Publications

2021

  • Word2Fun: Modelling Words as Functions for Diachronic Word Representation, B. Wang, E. Di Buccio and M. Melucci. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34 (NeurIPS 2021), December 6-14.

2020

  • Monitoring technoscientific issues in the news, A. Cammozzo, E. Di Buccio, and F. Neresini. In ECML PKDD 2020 Workshops - Workshops of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2020), Ghent, Belgium, September 14-18, 2020, Proceedings, vol. 1323 of Communications in Computer and Information Science, pp. 536-553, Springer.
  • Towards multimodal sentiment analysis inspired by the quantum theoretical framework, Q. Li, A. Stefani, G. Toto, E. Di Buccio and M. Melucci. In 3rd IEEE Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval, MIPR 2020, Shenzhen, China, August 6-8, 2020, pp. 177-180, IEEE.
  • University of Padova @ DIACR-Ita (short paper), B. Wang, E. Di Buccio and M. Melucci. In Proceedings of the Seventh Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop (EVALITA 2020), Online event, December 17th, 2020 (V. Basile, D. Croce, M. D. Maro, and L. C. Passaro, eds.), vol. 2765 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR-WS.org.
  • Exploring socio-technical future scenarios in the media: the energy transition case in italian daily newspapers, F. Neresini, P. Giardullo, E. Di Buccio, and A. Cammozzo. Quality & Quantity, no. 1/2020.

2019

  • Searching for information with meet and join operators, E. Di Buccio and M. Melucci. In Quantum-Like Models for Information Retrieval and Decision-Making (D. Aerts, A. Khrennikov, M. Melucci, and B. Toni, eds.), pp. 145-168, Cham: Springer International Publishing.
  • Representing words in vector space and beyond, B. Wang, E. Di Buccio and M. Melucci. In Quantum-Like Models for Information Retrieval and Decision-Making (D. Aerts, A. Khrennikov, M. Melucci, and B. Toni, eds.), pp. 83-113, Cham: Springer International Publishing.
  • Tracking biomedicalization in the media: Public discourses on health and medicine in the UK and Italy, 1984-2017, F. Neresini, S. Crabu, and E. Di Buccio. Social Science & Medicine, vol. 243, p. 112621.

2018

  • Utilizing Sources of Evidence in Relevance Feedback through Geometry, E. Di Buccio. Theoretical Computer Science. vol. 752, pp. 5-20, 2018.
  • Efficient Parameter Estimation for Information Retrieval Using Black-Box Optimization, A. Costa, E. Di Buccio, M. Melucci and G. Nannicini. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 30, issue 7, pp. 1240-1253, 2018.
  • Binary classification model inspired from quantum detection theory, E. Di Buccio, Q. Li, M. Melucci and P. Tiwari. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR '18, (New York, NY, USA), pp. 187-190, ACM.

2017

  • Meeting and joining theme models in vector spaces for information retrieval, E. Di Buccio and M. Melucci. In Flexible Query Answering Systems - 12th International Conference, FQAS 2017, London, UK, June 21-22, Proceedings (H. Christiansen, H. Jaudoin, P. Chountas, T. Andreasen, and H. L. Larsen, eds.), vol. 10333 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 59-70, Springer.

2016

  • Evaluation of a feedback algorithm inspired by quantum detection for dynamic search tasks. E. Di Buccio and M. Melucci. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC2016, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 15-18, 2016.
  • Lucene4IR: Developing Information Retrieval Evaluation Resources using Lucene. L. Azzopardi, Y. Moshfeghi, M. Halvey, R. S. Alkhawaldeh, K. Balog, E. Di Buccio, D. Ceccarelli, J. M. Fernández- Luna, C. Hull, J. Mannix, and S. Palchowdhury. SIGIR Forum, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 58-75, 2016.
  • Unveiling latent states behind social indicators. E. Di Buccio, A. Lorenzet, M. Melucci, and F. Neresini. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Data Science for Social Good co-located with European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Dicovery in Databases, SoGood@ECML-PKDD 2016, Riva del Garda, Italy, September 19, 2016. (R. Gavaldà, I. Zliobaite, and J. Gama, eds.), vol. 1831 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR-WS.org, 2016.
  • Designing A long lasting linguistic project: The case study of ASIt. M. Agosti, E. Di Buccio, G. M. Di Nunzio, C. Poletto, and E. Rinke. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC 2016. Portorož, Slovenia, May 23-28, 2016. (N. Calzolari, K. Choukri, T. Declerck, S. Goggi, M. Grobelnik, B. Maegaard, J. Mariani, H. Mazo, A. Moreno, J. Odijk, and S. Piperidis, eds.), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2016.
  • Towards a text mining-based methodology for studying science and technology representations in the media. E. Di Buccio. in Abstracts for the Data Science & Social Research Conference. University of Napoli Federico II , February 17-19, 2016.

