Research

In my research, I leverage methodologies in Semantic Web, Network Science and Knowledge Discovery to explore the structure and evolution of science: Science of Science.

Please, use one of the following cards to navigate to my publications, the technologies I developed, the research projects I have been involved with.

 

Other Academic Activities

Conference Chair

  • Publicity Chair of the SEMANTiCS 2023 conference
  • Engagement Chair at the ACM Hypertext 2023 conference
  • Special Track on “Advanced Representations of Scholarly Knowledge” (ASK) at the 26th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI 2022)

Workshop Chair

  • 2rd International Workshop on Scientific Knowledge: Representation, Discovery, and Assessment (Sci-K 2023) co-located with The Web Conf 2022 (WebConf2023)
  • 2nd International Workshop on Scientific Knowledge: Representation, Discovery, and Assessment (Sci-K 2022) co-located with The Web Conf 2022 (WebConf2022)
  • 1st International Workshop on Scientific Knowledge: Representation, Discovery, and Assessment (Sci-K 2021) co-located with The Web Conf 2021 (WebConf2021)
  • 1st Workshop on Scientific Knowledge Graph (SKG2020) co-located with International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL2020)

Guest Editor

Associate Editor

Programme Committee membership

  • SEMANTiCS Conference 2023, Research & Innovation track
  • 27th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI 2023), main track
  • 22nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2023) Research Track
  • The ISSI 2023 Conference
  • 2nd International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Generation from Text (Text2KG2023), co-located with the 20th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2023)
  • 1st workshop on Innovation Measurement for Scientific Communication in the Era of Big Data (IMSC2023), held in conjunction with JCDL 2023
  • Semantic Technologies for Scientific, Technical and Legal Data (SemTech4STLD), co-located with the 20th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2023)
  • 20th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2023), Research track
  • 32nd edition of The Web Conference (WWW 2023), Semantics and Knowledge track
  • Deep Learning fro Knowledge Graphs (DL4KG2022), co-located with the 20th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2022)
  • 21st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2022) Research Track
  • SEMANTiCS Conference 2022, Research & Innovation track
  • 26th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI 2022), main track
  • 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Generation from Text (Text2KG2022), co-located with the 20th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2022)
  • 19th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2022), Research Track
  • 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, track on Knowledge Graphs
  • Deep Learning fro Knowledge Graphs (DL4KG2021), co-located with the 20th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2021)
  • 1st Workshop on Bibliographic Data Analysis and Processing (BiblioDAP), co-located with the 27th SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2021)
  • 2nd Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP2021), co-located with 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL2021)
  • SEMANTiCS Conference 2021, Research & Innovation track
  • 18th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2021), Science Data and Scholarly Communications track
  • The Web Conference 2021 (WebConf2021), Web Mining and Content Analysis track
  • 2st International Workshop on Reframing Research (RefResh 2020), at the 12th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2020)
  • Smoky Mountains Computational Sciences & Engineering Conference (SMC2020)
  • 1st International Workshop on Assessing Impact and Merit in Science (AIMinScience2020) co-located with International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL2020)
  • 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) Reproducibility Initiative
  • 19th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2020) Research Track
  • 17th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2020), Science of Science track
  • 1st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) Reproducibility Initiative
  • 10th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2019)
  • 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2019) Research Track
  • 16th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2019), Research of Research track
  • 3rd edition of Re-coding Black Mirror Workshop (Recoding BM) co-located with the CPDP Data Protection and Democracy Conference 2019 (CPDP2019)
  • 28th edition of The Web Conference (WWW 2019), Web Mining and Content Analysis track
  • 1st International Workshop on Reframing Research (RefResh 2018), at the European Symposium on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science (EUROCSS 2018)
  • 2nd Workshop on Enabling Open Semantic Science (SEMSCI 2018) co-located with the 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2018)
  • 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2018) Research Track
  • 2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2018)
  • 7th International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications (WOSP 2018), held in conjunction with LREC 2018
  • 4th Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Data Workshop co-located with The Web Conference 2018 (SAVE-SD 2018)
  • 27th edition of The Web Conference (WWW 2018), Web Content Analysis, Semantics, and Knowledge track
  • 9th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2017)
  • Re-coding Black Mirror Workshop (Recoding BM) co-located with the 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2017)
  • 6th International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications (WOSP 2017), held in conjunction with JCDL 2017
  • 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2017) Research Track
  • 2017 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2017)
  • 3rd Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Data Workshop co-located with the 26th International World Wide Web Conference (SAVE-SD 2017)
  • 5th International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications (WOSP 2016), held in conjunction with JCDL 2016

