Research
Research Activities
- In codice Ratio: Machine Learning meets Digital Humanities. Read the MIT Technology Review article on the project!
- Lorenzo Lastilla, Serena Ammirati, Donatella Firmani, Nikos Komodakis, Paolo Merialdo, Simone Scardapane. Self-supervised learning for medieval handwriting identification: A case study from the Vatican Apostolic Library Information Processing & Management 59:3 (2022)
- Elena Nieddu, Donatella Firmani, Paolo Merialdo, Marco Maiorino. In Codice Ratio: A crowd-enabled solution for low resource machine transcription of the Vatican Registers Information Processing & Management 58:2 (2021)
- Donatella Firmani, Marco Maiorino, Paolo Merialdo, Elena Nieddu Towards Knowledge Discovery from the Vatican Secret Archives. In Codice Ratio-Episode 1: Machine Transcription of the Manuscripts. ACM KDD 2018
- Explainable AI for Big Data Management Issues
- Vincenzo Di Cicco, Donatella Firmani, Nick Koudas, Paolo Merialdo, Divesh Srivastava Interpreting deep learning models for entity resolution: an experience report using LIME: Explaining Deep Learning Models for Entity Resolution.. Second International Workshop on Exploiting Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Data Management. Code on github
- Tommaso Teofili, Donatella Firmani, Nick Koudas, Vincenzo Martello, Paolo Merialdo, Divesh Srivastava: Effective Explanations for Entity Resolution Models i IEEE ICDE 2022
- Andrea Rossi, Denilson Barbosa, Donatella Firmani, Antonio Matinata, Paolo Merialdo Knowledge Graph Embedding for Link Prediction: A Comparative Analysis. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data 15:2 pp 1–49
- Andrea Rossi, Donatella Firmani, Tommaso Teofili, Paolo Merialdo. Explaining Link Prediction Systems based on Knowledge Graph Embeddings. ACM Sigmod 2022
- Web Data Integration
- Valter Crescenzi, Paolo Merialdo, Disheng Qiu. Hybrid Crowd-Machine Wrapper Inference ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data 13:5 pp 1–43 (2019)
- Matteo Cannaviccio, Denilson Barbosa, Paolo Merialdo Towards annotating relational data on the web with language models 2018 World Wide Web Conference
- Disheng Qiu, Luciano Barbosa, Valter Crescenzi, Paolo Merialdo, Divesh Srivastava. Big Data Linkage for Product Specification Pages ACM Sigmod 2018
- Federico Piai, Paolo Atzeni, Paolo Merialdo, Divesh Srivastava. Fine-grained semantic type discovery for heterogeneous sources using clustering VLDBJ 2022 (to appear)
Current Fundings
- 2021-2023 Matrices: Regione Lazio - Gruppi di ricerca (Lazioinnova)
- 2021-2023 Casa delle Tecnologie Emergenti (MISE)
Service activity (in the last 5 years)
- SIGMOD 2023, CIKM 2022, ICDE 2022, SIGMOD 2022; CIKM 2021; VLDB 2021; CIKM 2018: Senior PC member; VLDB 2018: PC member demo track; ICDE 2018: PC member; VLDB 2017: PVLDB review board
Publications
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