2015

  • A Document Retrieval Model Based on Digital Signal Filtering. A. Costa, E. Di Buccio, and M. Melucci. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, vol. 34, issue 1, article no. 6, 2015.
  • Two Operators to Define and Manipulate Themes of a Document Collection. E. Di Buccio, and M. Melucci. In ICTIR'15 (J. Allan, B. Croft, A. de Vries, C. Zhai, eds.), pp. 377-380, ACM, 2015. Poster.
  • Unfolding Off-the-shelf IR Systems for Reproducibility. E. Di Buccio, G. M. Di Nunzio, N. Ferro, D. Harman, M. Maistro, and G. Silvello. SIGIR Workshop on Reproducibility, Inexplicability, and Generalizability of Results, RIGOR 2015.

2014

  • Detecting verbose queries and improving information retrieval. E. Di Buccio, M. Melucci, and F. Moro. Information Processing and Management, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 342-360, 2014.
  • A linked open data approach for geolinguistics applications. E. Di Buccio, G. M. Di Nunzio, and G. Silvello. International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, vol. 9, pp. 29-41, Feb. 2014.
  • A vector space model for syntactic distances between dialects. E. Di Buccio, G. M. Di Nunzio, and G. Silvello. In LREC (N. Calzolari, K. Choukri, T. Declerck, H. Loftsson, B. Maegaard, J. Mariani, A. Moreno, J. Odijk, and S. Piperidis, eds.), pp. 2486-2489, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2014.
  • Measuring syntactic distances between dialects: A web application for annotating dialectal data. E. Di Buccio, G. M. Di Nunzio, and G. Silvello. In Pushing the Boundaries of the Digital Libraries Field - 10th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, IRCDL 2014, pp. 44-47, 2014.
  • Evaluation of a Recursive Weighting Scheme for Federated Web Search. E. Di Buccio, I. Masiero, and M. Melucci. In IIR 2014 (R. Basili, F. Crestani, and M. Pennacchiotti, eds.), vol. 1127 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pp. 1-10, CEUR-WS.org, 2014.

2013

  • A curated and evolving linguistic linked dataset. E. Di Buccio, G. M. Di Nunzio and G. Silvello. Semantic Web, 4(3): 265-270, 2013.
  • An Open Source System Architecture for Digital Geolinguistic Linked Open Data. E. Di Buccio, G. M. Di Nunzio and G. Silvello. In TPDL 2013 (T. Aalberg, C. Papatheodorou, M. Dobreva, G. Tsakonas, C. J. Farrugia, eds.), vol. 8092 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 438-441, Springer, 2013.
  • More Than Words: A Review of Planets, Stars and Sample Spaces. E. Di Buccio and G.M. Di Nunzio. In ICTIR '13 (O. Kurland, D. Metzler, C. Lioma, B. Larsen, P. Ingwersen, eds.), pp. 125-126, ACM, 2013. Poster.
  • A Visual Analysis of the Effects of Assumptions of Classical Probabilistic Models. E. Di Buccio and G.M. Di Nunzio. In ICTIR '13 (O. Kurland, D. Metzler, C. Lioma, B. Larsen, P. Ingwersen, eds.), pp. 127-128, ACM, 2013. Poster.
  • Are There New BM25 Expectations?. E. Di Buccio and G.M. Di Nunzio. In IIR '13 (R. Basili, F. Sebastiani, G. Semeraro, eds.), pp. 1-12, CEUR-WS.org, ISSN 1613-0073, Vol. 964, urn:nbn:de:0074-964-1.
  • A geolinguistic web application based on linked open data. E. Di Buccio, G. M. Di Nunzio and G. Silvello. In SIGIR 2013 (G. J. F. Jones, P. Sheridan, D. Kelly, M. de Rijke, T. Sakai, eds.), pp. 1101-1102, ACM, 2013. Demo.
  • University of Padua at TREC 2013: Federated Web Search Track. E. Di Buccio, I. Masiero, and M. Melucci. In TREC, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 2013.

