IIR 2023
Italian Information Retrieval Workshop 2023

Table of Contents

• Preface I-V
  Summary: There were 33 papers submitted this workshop. Out of these, 24 were accepted for this volume, 1 as regular papers and 23 as short papers.

Keynotes

• Re-Thinking Re-Ranking 1
  Sean MacAvaney
  
• Three views of a secret: Embracing multiple perspectives in the evaluation of information retrieval and recommender systems 2
  Christine Bauer
  

Original Research Papers

• Behaviour-aware Tourist Profiles Data Generation 3-8
  Pavel Merinov, David Massimo, Francesco Ricci
  
• Fauno: The Italian Large Language Model that will leave you senza parole! 9-17
  Andrea Bacciu, Giovanni Trappolini, Andrea Santilli, Emanuele Rodolà, Fabrizio Silvestri
  
• Incremental Mixture of Normalizing Flows for Dynamic Topic Modelling 18-23
  Federico Ravenda, Andrea Raballo, Antonietta Mira, Fabio Crestani
  
• Personalization in BERT with Adapter Modules and Topic Modelling 24-29
  Marco Braga, Alessandro Raganato, Gabriella Pasi
  
• Serendipity and Diversity Boosting for Personalized Streaming Media Recommendation 30-40
  Gaetano Manzo, Yvan Pannatier, Gabriel Autès, Michaël De Lucia, Jean-Gabriel Piguet, Jean-Paul Calbimonte
  

Extended Abstracts

• A Spatial Approach to Predict Performance of Conversational Search Systems 41-46
  Guglielmo Faggioli, Nicola Ferro, Cristina Muntean, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto
  
• Accelerating Learned Sparse Indexes Via Term Impact Decomposition 47-52
  Joel Mackenzie, Antonio Mallia, Alistair Moffat, Matthias Petri
  
• An Analysis of a Methodology and Experimental Results for the Retrieval of Clinical Trials 53-57
  Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Guglielmo Faggioli, Stefano Marchesin
  
• Cold-start Management in POI Recommendation via Reinforcement Learning and Spatial Proximity Exploration 58-59
  David Massimo, Francesco Ricci
  
• Consumer Fairness Benchmark in Recommendation 60-65
  Ludovico Boratto, Gianni Fenu, Mirko Marras, Giacomo Medda
  
• Dissatisfaction Induced by Pairwise Swaps 66-71
  Alessandro Fabris, Gianmaria Silvello, Gian Antonio Susto, Asia J. Biega
  
• Does LambdaMART Do What You Expect? 72
  Claudio Lucchese, Federico Marcuzzi, Salvatore Orlando
  
• Enhancing Adversarial Authorship Verification with Data Augmentation 73-78
  Silvia Corbara, Alejandro Moreo
  
• Examining Fairness in Graph-Based Collaborative Filtering: A Consumer and Producer Perspective 79-84
  Dario Di Palma, Vito Walter Anelli, Daniele Malitesta, Vincenzo Paparella, Claudio Pomo, Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso Di Noia
  
• Fact-Checking at Scale with Crowdsourcing: Experiments and Lessons Learned 85-90
  David La Barbera, Michael Soprano, Kevin Roitero, Eddy Maddalena, Stefano Mizzaro
  
• Fairness of Exposure in Forensic Face Rankings 91-96
  Andrea Atzori, Gianni Fenu, Mirko Marras
  
• Impressions in Recommender Systems: Present and Future 97-104
  Fernando B. Pérez Maurera, Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema, Pablo Castells, Paolo Cremonesi
  
• IR Systems Evaluation via Generalized Linear Models 105-110
  Guglielmo Faggioli, Nicola Ferro, Norbert Fuhr
  
• Knowledge-aware Recommendations: Exploring the Interplay between Utility, Explanation Quality, and Fairness in Path Reasoning Methods 111-116
  Giacomo Balloccu, Ludovico Boratto, Christian Cancedda, Gianni Fenu, Mirko Marras
  
• Relational Search and its Application to Investigative Intelligence Scenarios 117-118
  Stéphane Campinas, Matteo Catena, Renaud Delbru
  
• SKET X: A Visual Analytics Tool for Explaining Knowledge Extraction Results 119-124
  Fabio Giachelle, Stefano Marchesin, Gianmaria Silvello
  
• Towards a Repository for Information Retrieval Runs 125-130
  Elias Bassani
  
• Towards Explainable Educational Recommendation through Path Reasoning Methods 131-136
  Neda Afreen, Giacomo Balloccu, Ludovico Boratto, Gianni Fenu, Mirko Marras
  
• Towards Improved QUBO Formulations of IR Tasks for Quantum Annealers 137-142
  Riccardo Pellini, Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema, Paolo Cremonesi