (2010), Special issue on Search and Mining User Generated Contents;
• IEEE Internet Computing (2010), Special issue on Information Overload;
• International Journal of Web Semantics, Elsevier (2009)
• Recommender Systems Handbook: A Complete Guide for Research Scientists & Practitioners, edited by Paul Kantor, Francesco Ricci, Lior Rokach, Bracha Shapira (2009)
• International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Elsevier (2009)
• 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 (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

• WSDM 2014, 2013 (International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining);
• ECIR 2013, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007 (European Conference on Information Retrieval);
• AIIA 2013 (International Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence);
• K-CAP 2011 (International Conference on Knowledge Capture);
• IIR 2011 (2nd Italian Information Retrieval Workshop);
• UMAP 2013, 2010 (International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization);
• ECML-PKDD 2010, 2008, 2006, 2005, 2004 (European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases);
• LREC 2012, 2010 (International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation);
• IRCDL 2010 (Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries);
• ISDA 2010 (International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications);
• SWAP 2010, 2005 (Italian Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives);
• RecSys 2009, 2008 (ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems);
• ECAI 2008, 2004 (European Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
• ECIR 2008 (European Conference on Information Retrieval)
• DaWaK 2008 (International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discoovery)
• SIGIR 2007 (Poster and Demonstration Session alla International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval)
• IJCAI 2007 (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
• KES 2007 (International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems)
• ADMA 2006, 2005 (Advanced Data Mining and Applications)
• ISMIS 2006, 2003 (International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems)
• IEA-AIE 2005 (International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems)
• ISMIS 2006, 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);
• GRIN (GRuppo nazionale di INformatica);
• GII (Gruppo di Ingegneria Informatica);
• SIGLEX (the ACL special interest group on the lexicon).

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