2012

  • An Efficient Identification Methodology for Improved Access to Music Heritage Collections. N. Montecchio, E. Di Buccio, and N. Orio. Journal of Multimedia, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 145-158, 2012.
  • DIRECTions: Design and Specification of an IR Evaluation Infrastructure. M. Agosti, E. Di Buccio, N. Ferro, I. Masiero, S. Peruzzo, and G. Silvello. In CLEF (T. Catarci, P. Forner, D. Hiemstra, A. Penas, and G. Santucci, eds.), vol. 7488 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 88-99, Springer, 2012.
  • A System for Exposing Linguistic Linked Open Data. E. Di Buccio, G.M. Di Nunzio, G. Silvello. In TPDL (P. Zaphiris, G. Buchanan, E. Rasmussen, and F. Loizides, eds.), vol. 7489 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 173-178, Springer, 2012.
  • An Efficient Methodology for the Identification of Multiple Music Works within a Single Query. E. Di Buccio, N. Montecchio, and N. Orio. In SEBD (N. Ferro and L. Tanca, eds.), pp. 123-130, Edizioni Libreria Progetto, Padova, Italy, 2012. Extended Abstract.

2011

  • To Re-rank or to Re-query: Can Visual Analytics Solve This Dilemma? E. Di Buccio, M. Dussin, N. Ferro, I. Masiero, G. Santucci and G. Tino. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2011), Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 19-22, pages 119-130.
  • University of Padua at MusiCLEF 2011: Music Identification Task. E. Di Buccio, N. Montecchio, and N. Orio. CLEF 2011 Labs and Workshop Notebook Papers, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 19-22.
  • Distilling Relevant Documents by means of Dynamic Quantum Clustering. E. Di Buccio and G.M. Di Nunzio. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR2011), Bertinoro, Italy, September 12-14, pages 360-363.
  • Interactive Analysis and Exploration of Experimental Evaluation Results. E. Di Buccio, M. Dussin, N. Ferro, I. Masiero, G. Santucci and G. Tino. In Proceedings of the 1st European Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (EuroHCIR2011), Newcastle, UK, July 4, pages 11-14, CEUR-WS.org, ISSN 1613-0073, Vol. 763, urn:nbn:de:0074-763-4.
  • Envisioning Dynamic Quantum Clustering in Information Retrieval. E. Di Buccio and G.M. Di Nunzio. In Proceedings of Quantum Interaction, Fifth International Symposium (QI 2011), Aberdeen, UK, June 26-29, pages 211-216.
  • Combining Interaction and Content for Feedback-Based Ranking. E. Di Buccio, M. Melucci and D. Song. In Proceedings of the Second Information Retrieval Facility Conference (IRFC 2011), Vienna, Austria, June 6, pages 46-61.
  • Towards Predicting Relevance Using a Quantum-Like Framework. E. Di Buccio, M. Melucci and D. Song. In Proceedings of 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2011), Dublin, Ireland, April 18-21, pages 755-758.
  • Quantum Contextual Information Access and Retrieval. E. Di Buccio, G. M. Di Nunzio, M. Melucci and N. Orio. In Proceedings of the Second Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR-2011), Milano, Italy, January 27-28, CEUR-WS.org, ISSN 1613-0073, Vol. 704, urn:nbn:de:0074-704-7.
  • Participative Research labOratory for Multimedia and Multilingual Information Systems Evaluation. E. Di Buccio, M. Dussin, N. Ferro, I. Masiero and G. Silvello. In Post-proceedings of the 7th Italian Research Conference (IRCDL 2011), Pisa, Italy, January 20-21, pages 140-143.

