Emanuele Di Buccio
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Information
Name
Emanuele
Surname
Di Buccio
Birth
March 17, 1982 – Bassano del Grappa (VI), Italy
Gender
Male
Nationality
Italian
Marital Status
Married
Affiliation
Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua
Phone (Work)
+39 049 8277929
Fax (Work)
+39 049 8277799
Email / Website
dibuccio@dei.unipd.it / http://www.dei.unipd.it/~dibuccio
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Education
2008/01 - 2010/12:
PhD School on Information Engineering, Information and Communication Science and Technologies Section, Department of Information Engineering,
University of Padua, Italy.
(Thesis defense on April 19, 2011)
Thesis title: Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Methodology for Utilizing
Sources of Evidence in Relevance Feedback.
Advisor: Prof. Massimo Melucci.
Ph.D. School Courses : Sampling, Counting, Mixing and Balancing: Advanced Probabilistic Methods in Algorithms; Applied Linear Algebra; Applied Functional Analysis;
Statistical Methods .
2004/10 - 2007/03:
Diploma di Laurea Specialistica in Ingegneria Informatica (Master Degree in Computer Science Engineering), University of Padua, Italy.
Thesis title: Modelli probabilistici per il reperimento distribuito dell’informazione.
(Probabilistic Models for Distributed Information Retrieval). In Italian.
Advisor: Prof. Massimo Melucci.
2001/10 - 2004/09:
Diploma di Laurea in Ingegneria Informatica (Bachelor Degree in Computer Science Engineering), University of Padua, Italy.
Thesis title: Approcci alla compressione basati su stringhe parametriche. (Parameterized String-based Approach to Data Compression). In Italian.
Advisor: Prof. Alberto Apostolico.
Attended advanced courses
2009/08 - 2009/09:
7th European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2009),
Padua, Italy, August 31 – September 4, 2009.
Topics: Multilingual Information Retrieval, Machine Learning and Information Retrieval, Distributed Web Search, Web Mining and Web Advertising.
2007/08:
6th European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2007),
Glasgow, UK, August 27 – 31, 2007.
Topics: Information Retrieval Models, Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems,
Web Information Retrieval, Interactive Information Retrieval, XML Retrieval, Question Answering, Multimedia Retrieval and Large-Scale Information Retrieval.
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Attended tutorials
2013/09:
Axiomatic Analysis and Optimization of Information Retrieval Models, ICTIR 2013 Tutorial, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 29, 2013.
Topic: Introduction to the axiomatic approach to developing optimal retrieval models,
formalization of retrieval heuristics with mathematical constraints, retrieval functions
derived by using the axiomatic approaches.
2013/09:
Quantum Mechanics and Information Retrieval: From Theory to Application, ICTIR 2013 Tutorial, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 29, 2013.
Topic: Overview of Quantum Mechanics (QM) concepts with a focus on Quantum
Probability (QP), survey on works in Information Retrieval that use QM concepts,
design and experiment with new QP-based models.
2013/08:
Kernel-based Learning to Rank with Syntactic and Semantic Structures, SIGIR 2013 Tutorial, Dublin, Ireland, August 28, 2013.
Topic: Introduction to Support Vector Machines and Kernel Methods for the design
of practical applications, with a focus on effective kernels for automatic classifiers and
learning to rank algorithms using structured data and semantic processing.
2013/08:
The Cluster Hypothesis in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2013 Tutorial,
Dublin, Ireland, August 28, 2013.
Topic: Survey and in-depth analysis of the retrieval techniques inspired by the cluster
hypothesis and used for various tasks including ad hoc retrieval, meta-search, microblog retrieval, query-performance prediction, search-results diversification.
2009/09:
Designing user interfaces for interactive information retrieval systems
& digital libraries, ECDL 2009 Tutorial, Corf´
u, Greece, September 27, 2009.
Topic: Design and improvement of user interface for Interactive Information Retrieval
and information access through Digital Libraries.
