Information Retrieval Lab DISCo – University of Milan Bicocca viale Sarca 336 U14
Head: Prof. Gabriella Pasi
Information Retrieval Lab DISCo – University of Milan Bicocca viale Sarca 336 U14
Head: Prof. Gabriella Pasi
IR Lab people Gabriella Pasi
Associate Professor and Head of the Laboratory
Silvia Calegari
Post-doc DISCO
Emanuele Panzeri
PhD Student DISCO
Giorgio Ghisalberti
PhD Student DISCO External people
Stefania Marrara
Post-doc UNIMI
Célia Cristina Pereira
Post-doc UNIMI
Evolution of the IR Lab This year the lab is constituted by four people:
One Associate Professor, one Post-doc and two PhD students
plus some external collaborators
Since last DISCO workshop 5 bachelor thesis plus 2 master thesis
3 projects proposals have been written
Involvement in one Spanish project (coordinated by Yahoo! Research)
A research contract with an enterpise
New scientific cooperations and a Spanish PhD student working for three months in the lab
The ACM/WIC/IEEE conference successfully organised in Milano
Evolution of the IR Lab
Appointment to the Vice-Presidency of the European Association for Fuzzy Logic
Member of the working groups ‘Statistical Validation and Monitoring of Soft Computing Models’ and ‘Statistics with incomplete and imperfect data’, within the COST action ‘Combining soft computing techniques and statistical methods to improve data analysis solutions’ (till 2012)
Program co-chair of ‘Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services’ (IIMSS 2009).
The IR lab research topics
Personalization in IR
XML Retrieval
Definition of Innovative Clustering Techniques
User Profiles Definition
Information Quality (with Carlo Batini and Matteo Palmonari)
Web Service Retrieval (with Andrea Maurino and Matteo Palmonari)
Personalization in IR Aims: to formally represent user preferences (by means of ontological languages) and to exploit them in personalised IR (and IF) processes (e.g. result diversification and query reformulation)
Researchers involved: Silvia Calegari, Celia da Costa Pereira
International Cooperations: Susan Gauch (University of Arkansas) and Lynda Tamine-Lechani, Mohand Boughanem (Paul Sabatier University)
Cooperation at DISCo: Davide Ciucci and Fabio Farina
International affiliation: IEEE Task Force on Semantic Web
Projects: Proposal Prin 2010
XML Retrieval Aims: to define an extesnion of the XPath query language for specifying search contraints on both content and structure, and to define efficient data structures to implement the retrieval process
Researchers Involved : Emanuele Panzeri, Stefania Marrara
International Cooperation: Nieves R. Brisaboa (University of La Coruna)
Cooperation with Companies: IntelliSemantics Srl and Saes Getters Group
Projects: High Performance processing for large data sets represented as Graphs (HIPERGRAPH) (Principal Investigator: Ricardo Baeza Yates – Yahoo! Research)
Document Clustering Aim: definition of innovative techiniques of soft hierarchical clustering, specifically designed for textual IR applications.
Key people: Giorgio Ghisalberti, Gloria Bordogna (IDPA, CNR)
Collaborations: SeCo lead by Stefano Ceri at Politecnico di Milano
Information Quality Aim: to define a unifying and formal framework for the assessment of the quality of information (structured to unstructured)
Cooperation at DISCo: Carlo Batini, Matteo Palmonari
External collaboration:Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano Web Service Retrieval Aim: to define a semantic approach to the retrieval of Web Services
Cooperation at DISCo: Andrea Maurino, Matteo Palmonari, Giuseppe Frisoni
External collaboration:Francesco Guerra, Università di Modena
Scientific activities Rapporteur and member of the commssion of an Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches, Université de Nantes
Program Chair: RIAO 2010, Paris
Program Co-Chair: First Italian Information Retrieval Workshop 2011, Milano
Poster Chair: ACM SIGIR 2010, Geneva
General Chair: Second Italian Information Retrieval Workshop 2011, Milano, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca
Keynote Talk at ACM / WIC/ IEEE Web Intelligence in Toronto, 2010
Publications this year
Papers in International Journals: 3
Special Issues in International Journals: 2
Edited Volumes: 4
Chapters of International Books: 3
Proceedings for International Conferences: 4
Papers submitted to International Journals: 4
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