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# DART 2014
Information Filtering and Retrieval

### Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Information Filtering and Retrieval
co-located with XIII AI*IA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2014)

### Pisa, Italy, December 10, 2014.

Edited by

### Cristian Lai, CRS4, Center of Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia, Italy
Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy
Alessandro Giuliani, University of Cagliari, Italy

## Table of Contents

- Preface
- Explicit Loss Minimization in Quantification Applications (Preliminary Draft) 1-11
  Andrea Esuli, Fabrizio Sebastiani
- A Scalable Approach to near Real-time Sentiment Analysis on Social Networks 12-23
  Giambattista Amati, Simone Angelini, Marco Bianchi, Luca Costantini, Giuseppe Marcone
- Telemonitoring and Home Support in BackHome 24-35
  Felip Miralles, Eloisa Vargiu, Stefan Dauwalder, Marc Solà, Juan Manuel Fernández, Eloi Casals, José Alejandro Cordero
- Extending an Information Retrieval System through Time Event Extraction 36-47
  Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Giovanni Semeraro, Lucia Siciliani
- Measuring Discriminant and Characteristic Capability for Building and Assessing Classifiers 48-58
  Giuliano Armano, Francesca Fanni, Alessandro Giuliani
- A Comparison of Lexicon-based Approaches for Sentiment Analysis of Microblog Posts 59-68
  Cataldo Musto, Giovanni Semeraro, Marco Polignano

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