Journal Reviewer

  • Nature (link)
  • Semantic Web Journal (link)
  • IET Software (link)
  • Journal of Computational Science (link)
  • Quantitative Science Studies (link)
  • Future Generation Computer Systems (link)
  • Scientometrics (link)
  • Data Science (link)
  • Technological Forecasting and Social Change (link)
  • Journal of Web Semantics (link)
  • PLOS ONE (link)
  • Journal of Informetrics (link)

Technical support

 

Invited Talks

Panelist

  • Natural Language Processing Session of the 2nd symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Science, Industry and Society, 11th Oct 2021
  • The impact of chatGPT and LLMs on doctoral research and education, at the CRC PhD 2023 Conference, The Open University, 11th May 2023

Awards, Prizes, and Honors

 

Mentoring and Supervision

Post-docs and PhD Students

  • Hakan Ezgi Kiziloz , (Visiting Researcher from University of Turkish Aeronautical Association, from September 2018-September 2019), continuing the work on the Automatic Generation of Ontologies of Research Areas.
  • Simone Angioni , (PhD Student from University of Cagliari, from October 2020 to present), on building AIDA and the AIDA Dashboard
  • Joseph Kwarteng, (PhD Research Student at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, November 2020 – present), acting as Third-Party Monitor
  • Luca Secchi , (PhD Research Student from University of Cagliari, from March 2021 to present), working on building a Knowledge Graph on Tourism
  • Anna Ermolayeva, (PhD Research Student at the University of RUDN, July 2021 – February 2022), working on research trends detection in Russia
  • Alessandra Belfiore, (PhD Research Student at the Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Feb 2022 – July 2022), working on characterising research areas in the field of AI
  • Antonello Meloni , (PhD Research Student from University of Cagliari, from October 2021 – present) working on conversational agents based on Scientific Knowledge Graphs.
  • Vincenzo De Leo , (PhD Research Student from University of Cagliari, from October 2022 – present) working on injecting knowledge graphs into BERT for classification tasks.
  • Francisco Bolaños-Burgos , (PhD Research Studentat the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, from February 2023 – present) working on automatic generation of literature review.
  • Alessia Pisu , (PhD Research Student from University of Cagliari, from June 23 – present) working on automatic generation of taxonomies of research areas.

Master Students

  • Salvatore Zagaria , (Visiting Master Student from Polytechnic University of Bari, from March to June 2018) Klink-3: Automatic Generation of Semantic Topic Networks. Now at Vector.
  • Simone Angioni , (Visiting Master Student from University of Cagliari, from April to July 2019) Comparing the Scientific Output of Academia and Industry.
  • Mirco Serra , (Master Student from University of Cagliari, from December 2020 to March 2021), Comparing the Scientific Output of Academia and Industry.
  • Antonello Meloni , (Master Student from University of Cagliari, from March 2021 to September 2021) working on a chatbot based on AIDA.

Interns

  • Archie Walton, (Internee, from July to Dec 2020), working on a web application for classifying research documents.
  • Alessio Toscano, (Internee, from July to Aug 2021), working on Topic detection from corpus of news.
  • Tanay Aggarwal, (Visiting Bs Student, from Oct 2021 to Feb 2022), working on deploying the Web CSO Classifier, enabling all users to annotate research documents according to Computer Science topics.
  • Tanay Aggarwal (2nd visiting period, Visiting Bs Student, from June 2022 to November 2022), working on an automatic solution for classifying research documents in the field of Engineering.
  • Noah Edwards, (Visiting Student for working experiece, in July 2023), working on developing algorithms for named entity recognition in news items.

 

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