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

  • 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 (ESWC2023)
  • 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

  • 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)

Technical support

 

Invited Talks

Panelist

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.

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.

 

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