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Research
Professional Appointments
2011/07 - present:
Postdoctoral Researcher (Assegno di ricerca grant), Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy. Research activity carried out
within the project FIRB “A grammatical survey of Italian dialects: fieldwork,
data management, and linguistic analysis” (cod. RBFR08KR5A 003).
Research Topic: Design and development of a search engine for geolinguistic
data to support the analysis of variations among Italian dialects.
Supervision: Dr. Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio.
2013/04:
Visiting Scholar, RALI Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and
Operations Research, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Research activity carried out within the project QONTEXT (Marie Curie Actions,
P.N. 247590, FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IRSES).
Research Topic: Modelling Term Relationship for Information Retrieval.
Supervision: Prof. Jian-Yun Nie.
2011/11:
Visiting Scholar, RALI Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and
Operations Research, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Research activity carried out within the project QONTEXT.
Research Topic: Methodology for Document Re-ranking using Term Relationships modelled by explicit feedback data.
Supervision: Prof. Jian-Yun Nie.
2011/01 - 2011/06
Research Assistant (Borsa di studio per attivit`a di ricerca), Department of
Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy. Research activity carried
out within the FP7 PROMISE Network of Excellence (Grant Agreement no.
258191).
Research Topic: Design and re-engineering of the work-flow of the CLEF (CrossLanguage Evaluation Forum) evaluation campaign and requirements for an infrastructure to manage experimental data obtained from the evaluation.
Supervision: Dr. Nicola Ferro.
2010/05 - 2010/11
Visiting Student, RALI Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and
Operations Research, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Part
of the research activity was carried out within the project QONTEXT.
Research Topic: Methodology for Modelling Term Relationship through Geometry using a single document judged as relevant.
Supervision: Prof. Jian-Yun Nie.
2008/07 - 2008/09
Visiting student, Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), The Open University,
Milton Keynes, UK. Research activity supported by The Open University.
Research Topic: Design and realization of a user study for the creation of a
test collection with both user interaction data and document specific features to
support the investigation of implicit relevance feedback strategies.
Supervision: Prof. Dawei Song.
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2007/04 - 2007/12
Research Assistant, Department of Information Engineering, University of
Padua, Italy. Research activity carried out within the SAPIR Project (FP6IST-045128).
Research Topic: User Requirements, Interfaces, and Scenarios, System Architecture, P2P Infrastructure, routing, protocols, Media Analysis and Enrichment
for Search, P2P Indexing, Caching and Collaborative crawling including push,
Complex Search and Ranking in P2P, Security, Rights, and Trust in P2P, Embedding in Social Networks and Multiple Devices, Testbed Integration and Trials,
Dissemination and Exploitation of the Results.
Supervision: Prof. Maristella Agosti and Prof. Massimo Melucci.
Participation to Research Projects
• A grammatical survey of Italian dialects: fieldwork, data management, and linguistic
analysis, project FIRB cod. RBFR08KR5A 003.
Project website: http://asis-cnr.unipd.it
• QONTEXT: Quantum Contextual Information Access and Retrieval. Marie Curie Actions —
International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES). P.N. 247590 – FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IRSES.
Project website: http://qontext.dei.unipd.it
• PROMISE: Participative Research labOratory for Multimedia and Multilingual Information Systems Evaluation. Network of Excellence – FP7, Grant Agreement no. 258191.
Project website: http://www.promise-noe.eu
• A flexible framework for modeling result presentation in XML retrieval. Exchange
project between the Department of Computing Science of the University of Glasgow and the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua, funded by the Royal Society.
• SAPIR: Search In Audio Visual Content Using Peer-to-peer IR. Information Society Technologies
(IST) Program of the European Commission (Contract IST-045128).
