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# IIR 2012
Italian Information Retrieval Workshop

### Proceedings of the 3rd Italian Information Retrieval Workshop

### Bari, Italy, January 26-27, 2012.

Edited by

### Giambattista Amati (1)
Claudio Carpineto (1)
Giovanni Semeraro (2)

(1) Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy
(2) Department of Computer Science, University of Bari, Italy

## Table of Contents

- Preface

### Invited Speaker

1. Semantic is Beautiful: Clustering and Diversifying Search Results with Graph-based Word Sense Induction 1
   Roberto Navigli

### Session: Ranking

2. Estensione dei Metodi di Ranking mediante Analisi dell'Interspaziatura fra Occorrenze 2-13
   Maria C. Daniele, Claudio Carpineto, Andrea Bernardini
3. Orthogonal Negation for Document Re-ranking 14-17
   Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Giovanni Semeraro

### Session: Text Classification

4. Hierarchical Text Classification for Supporting Educational Programs 18-25
   Qi Ju, Chiara Ravagni, Alessandro Moschitti, Giampiero Vaschetto
5. Error-Correcting Output Codes for Multi-Label Text Categorization 26-37
   Giuliano Armano, Camelia Chira, Nima Hatami
6. How Well Do We Know Bernoulli? 38-44
   Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Alessandro Sordoni
7. Investigating the Use of Extractive Summarisation in Sentiment Classification 45-52
   Marco Bonzanini, Miguel Martinez-Alvarez, Thomas Roelleke

### Session: Evaluation & Geographic IR

8. Sull'Uso di Meno Topics nelle Iniziative di Valutazione per l'Information Retrieval 53-64
   Andrea Berto, Stefano Mizzaro
9. Classical vs. Crowdsourcing Surveys for Eliciting Geographic Relevance Criteria 65-72
   Stefano De Sabbata, Omar Alonso, Stefano Mizzaro
10. Flexible Querying in Geo-Finder 73-76
    Gloria Bordogna, Giuseppe Psaila

### Session: Filtering

11. Conversational Query Revision with a Finite User Profiles Model 77-88
    Henry Blanco, Francesco Ricci, Derek Bridge
12. Uncertain Graphs meet Collaborative Filtering 89-100
    Claudio Taranto, Nicola Di Mauro, Floriana Esposito
13. Movie Recommendation with DBpedia 101-112
    Roberto Mirizzi, Tommaso Di Noia, Azzurra Ragone, Vito Claudio Ostuni, Eugenio Di Sciascio
14. Cold Start Problem: a Lightweight Approach at ECML/PKDD 2011 - Discovery Challenge 113-116
    Leo Iaquinta, Giovanni Semeraro
15. Comparing Word Sense Disambiguation and Distributional Models for Cross-Language Information Filtering 117-120
    Cataldo Musto, Fedelucio Narducci, Pierpaolo Basile, Pasquale Lops, Marco de Gemmis, Giovanni Semeraro

### Session: Content Analysis

16. Using Snippets in Text Summarization: a Comparative Study and an Application 121-132
    Giuliano Armano, Alessandro Giuliani, Eloisa Vargiu
17. Grammatical Feature Engineering for Fine-grained IR Tasks 133-143
    Danilo Croce, Roberto Basili
18. Encoding Syntactic Dependencies using Random Indexing and Wikipedia as a Corpus 144-154
    Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo
19. Algebraic Compositional Models for Semantic Similarity in Ranking and Clustering 155-166
    Paolo Annesi, Valerio Storch, Danilo Croce, Roberto Basili

### Session: Applications

20. QuestionCube: a Framework for Question Answering 167-178
    Piero Molino, Pierpaolo Basile
21. TV-Show Retrieval and Classification 179-182
    Cataldo Musto, Fedelucio Narducci, Pasquale Lops, Giovanni Semeraro, Marco de Gemmis, Mauro Barbieri, Jan Korst, Verus Pronk, Ramon Clout
22. Un Prototipo per la Ricerca di Opinioni sui Blog dedicati alle Trasmissioni Televisive d'Interesse Nazionale 183-190
    Giambattista Amati, Marco Bianchi, Giuseppe Marcone
23. Tag Clouds and Retrieved Results: The CloudCredo Mobile Clustering Engine and its Evaluation 191-198
    Stefano Mizzaro, Luca Sartori, Giacomo Strangolino
24. The Collaboration Potential, an Index to Assess the Roles of Scientists in their Coauthorship Networks 199-202
    Francesco Giuliani, Michele Pio De Petris, Giovanni Nico
25. Strategie di Classificazione per Servizi di Search della Pubblica Amministrazione 203-206
    Marco Bianchi, Mauro Draoli, Giorgio Gambosi, Alessandro Ligi, Marco Serrago

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09-Mar-2012: submitted by Giovanni Semeraro
12-Mar-2012: published on CEUR-WS.org