IIR 2021 - Day 2
Channel: IIIA Hub
Date: 14/09/2021

2nd Day of the 11th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR 2021).

The program for Day 2 consists of:

Keynote talk:
- "Domain-specific knowledge graphs construction: challenges and opportunities" by Omar Alonso, Instacart, USA

Tutorials:
- "IR from Bag-of-words to BERT and Beyond with PyTerrier" by Nicola Tonellotto, University of Pisa, Italy
- "Psychology-informed Recommender Systems" by Elisabeth Lex, Graz University of Technology, Austrai and Markus Schedl,  Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Talks:
- Keyword Extraction for Improved Document Retrieval in Conversational Search
OLEG BORISOV, MOHAMMAD ALIANNEJADI AND FABIO CRESTANI

- On Single and Multiple Representations in Dense Passage Retrieval
CRAIG MACDONALD, NICOLA TONELLOTTO AND IADH OUNIS

- FashionSearch++: Improving Consumer-to-Shop Clothes Retrieval with Hard Negatives
DAVIDE MORELLI, MARCELLA CORNIA AND RITA CUCCHIARA

- Measuring Gender Stereotype Reinforcement in Information Retrieval Systems
ALESSANDRO FABRIS, ALBERTO PURPURA, GIANMARIA SILVELLO AND GIAN ANTONIO SUSTO

- SAFIR: a Semantic-Aware Neural Framework for IR
MARISTELLA AGOSTI, STEFANO MARCHESIN AND GIANMARIA SILVELLO

- Evaluating Conversational Systems: a Hierarchical Dependence-Aware Framework
GUGLIELMO FAGGIOLI, MARCO FERRANTE, NICOLA FERRO, RAFFAELE PEREGO AND NICOLA TONELLOTTO

- Learning Passage Impacts for Inverted Indexes
ANTONIO MALLIA, OMAR KHATTAB, TORSTEN SUEL AND NICOLA TONELLOTTO

- Generalized Funnelling: Ensemble Learning and Heterogeneous Document Embeddings for Cross-Lingual Text Classification
ANDREA PEDROTTI, FABRIZIO SEBASTIANI AND ALEJANDRO MOREO

- Neural IR for Domain-Specific Tasks
ÓSCAR ESPITIA AND GABRIELLA PASI

- Adaptive Utterance Rewriting for Conversational Search
IDA MELE, CRISTINA IOANA MUNTEAN, FRANCO MARIA NARDINI, RAFFAELE PEREGO, NICOLA TONELLOTTO AND OPHIR FRIEDER

- On Building Benchmark Datasets for Understudied Information Retrieval Tasks: the Case of Semantic Query Labeling
ELIAS BASSANI AND GABRIELLA PASI

- Do Hard Topics Exist? A Statistical Analysis
SHANE CULPEPPER, GUGLIELMO FAGGIOLI, NICOLA FERRO AND OREN KURLAND

- Reading songs: A computational analysis of popular songs lyrics
SILVIA CORBARA AND ALESSIO MOLINARI

- Extracting Relations from Italian Wikipedia using Unsupervised Information Extraction
PIERLUIGI CASSOTTI, LUCIA SICILIANI, PIERPAOLO BASILE, MARCO DE GEMMIS AND PASQUALE LOPS

- Sequential Modeling in Vector Space
BENYOU WANG, EMANUELE DI BUCCIO AND MASSIMO MELUCCI

- Spectral Relaxations and Fair Densest Subgraphs
ARIS ANAGNOSTOPOULOS, LUCA BECCHETTI, ADRIANO FAZZONE, CRISTINA MENGHINI AND CHRIS SCHWIEGELSHOHN

- PTHash: Revisiting FCH Minimal Perfect Hashing
GIULIO ERMANNO PIBIRI AND ROBERTO TRANI

- Learning Early Exit Strategies for Additive Ranking Ensembles
FRANCESCO BUSOLIN, CLAUDIO LUCCHESE, FRANCO MARIA NARDINI, SALVATORE ORLANDO, RAFFAELE PEREGO AND SALVATORE TRANI

- Representing, Tracking and Revising the User’s Knowledge: A search result filter framework
DIMA EL ZEIN AND CÉLIA DA COSTA PEREIRA

- User-friendly Query Interfaces for the HOPE Project
DIEGO MARCIA, MANUELA SANGUINETTI AND MAURIZIO ATZORI

- Weighting Passages Enhances Accuracy
CRISTINA IOANA MUNTEAN, FRANCO MARIA NARDINI, RAFFAELE PEREGO, NICOLA TONELLOTTO AND OPHIR FRIEDER