Project website: http://sysrun.haifa.il.ibm.com/sapir/index.html
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Professional Experience
Services
Journal Reviewer
• Journal of Computational Physics
Programme Committee Member
• First International Workshop on Contextual Information Access, Seeking and Retrieval Evaluation (CIRSE
2009), held in conjunction with ECIR 2009
• First Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2010)
• 2nd International Workshop on Contextual Information Access, Seeking and Retrieval Evaluation (CIRSE
2010), held in conjunction with ECIR 2010
• 2nd Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2011)
• 34th ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2011)
[Poster Committee]
• 5th International Workshop on New Challenges in Distributed Information Filtering and Retrieval (DART
2011)
• 35th ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2012)
[Poster Committee]
• 6th International Workshop on Information Filtering and Retrieval: Novel Distributed Systems and Applications (DART 2012)
• Second International Conference on Advances in Information Mining and Management (IMMM 2012)
• 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2012)
• 8th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2012) - IR Models and Theories
• 28th Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2013) - Information Access and Retrieval Track
• 5th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR 2013)
• 36th ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2013)
[Short Papers Committee]
• 29th Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2014) - Information Access and Retrieval Track
• 6th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR 2014)
• 37th ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2014)
[Short Papers Committee]
Organizing Committee Member
• 4th Italian Research Conference on Digital Library Systems (IRCDL 2008)
• 5th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL 2009)
• 7th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2009)
• First Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2010)
• 6th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL 2010)
• Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation (CLEF 2010)
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Proceedings Chair
• Sixth International Symposium on Quantum Interaction (QI 2012)
Additional Reviewer
• Sixteenth Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2008)
• 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009)
• 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2009)
• 17th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2009)
• 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2009)
• 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009)
• Fifth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2009)
• 4th International Workshop on Personalized Access, Profile Management, and Context Awareness in Databases
(PersDB2010)
• Third Information Interaction in Context Symposium (IIiX 2010)
• Fourth International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2011)
• The 34th ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR
2011)
• The 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012)
Talks
Invited Talks
2013/04/17
Modeling and Sharing Geolinguistic Data: A Linked Open Data Approach, RALIOLST Talk, invited seminar at the RALI, Department IRO, Universit´e de
Montr´eal, Quebec, Canada.
2010/11/03
Toward a Methodology for Utilizing Sources of Evidence in Relevance Feedback,
RALI-OLST Talk, invited seminar at the RALI, Department IRO, Universit´e
de Montr´eal, Quebec, Canada.
Other Talks
2014/02
LOD2014, Rome, Italy, February 20-21, 2014. Talk on [45].
2014/01
5th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2014), Rome, Italy, January
20-21, 2014. Talk on [33].
2013/11
Twenty-Second Text REtrieval Conference Proceedings (TREC 2013), Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 19-22, 2013. Talk on [5].
2013/09
4th International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR
2013), Copenhagen, Denmark, 29 September-2 October, 2013. Presentation
of [8] at the poster session.
2013/08
36th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2013), Dublin, Ireland, July 28-August 1, 2013.
Presentation of [9] at the poster session.
2012/09:
Second International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
(TPDL 2012), Paphos, Cyprus, September 23-27, 2012. Talk on [11].
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2011/09:
Second Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation (CLEF 2011), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 19-22, 2011. Talk
on [12].
2011/06:
Fifth International Quantum Interaction Symposium (QI 2011), Aberdeen, UK,
June 26-29, 2011. Talk on [17].
2011/06:
Second Information Retrieval Facility Conference (IRF 2011), Vienna, Austria.
Talk on [16].
2010/11:
Nineteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2010), Gaithersburg, MD USA,
November 16-19, 2010. Talk on [26].
2010/10:
Workshop for Ph.D. Students in Information and Knowledge Management (PIKM
2010), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 30, 2010. Presentation on [23] at the
poster session.
2010/08:
Fourth Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval
(HCIR 2010), New Brunswick, NJ USA August 22, 2010. Talk on [21].
2010/08:
Third Information Interaction in Context Symposium (IIiX 2010) Doctoral Consortium, New Brunswick, NJ USA, August 18, 2010.
