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
Conferences
- *13th Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (AIIA) 2014** (Pisa, Italy, December 10-12, 2014). Presentation at the MLDM Workshop. Scholarship offered by AI*IA Associazione Italiana per l’Intelligenza Artificiale.
- Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA) 2015 (Thessaloniki, Greece, September 2, 2015). Presentation at the main conference and poster session. Scholarship offered by ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR).
- *14th Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIIA) 2015** (Ferrara, Italy, September 23-25, 2015). Presentation at the Doctoral Symposium and poster session. Scholarship offered by AI*IA Associazione Italiana per l’Intelligenza Artificiale.
- Computer Human Interaction Italy (CHItaly) 2015 (Rome, Italy, September 28-30, 2015). Presentation at the Doctoral Symposium.
- *15th Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (AIIA) 2016** (Genoa, Italy, November 28 - December 1, 2016). Presentation at the Doctoral Symposium. Scholarship offered by AI*IA Associazione Italiana per l’Intelligenza Artificiale.
- 8th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2017) (Lugano, Switzerland, June 5-7, 2017).
- User Modeling and Personalization (UMAP 2017) - International Conference (Bratislava, Slovakia, July 9-12, 2017). Main Conference and HUM 2017 Workshop: HOLISTIC USER MODELING.
- 11th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2017) - International Conference (Como, Italy, August 27th-31st, 2017). Main Conference.
Summer Schools
- BigDat 2017 (3rd International Winter School on Big Data), Bari, Italy, February 13-17, 2017.
- ESSIR 2015 (10th European Summer School in Information Retrieval), Thessaloniki, Greece, August 31 - September 4, 2015.
Teaching
- Teaching assistant for Laboratory of Informatics 2014/2015, Degree Course in Computer Science and Technologies for Software Production. Professor: Dr. Fabio Calefato.
- Teaching assistant for Laboratory of Informatics 2014/2015, Degree Course in Computer Science. Professor: 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, Polytechnic 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 - Azione 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 - Azione 1.4.2. - A.D. n. 307 del 31.07.2012.
Annexes
Professional Activities:
- PC member of IUI 2018, 23rd International Conference of Intelligent User interfaces, 7-11 March 2018 – Tokyo, Japan
- Local Organizer AixiA 2017 Conference of Artificial Intelligence http://aiia2017.di.uniba.it/
- PC Member INTELLI 2017 https://www.iaria.org/conferences2017/ComINTELLI17.html
- Member of AixiA 2014 – 2015 – 2016 (Italian Association of Artificial Intelligence) http://www.aixia.it/
- Member of IxDA 2015 (International Association of Interaction Design) http://ixda.org/
- Member of CINI 2015 -2016 (National Consortium for University and IT) https://www.consorzio-cini.it/index.php
- Member of IARIA 2016 (International Academy, Research, and Industry Association) https://www.iaria.org/
- Member of ACM 2017 (Association for Computing Machinery) http://www.acm.org/
- Reviewer for IEEE Access (The Multidisciplinary Open Access Journal) http://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/
- Approved application for a Microsoft Azure Research Award 2016 - Microsoft Azure sponsorship up to USD 20,000.00
- Students’ Tutor and Auditor of 2° level Master in “DATA SCIENCE: Metodologie, analisi, progettazione, soluzioni” Polytechnique of Bari, (Italy) And Spegea - Business School. http://www.poliba.it/it/didattica/master
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 Tkalčić},
volume = {2140},
year = {2018},
url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2140/}
}