IIR 2014
Italian Information Retrieval Workshop

Table of Contents

• Preface

Session 1: Theory

• Evaluation of a Recursive Weighting Scheme for Federated Web Search 1-10
  Emanuele Di Buccio, Ivano Masiero, Massimo Melucci
• The Axiometrics Project 11-15
  Eddy Maddalena, Stefano Mizzaro

Session 2: Classification and Recommendation

• Can We Infer Book Classification by Blurbs? 16-19
  Valentina Poggioni, Valentina Franzoni, Fabiana Zollo
• Top-N Recommendations from Implicit Feedback Leveraging Linked Open Data 20-27
  Vito Claudio Ostuni, Tommaso Di Noia, Roberto Mirizzi, Eugenio Di Sciascio

Session 3: Semantics

• Detection of Similar Terrorist Events 28-33
  Vittoria Cozza, Michelangelo Rubino
• Developing a Semantic Content Analyzer for L'Aquila Social Urban Network 34-38
  Cataldo Musto, Giovanni Semeraro, Pasquale Lops, Marco de Gemmis, Fedelucio Narducci, Luciana Bordoni, Mauro Annunziato, Claudia Meloni, Franco F. Orsucci, Giulia Paoloni

Session 4: Natural Language Processing

• Sentiment Estimation on Twitter 39-50
  Giambattista Amati, Marco Bianchi, Giuseppe Marcone
• Enabling Enterprise Semantic Search through Language Technologies: the ProgressIt Experience 51-62
  Roberto Basili, Andrea Ciapetti, Danilo Croce, Valeria Marino, Paolo Salvatore, Valerio Storch
• Exploiting Wikipedia to Identify Domain-Specific Key Terms/Phrases from a Short-Text Collection 63-74
  Muhammad Atif Qureshi, Colm O’Riordan, Gabriella Pasi

Session 5: Applications

• LearNext: Learning to Predict Tourists Movements 75-79
  Ranieri Baraglia, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Franco Maria Nardini, Fabrizio Silvestri
• An Investigation into the Correlation between Willingness for Web Search Personalization and SNS Usage Patterns 80-84
  Arjumand Younus, Colm O’Riordan, Gabriella Pasi