2010/01:
First Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR-2010), Padova, Italy, January 27-28, 2010. Talk on [38].
2009/11:
Eighteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2009), Gaithersburg, MD USA,
November 17-20, 2009. Presentation on [29] at the poster session.
2009/09:
Second Workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries (VLDL 2009), Corfu, Greece,
October 2, 2009. Talk on [27].
2009/09:
13th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2009), Corfu, Greece,
September 27-October 2, 2009. Talk on [28].
2009/04:
ECIR 2009 Workshop on Contextual Information Access, Seeking and Retrieval
Evaluation (CIRSE 2009), Toulouse, France, April 6, 2009. Talk on [30].
2009/01:
5th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL 2009), Padova,
January 29-30, 2009. Talk on [39].
2008/09:
Second BCS IRSG Symposium: Future Directions in Information Access 2008
(FDIA 2008), London, UK, September 22, 2008. Talk on [31].
2008/06:
Sixteenth Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2008), Mondello, Palermo, Italy, June 22-25, 2008. Talk on [42].
2008/01:
Fourth Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL 2008), Padova,
Italy, January 24-25, 2008. Talk on [41].
2007/10:
1st International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR’07),
Budapest, Hungary, October 18-20, 2007. Talk on [32].
Attended Symposia, Conferences and Workshops
2013/01:
Forth Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2013), Pisa, Italy.
2008/04:
Third Workshop on the Future of Web Search and Second CHORUS Conference
on Multimedia Retrieval, Grandvalira, Andorra.
2008/03:
Second Quantum Interaction Symposium (QI’2008), Oxford, UK.
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Teaching
Students Co-advisor
• Mauro Brunazzo, Laurea Magistrale in Scienze Statistiche (Master Degree in Statistics), 2011
• Federica Moro, Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria Informatica (Master Degree in Computer Science
Engineering), 2012
Teaching Assistant
2014/02 - 2014/03:
Sistemi Informativi Progredito (Information Retrieval), Department of Statistical Science, University of Padua. (28 hours)
Instructor: Prof. Massimo Melucci
Lessons are focused on advanced methods for indexing and retrieval, particularly Latent Semantic Analysis, Link Analysis Algorithms, Machine Learning
for Information Retrieval, Learning to Rank, Implicit and Pseudo-Relevance
Feedback, introduction to Apache Lucene and Elasticsearch libraries.
2013/12 - 2014/01:
Basi di Dati (Database Systems), Department of Information Engineering,
University of Padua. (12 hours)
Instructor: Dr. Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio
Lessons were focused on the introduction to the DBMS PostgresSQL and PHP
Data Object (PHP PDO). Topics covered: PostgresSQL client/server architecture; creation of a database; data types; table definition and integrity constraints; examples of queries; database connection and query by PHP Data
Object; case study based on local transportation in Padua (design and implementation with PHP PDO, Javascript, Twitter Bootstrap).
2013/03 - 2013/04:
Sistemi Informativi - Corso Progredito (Information Retrieval), Department of Statistical Science, University of Padua. (12 hours)
Instructor: Prof. Massimo Melucci
Lessons were focused on Learning to Rank in Information Retrieval and Relevance Feedback Approaches. Topics covered: introduction to Learning to Rank;
pointwise, pairwise and listwise approaches; introduction to relevance feedback
in information retrieval; explicit relevance feedback, pseudo-relevance feedback
and implicit relevance feedback approaches; methodologies using Learning to
Rank approaches for implicit relevance feedback. Lessons include the introduction to the RankLib library and experimental evaluation based on the LETOR
4.0 Dataset.
2012/12 - 2013/01:
Basi di Dati (Database Systems), Department of Information Engineering,
University of Padua. (18 hours)
Instructor: Dr. Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio
Lessons were focused on the introduction to the DBMS PostgresSQL and PHP
Data Object. Topics covered: PostgresSQL client/server architecture; creation
of a database; data types; table definition and integrity constraints; database
roles and privileges; examples of queries; case study based on the Internet Movie
DataBase (IMDB); database connection, data manipulation and query by PHP
Data Object.
