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

• Practitioners Track Chair at the ACM Hypertext 2024 conference
• Research and Innovation Track Chair of the SEMANTiCS 2024 conference
• Proceedings Chair of the 20th Conference on Information and Research science Connecting to Digital and Library science
• 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

• 4th International Workshop on Scientific Knowledge: Representation, Discovery, and Assessment (Sci-K 2024) co-located with the 23rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024)
• 1st International Workshop on Human-Centered Modeling and Adaptation for Digital Transformation (HUMAD 2024) co-located with the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2024)
• AI for the Research Ecosystem (AI4RE), an AI UK Fringe 2024 Workshop
• 3rd International Workshop on Scientific Knowledge: Representation, Discovery, and Assessment (Sci-K 2023) co-located with The Web Conf 2023 (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

• Special Issue on “Scientific Knowledge Graphs and Research Impact Assessment” at Quantitative Science Studies (QSS by MIT Press)

Associate Editor

• CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org)

Programme Committee membership

• Semantic Technologies for Scientific, Technical and Legal Data 2024 (SemTech4STLD), co-located with the 21st Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2024)
• Deep Learning fro Knowledge Graphs (DL4KG2023), co-located with the 21st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2022)
• 20th conference on Information and Research science Connecting to Digital and Library science (IRCDL2024)
• 21st Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2024), Research track
• 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)
• Knowledge-Based Systems (link)

Technical support

• Assistant Referee during the Smart CIties RObotics Challenges (SciRoc 2019) Read more

 

Invited Talks

• Is Diversity of Expertise Correlated to Scientific Impact? An AI-Based Large-Scale Analysis in the Field of Computer Science Suggests so. Invited Talk at the LISBibliometrics Conference, University of Brighton, UK
• AI for Advancing Scientific Research. Invited Talk at the AI for the Research Ecosystem Workshop.
• Scientific Knowledge Graphs: an Overview. Lecture at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, BE, 12 May 2021.
• Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Big Data in the Scholarly Domain. Lecture at the 5th International School on Applied Probability Theory, Communications Technologies & Data Science (APTCT-2020), Moskow, RU, 12 November 2020
• Early Detection of Research Topics. Invited Talk at Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden, NL, 10 September 2020
• Early Detection of Research Topics. Invited Talk at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (former Meta group), 2 August 2018
• AUGUR: Forecasting the Emergence of New Research Topics. Invited Talk at the Computational Data Analytics Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), 30 July 2018
• Early Detection of Research Topics. Department Research Seminar at the Knowledge Media Institute at the Open University, 8 February 2017
• Introductory Lecture to Audio Signal Processing. Lecture at Human-Computer Interaction module for Computer Systems Engineering students at Politecnico di Bari, IT, 30 October 2014

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

• Best Paper Award at the In-Use Track at 21st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2022) for the paper Leveraging Knowledge Graph Technologies to Assess Journals and Conferences at Springer Nature
• Best Poster or Demo of the Day Award at the 19th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2020) for the demo The AIDA Dashboard: Analysing Conferences with Semantic Technologies
• Finalists at DataIQ 2020 Awards as the Smart Topic Miner among the “Most Innovative use of AI”: Read more
• ISWC 2018 Travel Award of $700
• Runner-up at Springer Nature Hack Day: Analytics and metrics to measure the impact of science (26/27 Apr 2018 in Berlin). Read more
• Runner-up at Springer Nature Hack Day: Advancing discovery with published research data (29 Nov 2017 in London). Read more
• Best Paper Award at the Workshop on Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Data (SAVE-SD 2016) at WWW 2016 for the paper Detection of Embryonic Research Topics by Analysing Semantic Topic Networks
• ISWC 2015 Travel Award of $1070

 

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 February 2024), on building AIDA and the AIDA Dashboard
  
• Joseph Kwarteng, (PhD Research Student at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, November 2020 – January 2024), acting as Third-Party Monitor
• Luca Secchi , (PhD Research Student from University of Cagliari, from March 2021 to February 2024), 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.
• Tanay Aggarwal, (PhD Research Studentat the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, from October 2023 – 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.
• Puneet Walia, (Visiting Bs Student, from Sep 2023 to Dec 2023), working on data collection of conference series and conference editions from the web.
• Martino Pulici, (Intern, from October 2023 – present), working on identifying claims and viewpoints from news.

 

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