2010

  • Evaluation of a Methodology for Modeling Term Relationship through Geometry: Experiments at TREC 2010 Relevance Feedback Track. E. Di Buccio, M. Melucci and J-Y. Nie. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2010), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 16-19.
  • How Quantum Theory is Developing the Field of Information Retrieval. D. Song, M. Lalmas, C.J van Rijsbergen, I. Frommholz, B. Piwowarski, J. Wang, P. Zhang, G. Zuccon, P.D. Bruza, S. Arafat, L. Azzopardi, E. Di Buccio, A. Huertas-Rosero, Y. Hou, M. Melucci and S. Rueger. AAAI-Fall 2010 Symposium on Quantum Informatics for Cognitive, Social and Semantic Processes (QI 2010), Washington, DC, USA, November 11-13, pages 105-108.
  • Toward the Design of a Methodology to Predict Relevance through Multiple Sources of Evidence. E. Di Buccio and M. Melucci. In Proceedings of the Workshop for Ph.D. Students in Information and Knowledge Management (PIKM 2010), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 30.
  • A Scalable Cover Identification Engine. E. Di Buccio, N. Montecchio and N. Orio. In ACM Multimedia: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Multimedia 2010, Firenze, Italy, October 25-29, pages 1143-1146. ACM.
  • FALCON: FAst Lucene-based Cover sOng identification. E. Di Buccio, N. Montecchio and N. Orio. In ACM Multimedia: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Multimedia 2010, Firenze, Italy, October 25-29, pages 1477-1480. ACM.
  • Exploring Combinations of Sources for Interaction Features for Document Re-ranking. E. Di Buccio, M. Melucci and D. Song. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR 2010), New Brunswick, NJ USA.
  • Applying Text-Based IR Techniques to Cover Song Identification. E. Di Buccio, N. Montecchio and N. Orio. Extended Abstract for the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) 2010 Audio Cover Song Identification task submission, Utrecht, Netherlands.
  • From Entities to Geometry: Towards exploiting Multiple Sources to Predict Relevance. E. Di Buccio, M. Lalmas and M. Melucci. In Proceedings of the First Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR-2010), Padova, Italy, January 27-28, CEUR-WS.org, ISSN 1613-0073, Vol. 560, urn:nbn:de:0074-560-7.

2009

  • University of Padua at TREC2009: Relevance Feedback Track. E. Di Buccio and M. Melucci. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2009), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 17-20.
  • Exploiting individual users and user groups interaction features: methodology and infrastructure design. E. Di Buccio and M. Melucci. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries (VLDL2009), Corfu, Greece, October 2.
  • Improving Information Retrieval Effectiveness in Peer-to-Peer Networks Through Query Piggybacking. E. Di Buccio, I. Masiero and M. Melucci. In Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2009), Corfu, Greece, September 27 - October 2, pages 420-424.
  • Towards a Methodology for Contextual Information Retrieval. E. Di Buccio and M. Melucci. Workshop on Contextual Information Access, Seeking and Retrieval Evaluation (CIRSE 2009), Toulouse, France, April 6.
  • Towards an Integrated Approach to Music Retrieval. E. Di Buccio, I. Masiero, Y. Mass, M. Melucci, R. Miotto, N. Orio and B. Sznajder. In Proceedings of the 5th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL 2009), Padova, Italy, January 29-30, pages 80-87.
  • Design of a Music Retrieval System Based on a Peer-to-Peer Paradigm. E. Di Buccio, N. Ferro, M. Melucci, R. Miotto and N. Orio. In Proceedings of the 5th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL 2009), Padova, Italy, January 29-30, pages 100-107.

2008

  • Modeling the Evolution of Context in Information Retrieval. E. Di Buccio. In Proceedings of the BCS IRSG Symposium: Future Directions in Information Access 2008 (FDIA 2008), London, UK, September 22, pages 6-12.
  • Towards a Superimposed Peer Infrastructure for Information Access. E. Di Buccio, N. Ferro and M. Melucci. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2008), Mondello, Palermo, Italy, January 22-25, pages 398-405.
  • Content-based Information Retrieval in SPINA. E. Di Buccio, N. Ferro and M. Melucci. In Proceedings of the 4th Italian Research Conference on Digital Library Systems (IRCDL 2008), Padova, Italy, January 24-25, pages 89-92.

2007

  • Utilizing Event Spaces for Distributed Information Retrieval. E. Di Buccio and M. Melucci. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR'07), Budapest, Hungary, October 18-20, pages 223-232.
  • Distributed Information Retrieval and Automatic Identification of Music Works in SAPIR. M. Agosti, E. Di Buccio, G. M. Di Nunzio, N. Ferro, M. Melucci, R. Miotto and N. Orio. In Proceedings of the 15th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2007), Torre Canne di Fasano, Brindisi, June 17-20, pages 479-482.