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2012/02 - 2012/03:
Sistemi Informativi - Corso Progredito (Information Retrieval), Department of Statistical Science, University of Padua. (12 hours)
Instructor: Prof. Massimo Melucci
Lessons were focused on the evaluation of methodologies for information retrieval with and without feedback data. Topics covered: creation of a test
collection on the basis of a given information need; design and application of
a methodology for descriptor extraction; experimental evaluation of a retrieval
methodology without feedback data; introduction to explicit, pseudo and implicit feedback strategies in information retrieval; experimental evaluation of a
methodology for explicit relevance feedback.
2007/11 - 2007/12:
Basi di Dati 1A and Basi di Dati 1B (Database Systems 1), Faculty of
Statistics, University of Padua.
Instructor: Prof. Massimo Melucci
Lessons were focused on the introduction to Microsoft Access. Topics covered:
creation of a database, data types, table definition and integrity constraints,
examples of queries.
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Awards and Fellowships
2008/01 - 2010/12
Fellowship funded by L. 170 “I.C.T. e componentistica elettronica” for the Ph.D.
School on Information Engineering of the University of Padua, Information and
Communication Science and Technologies (I.C.T.) section.
2008/02
Fellowship to attend the Second Quantum Interaction Symposium, held in Oxford, UK.
2008/02
Fellowship to attend the Third Future of Web Search Workshop and the second
CHORUS Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, held in Grandvalira, Andorra.
2007/06
Fellowship funded by the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies
(CEPIS), to attend the 6th European Summer School on Information Retrieval
(ESSIR 2007), held in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Skills
Computer Skills
Programming
Java, Javascript, JavaServer Pages, SQL, R, PHP, HTML.
DBMS
MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB.
Editing
LATEX, Open Office Suite, Microsoft Office Suite.
OS
Mac OS X, Linux, Windows.
Other
Apache Lucene, Apache Solr, Apache Jena, Elasticsearch, MAchine Learning
for LanguagE Toolkit, Spring Framework, NetBeans, Eclipse.
Language Skills
Italian
Mother tongue.
English
Full working proficiency.
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Publications
Journal Papers
[1] E. Di Buccio and Massimo Melucci and F. Moro, “Detecting verbose queries and improving information
retrieval,” Information Processing and Management, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 342 – 360, 2014.
[2] E. D. Buccio, G. M. D. Nunzio, and G. Silvello, “A linked open data approach for geolinguistics applications,”
International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, vol. 9, pp. 29–41, Feb. 2014.
[3] E. Di Buccio, G. M. Di Nunzio, and G. Silvello, “A curated and evolving linguistic linked dataset,” Semantic
Web, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 265–270, 2013.
[4] N. Montecchio, E. Di Buccio, and N. Orio, “An Efficient Identification Methodology for Improved Access to
Music Heritage Collections,” Journal of Multimedia, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 145–158, 2012.
International Conference/Workshop Papers
[5] E. Di Buccio, I. Masiero, and M. Melucci, “University of Padua at TREC 2013: Federated Web Search
Track,” in TREC, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 2013.
[6] E. Di Buccio, G. M. Di Nunzio, and G. Silvello, “An open source system architecture for digital geolinguistic
linked open data,” in The 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL
2013), 2013.
[7] E. Di Buccio and G. M. Di Nunzio, “More than words: A review of planets, stars and sample spaces,” in
Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR ’13, (New York, NY,
USA), pp. 27:125–27:126, ACM, 2013.
[8] E. Di Buccio and G. M. Di Nunzio, “A visual analysis of the effects of assumptions of classical probabilistic
models,” in Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR ’13, (New
York, NY, USA), pp. 28:127–28:128, ACM, 2013.
[9] E. Di Buccio, G. M. Di Nunzio, and G. Silvello, “A geolinguistic web application based on linked open
data,” in Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in
Information Retrieval, SIGIR ’13, (New York, NY, USA), pp. 1101–1102, ACM, 2013.
[10] M. Agosti, E. Di Buccio, N. Ferro, I. Masiero, S. Peruzzo, and G. Silvello, “DIRECTions: Design and
Specification of an IR Evaluation Infrastructure,” in CLEF (T. Catarci, P. Forner, D. Hiemstra, A. Pe˜
nas,
and G. Santucci, eds.), vol. 7488 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 88–99, Springer, 2012.
[11] E. Di Buccio, G. M. Di Nunzio, and G. Silvello, “A System for Exposing Linguistic Linked Open Data,”
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.
[12] E. Di Buccio, M. Dussin, N. Ferro, I. Masiero, G. Santucci, and G. Tino, “To Re-rank or to Re-query: Can
Visual Analytics Solve This Dilemma?,” in CLEF (P. Forner, J. Gonzalo, J. Kek¨
al¨
ainen, M. Lalmas, and
M. de Rijke, eds.), vol. 6941 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 119–130, Springer, 2011.
[13] E. Di Buccio, N. Montecchio, and N. Orio, “University of Padua at MusiCLEF 2011: Music Identification
Task,” in CLEF (Notebook Papers/Labs/Workshop) (V. Petras, P. Forner, and P. D. Clough, eds.), 2011.
[14] E. Di Buccio, M. Melucci, and D. Song, “Towards Predicting Relevance Using a Quantum-Like Framework,”
in ECIR (P. Clough, C. Foley, C. Gurrin, G. J. F. Jones, W. Kraaij, H. Lee, and V. Murdock, eds.), vol. 6611
of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 755–758, Springer, 2011.
[15] E. Di Buccio and G. M. Di Nunzio, “Distilling Relevant Documents by Means of Dynamic Quantum Clustering,” in ICTIR (G. Amati and F. Crestani, eds.), vol. 6931 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 360–363,
Springer, 2011.
[16] E. Di Buccio, M. Melucci, and D. Song, “Combining Interaction and Content for Feedback-Based Ranking,”
in IRFC (A. Hanbury, A. Rauber, and A. P. de Vries, eds.), vol. 6653 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
pp. 46–61, Springer, 2011.
[17] E. Di Buccio and G. M. Di Nunzio, “Envisioning dynamic quantum clustering in information retrieval,” in
QI (D. Song, M. Melucci, I. Frommholz, P. Zhang, L. Wang, and S. Arafat, eds.), vol. 7052 of Lecture Notes
in Computer Science, pp. 211–216, Springer, 2011.
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[18] E. Di Buccio, M. Dussin, N. Ferro, I. Masiero, G. Santucci, and G. Tino, “Interactive Analysis and Exploration of Experimental Evaluation Results,” in EuroHCIR2011 (M. L. Wilson, T. Russell-Rose, B. Larson,
and J. Kalbac, eds.), vol. 763 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR-WS.org, 2011.
[19] D. Song, M. Lalmas, K. van Rijsbergen, I. Frommholz, B. Piwowarski, J. Wang, P. Zhang, G. Zuccon,
P. Bruza, S. Arafat, L. Azzopardi, E. Di Buccio, A. Huertas-Rosero, Y. Hou, M. Melucci, and S. R¨
uger,
“How Quantum Theory is Developing the Field of Information Retrieval,” in Proceedings of AAAI-Fall 2010
Symposium on Quantum Informatics for Cognitive, Social, and Semantic Processes (QI), pp. 105–108, 2010.
[20] E. Di Buccio, N. Montecchio, and N. Orio, “Applying text-based IR techniques to cover song identification,”
2010. Extended Abstract for the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) 2010 Audio
Cover Song Identification task submission.
[21] E. Di Buccio, M. Melucci, and D. Song, “Exploring Combinations of Sources for Interaction Features for
Document Re-ranking,” in Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR 2010), 2010.
[22] E. Di Buccio, “Design and Implementation of a Methodology for Exploiting Sources for Feedback through
Geometry,” 2010. Extended Abstract for the Information Interaction in Context Doctoral Consortium.
[23] E. Di Buccio and M. Melucci, “Toward the design of a methodology to predict relevance through multiple
sources of evidence,” in PIKM (A. Nica and A. S. Varde, eds.), pp. 83–86, ACM, 2010.
[24] E. Di Buccio, N. Montecchio, and N. Orio, “A scalable cover identification engine,” in ACM Multimedia
(A. D. Bimbo, S.-F. Chang, and A. W. M. Smeulders, eds.), pp. 1143–1146, ACM, 2010.
[25] E. Di Buccio, N. Montecchio, and N. Orio, “FALCON: FAst Lucene-based Cover sOng identification,” in
ACM Multimedia (A. D. Bimbo, S.-F. Chang, and A. W. M. Smeulders, eds.), pp. 1477–1480, ACM, 2010.
[26] E. Di Buccio, M. Melucci, and J.-Y. Nie, “Evaluation of a Methodology for Modeling Term Relationship
through Geometry: Experiments at TREC 2010 Relevance Feedback Track,” in TREC (E. M. Voorhees and
L. P. Buckland, eds.), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 2010.
[27] E. Di Buccio and M. Melucci, “Exploiting individual users and user groups interaction features: methodology
and infrastructure design,” in Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries, DELOS
Association, 2009.
[28] E. Di Buccio, I. Masiero, and M. Melucci, “Improving information retrieval effectiveness in peer-to-peer
networks through query piggybacking,” in ECDL (M. Agosti, J. L. Borbinha, S. Kapidakis, C. Papatheodorou,
and G. Tsakonas, eds.), vol. 5714 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 420–424, Springer, 2009.
[29] E. Di Buccio and M. Melucci, “University of Padua at TREC 2009: Relevance Feedback Track,” in TREC
(E. M. Voorhees and L. P. Buckland, eds.), vol. Special Publication 500-278, National Institute of Standards
and Technology (NIST), 2009.
[30] E. Di Buccio and M. Melucci, “Towards a Methodology for Contextual Information Retrieval,” in ECIR 2009
Workshop on Contextual Information Access, Seeking and Retrieval Evaluation, 2009.
[31] E. Di Buccio, “Modeling the evolution of context in information retrieval,” in Proceedings of the 2nd BCS
IRSG conference on Future Directions in Information Access, FDIA’08, (Swinton, UK), pp. 6–12, British
Computer Society, 2008.
[32] E. Di Buccio and M. Melucci, “Utilizing Event Spaces for Distributed Information Retrieval,” in Studies in
Theory of Information Retrieval (S. Dominich and F. Kiss, eds.), pp. 223–232, 2007.
National Conference/Workshop Papers
[33] E. Di Buccio, I. Masiero, and M. Melucci, “Evaluation of a Recursive Weighting Scheme for Federated Web
Search,” in IIR 2014 (R. Basili, F. Crestani, and M. Pennacchiotti, eds.), vol. 1127 of CEUR Workshop
Proceedings, pp. 1–10, CEUR-WS.org, 2014.
[34] E. Di Buccio and G. M. Di Nunzio, “Are There New BM25 Expectations?,” in IIR 2013 (R. Basili, F. Sebastiani, and G. Semeraro, eds.), vol. 964 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR-WS.org, 2013.
[35] E. Di Buccio, N. Montecchio, and N. Orio, “An Efficient Methodology for the Identification of Multiple
Music Works within a Single Query,” in SEBD (N. Ferro and L. Tanca, eds.), pp. 123–130, Edizioni Libreria
Progetto, Padova, Italy, 2012. Extended Abstract.
[36] E. Di Buccio, G. M. Di Nunzio, M. Melucci, and N. Orio, “Quantum contextual information access and
retrieval,” in IIR (M. Melucci, S. Mizzaro, and G. Pasi, eds.), vol. 704 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings,
CEUR-WS.org, 2011.
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[37] E. Di Buccio, M. Dussin, N. Ferro, I. Masiero, and G. Silvello, “PROMISE - Participative Research labOratory for Multimedia and Multilingual Information Systems Evaluation,” in IRCDL (M. Agosti, F. Esposito,
C. Meghini, and N. Orio, eds.), vol. 249 of Communications in Computer and Information Science, pp. 140–
143, Springer, 2011.
[38] E. Di Buccio, M. Lalmas, and M. Melucci, “From Entities to Geometry: Towards Exploiting Multiple Sources
to Support Relevance Prediction,” in IIR (M. Melucci, S. Mizzaro, and G. Pasi, eds.), vol. 560 of CEUR
Workshop Proceedings, pp. 35–39, CEUR-WS.org, 2010.
[39] E. Di Buccio, I. Masiero, Y. Mass, M. Melucci, R. Miotto, N. Orio, and B. Sznajder, “Towards an integrated
approach to music retrieval,” in IRCDL (M. Agosti, F. Esposito, and C. Thanos, eds.), pp. 80–87, DELOS:
an Association for Digital Libraries / Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua,
2009.
[40] E. Di Buccio, N. Ferro, M. Melucci, R. Miotto, and N. Orio, “Design of an information retrieval system based
on the peer-to-peer paradigm: An application to music retrieval,” in IRCDL (M. Agosti, F. Esposito, and
C. Thanos, eds.), pp. 100–107, DELOS: an Association for Digital Libraries / Department of Information
Engineering of the University of Padua, 2009.
[41] E. Di Buccio, N. Ferro, and M. Melucci, “Content-based Information Retrieval in SPINA,” in IRCDL
(M. Agosti, F. Esposito, and C. Thanos, eds.), pp. 89–92, DELOS: an Association for Digital Libraries,
2008.
[42] E. Di Buccio, N. Ferro, and M. Melucci, “Towards a Superimposed Peer Infrastructure for Information
Access,” in SEBD (S. Gaglio, I. Infantino, and D. Sacc`
a, eds.), pp. 398–405, 2008. Extended Abstract.
[43] M. Agosti, E. Di Buccio, G. M. Di Nunzio, N. Ferro, M. Melucci, R. Miotto, and N. Orio, “Distributed Information Retrieval and Automatic Identification of Music Works in SAPIR,” in SEBD (M. Ceci, D. Malerba,
and L. Tanca, eds.), pp. 479–482, 2007. Extended Abstract.
Accepted Papers
[44] E. Di Buccio, G. M. Di Nunzio, and G. Silvello, “A Vector Space Model for Syntactic Distances Between
Dialects,” in LREC 2014, 2014.
[45] E. Di Buccio, G. M. Di Nunzio, J. Garzonio, D. Pescarini, and G. Silvello, “Measuring Syntactic Distances
Between Dialects: A Web Application for Annotating Dialectal Data,” in LOD 2014, 2014.
[46] E. Di Buccio, G. M. Di Nunzio, and G. Silvello, “ASIt: A Linked Open Data Geolinguistic Web Application,”
in IRCDL 2014, 2014.
Theses
[47] E. Di Buccio, “Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Methodology for Utilizing Sources of Evidence
in Relevance Feedback.” Tesi di Dottorato. Universit`
a degli Studi di Padova, 2011.
[48] E. Di Buccio, “Modelli probabilistici per il reperimento distribuito dell’informazione.” Tesi di Laurea. Facolt`
a
di Ingegneria, Universit`
a degli Studi di Padova, 2007.
[49] E. Di Buccio, “Approcci alla compressione basati su stringhe parametriche.” Tesi di Laurea. Facolt`
a di
Ingegneria, Universit`
a degli Studi di Padova, 2004.
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